Hookedblog travelled to Belfast to check out Hit The North, Ireland's largest street art festival with 50 invited street artist painting new murals.

Dernier né des festivals de jazz strasbourgeois, Jazz à la Petite France est un festival de découvertes et d’émergences musicales, au croisement du jazz et des musiques actuelles. Il propose un jazz ouvert sur le monde, avec de jeunes artistes venus de toute l'Europe, aux multiples influences, riches de leurs voyages et migrations, porteurs d’espoirs et de nouveaux horizons. Jazz à la Petite France est un festival en plein air à prix libre.

Cinquième édition du festival Urban Art Jungle de la galerie Superposition à Lyon, qui se déroule à l'Autre Soie à Villeurbanne Vaulx-en-Velin, avec au programme du street art, de la musique DJ, des ateliers, des food trucks

Keith Haring 'Montreux 1983' Original concert event poster, c1983 Limited first edition Montreux Jazz Festival Screenprint Printed by Albin Uldry, Bern Size: 39.3" x 27.5" (99.8cm x 69.8cm) Condition: excellent With gallery certificate of authenticity NOTE: A rare original screenprint/serigraph poster designed by Keith Haring for the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1983. The large limited edition poster is in excellent condition. The colours are far more vibrant in reality - absolutely gorgeous. Please do not confuse this poster with the lower quality later reprints. Please note it will be a couple of weeks before we can supply this piece. Investment potential Original first edition posters by major artists are a strong growth area in art investment. For a long time, they were undervalued, but that is changing hugely. We predict that the market for first edition posters will increase exponentially. Simply put, we would not sell them if we did not have an art business to run. The more cheaply printed reproduction posters will never be worth more than you pay for them. We stock only original first edition posters. And remember that condition is all-important: we deal only in very good/excellent condition posters. Our gallery certificate adds significant weight to purchase, especially if you ever come to sell. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This beautiful piece of art is offered to you by Artello Gallery, a central London-based art dealership. Please feel free to ask any questions via the Etsy message system. RETURNS/REFUNDS We offer a full refund if you are not entirely happy with your purchase. And if you request a refund due to an error on our part, we also refund the return shipping. POSTAGE/SHIPPING All parcels are shipped using expedited services such as FedEx, DHL, and UPS, with tracking and insurance. We are experienced at International packing and shipping. If you purchase more than one item, we combine the shipping and refund the excess shipping charge. Shipping is free of charge worldwide. GALLERY CERTIFICATES Each piece of art is accompanied by our gallery certificate of authenticity. The certificate adds significantly to the value of the art and will make it far easier for you to sell if you ever decide to. MAILING LIST Please feel free to join our mailing list; we make special unadvertised offers available in our mailings. Just send us your name and email address. We will never share your details.

Scott Christensen takes a lot of time to plan his final paintings.

I love to reuse and upcycle wherever possible and the starting point for this fabulous installation was finding the original wardrobe in the festival’s storage space. I immediately fell in love with it and had to use it as the basis for something new and exciting. I pulled together some other elements from previous installations…

Ando Hiroshige (1797 - October 12, 1858) was born in 1797 under the name of Ando Tokutaro in Edo (Tokyo) as the son of a samurai and fireman. He became one of the greatest masters of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), especially in the genre of landscape prints. Together with Hokusai he is considered as the dominant figure of printmaking in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Nøkken (The Nøkk), Theodor Kittelsen, 1904 Meet the artist who gave a face to many Norwegian fairytale and folklore characters! Imagine you're talking to someone who's not from Norway. If you ask them to name

"The Jump" by Cristina Arcenegui Bono is based on an illustration by Sveta Dorosheva.

Portfolio de l'artiste et illustratrice Solène Debiès pour des projets lifestyle. insta @solenedebies

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Je suis tombée plusieurs fois sur une superbe réalisation sur le net ( voir ICI ) et j'ai eu envie d'essayer de la réaliser... Alors, jouons à la manière d'Andy Warhol, en répétant un même motif, ici la main, et en faisant varier les couleurs du fond...

