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Rise and Shine – Corvallis Mural

Super Dylan — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:40:32 +0000

My last Art show at Bombs Away Cafe yielded a nice surprise. I was contacted by Jay Zantos, a transplated graff artist from SoCal attending OSU. He really liked some of my work and we started emailing back and forth. Next thing I know we paint this huge mural down in Corvallis on the day I picked up the show from Bombs Away.

Jay was the idea man behind this piece, he was inspired by the trains waking up the city of corvallis early in the morning. A lot of people are angered by the morning wake up calls, however I was on Jay’s page big time. I lived on 8th and Washington my last year of college with a balcony that I could clearly see the train from. Everytime I heard the train I’d rush out to check out the graffiti. It wasn’t long before I found my new neighbors doing the same thing as they were graff writers as well. I have heard trains called “rolling art galleries” If only everyone was on that page and painting them was not illegal but encouraged…

We got a lot of people involved in this mural. The Alchemist sent out someone for an interview and a photographer to cover the session. Check out the interview in this issue, and we made the cover of this issue. For an absurd amount of pictures check out Will’s flickr.

Revolution Parkour Mural

Super Dylan — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:45:41 +0000

This parkour facility in Beaverton has so many open walls, this “small” mural is just a start to our work at this location. Painted with two new cats DeAngelo Raines with Art not Crime and his buddy “Fayah Cat” Chris. With this collab mural Delo painted the Revolution, I painted the Parkour, Chris painted the parkour siloutte and we worked together for the background.

Mural Mural on the Wall…

Super Dylan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:59:16 +0000

About 7 months ago I found myself in the same position I find myself in these days. I have a stock of great spray paint, and want to put it to the best use possible. Last August I posted ‘nearly free mural‘ contest via Twitter. Well, the contest is coming back around for a 2nd time.

YOU: If you would like to enter, you have a wall that you’d love to have painted up graffiti style. Likely you don’t have the cheese to hire the big guns but your desire remains in hopes that some day… oh some day will come. Entering is easy, holla at me. Twitter, Email, Blog Comment – anything. I’ll admit, only 1 person entered last time – and she got her condo wall painted. If more people enter this time, I’ll paint multiple walls or pick the best most visible prospect.

RULES: Wall should be located in or near Portland. I get to paint what I want, and you owe me a 12 pack of some good beer. Or a bottle of whiskey.

Here are some of the most recent graffiti pieces I did, thanks for reading and please share with your friends.

Habits Mural

SuperDylan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:26:53 +0000

So the mural has been up for about 3 weeks now. There has been 1… 1 person to write on it and they wrote “this is” in front of one of the Bads. The experiment of Graffiti as Fine Art is going better than anticipated. I assumed based on the level of graffiti on the wall prior to my mural, that my work would be tagged all over pretty quickly. The owner of the store said he has had upwards of 50 compliments and only 1 solitary complaint. I had people across the empty parking lot thank me for painting over the vandalistic graffiti with a mural that “I’m happy to have my kids and family look at everyday.” The mural was also featured on the cover of The Alchemist for the first week of June!