Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Screen Print by Mr. Brainwash

It’s been a long time since Mr. Brainwash released a print that The Blot really loved, but I would totally hang his upcoming “Batman vs Superman” screen print! I love the way MBW meshes DC Comics’ beloved super hero trinity (Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman) with graffiti and the street art movement. If only Warner Bros’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which also drops in theaters today, had the same joy and levity as this print.

“Batman vs Superman” by Mr. Brainwash is a 37”x24” signed and numbered 13 color Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice screen print on hand torn archival art paper. Limited to 216 pieces, this print will go on sale at 12pm PST today, Friday, March 25th, at the Mr. Brainwash online store for $500 each.

“DISSOBEY” Screen Print by Dissizit x Obey Giant

Shepard Fairey and O.G. Slick are teaming up to produce this fantastic “DISSOBEY” screen print! The Blot loves these types of killer collabs between graffiti icons, but I am a little bummed there’s probably no chance I’ll be able to buy one. The print is inspired by a paster battle between Obey Giant and Dissizit over a prominently located electrical box near MOCA in 2011. As Slick explained, “Some may think the DISSOBEY collection was a diss on Obey. I see it more as celebration of the essence of street art.”

DISSOBEY by Shepard Fairey and Slick is an 18”x24” signed and numbered screen print. Limited to just 187 pieces, this epic collaboration will go on sale at a random time between 10am and 11am PST on Friday, February 13th, at the Obey Giant online store for $80.

Marvel x Obey Giant “Watch!” T-Shirt by Blair Campbell

Over the past two years Blair Campbell has really made his mark on many of the popular daily t-shirt websites with his awesome pop culture mash-up designs. His latest might be my all time favorite though! By combining Shepard Fairey’s signature Obey sticker with Marvel Comics' the Watcher, Blair’s designed a pretty awesome new t-shirt that can be worn by both comic book collectors and street art connoisseurs. Entitled “Watch!”, Blair’s replaced Obey’s now iconic Andre the Giant minimalistic stencil with that of the giant bald head of a Watcher. It’s hilarious and poignant all at the same time!

The Marvel x Obey Giant “Watch!” t-shirt by Blair Campbell can now be purchased through Blair’s Red Bubble online store in a variety of styles, colors and sizes starting at just $24.54.

Krylon UPC Label T-Shirt Series by Sket One

Over the past few weeks Sket One’s been releasing some killer new Krylon inspired t-shirts through his online store. Each shirt features an old school spray paint UPC label from some of Krylon’s most popular colors that is sure to send every graf writer on a walk down memory lane. So far four UPC Label tees have been released: Ultra-Flat Black, Flat White, Icy Grape and Jungle Green. The Blot’s always been a big fan of Krylon’s discontinued Icy Grape color, and I definitely need to get my hands on one of these shirts.

All four Krylon UPC Label t-shirts seen here are available for purchase through Sket One’s online store for $25 in sizes S-XXXL. Some sizes are already sold out though, so if you want to display your love of graffiti on your sleeve go pick one of these tees up today!

Johnny Cupcakes x Banksy “Bakesy” T-Shirt

The minute The Blot saw this Banksy inspired t-shirt by Johnny Cupcakes I knew I had to have it! I love the idea of taking Banksy’s signature Flower Thrower stencil into a baker chunking cupcakes, making “Bakesy” one of my top 5 favorite JC designs ever. Not surprising, these design has flown off the shelf and only a few select sizes remain. So if you want to add this street art inspired design to your closet, you’d better act fast!

The Banksy inspired Johnny Cupcakes t-shirt “Bakesy” is currently on sale at the Johnny Cupcakes online store for $35.99. The shirts are available in both men's and women’s styles, sizes S-3XL but some sizes are already sold out.

New Hand Stenciled Silkscreen Print by PaperMonster

It’s been a really long time since The Blot Says… has featured the work of PaperMonster, but I was perusing the Dirty Pilot website this past weekend and saw this beautiful hand stenciled screen print of a wolf girl and was blown away. I really love PaperMonster’s stenciling work and this is a great example of why. The colors and images just pop off the page!

Each hand stenciled 7.75”x9.75” silkscreen comes hand signed and numbered by PaperMonster and is printed on Somerset 300gms art paper with a deckeled bottom edge. Pick one up today at the Dirty Pilot online store for $50 each.

