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I just wanted to share with you ... Kurt Wenner's skill...

this is not what this guy does... i just cant beleive how a simple human can have such great gift. Sculptures, mosaic, decoration, everything, just visit http://www.kurtwenner.com to see what i mean...

Maybe some of you know this, maybe some of you dont. Does not matter... its always good to see it again.

Enjoy....

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This one is just AMAZING

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Been posted a million times before, but it's always nice to see them out again. Some of the ones in the first post are new to me though. Awesome stuff! :D :woot:

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Been posted a million times before, but it's always nice to see them out again. Some of the ones in the first post are new to me though. Awesome stuff! :D :woot:

You are right, cause it may has been posted too many times as you said... but i just tooked the time to gather ALL the pictures of this kind and from this 2 authors. So thats why you found some new ones here.

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stunning!!! thats absolutely amazing, any chance of link telling me locations of those beauties?

Sure, here you go... those are NOT all the street paintings he have, just the perspective ones, there are more "normal" on this link too (besides you got the info under almost every picture about where and when it was done)

http://www.kurtwenner.com/street/

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Ah, I met this guy when I went to Germany for a school workshop in February. He is A M A Z I N G, the school workship was for DoD students all around DoDDs Europe, and they got the best of the best arts teachers, they had a guy from Tunisia, and a professional dance instructor from the states (it was a visual/performing arts thing, I went for.. video production ;)) Anyways, this guy gave a slide show one night, and I mean each night they did random stuff after the classes had finished, but this night, the guy had everyone's attention. The slide show was about an hour and a half of his work and him working in Italy and all of the stuff he's done (the dude worked for the Vatican) it was AMAZING, I can't think of any other way to describe it, everybody wanted more, it was so unbelievable the way he did it. The kids in his class said he was the coolest guy ever, too. The thing about this workshop (called Creative Connections) if that you have to be pretty artistically skilled just to get in. Over 500 kids applied, only 150 make it (there were only 5 of us in the video productions group, but I managed to get in). So when he sat down with the kids in his class, and started explaining the techniques to them, they didn't even wanna leave his class, half of his class stayed to talk to him and work through the lunch period a couple of days, he was also really really cool to talk to and he's very modest, he's not snobby like you'd expect from a "world famous" artist, he was really laid-back, good dude :)

Edit: the guy I'm referring to is Kurt Wenner, not the spraypaint guy below him.

Wenner explained to us how he and his friends had a problem with their work washing off of the streets before it was complete or shortly thereafter. They developed the world's first type of chalk that wouldn't wash off of the sidewalk when it rained, I think he said you had to mix a few drops of some chemical with water to get it to deteriorate but he showed us pics of him and his friends making the chalk, and they had huge rooms filled with this chalk lined up in all imaginable colors, it was completely mind boggling.

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Wenner explained to us how he and his friends had a problem with their work washing off of the streets before it was complete or shortly thereafter.? They developed the world's first type of chalk that wouldn't wash off of the sidewalk when it rained, I think he said you had to mix a few drops of some chemical with water to get it to deteriorate but he showed us pics of him and his friends making the chalk, and they had huge rooms filled with this chalk lined up in all imaginable colors, it was completely mind boggling.

Oh!! thanks for sharing your experience bro, and thats totally truth, here are some faq about his street chalkpainting...:))

The 15 Most Frequently Asked Questions>

Q: Did you paint this?

A: Yes.

Q: What happens when it rains?

A: Rain is a great enemy of street painters. Drops of rain will stain a picture, and there are no foolproof means of protection. Tenting the picture and/or covering it with plastic helps, yet water will seep under just about everything if the rain lasts long enough. In Europe it rains quite frequently and a street painter may have to work through two or three storms, constantly retouching the picture.

Q: How long does it take?

A: I paint somewhere between two and six square yards a day. The complexity of the design and the quality of the pavement determine how much I am able to accomplish.

Q: Are you disappointed when it washes away?

