While I have never considered street painting as graffiti (as it is not permanent nor does it deface property), I suppose that depends on one’s viewpoint. I was recently listed as one of the ‘Top 10 3D Street Artists in the World’ by WebUrbanist. I am deeply honored and appreciative that others find my work interesting or note-worthy - thanks Kurt! (more…)

Check out my latest creation ‘Escape of the Mummy’ on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r2joM0dntQ

This painting was created at the 2008 Youth in Arts Italian Street Painting Festival in San Rafael, California. My inspiration were the Indiana Jones and The Mummy films. If you look at the painting you will see the shadow of the Indiana Jones type explorer peaking around the corner of the back Egyptian chamber, while the Mummy is crawling out of the painting into our world. It was lots of fun to make and the crowd loved it!

You can see this and other videos of my work on the ‘demo’ or ‘video’ page of my website.

Greetings from Louisville, Kentucky - the home of the ‘Hot Brown’ (no Chicago, this is it’s true home!), Woodford Reserve bourbon and of course, horse racings’ crown jewel, the Kentucky Derby. I traveled to Louisville to create a 3d anamorphic street painting for the Champions 4 Her Festival, sponsored by a Who’s Who of Louisville’s finest (more…)

After a five year vision, two years of hard work, thousand and thousands of kids, hundreds of parents, volunteers, friends and family, an amazing team, a dog, the City of Alameda, the US Navy, sponsors, the PTA, school district, and excellent (more…)

Unfortunately my Arabian Adventures have come to an end…..for now! The last few weeks have been truly amazing and profoundly affecting on me. I entered the UAE over a month ago with little more than a notion of what it was all about - and now feel as though I have had an amazing education as to the richness in (more…)

More photos to post from Dubai. Having spent my last few days off out in the desert, this past week I decided to explore old Dubai, the Dubai Creek area, with 2 friends, Mikel and Colin. We took a taxi to the Dubai Museum and explored the nearby Bastakiya. This is where you will see traditional Arabic building (more…)

What a place! I’ve been in the UAE for just about 2 weeks and I’m really enjoying the sheer spectacle of this place. Dubai reminds me of Shanghai, Las Vegas, Paris and Death Valley all rolled into one! (more…)

If you haven’t seen it yet check out a cool video of me creating a 3d street painting using time lapse photography. This street painting is an original composition inspired by the eastern art of paper folding, known as origami in Japanese.

See it on YouTube now or on my video demo link on this page.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBL5_gThwOo

I used myself as a model for the figure, who sits on a crumpled piece of paper while (more…)

‘Annyeong haseyo!’ (‘Hello’ in Korean) I was recently commissioned to create a large 3d street painting for the renowned Shinsegae Department Store in Seoul, South Korea. I had never traveled to Korea and was very excited about (more…)

Tracy Lee Stum, in conjunction with the New York Foundation for the Arts, is pleased to announce the artist’s stunning reproduction of this extraordinary painting now available for purchase.

Meticulously created using documents from Da Vinci and other contemporaries who (more…)

Are you interested in finding street painting festivals in the US and abroad? These are some of my favorites:

www.nl.gob.mx/bellavia

Festival Bella Via, Monterey, Mexico - This large street painting festival has been an annual event in the ‘Barrio Antigua’ of Monterey since 2004. Boasting international participants and hundreds of national artists, this quality arts event attracts (more…)

www.reenchantingtheworldthroughart.org

Bay area artist Mark Wagner’s brain child; this non-profit group is preparing for an upcoming street painting event that will be held May 27 to June 7, 2008. Children and artists will be creating a street painting scheduled to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest street painting in the world, which will (more…)

When searching out how street painting first started I encountered a variety of versions of the story, from a variety of sources. All, however, generally agreed that it was first documented in Italy. While other forms of ephemeral works have been documented in other countries and cultures throughout history, I would like (more…)

Street painting can mean many things to many people but there is one concept that I feel captures the essence of this art form. That concept is ‘connective performance’. What I mean by this is simply that street painting is a performance art which allows the artist and the viewer to connect with (more…)