BLACK THE MOVIE TIME LAPSE MURAL

Time lapse video of a red carpet mural with my mural collective STUDIO ENTROPICA for BLACK. An epic gangster romance movie by my buddies and movie directors Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah. Went out of my comfort zone to design something that matched the poster art more. The movie is about two rival gangs in Brussels hence the two wild animals against an abstract urban jungle backdrop. Learned a lot from having to pull this off quickly. Great fun.

BALLS & GLORY DOODLE MURAL

With collective Studio Entropica I made this big doodle mural at Balls & Glory restaurant in Brussels, Belgium. Great fun ! Also made some animations for the making of video.

EKTA COLLAB IN SWEDEN (MURAL)

Recap to a mural collab I did in Gothenburg, Sweden some time ago with awesome artist Ekta ! We experimented a bit with a more messy spraycan that looks like sketchy drawing lines. Good times !

SUBBACULTCHA MURAL INTERVIEW

Because of the Diego Rivera inspired mural for Mestizo Arts Festival I recently worked on with 4 great illustrators, I was interviewed by Subbacultcha, an independent arts and music magazine. They wanted to know about our favorite murals in Antwerp. I talk about the one designed by comic strip artist Brecht Evens. ( click image to go to the site)

DE MUUR (TIMELAPSE VIDEO)

Cool TIMELAPSE VIDEO by Natche Fractal about DE MUUR, a mural I helped co-create in blue pants inspired by Mexican artist Diego Rivera in Antwerp, Belgium last summer for Mestizo Arts Festival. - gasp that was a long sentence - Looooooaaaddssss of fun !

co creators are amazing illustrators: El Neoray, Vagabundos, Charlotte Dumortier, Jos Verwer and many thx to Kop VZW, Daniela, etc. !


DE MUUR from KOP on Vimeo.

AB HOSTEL ANTWERP (MURAL)

Making of the mural I did for AB Hostel in Antwerp. It used to be a chocolate factory, so I added some references to that, Belgian foods, the city and harbor of Antwerp and of course travelling. Great fun !
The mural was part of “Discover Antwerp Through Experience”-project where 12 international creatives were led through Antwerp for a week. In the animated gif for a few frames in the Light Blue shirt you can spot Paris-based Reynald Feracci helping me out, who has a fashion label called http://mamama-paris.com/.

TV SHOW KINDERGARTEN CLASS MURAL

Helped out my best friend Adil el Arbi. He’s a movie director and took part in a tv show. He had to perform a series of tasks and ask for help through social media. One of these tasks was to revamp a kindergarten classroom in a school in the C-Mine area of Beringen, Genk (Belgium). An old mining village with lots of Turkish, Polish and Italian flavor.

Volunteers transformed the classroom by building new walls, a big mirror and furniture. Pretty crazy. And I did a really fast mural to spice up the place, having slept only 3 hours. There was no time to repaint the green wall, so I tried to make it as fun as possible with doodles, silly characters and a reference to the mines. Met so many nice people. Unexpected adventures like these make life great.

PERMEKE LIBRARY MURAL

I did a big trippy colourful musical mural during The Big Draw festival in Antwerp at the Permeke Library. Loads of details, some Beatles references and an unintentional Keith Haring vibe went into it. Man that was fun. Would love to do more murals in countries over the world. Let me know if you can help me with that.

# RUBENS SELFIE ( MURAL )

I made a mural next to a little collection of my work at the wonderful music and art festival ZOMERZINTUIGEN. It takes place today, 10 august from 15h30 at the beautiful residential Huis Happaert in Antwerp.

My mural is an ode to the famous Antwerp painter Peter Paul Rubens.

360° ELECTRICAL CABINET ILLUSTRATION

Last week 92-year old Belgian comic strip hero Marc Sleen inaugurated his own "Nero Stripmuur" mural in Antwerp. I felt privileged to design a 360° illustration print for an electrical street cabinet in front of the mural. It features a map of Antwerp with a walking tour that features all 10 comic strip murals. In connection with the mural I put in references to the comic Nero and to Antwerp and its maritime history.

KIRSI MURAL

I'm finishing an improvised mural at my awesome cousin Kirsi's house. I started working on it last year and keep drawing new bits every now and then untill the wall is full. It's a giant nostalgic oriental metropolis, drawn with paint markers.

SABERTOOTH TIGER MURAL WITH PAUL WINDLE IN WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

I made this Sabertooth Tiger Mural last weekend in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with the awesome Paul Windle at his studio and with help from my also awesome girlfriend Anneke Caramin. Great times, although in the end we got eaten by the mural.

DJANGO REINHARDT MURAL

I was contacted by the nice folks over at Haute Cuisine to make a mural. Benny and Bernd are designers with a mission. They hold exhibitions in their gallery, sell homemade prints and t-shirts, designer furniture, cool books about coffee or photography, local beer,... Above all they have great opening parties too. They are located in Leuven in a cool old factory building in the docklands. Check for opening hours on their website, but it's usually every weekend.

For the first time I painted my musical hero Django Reinhardt in their gallery shop. Fun times ! This mural has a soundtrack: Minor Swing.

Converse Trix Mural on TV

The Zombie Cash Mural I recently did for Converse in the backstage of Trix was spotted in an ad on 8TV for Humo's Rock Rally, a famous annual contest to find young talent. You can see it clearly in the background.

CONVERSE TRIX MURAL

I was contacted again by the wonderful people of CONVERSE to do another mural for them (the fifth already). This time in the backstage of Antwerp concert hall Trix, as they're pimping all the ugly backstages of concert halls. I loved the idea and put my Zombie Cash character on a wall with a subtle Converse-reference. Fun times !

Xtra picture of me and the mural by talented photographer Frederik Buyckx on Converse's flickr page here.

USE-IT MURAL

I made this mural for the nice people of Use-It, in their office in Brussels (Belgium). They make great free alternative maps for young travellers and wanted to spice up their empty walls.

included subjects are couch surfing, hostels, a travelling guitar, skate ramp, skating airplane, the botanical garden of Brussels including evil plants, a non-existent arabian lighthouse, reference to surrealist painter Magritte and his pipe, dinosaur on a skateboard as a reference to famous local street artist "Bonom", extreme camping, a ufo and directions to Paris, London, Berlin and the moon.

great fun !

CONVERSE WALL TO WALL PROJECT

* picture by Laurie Mottie
I was privileged to do the first mural for Converse's Wall to Wall project. Around the globe they have local artists do murals around the new star chevron logo. It was an adventurous task to paint the whole thing ( 20m wide at 7m height ) in 2 days on a shaky scaffolding while a storm was going on. But thanks to the awesome people of Converse, Street Art Belgium and assistants El Topo and Laurie Mottie I succeeded. check out the vid above and interview + pictures.

CONVERSE BLOCK PARTY MURAL TIME LAPSE

The great Kris van den Bulck, who recently made a little film about me now captured my color-by-numbers-mural performance for Converse Block Party in Antwerp. It was a fantastic day with fantastic people and I thank everyone who came by to paint my painting.


*check out the vid below !