Tehran Sticker Art Project

I was recently invited to submit some street art stickers for the "Tehran Sticker Combo" project. Admittedly, I'm not "into" sticker street art, but the opportunity to have my art seen on the streets of Tehran is too good to pass up. Fortunately, I have access to a full color vinyl printer/cutter at work.

If any artists would like to get involved, here's some addt'l info "lifted" from the flickr group:

Tehran sticker Combo Will be the Project for late july 2008 in tehran -IRAN
The project will be in two divided parts Indoor combo board and Outdoor Bombin’ the urban sildwalks .
DEADLINE IS 20 . JULY

All Street Artists Around the world are welcomed to participate the with their hand made / Printed stickers .
-Send as much as you can.
(We will keep some for “Combo Indoor” and use the rest for Outdoor combos.)
all participated artists will be listed and linked from the event page : www.kolahstudio.com/KSC : “coming soon”
-Please Do not send huge stickers/posters or wheatpaste.
-please add your Tag+url/Email on a paper and attach it to your pack .
Photos of Indoor and outdoor Combo + List of Participated Artists will also get published in bRAINSTORM PDF magazine issue 10 in August 2008.
check
www.kolahstudio.com/Underground/?p=662

Street Art Exhibit - Tel Aviv

About a month ago I had the pleasure to participate in the 2nd Annual Inspiration Art Exhibit held in Tel Aviv. The exhibit featured the work of nearly 100 street artists from all over the world.


View the works of the other artists here!

A Busy Week of Logos & Banners

Here's a batch of banners and logos I designed and illustrated this week.

Guerrilla Art - Tel Aviv

Here are a few of my guerrilla art (FREE art) pieces placed on the streets of Tel Aviv.
Special thanks to Inspire (aka. Idiot the Wise) for the placements and the photos.

Art Available for Licensing

Over the Christmas and New Year's Holidays I decided to prepare some of my art for potential licensing usage. As a result I created a simple web site. Although I haven't spent time marketing the site, it is currently live.
http://artbysammo.weebly.com

Frozen Lake Graffiti!?

Frozen Sunset Lake (in Vicksburg, Michigan) has been the scene of some tagging and "graffiti" lately.

I created the top work of art by walking around on the ice. Normally I shy away from walking on frozen lakes but it's been so cold (for such a long time) that I wasn't too worried about falling through. By the next morning ice fisherman had already drug their sleds over the image.... oh well... it was still really fun to create.

Not long after I created my work of art someone else got the idea to tag the lake. (bottom photo) Instead of using their feet they took a shovel and wrote in very large letters "Estefania Needs Husband"... that made me laugh... I think they should get the prize for originality.

Global Free Art Project

As mentioned in a previous post, I'm creating art pieces for the "It's Yours Take it" FREE ART project.

The project has been described as: ""It's yours, take it!" is a global free art project taking place in 5 cities. Stateside we have Chicago,Illinois, Honolulu,Hawaii and Phoenix, Arizona. Outside the land of consumption is Tel Aviv, Israel and Portsmouth Hampshire, UK.

Sneak peeks of the pieces can be seen here: www.flickr.com/groups/itsyourstakeit/

There are future plans for more Free Art events in additional cities worldwide. If interested, drop in on the flickr group and sign-up.

Tel Aviv Gallery & Free Art Projects

The top two mini canvases are headed to the Legal Action Gallery in Tel Aviv curated by my Flickr buddy "Inspire" aka "Idiot the Wise":
www.flickr.com/groups/inspiredlives/discuss/7215760367532...
www.legalactiongallery.com/exhibition.html

The bottom mini canvas is also going to Tel Aviv as part of my other Flickr buddy Bonus Saves "It's Yours... Take It" 5 city free art project: www.flickr.com/groups/itsyourstakeit/
In addition to Tel Aviv, I'll also being creating pieces of free art for Chicago, Phoenix, Honolulu and Southsea (UK).

Guerrilla Art - Belfast, Northern Ireland

Special thanks to my flickr buddy Dogtired who left some of my guerrilla art in the Belfast Queens University Book Shop and accompanying grounds.

2.5" x 3.5" ACEO Size Mini Canvases!?!

I found these 2.5"x3.5" mini stretch canvases on the dick blick web site. I just had to try them. They also sell mini easels to display the paintings.
Here's a link to the canvases:
http://www.dickblick.com/zz071/47/

Happy Apocalypse!

