Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Dec 27, 2011, 1:28 pm
  'Elephantom'. A1 white ink drawing on black card.
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Dec 10, 2011, 9:39 pm
  Earth is an open prison, go where you like. Prints up to 58" x 44" are available at: Pimpartworks Imagekind Artsprojekt
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Dec 10, 2011, 11:10 am
'Mothership'. Freehand pen and ink illustration on A1 (33.1 x 23.4 in 280gsm watercolour paper. Signed and dated. £50. Free shipping for the UK.
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Nov 10, 2011, 1:39 pm
Here's my humble contribution to the Occupy Wall Street Movement that's taken the world by storm with almost no valuable coverage from the mainstream media. That's people power for ya… It's a free poster, for marches, sit-ins, or even to stick up on your wall. It's a PDF image (300 DPI resolution)...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Sep 20, 2011, 10:04 am
Issue Three of the online arts magazine StepAway Magazine has been pre-launched and is now live at http://www.stepawaymagazine.com. They've also featured a work by me for their front cover – Reigning Men.   Cool.
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Sep 9, 2011, 6:21 pm
Hot off the press… A series of 20 limited edition A2 (23.4 x 16.5 in on 270gsm archive paper) screen prints of 'Pearly King' are now available direct at £25 each plus shipping. Each is signed and numbered by myself and I will be selling half of them via the Xuma Gallery Bar in Brighton, East Suss...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Aug 18, 2011, 9:59 pm
Roll on the Olympics… Prints available at: Artsprojekt Imagekind Pimpartworks Artflakes
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Aug 9, 2011, 3:34 pm
Yep, I couldn't resist chipping in on this one, even if I am nowt to do with it. There are a lot of rumours flying about concerning the UK riots. I've been flipping between the news and Twitter and from what I can gather…. The government line: It's not a protest, it's just naughty children, and w...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Aug 9, 2011, 11:18 am
Here's a new print to keep the few and faithful occupied while I battle with my first painting. It's called 'Coalition' and it's available in print at ArtFlakes. It's my first print with these guys so give them a visit if you can, they're based in Germany and sell right across the globe. 'Coalition'...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Jul 27, 2011, 5:56 am
I was approached by Nimet Kalkan at RedBubble.com who's looking for t-shirt design contributions to help raise money for the Lighthouse Project in Australia. The “Lighthouse Project” refers to the “Beacon Of Hope” – a multi-purpose mega-structure (in the shape of a lighthouse) built in cap...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Jul 19, 2011, 5:21 pm
Here's a shout out for Source Creative, a superb showcase for freelance creatives who kindly invited me to join their hallowed ranks. The site is well worth checking out if you're looking for creative professionals for your next project it, be it art, design, illustration, branding, you name it, the...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Jul 5, 2011, 6:54 pm
Fame at last… lol. Here's my interview with ArtsProjekt, a great site for artists and collectors with big names like Shepard Fairey offering up a selection of prints, boards and much more (just like me).
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Jun 2, 2011, 4:26 am
I'd like to thank all those who've read my posts over the years. The truth is I sincerely thought that if I helped out other artists that eventually at least some would do the same for me. From now on, instead of wasting my life altruistically promoting others, I will help myself, I'll paint, and no...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Jun 1, 2011, 11:38 am
'Presence – Absence' the inaugural exhibition at the brand spanking new Kingsland Road Studios in Hackney next week on Thursday 9th June. The debut show features fresh young artists James Irwin, Alida Sayer, Brendan Olley and Zachary Eastwood-Bloom.The theme explores aspects of the everyday, the i...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 30, 2011, 6:57 am
Philippine artist Ronald Ventura has garnered enormous international attention in recent years. He is noted for paintings featuring complex layering, combining images and styles raging from hyperrealism to cartoons and graffiti — as well as for a significant body of sculptural work. He takes the l...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 29, 2011, 7:04 am
You're probably already familiar with Brooklyn artist Kevin Cyr's amazing eco vehicles. His art first caught my eye with his rather amusing yet poignant Camper Bike and Camper Kart. However I only recently discovered his paintings including amazing set of particularly unkempt street vehicle and van ...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 28, 2011, 10:35 am
