Urban Art Association

HEY! Cartrain has some great work!!

LOL ... F~ck me... Cartrain come back all is forgiven!! ... LOL

Perhaps the garbage can should be included.

I think this print should be called
I'am on a drug. It's called KD LANG!!!

Have to say Cartrain's pictures are actually much better than his stencils.

Did he actually take them himself?

Everytime he's been asked if he did, he's swerved giving an answer.

Yes he did.. He has some great stuff! Hes been doing great things recently.. Maturing as an artist, great photography, this will be a good year for him im sure..

It's cool. I don't think people realize my style of art is actually making fun of art, art collectors, celebrities or anyone else.

That and people will hack on you if you are new. I understand. It's how the art world works. At least yeah. Tea and crumpets. I don't care.

More about me here..
artandphotosbybuck.blogspot.com/

Did I mention I make fun of people who collect stars wars crap? Maybe it's time to watch 40 year old virgin again.



I make fun of everyone.


Interpretations of celebrity portraits. If you are famous I will make fun of you. I don't care.

...can I just ask how these are "making fun of art, art collectors, celebrities or anyone else"?

The 'portraits' are really just not terribly well rendered images of people, 6th form art class standard... unless I'm missing something I don't see how these are a 'twist' on anything. Stallone I can recognise, but none of the others if I'm honest. If Charlie Sheen wasn't mentioned in the title of the print, I'd genuinely have no idea who it was meant to be. The R2 thing is a pretty basic, half-baked idea that would have to be REALLY well developed/rendered to even raise a smile.

Hope this is taken in the right way, the last thing I'd want to do is deter anyone from being creative in any shape or form, but I'd really suggest you get some sort of formal art training before you start trying to make money by knocking-out 'editions'.

As for Cartrain, I'm getting the impression he has some history with this forum (which I know nothing about)... photos are OK but I think the prints/originals are pretty poor, self-conscious attempts to replicate far superior stencil artists.

the photos are awful, theyre nothing. they're half a recylced idea at best

...that's a null argument

Does he need to have:

directed a movie to hate Titanic?
recorded an album to despise Justin Bieber??
written a book to think War and Peace is 'a bit flabby'

Critique noted.

...hope that's not directed at me as I tried quite hard to be constructive.

It's one thing presenting work and saying 'I'm new at this, what do you think?'... I do however think people's heckles are more inclined to be raised when someone who is clearly a 'new' artist is presenting work for sale that really is not (yet) of a proficient technical or conceptual standard...

Buck: yes, do keep at it

Well said Connecta1, there are far too many artists on here starting out, (which is fine) and trying to sell their below par work (not so fine).
Honing techniques take years of practice. I'm all for creativity and people with a get-up-and-go attitude, but it's another thing when they come on here touting their wares with £££ ringing in their eyes.

A few bits of advice…
Don't take peoples negativity as a personal attack (well in the most case - there's a lot of d1cks on here). One man's art is anothers cat litter-tray lining.
But it may be beneficial to get some constructive critisism first.
You may learn something for a start, either with technique or new ways of creating your art, or find out where your market may lie, or if people dig a particular direction you are going in.
Eventually these things will save you a lot of wasted time and stop getting peoples backs up.
And always remember these are potential buyers of your work.