The organizers of the 74th Cannes Film Festival recently announced that they have postponed the dates of the festival to July 6-17, 2021. Earlier, it was scheduled to take place from May 11 to 22. The festival was canceled last year due to Coronavirus pandemic. The world's most prestigious film festival which had run smoothly

Le festival Lollapalooza fait de nouveau escale à Paris du 21 au 23 juillet 2023 avec Rosalía, Aya Nakamura, Kygo ou encore Damso ...

One of the first posts I pinned to my "Painting Inspirations, Tutorials, and Projects" Pinterest board was an abstract watercolor tutorial from Grow Creative. I have been wanting to try Elise's technique for months, and now that I've done it, I don't think I can stop! The results are absolutely beautiful, and their map-like-qualities appeal greatly to the arty cartophile in me! (I am borrowing the term "arty cartophile" from Jill K. Berry and her book Personal Geographies, which I was inspired to pull off the bookshelf after creating these rubber cement resist watercolor paintings.) I followed Elise's technique pretty much exactly, so you can read her blog post for her directions, but I also took photos of each step of the process as I carried it out, so I thought I would share them with you here: First, I used blue painter's tape to secure my 9x12 cold-press watercolor paper to a piece of palette paper on my work space. (I tried low-tack artist's tape first, and too much watercolor paint seeped underneath it. The blue painter's tape left a gorgeous crisp edge.) Next, I dribbled rubber cement over the watercolor paper. There is no planning, just random dripping in all different directions. Then, I spent a little time with my embossing tool, speeding up the drying process for the rubber cement. This is not a task for the impatient! I get into a kind of trance, watching the rubber cement boil, bubble, pop, and dry. Once the rubber cement is dry, the paper is ready for its first application of watercolor paint. For this particular piece, I used Reeves tube watercolors in "Lemon Yellow." In some of my first pieces, I did a watercolor wash across the entire paper. For the example photographed here, I applied this first layer of watercolor in just some portions of the paper, leaving other parts white. The drying process for the watercolor paint is much faster than for the rubber cement! Now technically, you are supposed to apply more rubber cement, but I actually forgot, and put on a different color of watercolor. This time is was Reeves tube paint in basic "orange." I supplemented with another shade of orange from a set of pan watercolors. I used the orange paint to fill in some of those white spaces I left when I applied the Lemon Yellow. After a bit more drying with the heating tool, I applied more random rubber cement. More drying--which meant more time mesmerized by bubbling rubber cement.  At this point it was time for my final color--Reeves tube watercolor in "Magenta." Gorgeous! After one final drying session with the embossing tool, I was ready to pull back the painter's tape and enjoy the crisp edge along the perimeter of my watercolor paper. The next step is to use the pads of my fingers to rub away all of the rubber cement that has been resisting various layers of watercolor paint. The rubber cement comes away in balls and crumbs, and leaves behind the wonderful pathways that give the art such a map-like quality. When all the rubber cement has been rubbed away...voila! Now, I think this piece looks beautiful, and am tempted to leave it as it is, but there is a final step that makes it look even more beautiful. Using a fine-tipped black Sharpie pen, I outline various pathways around the piece. (I tried Microns, but the "tooth" of the watercolor paper really does them in.) I start with all of the white pathways, and usually move on to the secondary colors, like yellow in this piece. When I was finished deciding which areas to outline in black, I had my finished piece: I think I could sit around and look at it all day! I really love the results of this technique. What do you think? This was my fourth 9x12 art piece using the rubber cement resist technique. Here are the earlier ones I created: These first two have a similar color combination, with more "lake blue" in the first one. I like how they look when I photograph them without the white perimeter: I'm showing these in backwards order, because this last one I am showing you is the first one I tried. Instead of using rubber cement, I used Art Maskoid, which is the same as frisket. But my bottle was almost completely dried up so I was kind of smearing sticky frisket across the page. At first, I thought the result looked kind of terrible, but it has grown on me, and looks like a map of some archipelago far out in the ocean. (You can also see how the artist's tape didn't give as clean of an edge as the painter's tape does.) Stay tuned, because in an upcoming post I will share some pretty cards I have made using this same rubber cement resist technique!

Libby Williamson is a fiber artist that uses her sewing machine as a drawing tool. Read more about what influences her colorful art.