Urban Art Association

My apologies to those who see this as sacrilege. I decided to do this on the edge of the Banksy Hoody, because the common theme was sharp objects. When I was laying out the stencils, I noticed two police patrolling the tunnel. They stared at me, and I asked them politely and innocently whether it was okay to paint here. They said I needed council permission. I looked as sad as I could (with a bandanna over the lower half of my face), and told them I'd flown all the way here from Japan to paint because it was famous as the only place one would do it. As I'd laid down the stencil, I said that it was a lot better than the disgusting scrawls that had been painted over some of the pieces.

The police considered for a while, then told me to go to a quiet corner to paint and to say that if anyone asked, they'd never spoken to me.

I sprayed my piece next to the Banksy Hoody. I also used what was left of my black and white paint to repair some of the unsightly tagging. Then I left.

Dressing in a nice coat and being polite to the police can have surprising results.

Excellent work mate. really like it

Great to see some genuine art appearing in the tunnel if you ask me. And I think Banksy would be delighted that someone went over his piece, as that's kind of the whole point of the Cans project, to bring art back onto the streets and to stop treating every Banksy as some kind of National Trust monument right?

keep the backround, it adds dept and movemet

I’m gonna disagree with allot of the people here and say you might want to tighten up the white in the background. If you bring it closer to the out line of the character it’ll show of the detail of your stencil more and make it jump off the wall. You still have all those other colours your using to show the movement and depth.

Hi, welcome and massive congratulations on getting your first piece up in such a great spot. I like this piece.

I think that the lines around the character's waist could be improved and something that might be worth a try is a little more intricacy or detailing on the flowers, which are a very nice touch. Also not digging the horizontal "break" through the image, where it looks as if there is a seem between upper and lower stencils. Please take these comments positively if possible. I'm just a layman, so not viewing this as an artist and I really like the piece on the whole. Good luck!

I went out last night. Had to be as quick as I could as a bunch of hoodys nearby were eyeing me. I managed to eliminate the seam but screwed up on the colouring. Urgh.