If you're a child of the 80's or older you will most likely remember the Pin Art or Pinscreen craze that was doing the rounds at the time. As far as executive toys go, artist Ward Fleming's patented invention knocked the clackers out of the more traditional Newton's Cradle by giving pinstriped banke...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 27, 2011, 7:59 am
A vast majority of artists must know of the plight of Ai Weiwei. Arrested and imprisoned without recourse or trial by the Chinese governmental authorities for the crime of free expression, it seems that asides the occasional poster campaign or news report, not much is being done to pressure China. T...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 26, 2011, 9:34 am
Becca Midwood was a big name in the downtown LA street art scene right through the 90s. Her girlish character creations had a devoted following, who collected "Beccas" for years. Then one day Jeffrey Deitch decided to set up an art show called Art in the Streets at his plush MOCA gallery and offered...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 25, 2011, 8:23 am
Masakatsu Sashie's exhibiting his latest piece from tomorrow until the 29th May at Asia's premier art fair Art HK 2011 in Hong Kong, and it's bloody brilliant. There's been talk of psychic visions for disaster themed piece painted before the wake of the massive Japan quake and tsunami.Who knows, cou...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 24, 2011, 9:11 am
I don't really go in for "soft art" asides the yarn bombing craze, if I received anything woollen as a kid at Christmas… well you can imagine the face. However, Your Organ Grinder, a female artist based in Brisbane has opened my eyes to a whole new world of knitted possibilities. Check out her ama...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 23, 2011, 9:16 am
Japanese sculptor Yasuhiro Sakurai's amazing Cypress wood and cloisonné sculptures feature eerily disembodied female heads, complete with long hair are a sight. Beautiful forms in soft wood, golden hued and very luscious. I have little info on the artist, except that he's represented by Galleria Gr...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 22, 2011, 8:52 am
Charis Tsevis is an award winning visual designer living and working in Athens, Greece. He works part-time as professor of Editorial Design and Typography at the AKTO College of Art and Design. Highly respected in the design world as theoretician he definitely puts his ideas into practice with these...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 21, 2011, 3:12 pm
Sweet Toof's first solo show in NYC entitled "Dark Horse" at Factory Fresh finishes tomorrow, just in case if you're in the area and don't want to miss out. Turning from the outdoors to the indoors, this new selection of oils sees a departure from the usual urban settings to something more classical...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 21, 2011, 7:25 am
Following last year's controversy at Moca involving the Bologna street artist and muralist Blu it's good to see the guy hasn't been put off by the idiotic conservatism of its director Jeffrey Deitch. This time a superb giant sized mural in Krakow Poland, although who knows if this will kick up a con...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 20, 2011, 8:08 am
I just stumbled across these awesome pieces by Inge Jacobsen, a mixed media artist from Galway Ireland currently based in West Sussex England. Her work deals with the how women are portrayed in the media. I'm not normally one for embroidery but I have to admit her Vogue front covers are awesome. The...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 20, 2011, 6:53 am
Hastings paste-up artist and painter Mike Winnard sent me over a link to his groovy Spacecakes tee based on one of his recent pieces. Part of a set of 3 tees being sold with all proceeds going to the NSPCC. It's all about fatties on the moon, or rather the technological dualities and vagaries of the...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 19, 2011, 6:47 am
Steal From Work is a British contemporary/urban art collective, a fully registered not-for-profit workers co-operative mind you, based in Bristol and featuring a wide range of great hand made posters, limited edition prints, vinyl toys and originals by the likes of CEPT, Rowdy (SFW raised £17k for ...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 18, 2011, 4:23 am
The Show & Tell Gallery is currently exhibiting (until June 12th) American artists Maya Hayuk & Jen Stark as they offer up their first show in Canada. This exhibition, aptly titled Double Rainbow Rainbow, focuses on symmetry, patterns, radiant colours and positive energy. Each artist works in a vari...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 18, 2011, 4:12 am
Check out these awesome hand carved Star Wars themed crayons by designer Michael Lapp. Here's what he has to say about them, "Funny how creative you get waiting for things to render."