These are some concept illustrations for a personal project I'm working on.

Guerrilla Art - Chicago

A little over a week ago, fellow Kalamazoo guerrilla artist Bonus Saves and I got together to do some collaborative paintings. I painted the 3 eyed bearded guy and Bonus added his colorful "bonus" characters. (We painted it on a 34"x34" piece of cardboard).

Bonus was headed to Chicago this past weekend so he took our collaborative painting and 16 other pieces from CODO, NiceONE, DryPNz, Jack, and Miss Manou (from the Tigapics Collective) to hang in public places. As with most guerrilla art, these pieces were FREE for the taking. (A sign was hung reading "FREE - Please Take")

photo credits: Senor Codo.

Mini Guerrilla Art Cards

This is my full set of professionally printed, 48 Open Edition ACEO cards based on my guerrilla art characters. I'm really happy with the print quality. I'll be slowly auctioning these cards on ebay. The widget to the right of this post will take you to my current ebay auctions.

What Are ACEOs?
ACEOs are known as Art Card Editions and Originals. These 2.5" x 3.5" cards are also referred to as Artist Trading Cards (ATC). These Small Format Art (SFA) pieces are created in a wide variety of media. They are extremely fun and affordable to collect.

SPECIAL OFFER!!
If anyone wants to buy a full set of theses 48 hand-signed ACEO cards, I'm offering a special price of $90 and free shipping. Plus I'll include some original guerrilla art drawings to round out your collection. email me to work out the details. sammoart[at]yahoo.com

Guerrilla Art - Me, Drypnz, Bonus Saves & Ciah

Sammo (top), drypnz (middle), Bonus Saves and Ciah (bottom)

Fellow Kalamazoo guerrilla artist, Bonus Saves, placed some free art created by me, Ciah and drypnz (of New Zealand) in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Note: the bottom piece of art was a collaboration between Ciah (of Chicago) and Bonus Saves).

Photo credit: Bonus Saves

Art Trade with Tim Grimmer!

I just received these excellent ORIGINAL drawings from my buddy Tim Grimmer as part of our art trade.

Tim and I met in a college drawing class way back in 1990. At the time we were the two best artists in the class. So we had an informal competition each week to out-draw each other. Of course this "competition" was how I remember it. He may tell you he was unaware of any competition. If that's the case, then I'll have to embarrassingly admit defeat. After all I viewed him as a "threat" and if he didn't view me as a "threat" well then... he was the better artist. Maybe I should ask... or maybe I don't want to know.

Anyway, Tim and I are absolute polar opposites in personality, and over the years, very different artistically. Yet we speak a common "visual language" that keeps us connected all these years later.

So thanks Tim, I'm honored to have some of your original ink drawings in my collection.

Art Trade with Tricia Joy!

Tricia Joy (Patricia Anders) sent me an amazing painting along with a collection of giclee prints, note cards, some moos and a great little sculpture. I love seeing a large batch of her work in one place. It's fun to study her unhindered imagination.

Check out more of her amazing & imaginative art here:
www.patriciaanders.com

Guerrilla Art - San Francisco

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The Bear at the Cliffhouse

Here's a batch of guerrilla art my Flickr buddy Danny B placed around San Francisco. He was kind enough to take photos of where he placed them. The locations he placed them are all within a quarter mile from his home. Danny B was also kind enough to send a list of links specific to where he placed the art. (Links are located under each photo).

Art Trade with NKDBY

I received this AMAZING stenciled canvas from NKDBY! 18"x24" of serious canvas goodness!!

Be sure to check out more of NKDBY's art and photos here.
www.flickr.com/photos/nakedboy/

Here's the 12"x16" acrylic on canvas painting I sent his way.

Guerrilla Art - New Zealand

Here's a batch of guerrilla art heading to Nelson, New Zealand. New Zealand has been on my list of places I'd like to send art... needless to say, I'm pretty excited about this batch.

Pastel Drawing on Braille Schwans Catalog

I was researching Schwan's Frozen Food products, when I noticed you could sign up for their Braille food catalog. Being curious I signed up.

When I got it, it was a spiral bound, 60+ page, completely Braille booklet. Since I don't read Braille and the texture was intriguing, I thought it might be good for pastel drawings.

http://www.schwans.com/customerService/CustomerServiceContactUs.aspx?tb=6&SubjectCode=7