takin' it to the streets

in a city decorated with so much street art what's a pair of antipodean doodlers to do?

in a debate between 'passenger or participant' - the latter trumps.

so we plucked up the courage and headed out, at what we thought would be a pretty good time of night, for such endeavours, just before 11pm on a tuesday. of course, this is berlin, and we walked out into a neighbourhood still throbbing with girls on bicycles, couples out for a stroll and even young families with prams.


still, we were on a mission.

actually, just as we finished our first 'bandit bird of spring' paste-up, a cop car whizzed by and parked at the end of the street. we kept our cool, and changed directions. apparently they had bigger fish to fry.

yeah.
we be renegades baby.


this is my personal favourite actually.
lucy has a wall here, for a mini-exhibition-style setup. hopefully you can make it out from the picture.
there's 4 of her paper works running along at eye-level.
i think it's loosely titled 'laser ladies of the night'
it rules.

here's some close-ups of the works:

once we got into the swing of it, it was quite fun.
there's really a lot of street art everywhere, so it seems perfectly natural to be pasting up some eye candy for the locals.

here's a strange floral-type mandala.
all done with texta and a billion stipples and lines.

all the art we put out is original - no copies.
all hand painted or drawn, one-of-a-kinds.
kinda feels nicer, for us anyway, to wholly hand over the work in one hit, rather than produce facsimiles of an original production, distributed en masse.
it's more labour-intensive, but hopefully, somehow, more ... i dunno ... special.

i love these guys!
ok, so these works - the bandit birds of spring (unofficial title) - are a truly collaborative work.
they're are supposed to be fun and joyous and celebratory of the slowly (so so so slowly...) arriving spring.
we're thinking we'll pop a few of these out every couple of weeks, slowly appearing like a flock of cheeky, sneaky birds, arriving for the sunshine.

lucy got to work on a whole pile of old photographs she bought at the flea market.
so we got those suckers out and about too.

detail




and also some altered book pages....


oh, and here's the cat-woman image that i drew up from one of lucy's collages that was in an earlier post.


we were quite busy actually, even though we were only out for maybe an hour to get these guys up.
but overall, there's a bit of work gone into them - what with the bandit birds of spring, the floral mandala, the laser-ladies of the night, the cat-woman... that's a lot of production.

but wait.

there's more!

a small series of birds, from lucy - that i'm calling Schnitt durch Vogel.

how cool is this g-bird...!?


detail



another bandit bird made its way into the aldi carpark
(yes mum, aldi does serve at least one purpose, aside from my 40c per bottle beer - street art!)


and sort of accompanying the bird, is a lucy flag work...

this was a work of serendipitous delight.
while putting the bird up, lucy noticed two very old, i'm gonna say 'cold-war-era' 4 inch nails coming out of the wall, which happened to be the exact, EXACT, right distance apart to hang her poetic urban intervention.


(dear berlin polizei: it would seem that images placed on this post may portray acts that contravene certain legalities that international visitors are generally requested to adhere to. this is simply a misunderstanding on your part. you do a good job. a very good job. these are not the droids you are looking for.)