SNUB23 09/09/2019 SNUB23 09/09/2019

YANKIN' CHAINS x HIGH VIS BIRMINGHAM

YANKIN' CHAINS
Painted over 2 days in sunny Digbeth, Birmingham. Alongside my mighty Sprite.

Painted as part of the High Vis Festival at “The Custard Factory” in Digbeth in September alongside some other fantastic artists including Paul Monsters and Philth

We chose to make ABC Warriors Mongrol the robot from 2000AD the main feature of the wall to celebrate “Day of Dredd” and after finding out legendary artist Phil Winslade from 2000AD, DC Comic would be there at the event.

“We bring you High-Vis Festival! Its a celebration of all things Street Culture, from street art to street food, graffiti to graphic novels, skateboarding to breakdancing and much more. On Saturday the 8th of sept 2018 in and around The Custard Factory in Digbeth, Birmingham UK over 200 artists, dancers and musicians will be showing off their skills, all for free. If you get bored with watching giant pieces of art coming to life in front of your very eyes by 80+ Aerosol artists, then check out a full-on breakdancing battle brought to you by the world famous Break Mission, a Sneakers and Street apparel market delivered by SneakerHawks, live music by the leading local talent with the help of music uni BIMM, and top draw street food from Digbeth Dining Club on Lower Trinity Street.”

SNUB23 16/08/2019 SNUB23 16/08/2019

GRAVITY FLUX at Artbase

GRAVITY FLUX
Escape this reality.
Painted over 3 days at a decayed mental institution the Domjüch, near Neustrelitz, Germany.

Commissioned by Art Base Festival with support from Preh.streetart

Photography by Roland Klaffke

SNUB23 10/07/2019 SNUB23 10/07/2019

SNUB23 CRUSHED THE JUNK YARD JAM 2019

WE SMASHED IT, QUITE LITERALLY, AT URBAN ARTISTRY’S JUNK YARD JAM IN CREWE.

We were in our element on the Junk Yard. Surrounded by filth, rust and smashed up electronics and cars. The junk yard felt like a dystopian cyber wasteland which fitted our style perfectly, we had to take advantage and paint as many beautifully gnarly surfaces as we could.

We woke up bright and early on the day of the jam as we were eager to get started. The first thing we painted was a 6 wheel fibreglass Mini Bus. We started by throwing buckets water over the Van and painting it as the water dripped off to give a distressed background. On top of this we painted a SNUB Robot and Orange Isometric Cubes.

Next we painted an old metal drum which was inside one of the Junk Yard Jam warehouses. The drum was covered in rust, peeling paint at massive dents. Everyone was confused as to why we wanted to paint something so awkward and messed up, but to us it was perfect.

We painted the drum with SNUB23’s Iconic Robot and Red Isometric cubes. Then to make the whole piece feel like it had always been painted like that we took a scouring pad to the whole thing and scratched off the paint to reveal the beautiful rusty textures underneath.

Our final piece at Urban Artistry’s Junk Yard Jam excluding a few cheeky ISO’s hidden in places was a giant metal box. We have no idea what this was originally but it had the perfect rust surface which we utilised to our advantage and only painted the outline of the SNUB Robot so it looked like the rusty metal was the surface of the robot.

OH WE FORGOT TO MENTION ONE THING…

ONCE WE HAD FINISHED PAINTING THEM… THEY CRUSHED THEM!

We cannot thank the Junk Yard Jam Guys enough for their incredible hospitality and general greatness. We had the best time.

We also have to thank Graff City and Kobra Paint as always for supplying us with paint.

Other great artist who painted alongside us who you should also check out are:

To find out more about the Junk Yard Jam and Urban Artistry you can find everything here:

Junk Yard Jam Instagram

Urban Artistry Website

The Incredible Junk Yard Man Himself

SNUB23 15/05/2019 SNUB23 15/05/2019

YARDWORKS 2019 MURAL GLASGOW

YARDWORKS GLASGOW 2019

YARDWORKS GLASGOW 2019

In May we spent 3 days painting at Scotland’s only street art graffiti festival YARDWORKS in Glasgow alongside 120 other artists. 11,000 members of the public visited SWG3 where the event was held over the weekend and just like every year the sun was shining.

It was great fun painting this mural. Especially the roughed up “rust” background technique, which contrasts the sharp lines of the sketch and the crispness of our isometric cube designs.

Since “Yardworks” first started back in 2017 we haven’t missed an event!

Thank you to all the wonderful people who came to visit us and came to say hello throughout the event and a huge thank you to Gaz Mac, Marriene Vosloo and all the other organisers who make Yardworks so fantastic.
The finished mural can be found at the entrance to the SWG3 building on Eastvale Place.
Spray paint supplied by Kobra Paint.