Good day familia,

This weekend I had the opportunity to finish a special request for a friend of mine. This was a project that I really enjoyed doing especially because it pays tribute to the city that I was raised in.

I have had the pleasure of working with Ken for the past couple of years, and has been able to provide ample wall space to explore different aspects of my art. This has helped develop my craft and skill alongside with building relationships with others. Opening new doors can help you in the long run.

Also, my lady was excited to help document the process while I created this piece. I hope you enjoy this video.

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Yesterday I was able to get some action in with the boys out on Main. st. Here are a couple of shots that were taken this morning. I’m really into this piece, I really enjoyed playing around with the texture’s and the use of color. I tried to stick to using a single color with several different tone’s. Hope you enjoy this beautiful Sunday! (INS courtesy of W3r3On3)

I ordered some prints of some previous projects I have been wanting to get. The prints are 4×6 inches on Fuji Film digital paper, I was able to matte them with some leftovers from a recent project Paty had done for a show (luckily we didn’t throw those pieces away, otherwise it would have turned out to be a much duller story).

I hope you enjoy the prints as much as I do.! P.s. I will add these to my store, I ordered extras..

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Here are a few photo’s we were able to capture after a production we worked on over the weekend. This mural worked out perfect, and came out the way we planned. 

A couple of weekends ago Houston had the opportunity to host the “Meeting of Styles” in the warehouse district. MOS is a world renowned graffiti event held annually in different parts of the world. Artist from all over  travel to selected locations to create the finest of graffiti. I was given the opportunity to be a part of this event a 2nd year in a row, and better believe I was glad to participate. This event took place at 3 separate locations including the Houston’s famous Wall of Fame over a span of 3 days. People from the community had the chance to witness a full blown Graffiti festival going on in the heart of the city.  Especially that Graffiti is known to be taboo and even considered illegal if not asked for the proper consent from owners. Here are a few photos that my lady was able to capture over the weekend. Also a huge thanks to everyone who put in work for this awesome project. Peace, Love and Cheech Marin! Empire

Jerk and Myself up top

Meenr

W3r3On3

Akyra

A few people that put in work that were not featured : Kato, Gasp, and Gear !

I am finally getting around to add another mini project from this summer. Me and my lady really enjoyed the hospitality we experienced in Cuautepec, Mexico City. Cuautepec is in the outskirts of Mexico City, and when I say its in the outskirts I mean its going up into the mountains made up of little homes and streets leading straight to the top. We ended up running into a good friend of ours while in the city and she allowed us to stay at her families house. Her aunt gave me the go to be able to paint an old corrugated fence they had on the side of the of house. They mentioned that the fence had been painted several times by some of the up and coming graffiti writers there in the town. Here are some great detail shots of that morning. We had a few visitors pass by and say hello. Enjoy!

My lady and I decided to take a month long vaction to Mexico this summer. It’s always a great feeling coming down to the mother land. We are officially on day 15 of 31 and we have had a blast so far. Eating tacos, tortas, and esquites and other Mexican delicacies is all we have been doing these 2 weeks,  aside from all the walking a site seeing.

I managed to score a wall in Izucar after looking and asking owners, and I was able to get permission from a barber to let me paint his gate. Once we got the OK me and the wife started looking for some paint. The town has a couple of paint sotores, but their spray paint  is not nearly as good as the brands that I am use to and they are way more watery than the paint that I like. I mean I would much rather some rustos or krylon over comex anyday!. I managed to get a connect by contacting a cousin of mine that has some friends in Ilegal Squad. Ilegal Squad is  a crew that has a graff magazine and even makes their own brand of paint, they are based out of the Distrito Federal in Mexico. We have been staying in Izucar De Matamoros, Puebla, which is about 4 hours away from the capitol! So the Closes place that they had a distributor was in the city of Puebla.

Well that was it, we managed to take a bus to Atlixco, and  another to the city of Puebla. Once we got there we walked about 40 mins before we reached our destination. I would say it was not all that bad given that we ran into the train car museum and alot of graff, so we had alot of site seeing during our walk. Finally we reached our store “La Raza” which a little shopping strip with a bunch of little shops. It wasn’t to long before we were able to find the little shop, paint was cheap and the selection of color’s was large so it wasn’t hard to decide. Now we were on our way back to Izucar after a few hours of travel.

So Saturday evening I contacted the Barber to see if the walls good to go. Unfortunately the barber backed out so I was back to square one. But this time I had paint, so now for sure I had to get something. Sunday morning while having breakfast with Patys Uncle we came up with the idea of creating a flyer to share on family members social media that resided in the town we were in, to see who was up for a nice piece.

Also I didn’t want to sit and wait for something to come up. I new that I had to get up off my feet and do something so I did. Me and my lady put on our running shoes and jogged the little town while looking around for some possibilites. We figured  someone was bound to let me paint. One after the other they kept turning me down. Finally we ran into a little ice cream shop that had some old graff that was faded and pealing. It was a rather huge wall, and kind of doubted myself. But I said what the heck its worth a shot. So we stopped and asked. The gentlemen was very humble and had his daughter there with him. As soon as I began to show previous pictures of my older work from back home he seemed up for it. We were so excited we left without paying the for the coffee flavored ice cream we bought! So we ran back to pay the man. He mentioned not to worry about because he would see us first thing in the morning.

Next morning I had to borrow my cousins truck in order to transport buff and a latter to be able to complete the mural. My lady and I arrived around 11am and began right away with the scraping and buffing of the wall. The heat at that time of day was no Joke!!!- I continued painting for about 3 and a half hours until we decided to take a little lunch break. By that time I was exhausted by the heat and hungry!. I finished lunch and headed back to the wall, by that time we had brought back some company (family) to hang out and watch. I painted for about 4 more hours until the mural was finally completed. Through out my project many people stopped by to talk to me. I had alot of positive feedback from the communtiy, i even had a little old lady stop by and “congratulate me” she went on to say thank you and that it brought a lot of joy to her because of the bright colors. Someone even said it was very “elegant”, which was an odd word to describe graffiti, but I appreciated it!

 

 

I had the pleasure of meeting a lovely couple from Belgium. I was actually on my way to pick some painting’s up where we recently held an art exhibition at East End Gallery. It was a group show with some of Houston’s heavy hitters here in the art scene. As I walked out to the car I hear a voice call my name. “Nacho”, I turn and see a couple walking towards me. They were the most delighted couple. Really humble and down to earth. They really seemed to be into my work and were excited to here about the next show coming up. They also mentioned to me that I had given them some stickers the day before at the event (good way for them to remember me).

So a couple of months have past now and Carine has gotten back in contact with me. This time it was about getting work done at her house! How exciting for someone to want me to go paint some of my own work onto there walls at home. Not only that, there wasn’t no special request, all they ask was for me to paint a mono chromatic piece on a 5X5 panel outside of there home. Carine mentioned to me that one day they would be going back home to Belgium, and they would love take the piece of art I would be creating for them. So they mounted a piece of wood onto the wall so when they are ready for the move they would be able to remove it from the wall with ease! I forgot to mention they also asked for a very good friend of mine to paint along side of me. Also a very well renowned artist here in the Houston area W3r3on3!

Here are the photos and the process of the works of art we have created for Carine and Abel! We had the pleasure of being photographed by one of the best up and coming photographer’s here in Houston Paty Lennon ( also the love of my life). I hope you enjoy!        

I had a great time painting with the fellas this day! Started off my spring break on a good note. Here are some pictures of what we created for Workshop Houston. I hope you enjoy the new work, we are always coming up with new ideas for the streets. Stay up Houston.