The Art in the Streets Graffiti Exhibit

The Blot is way behind on blogging due to my move last month, but I wanted to share with you some photos from my recent trip to the west coast. Aly and I traveled to Los Angeles over the 4th of July holiday weekend, and in between sightseeing and visiting family we took a little detour to the Museum of Contemporary Art to and its "Art in the Streets" exhibit, the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the history of graffiti and street art. And let me just tell you, it was amazing!!! You can check out some of my photos in the slideshow above, or click here to see some official photos on the MOCA website.

The exhibition traces the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. "The Art in the Streets" exhibit showcased installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists from the graffiti and street art community, including Fab 5 Freddy (New York), Lee Quiñones (New York), Futura (New York), Margaret Kilgallen (San Francisco), Swoon (New York), Shepard Fairey (Los Angeles), Os Gemeos (São Paulo), and JR (Paris).

I am so glad we were able to visit the MOCA while we were in Cali and see this incredible art show. Being able to see artwork and photographs from the 70s and 80s documenting the early years of the graffiti art scene in person was seriously mind blowing. Growing up in the deep south, I couldn’t get over the sketchbooks of graffiti legends I had previously only read about in magazines and the internet. While the exhibit closed yesterday, it now heads out east to the Brooklyn Museum, where it will be on view March 30–July 8, 2012. Catch it if you can!

Obey Giant “SD Billboard” Screen Print by Shepard Fairey

Obey Giant will be releasing the fifth screen print in Shepard Fairey’s new “Art In The Streets” series later today, and it’s entitled “SD Billboard.” There seems to be a new print coming every week now, but that isn’t slowing down the rate they sell out. If anything, demand is actually increasing! The image above features one of Fairey’s favorite street spots for graffiti, in this instance a billboard in San Diego.

“SD Billboard” by Shepard Fairey is an 18”x24″ screen print, comes signed and numbered by the artist, and has a limited edition run size of 450 pieces. This is the fifth Obey Giant print from the “Art In The Streets” art show, and will retail for $45 each. The print goes sale at a random time (between 10am and 12noon PDT) today, Thursday, April 14th, at the Obey Giant online store.

Obey Giant “SF Fire Escape Print” Screen Print by Shepard Fairey

Obey Giant has announced the fourth screen print in Shepard Fairey’s new “Art In The Streets” series, and it’s entitled “SF Fire Escape Print.” The Blot seriously cannot believe how quickly Obey is producing these “Art In The Streets” prints. You’d think they’d want to space it out more, but considering how quickly these prints are selling out I guess they know what they’re doing. I’m interested in seeing how many more prints will be in the series. The image above features one of Fairey’s favorite street spots for graffiti, which appears to be a fire escape somewhere in San Franscisco.

“SF Fire Escape Print” by Shepard Fairey is an 18”x24″ screen print, comes signed and numbered by the artist, and has a limited edition run size of 450 pieces. This is the fourth Obey Giant print from the “Art In The Streets” art show, and will retail for $45 each. The print goes sale at a random time (between 10am and 12noon PDT) today, Thursday, April 7th, at the Obey Giant online store.

Obey Giant “Sunset & Vine Billboard” Screen Print by Shepard Fairey

Obey Giant has announced the third screen print in Shepard Fairey’s new “Art In The Streets” series, and it’s entitled “Sunset & Vine Billboard.” The image features one of Fairey’s favorite street spots for graffiti, which as the title suggests is a billboard at the intersection of Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles.

“Sunset & Vine Billboard” by Shepard Fairey is an 18”x24″ screen print, comes signed and numbered by the artist, and has a limited edition run size of 450 pieces. This is the third Obey Giant print from the “Art In The Streets” art show, and will retail for $45 each. The print goes sale at a random time this Thursday, March 31st, at the Obey Giant online store.

Obey Giant “Berlin Tower” Screen Print by Shepard Fairey

While I don’t know this for sure, The Blot assumes “Berlin Tower” is the second screen print in Obey Giant’s new “Art In The Streets” series. However, there’s no mention of this on the Fairey’s website or credit given for the photo it’s based on. Either way, it’s a nice print but not one I would necessarily want to hang on my walls. I do like the prominent placement of the Giant paster in the center of the image though.

