This week’s installment of How They Did It will focus on artist who create paintings using spray paint and a few other objects, including newspaper, sticks, plates and their hands. It’s a pretty cool example of how adding layers of under painting followed by increasing detail are the hallmarks of all styles of painting.

I love the swagger and showmanship of the spray paint artists, not only are the works of art pretty interesting, but they put on a great show. I remember once seeing a guy who was set up near a some casino in Las Vegas creating similar paintings. It was pretty surreal, this young talented artist creating a science fiction inspired landscape paintings of Sin City in front of a huge crowd of drunks, who stood around utterly transfixed with the art of creation. It’s rare for most artists to be cheered when they finish a painting, let alone by twenty-somethings holding three foot long plastic cups containing some frighteningly syrupy booze concoction. Vegas is full of surreal moments, that was one I was privileged to witness, as I like to say even if you aren’t interested in the absurd, the absurd is interested in you.

A Mexican street artist creates science fiction worlds in 15 minutes
I found this on YouTube, it is very similar to what I saw in Vegas.

Part 1

Part 2

Sci-fi Landscape by Brandon McConnell
A pretty cool video showing McConnell creating worlds quickly that looks awesome.

I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more….
Conjure Spray Art creates a cool version of the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz.

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