2008 marks the 5th year that Festival Bella Via has graced the streets and plazas of downtown Monterrey, Mexico. It was my pleasure, as always, to participate as an invited artist, and this year as (more…)

On September 25 I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a public art event titled ‘Stringwreck Hits the Streets.’ This interesting and entertaining (more…)

I’ve just returned from the San Luis Obispo I Madonnari Festival in central California. I’ve participated in this event 3 of the last 4 years and each experience has been a real pleasure. (more…)

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…)

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…)