About a week ago I received some really cool sketches of my name by New York’s HAZE.
Hyped on the classic flow, I made it a point to paint the Haze’s Rime sketch while out in NYC…
Being that it was done in an alley right under the Manhattan bridge, I felt the style fit well with the environment…
Many thanks to Klughaus Gallery for setting up the wall.
Last year in Detroit, VIZIE drew an outline for me in a sketch pad. While in San Francisco I came across the right opportunity to put it to use. There are a few revisions added in the painted version, mainly in the weight of the “M”.
Rime sketch by Vizie-
Piece painted by Rime-
Motel 7 by Jurne
Hesoe by Bates
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STAE 2 writes: “Yo Ruets, Here’s some sketches I’ve been working on for yah. Did my best to work with your U, the letter that was giving me problems on a few of ’em. Hope you digs, look forward to seeing your interpretation!”
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Vancouver, Canada’s SUEME is the latest addition to The Exchange project. For the most recent updates on The Exchange go to: TheGraffitiExchange.blogspot.com
BATES sketch by SUEME-
SUEME on creating the sketch: I just finished the Bates exchange sketch that we talked about. I did the sketch really big its about 38″ x 14″ in size. I found it to be a bit tricky when sketching it out with pencil but inking with a sharpie was really fun and seemed easier than any of my previous graffiti sketches. let me know if you need a higher res. file. I have attached two pieces, one is just the sketch by itself, and the second one I added a background to it really quickly in photoshop to separate the piece from its white background(its a bit easier to read whats going on).
Thanks to the organizational skills of Serval, I had the pleasure of joining him along with Bates and Poet on a trip to Geneva promoting The Exchange book. We were special guests at a book fair in Morges, hired to paint and conduct some workshops with local Swiss kids.
In usual fashion we wasted no time in getting up on a city wall. Fresh from the airport Bates and I decided to swap names in a freestyle exchange.
Going in it’s a Fon”do”, going out it’s a Fon”don’t”…
The following day we drove out to a small town along Lake Geveva called Morges. Here we spent the next few days talking to locals about the always exciting task of being a graffiti writer…
In the photo below you can see the French Alps on the opposite side of the lake…
Italian fishermen…
The perfectionist…
We set out to do another name swap on a prepared wall along the waterfront…
Young locals taking notes…
Kids really like getting painted on these days. When i was their age this act would of been the ultimate form of disrespect…
For this freestyle of Serval’s name I wanted to paint something reminiscent of the graffiti I was inspired by and motivated to paint as a teen. Classic shapes with a twist and large box 3-d’s going straight down. I purposely chose a color scheme similar to what may have been done with old Krylon. Instead of True Blue, Rose, Pastel Yellow etc., I’m rolling with top notch 94…
Bates taking on Poet’s name…
Serval paints a Bates…
And Poet rocks a Rime…
Full wall…
Towards the end of the fair, the wall we painted was dismantled and sections of the wall were sold to the locals. Half the profits made went to a local charity, the other half went to an even greater charity (supporting artists).
After a few days of rest at an upscale hotel beside a cow pasture…
We spent a night in a building that was the former servant quarters of a medieval Swiss castle! It was nice to see a bit of the country outside of the city…
The photo below is not over spray on a black car hood, those are actually stars! You don’t see shit that clear in LA…
Foosball match beside a castle…
Another day another quick wall with Jazi & Serval…
Serval’s version 1 piece (see below). He didn’t like what he painted and made it a point to return, redoing the whole piece. I liked the first version. What do you think?
Whole wall with Serval’s version 2…
Serval writes:
Funny, several people told me they liked the first piece better. In a lot of ways i did too, what I didn’t like is that I felt it didn’t match either Jazi’s character or Rime’s piece at all. It was an ok piece, kind of a throwback to earlier stuff I did, and a little sloppy as well, but ok, it just didn’t make any sense to me next to the others. The fact I thought the two pinks I used in the back would be more different meant that the huge pink cloud really set it off. It was too big and too important and in my view overshadowed the nice subtleties the others had done.
When I came back to put a lighter second outline I felt that the piece in itself made sense, so I didn’t want to change it, but i rather wanted to complete the wall that Rime and Jazi had started. Hence the fact I just did a quick one over it that matches, in my sense the other’s work better and makes for a more coherent total. The final piece is not amazing, again a throwback to late 90’s stuff, but it makes for a balanced composition and allowas each elemnt ( Rime’s piece and Jazi’s character) to be appreciated in turn…
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Painting an Exchange sketch by Aroe
pencil sketch by Aroe…
I did rework some areas of the sketch out of habit (especially the face of the “E” and the bottom of the “M”). Hopefully I didn’t go too far with it? The palm tree dude was a quick afterthought. I wanted to add some sort of character but was limited with space. Some cool arrow jump-offs had to be sacrificed.
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The Exchange: Acclaimed graffiti collective The Exchange has created a stir with a dynamic style dialogue. The idea behind the project is for members to pair up, trade sketches and rock diverse styles outside of their usual comfort zones. These experiments are then posted online to be applauded and critiqued by members. A verbal and visual style assault from some of the finest active writers across the globe: EWOK, REVOK, RIME, PERSUE, YES 2, POSE, STAE 2, SNOW, BATES, SERCH, POET, KACAO 77, SCOTTY 76, ASKEW (just to name a few). This book is jam-packed with expert style antics. You might want to get your sketchbooks out and start taking notes.
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Recent Rime / Phat1 Exchange
Rime Sketch By Phat1:
Rime’s Interpretation Of The Sketch:
Painted this a while back in New Jersey. This sketch had a nice classic style that reminded me of the graffiti I was influenced by, early on in Staten Island. There are also some elements (maybe in the way I painted it) that remind me of Bates’s work. Overall, I am satisfied with the finished result!
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The original plan was to work on a bigger wall and rock the Motel7 sketch. Our plans changed when we decided to scale down and fit on this brick wall. I reworked the sketch, trimming down areas to make it more effective as a floating piece. I planned on coming back to do more to this but had to move on-
Action photos by Cleo
Here is a Roids that was a rough pencil sketch in my book from a few months back. I didn’t finish it back then because I got bored with it. The other day i was flipping through the sketch book and got interested in it again. This is what I came up with…
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