Found Art

A few years ago a friend of mine was visiting Australia and took this photo thing I might enjoy seeing some graffiti from down under.

Zooming in I see something I recognize, a graffiti character I created a long time ago. I've never been to Australia, so I figure someone's been appropriating my work. It's an old design, and it's flattering in a way.

My old original work (above) from an old portfolio website. I may have drawn this in college and recreated in Adobe Illustrator shortly after in 2002 or so. Curious about how far this image traveled, I did a reverse image search...

I found out through the reverse image search that this sticker kid in Riverside, California named Sir_Eman (unrelated to the Australia graffiti person) had appropriated the same drawing and made it his own. This guy was selling sweatshirts and tees on bigcartel.com with this image, showing off all his stickers with this image, all of this as if it were his own. One thing I know from hanging out with old school DC graffiti dudes is that you don't bite other people's shit.

Machine printed, not hand-drawn USPO Priority Mail stickers

Polo Bear

24x36 canvas two coats of Liquitex Unbleached Titanium

Drawing in the black and white outlines

All of the outlines are done

Filling in each line with a Liquitex black paint marker 

Black lines have been painted in using Liquitex tube paint

Painting in the white fill color

Starting to outline the blue are with another paint marker

It will need one more coat of white and blue and the edges touched up.

Friday

It's 6 cloud one AM 

Thursday

Coming and going

Chinatown wall

25 Degrees

Tuesday

Monday

Crossing G Street

Reminds me of this...