street art cookbook

Author: Benke Carlsson & Hop Louie
136 pages

The complete DIY bible of street art is back in print by popular demand!
A rich source of inspiration for anyone interested in do-it-yourself culture. The Street Art Cookbook is a guide to the materials and techniques used within today's most creative and progressive art movement. In hundreds of pictures and illustrations and a dozen of interviews with some of the world's most famous artists, the authors show how street art is made.
From stencils and stickers to laser tagging and guerrilla gardening, Street Art Cookbook takes us on a trip around the world in search of the tricks and trades of street artists.
Posters, stickers, screen prints, mosaics, sculptures. There is no limit to their imagination. Hundreds of books filled with pictures of street art have been published, but this is the one that shows how the artists work. Learn from the best: Street Art Cookbook is filled with tips and examples of how to create your own stencil, sticker, poster or installation.
These techniques can be used on all kinds of materials: textiles, glass, metal, concrete or wood and are suitable for everything from scrapbooking and designing clothes with motifs to home decoration and outdoor use.
The Street Art Cookbook gives a unique insight into the alternative art world and it's a rich source of inspiration for anyone interested in DIY-culture. Mark Jenkins, Swoon, Gould, WK Interact, Caper, Victor Marx, C215, Poch, Ron English and Knitta Please, are some of the artists featured in this book.
This updated edition features a foreword by Shai Dahan, who offers a personal story about his first stumbling steps towards becoming a world-famous street artist.