A: I am always aware of the impermanence of street painting. Wind, sun, dirt, and rain constantly remind me as I work of the very fleeting nature of this type of painting. All day long, as I'm creating a new part of the picture, I can see the finished parts already fading. It's a challenge to retouch the picture and keep it fresh for spectators. I'm not disappointed when the painting washes away because street painting is performance art, it's very much like attending a symphony. When the music ends everyone leaves with a memory of the music. My work is the same except one is left with a visual impression. And much like musical recording helps preserve a moment, I photograph my paintings when they're finished.

Q: How long will the painting last if it isn't destroyed?

A: It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the picture is ?gone.? In Switzerland, where the climate is very harsh, I've returned to old street painting sites after a year and still seen the pictures. They are of course very faded, yet legible. Climate, cars, bicycles, and pedestrians are all factors which determine a painting survival time. They can last anywhere form a couple of days to more than a year.

Q: Can you spray something on the picture to ?fix? it, keep it from washing or fading away?

A: The permanence of many work of art depends more on its environment, support, and the quality of materials used in creating the work than on a protective varnish. Anything sprayed on chalk will immediately change the surface, causing whites to turn gray for example, and only slightly increases the durability of the work.

Q: Is it permitted to do this everywhere?

A: The occupation of public space is covered by municipal codes around the world, which of course change from location to location. There aren't too many places I've ever heard of where street painting is forbidden, although Zurich, Switzerland is one of them. Therefore, most street painters select a spot they are happy with and begin working. It usually doesn't take too long for a uniformed peace officer to show up and inform a painter if they need a permit, or must move on to a town that permits their work. Street painters must assume it is permitted to paint until they are told otherwise.

Q: Can you make a living doing this?

A: Ten years ago I stopped painting on the street for money, and began accepting a limited number of festivals and events each year where I'm invited to paint. Most of my time is spent on oil painting commissions and consulting. As with any occupation, you generally only find people engaged in the work because it supports them. And like any other trade there are different degrees of success. Some painters live hand-to-mouth and others enjoy it as a lucrative profession. Success is very dependent on the sheer number of people who pass by a work, their reaction to a particular image, and the artistry of the painter.

Q: How many people make their living as street painters?

A: There are probably two to five hundred street painters at any one time who depend on it as their primary source of income. There are many more seasonal painters, those who only work in the summer months.

Q: How did you learn to do this?

A: I began by attending art school for a couple of years where I worked on my drawing skills and knowledge of perspective. After art school I worked for NASA, which I eventually left in order to go to Italy and study directly from the master works. For six months I spent eight hours a day drawing and learning from paintings and sculpture. One day, I saw a street painting and asked the artist what he was doing. He explained the tradition of street painting in Europe to me, and after viewing my museum drawings and asked if I'd like to paint the head of an angel while he went to lunch. Working with the chalks came very naturally, and from that point on I've been street paiQ: What kind of chalks are you using?

A: My ?chalks? are actually handmade pastels which are stronger and more permanent than commercial products. When I first started street painting I used commercial chalks and pastels. I soon found the chalks to be too dusty and constantly blowing away on the street. The pastels were more permanent, but very costly as I would use a couple hundred sticks per picture. It didn't take long before I began experimenting and making my own pastels with pure pigments and binder. binder.

Q: Why are you able to walk on your painting and not damage it?

A: Most of the painting's color is in the pores of the pavement and not on the surface. Although I try to walk on the picture as little as possible, sometimes I must in order to retouch a spot, or remove debris that has blown onto it.

Q: Do you make a drawing of what you are going to paint?

A: When I first started street painting I seldom made drawings of what I would paint. Now that I paint for special events and festivals I like to work on the composition and geometry prior to arriving at my painting site.

Q: How can you see what you are doing?

A: Unlike other projects where it's possible to stand back and view an entire work, street painting and large scale mural painting are unique in the sense that one must imagine the whole painting while working on a detail of it. It takes special training and experience to work in such a format.

Q: Do street painters ever create permanent work?

A: Many street painters create permanent works of art in a variety of mediums. Street painting can be an ideal way to test ideas and public reaction before committing to the time and cost of creating a permanent work.

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to tell the truth, i dont think these are his best works. someone posted earlier with even better ones

well man, i think that too, like i said before, i just posted the perspective-ones... just go to his website and look at all his work

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