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 17, 2011, 6:27 am
One of the hottest art collectives on the scene are the Brit combo Dorothy™ based in Manchester, England.  Self-labelled as “a collective of like-minded people working on unlike-minded ideas,” they have received some major attention through the years having won Design Week, D&AD, and The New ...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 16, 2011, 8:02 am
This June 25th to July 17th Bromance offers up the theme of "Brotherly Love", although Philadelphia comes to mind, hosts Artifact Gallery are based in SF so you'll need to spread it a little further than usual. Top Bay Area artists featured in the charity show and auction include Frank Kozik, Yosiel...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 15, 2011, 9:06 am
Here's a set of illustrations created for a publication of 'Balladyna' by Juliusz Slowacki, a famous Polish Romantic poet, considered to be one of the 'Three Bards' of Polish literature. Unfortunately due to the current financial crisis the project was cancelled. However I don't think this should de...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 15, 2011, 8:49 am
Wataru Yoshida is a Japanese designer and illustrator and winner of several Adobe design awards who has an incredible talent for depicting a mix anatomy both inside and out and fantasy illustrations. Right now Yoshida has a few t-shirts up for sale too, each priced at $49 USD and in various Japanese...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 14, 2011, 9:01 am
N.Y artist and muralist Nicholas Forker's latest work at the corner of Houston and Elizabeth to see . The mural is based some of his epic astronaut drawings and can be seen painted on the side of Rag & Bone. Here's a quote about the piece: "In his most recent work, Nicholas Forker uses hero as met...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 13, 2011, 8:18 am
Joe Fenton is an incredibly precise and talented illustrator. After studying sculpting at the Wimbledon School of Art, he began working in the film industry for directors such as Terry Gilliam and major studios like  Disney and Miramax as a film concept designer and sculptor in both London and Prag...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 12, 2011, 9:51 am
Leeds-born Paul Fryer is truly a British phenomenon. A Renaissance Man, who dropped out of Art School to become an Electro Pop singer, made his name as a celebrated DJ in the 90s a, he was instrumental in the creation of the widely acclaimed Art-based clubs The Kit Cat Club and Vague. Then moved to ...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 11, 2011, 6:04 am
Alan Wolfson sculpts amazing 3D handmade photorealistic painted miniature sculptures of urban environments. Complete with complex interior views and lighting effects, a major work can take several months to complete. The pieces are usually not exact representations of existing locations, but rather ...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 10, 2011, 6:34 am
The world's only international urban art fair is almost here again, this May from the 26th to the 29th the STROKE.ARTFAIR 2011 marks their 4th bi-annual event and features a whole host of galleries and art-collectives from far and wide. Highlights from the fair include works by internationally known...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 9, 2011, 7:39 am
Minni Havas is a young Finnish freelance illustrator based in Helsinki.She studied fashion design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, where she focused on fashion illustration. Minni uses colour pencils and ink to to envision creations with a sublime mix of photo realism and fantasy on a b...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - May 8, 2011, 8:23 am
You may have already come across Sebastian Kruger's caricature illustrations of celebrities, but he also paints some damn serious detailed celebrity portraiture too. "In the early 1980's Krüger studied painting and graphic arts, and then quickly moved into the professional art world where his iconi...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 29, 2011, 6:56 am
Zachary Walsh has to be one of my favourite painters right now, a highly accomplished traditional painter with a great eye for expressive composition, perfect tone and line, and not afraid to let loose and experiment where it counts. It's like street art, only better! A graduate of the Royal College...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 28, 2011, 9:36 am
So it's nearly here, the Will & Kate media extravaganza which will cost the country over £5bn in lost production but earn the country around £450m. Now I failed my maths 'O' Level but even I can tell that it this little equation doesn't add up. So if it's not about the money, surely it's about the...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 27, 2011, 10:05 pm
Angela Lynn Fraleigh is a photo-realist painter based in both  Brooklyn, NY and Allentown, PA. Her themes include cultural notions of beauty, class, gender and role-play. Born in Beaufort South Carolina, she was raised in New York and attended Boston University on a Dean’s Scholarship earning her...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 27, 2011, 7:58 am
The international art fair SWAB returns for it's 4th year in SWAB from May 26 to May 29 of 2011 in Barcelona. Founded in 2006 by Contemporary Art Space from Barcelona Diezy7, a private contemporary art collection with the support of 50 renowned and respected national and International galleries and ...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 26, 2011, 5:18 pm
NEW super limited edition art prints by Parisian artist/illustrator Seb NIARK1 Feraut's painting "Ouvre-ventre" are available right now, but only for the next 5 days at 1XRUN. 12
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 26, 2011, 8:29 am
Jermaine Rogers is one of the world's top rock poster artists, he's been drawing and painting tour posters since 1994 and his client list is pretty spectacular too. Having worked with music legends like David Bowie, Neil Young, Radiohead and many more, having produced over 800 posters by now, his st...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 25, 2011, 9:18 am
Jacob Livengood is a graphic designer & illustrator living In San Diego, check out his amazing customized wheelie bin!
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 24, 2011, 7:17 am
Saydan Aksit is a highly accomplished water colourist with a sharp style and a passion for celebrity portraiture. Based in Turkey he's a graduate from University Kocaeli and regularly exhibits in Istanbul. I've always suspected there might be a thriving arts scene there, definitely a place to visit ...
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Paul Baines posted an article on Indoor Street Art - Apr 24, 2011, 6:52 am
Jeremy Hatch's ceramic Ricochet Studios have released this amazing piece simply entitled "Accident". The gold urine is a stroke of genius.
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