Street Arts
How long you been painting and what made you decide to go that route?
I've been painting walls for about 7 years, and drawing my whole life. I ventured into using acrylics for canvas work about 5 years back.
You do lots of legal work, is this a decision you consciously made or did it just pan out that way?
A couple of arrests and the fact that I like to take my time quickly made me realise that painting legally in the streets was the best option...the legal/illegal context isn't that important to me...I just like to paint big.
Your iconic characters can be seen around London, what influences your work most?
At this point of time, lots of different factors. Comics, anime, Japanese culture, and recently vintage cartoon characters from America are all playing their part...
Tell us a little about the comics you've self published…Including your first edition 'No Strings'
I grew up wanting to be a comic book artist but realised later in life that the control freak in me would find it an incredibly difficult industry to work in at any professional level from a financial and creative point of view. I've always been into contemporary versions of fairy tales. In 2005 I self published 'No Strings'- my own version of Pinocchio, a story that was already implanted in the public psyche. It was never one of my favorite childhood movies but I definitely found something in it pretty unsettling. Viewing it again with adult eyes, there's definitely some pretty twisted subtext in there. My comic version acted as a surreal prequel to Disney's version and was really a chance to do something subversive with Disney's iconography,- something I've actually injected into some of my recent pieces. I'd published a few zine type things before that but 'No Strings' was my first comic. I still have all of the hand drawn original artwork that I'd like to exhibit at some point.
- Artist Profile: Scott G. Brooks
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LSD Magazine Interviews - Inkfetish (Issue 5)
How long you been painting and what made you decide to go that route?
I've been painting walls for about 7 years, and drawing my whole life. I ventured into using acrylics for canvas work about 5 years back.
You do lots of legal work, is this a decision you consciously made or did it just pan out that way?
A couple of arrests and the fact that I like to take my time quickly made me realise that painting legally in the streets was the best option...the legal/illegal context isn't that important to me...I just like to paint big.
Your iconic characters can be seen around London, what influences your work most?
At this point of time, lots of different factors. Comics, anime, Japanese culture, and recently vintage cartoon characters from America are all playing their part...
Tell us a little about the comics you've self published…Including your first edition 'No Strings'
I grew up wanting to be a comic book artist but realised later in life that the control freak in me would find it an incredibly difficult industry to work in at any professional level from a financial and creative point of view. I've always been into contemporary versions of fairy tales. In 2005 I self published 'No Strings'- my own version of Pinocchio, a story that was already implanted in the public psyche. It was never one of my favorite childhood movies but I definitely found something in it pretty unsettling. Viewing it again with adult eyes, there's definitely some pretty twisted subtext in there. My comic version acted as a surreal prequel to Disney's version and was really a chance to do something subversive with Disney's iconography,- something I've actually injected into some of my recent pieces. I'd published a few zine type things before that but 'No Strings' was my first comic. I still have all of the hand drawn original artwork that I'd like to exhibit at some point.
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- Artist Profile: Scott G. Brooks
Otis Street Arts Project Artist Scott G BrooksWebsite: www.scottgbrooks.com Contact Info: [email protected] Social Media Things:http://twitter.com/scottgbrookshttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-G-Brooks/374098574084https://instagram.com/scottgbrooksart/...
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Piercing the pineal eye of shadowy midnight and hacking the arcane circuitry of unsettling consciousness growls the Shok. Carving through layers of slow burning, viceral imagination and illuminating the subliminal, the sublime and vivid flashes of the...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews - Milo Tchais (issue 5)
Brazillian Londoner Milo Tchais’s rhapsodies of swirling form and joyous colour have been setting the streets of London and the wider firmament alight for many a year now. Synthesising radiant elements from the natural world with the gently distorting...
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LSD: You originally started out as graffiti writers, tell us a little about the journey from writing on walls to creating photorealistic wall impressions. B: in around 2005 I'd kind of had a break from painting letters for a year or so when me and...
- Andy Size - Size Matters Exhibition
PIXAR AND DISNEY FAVOURITES TAKE ON MARVEL COMIC BOOK LEGENDS IN NEW EXHIBITION OF GIANT MURAL ART Some of the most famous cartoon and comic book characters of the past 70 years feature in a brand new exhibition of outsize paintings by East London artist...
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