Downtown LA and Hollywood

In LA this weekend and found some cool paste-ups and stencils. I have been following a few street art artist and blogs for a while. Shepard Fairey and Banksy are two of the most popular ones. Check out Exit Through the Gift Shop it is a great documentary about street art that will make you want to create your own art, or hate art and never want to do any type of art ever again.

This one was done by Shepard Fairey - obeygiant.com

Here is the Obey giant on the back of a billboard.

These are some random ones on the side of the building.

Setting up the Paste Up.

Ok so I changed the picture I was going to use for the Paste Up and here is how I made the new one. First a little photochopping.
First needed a USC player.

I then needed to fill in that guy who's head is cut off in the picture above. He needs to be from Notre Dame but this guy will do.

Then I cut each player out of the picture and photochopped them together.

After everything is cut and pasted together I took it in to Illustrator and outlined it with the brush and my pen tablet.

Then I put a heavy stroke to outline the football players.

Then I colored it in with a watercolor style of coloring. One a USC guy and one a Notre Dame guy.

Then I put a logo in the back ground.

Now I need to put it in the program to make a block poster of it.

Paste Up!

So I am going to be doing a mural/Paste up in a salon in town and I need to practice. I convinced my friend Reed to let me do my first one in his garage. He said I could do anything I want. Since he is a USC fan I am trying out some USC designs. Also since I have never done anything like this I am trying to figure out how to make it so it looks good and easy to put up and layout. I have found a lot of websites that tell you how to make the wheat paste (the glue) to put it up. So now I am mostly working on how big do I want it and how detailed do I want to get. Since Reed garage is at my house I will have to see it everyday so it will have to look good. I might do a MMA one instead of USC, But I don't know yet. The picture is just a ruff layout of my first attempt with the a poster program that cuts the art work up for you. Right now I am working with 5'x5'. Its pretty big and i printed this one out on letter size paper so 8.5"x11". Its like one big puzzle haha. Hopefully this weekend I can start.

Here are some of the websites I used to find stuff:
google
youtube
WheatPasting How To
Block Poster