“Berlin Tower” by Shepard Fairey is an 18”x24″ screen print, comes signed and numbered by the artist, and has a limited edition run size of 450 pieces. This is the second Obey Giant print from the “Art In The Streets” art show, and will retail for $45 each. This print goes sale at a random time this Thursday, March 17th, at the Obey Giant online store.

Obey Giant “Bayshore Billboard” Screen Print by Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey will be illustrating some of his favorite street spots from over the years to be included in the upcoming graffiti art show “Art In The Streets” at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The first Obey Giant “Art In The Streets” print is “Bayshore Billboard,” based on a 2003 photo by Mark the Cobra Snake. The print is of a billboard on Bayshore Blvd. in San Francisco, and the silhouette is of a random lackey Fairey hired because “I don’t do street art myself.” The Blot really likes the idea of a series of prints featuring some of Fairey’s favorite spots, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what other locations he illustrated.

“Bayshore Billboard” by Shepard Fairey is an 18”x24″ screen print, comes signed and numbered by the artist, and has a limited edition run size of 450 pieces. This first Obey Giant print from the “Art In The Streets” art show will retail for $45 each and will go on sale at a random time this Thursday, March 10th, at the Obey Giant online store.

Vandal Express Vinyl Figure by SEEN

Pioneering graffiti artist SEEN designed this nightmarish tribute to the Bronx’s infamous 6 subway train. For $100 you can catch one of these 10 inch long subterranean poly-resin monsters and add it to your collection. This figure looks fantastic, and as a fan of graffiti The Blot is always pumped to see vinyl figures featuring designs from such a legendary artist.


The 10” Vandal Express by SEEN has a limited edition run size of 300 figures, and is bound for New York Comic Con, Kidrobot stores, Kidrobot.com and super select retailers on October 7.

STRANGEco x Obey Giant Mr. Spray Vinyl Figure by Shepard Fairey

The Blot literally squealed like a little girl when I got the email last night from STRANGEco announcing the release of the Mr. Spray vinyl figure by Shepard Fairey. The Blot had heard rumors of a Mr. Spray figure for the longest time, but after months of speculation I started to assume the figure had been scrapped. Boy was I wrong! This is exactly the type of release Obey Giant fans have been clamoring for.


Mr. Spray is an original character created by Shepard Fairey in 2004 as a street-art appropriation of an advertising character design from the 1950s. Mr. Spray is the first original vinyl figure design by the artist in eleven years and will be released in mid-July 2010. Mr. Spray is an 11 inch rotocast vinyl figure, with 4 points of articulation and packaged with an OBEY mini stencil.


The STRANGEco x Obey Giant Mr. Spray vinyl figure by Shepard Fairey will be available in four colorways: The Black Mr. Spray will be limited to 350 pieces and is currently available for preorder at STRANGEco’s online store; The Red Mr. Spray will be limited to 350 pieces and is also currently available for preorder from STRANGEco’s online store; The Gold Mr. Spray is an Obey Giant Special Edition limited to 200 pieces, which will be released on ObeyGiant.com at a later date; and The Silver Mr. Spray is a StrangeCo Special Edition limited to 100 pieces, and will be available at San Diego Comic Con 2010 and later through STRANGEco’s online store.


Mr. Spray Black and Red will retail for $84.99 and begin shipping on or around July 20, 2010. The Black and Red editions will also be available at select neighborhood designer toy shops.

New PaperMonster Solo Exhibition "PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy"

PaperMonster has a new solo exhibition opening July 2nd in Philadelphia, PA at the Vincent Michael Gallery entitled “PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy.” PaperMonster will be debuting over twenty new works of stencil art collages on canvas full of powerful portraits of women exploring themes of strength, fear, passion, and mystery. Several portraits are woven together with combinations of women and animals; each speaking to the strength, ferocity, and power that women carry within.


PaperMonster’s collage work within each painting allows the audience to develop their own perception and theories as to who these people are and what they hide. To coincide with his “PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy” exhibition, PaperMonster will also be having an artist talk on July 24th at the Vincent Michael Gallery from 2-4pm covering his thoughts on stencil art and the art world at large. If you live in the greater Philadelphia area, you should definitely check out this amazing artist’s work!

