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The Exchange | Persue paints Sirum's sketch.

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The Exchange | Group Collaboration (Ewok, Pose & Rime.)

The Exchange Project is taken to new levels with Rime, Pose and Ewok.

Via: http://thegraffitiexchange.blogspot.com/

"Here is a recent wall I painted in Los Angeles with Ewok & Pose. For this wall we decided to take The Exchange project in a slightly different direction. We showed up to the wall all late and with no sketches, our plan was to bounce around and contribute a bit to each piece on the wall.

We decided that each of us will sketch two letters of each others name. What I mean is:

For EWOK - I painted the initial sketch of th E & W, then POSE sketched his O & K


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For POSE – EWOK sketched the P & O. Afterward, I stepped in fucking around with my left hand (bad hand), setting out to do the goofiest sketch possible.


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It ended up looking really cool in my opinion, but wasn’t right for the wall. So I buffed it our and resketched the S & E


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For RIME – POSE sketched the R & I, followed by EWOK’s rough sketch of the M & E


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Overall this was an interesting experience. It’s been a while since I tried painting a capital “I”. If you look close you can see how each of us changed what we were given and in that process, making it our own… Word-


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The Exchange: Bates paints Serval's sketch.

More info: http://thegraffitiexchange.blogspot.com/

POSE paints SIRUM sketch (The Exchange).

"Yo Sirum!
I was out of commission for a while but finally got to take a crack at your sketch. I love the flow and shape it was a blast to paint. I was having trouble getting the "e" to bang the right way (might have had to do with the burnt out car remnants, mattresses and bags of ?) so I put it in the microwave and cooked it for a while, and bugged out a little. I definitely think i might give it a second go, its a killer sketch man thanks again, I gotta return the favor soon!
Cheers"
-Pose

See more at: http://thegraffitiexchange.blogspot.com/

The Exchange - Many updates.

If yall aint keeping up to date with The Exchange Project blog then you should be, it's going crazy. Here's some selected new shit:

*Please click the links to see the posts in their entirety, we are only displaying a handful of the images on here.

(The Exchange) Hesoe paints Askew's sketch: CLICK


(The Exchange) PHAT1 paints STAE 2's sketch: CLICK

(The Exchange) New SIRUM sketch by SWK: CLICK


(The Exchange) POSE paints ASKEW's SKETCH: CLICK

(The Exchange) POSE / ASKEW Part 1: "RAIN FAME": CLICK

(The Exchange) Taboo paints Sirum's Sketch: CLICK


(The Exchange) Sirum paints Askew's sketches: CLICK

(The Exchange) =RUETS HONKE= (PART 2): CLICK


(The Exchange) Sirum paints Ruets' sketch: CLICK

(The Exchange) Poet painting Askew's sketches: CLICK

Askew paints Stae2 Outline for The Exchange.

Hey everyone. Did this yesterday, put together the video last night and spent the day trying to upload it whilst doing other shit but it honestly wouldn't upload!! It's finally up now and there for critique, scrutiny and general feedback..

Stae2, I enjoyed painting this a lot and I tried to find some harmony between the classic NYC structure of your sketch combined with the loose astro cap approach I take.. I found some similarities in how we both approach connecting the letters of my name (perhaps just the most practical options) but there were some aspects of your sketch so removed from how I would ever think to do them. I noticed that I missed the extra arrow connection off the S below the A by mistake, likely because I didn't look back at the sketch much after the initial lines were up.

I can't take full credit for this colour scheme, Stray RTR had suggested an Autumn outline and dark earth tones for the fill to me the night before. I think the tanami and blues really set it off and having the same Sirum black red in the 3D as fill is risky but almost gives this a no outline 3D feeling..

Askew paints Cecs sketches for The Exchange.

PART ONE:
Askew said: Here’s the first piece I’ve painted from the selection of sketches people rocked last week. We were invited out of town to Tauranga to paint and not knowing what to expect, took all the different sketches printed out so I could choose the most fitting to the surface. In the end I went with one of Cecs sketches.

As you can see, it pissed down with rain the whole time and I was painting on a corrugated iron wall. This made for an extremely pleasant painting experience, especially the waterfall like stream of water gushing down the left side of the A.

I like how the piece came out although I don’t know if I nailed it exactly the way it was intended. For example, the lean on the A isn’t gangster enough, the cross of the K sits a little high and I really struggle with such bold classic arrows. I found this piece really educational. I think Cecs draws on such a catalogue of classic NYC styles, the kind that look really simple but the subtleties are what really make them actually tough to paint!

Here’s a progress video and the finished shot.






PART TWO:
This the second CECS outline from the page of sketches he did that I HAD to rock. I mainly had to do it because I could see it on the classic NZ freight, the Space Runner. I think it came out all good too!






For more updates, check out The Exchange blog.

The Exchange Project returns.

We are pleased to see Jersey Joe's The Exchange Project return after a two year slow down; "The Exchange project has started up again with newly added members. The project will be displayed on a blog with it’s members as invited authors."

Check The Exchange Project blog here: http://thegraffitiexchange.blogspot.com/

We are stoked that Ironlak Family writers; Askew, PhatOne, Pose and Sirum are all new members, joining up alongside Bates (Ironlak Team Europe) who is an original member of The Exchange.

Here are some pieces. Check the blog (above) for a bunch more stuff.




BATES. Outline by Askew.


PHAT1. Outline by Cecs (see below).




ROID sketch by Pose.


CAKES. Outline by Askew.


RIME. Outline by Bates.


HOST. Outline by Askew.


RIME. Outline by Bates. BATES. Outline by Serch. Malmo, Sweden, July 2008.