Obey Giant - Keith Haring Canvas Print by Shepard Fairey

Legendary NYC street artist Keith Haring has been immortalized in Shepard Fairey’s trademark style, and while not perfect, The Blot really likes it. The Keith Haring Canvas Print is a nice mix of Shep’s stencil art with Haring’s graffiti, although I wouldn’t have minded more of Haring’s artwork in the background. Thankfully, Fairey at least included Haring’s Radiant Baby.


Growing up, Haring, along with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, were the holy trinity of pop art to me, and their works continue to influence my pop culture identity today. Because of that, it’s really cool to see the styles of two influential pop artists from the 80’s and 00’s collide in this print.

The Keith Haring Canvas Print by Shepard Fairey is a signed and numbered 18”x 24″ screen print with an edition size of 450 prints. This print goes on sale today, Thursday, May 20th at a random time at the Obey Giant online store. A portion of all sales of this print will go to the Keith Haring Foundation and Photographer Patrick McMullan.

True Identity Screen Print by PaperMonster

New York based PaperMonster, one of The Blot’s favorite stencil graffiti artists, has teamed up with Abztract to release a new 5 color screen print of PaperMonster's “True Identity” painting. The print is a beautiful size at 18"x24", with great texture and even better colors. If you’re a fan of PaperMonster’s work, this is one print you won’t want to miss!


PaperMonster’s “True Identity” screen print has an edition size of 50 prints, comes signed and numbered by the artist, and was printed on 100lb archival paper. Each print retails for $45 (plus shipping), and can be purchased directly from Abztract here.

Gold Coin x PaperMonster T-Shirt

The Blot has no idea how I missed this awesome collaboration between San Francisco based clothing brand Gold Coin and New York stencil graffiti artist PaperMonster, but I’m glad I happened to notice it while checking out GC’s Holiday 2009 clothing line. The Blot was just looking at this cool crossbones t-shirt and thought to myself how the design inside the cross-bones looks just like some of PaperMonster’s killer paper collage artwork. Of course, if I had only taken the time to look at the shirt’s title I would have realized right away this was an official Gold Coin x PaperMonster t-shirt!


Gold Coin is only producing 500 black and 500 white of the limited edition PaperMonster t-shirts seen above, so if you want one act fast! Once these tees are gone, they’ll never be available again. The Gold Coin x PaperMonster tee is available now in both black and white for $30 each at the Gold Coin online store.

PaperMonster x DirtyPilot “Friends With Knives” Art Show

You all know The Blot is a huge fan of stencil graffiti art, so I was intrigued the moment I heard of the upcoming online stencil art show curated by PaperMonster and DirtyPilot.com entitled "Friends With Knives." "Friends With Knives," which opens this Friday, September 18th, features some of today's most talented stencil artists. The aim of “Friends With Knives” is to highlight the beauty behind stencil graffiti styles/techniques such as photo-realism, pop, and political stencils at global level with artists hailing from Iran, Germany, USA, Australia, France and the United Kingdom.


The "Friends With Knives" group art show will be on display at DirtyPilot.com from September 18th - October 18th, and features works from artists such as LECKOmio, E.L.K., SOULE, Peat Wollaeger, PaperMonster, L.E.T. , Nathan Phaneuf , A1One , Billy Mode, Ben Slow, Koleszar, Dave Lowell, Mefee, Roy Schreuder, and HAHA. To find out more information about this killer looking show, be sure to check out DirtyPilot.com or the official PaperMonster website.

Mr. Brainwash - The Chocolate Vandal Print

Mr. Brainwash already has a new print ready to go for release this Thursday. “The Chocolate Vandal” marks the third release in as many weeks for this mysterious street artist and it’s a good one. "The Chocolate Vandal" is based on Jean-Etienne Liotard's "The Chocolate Girl," originally painted in 1744, Brainwashed in 2009.


“The Chocolate Vandal” is a 22”x30” screen print on textured archival art paper and comes signed and numbered by MBW. This all new print has a limited edition of just 50 prints and will be available for sale Thursday, March 26th, at 12pm PST at Mr. Brainwash’s online store.