Hey street art lovers! Do you know C215? No? Come on! You’re not street art lovers! C215 use stencil like a music instrument: he gives you vibes and feelings for free! We brought you a video of him in London : C215 hits London . As Fatcap is dedicated to street art and graffiti lovers here’s an interview of C215: enjoy!

Big up to Yafa for the help

FT: Where are you from? What’s your background?
C215: I am from Paris. I have always been drawing and I painted in the street with a spray bomb for the first time almost twenty years ago. It already was “vespas” of a real size and I still paint them today, but with stencils not on “free hand” anymore … I have 35 of them. I followed university studies in art history, until a PhD at the Sorbonne. Things only became serious little by little.

FT: What was the interest in art and what led you to create all those stencils?
C215: The stencil allows me to combine my passion for drawing and that of graffiti. It is so good to affix in a street the work of several days in a few minutes and without any necessary authorization…

FT: How would you define your work and what inspires you?
C215: I do stencil, realistic but stylized, that I create as a craftwork without a computer, but along with a picture. I start with a picture to end up with another, the one of my work painted outdoors, which is part of a framework while diverting it.

FT: You seem to love the facial expressions, and you use the power of it through your talent. Can you explain to us why you do have this “obsession” ?
C215: The faces are landscapes, and they provide a wide variety of expressions, marking identities, backgrounds, therefore many messages. I paint mostly tramps, refugees and street kids, people who really live the experience of the street and to whom the street art is almost never intended.

FT: What was your best and your worst creation?
C215: We all feel that the latter is always the best until the next that disgusts us from it

FT: If your style was a music band or a song? Which one would it be?
C215: I like the swing, Cajun folklore, ska, and old-fashioned things.

FT: I saw a video of you in London. You are doing your artwork as if it was legal. Is it the best way not to be arrested?
C215: The problem is not me but the law, so I do not feel guilty doing it. Maybe it is more natural then.

FT: Do you do drugs? Do you need something particular to be creative?
C215: Ahaha if only I was creative, I never have ideas, only obsessions…

FT: Do you feel the work you are doing is something that should be preserved or stayed transience?
C215: This is not my concern. I am just doing it.

FT: Do you dream in Stencils and colors?
C215: Sometimes, but in fact I can translate any scene I see in everyday life in my stencil style with just a glimpse.

FT: What did you do last week?
C215: I was in Poland, doing a workshop and some paintings in Warsaw.

FT: What was your most adventurous and dangerous graffiti-stencil artwork?
C215: Painting my self-portrait outside the national portrait gallery in London, a Friday afternoon before a huge passing crowd without any authorization…

FT: What kind of reaction do you want to evoke with your art?
C215: I just want them to get an emotion. And make them sense again the feeling of freedom.

FT: What are your favorite spots?
C215: Rusty or all over tagged doors

FT: Can you talk about your work with dan23?
C215: He’s just one of my best friends and a big influence for me. It is a good emulation to have among one’s friends such a nice and talented artist.

FT: Describe a typical day for C215:
C215: I am a kind of working robot. I feel so happy that I can do my stuff everyday and I don’t need anything else.

FT: How do you choose your images and where they are placed in the street?
C215: Everything is contextualized and I prepare new stencils every day, so there are new street stencils done every week, each one prepared while thinking about the next trip.

FT: What do you think about hype?
C215: I don’t know what to think about it. I do not go out so much of my flat and studio if not for going out painting…

FT: Name an artist whose work you respect and admire.
C215: Ernest Pignon Ernest

FT: How would you describe street art and what makes it different from graffiti or would you say it all falls under the same umbrella of shit? Don’t you think it’s totally different?
C215: Graffiti is mainly marking his name with style in the city while street art is more aiming at transforming contextual situations in a defined architecture.

FT: How do you feel about the commercialization of street art in recent years?
C215: It could be good but if artists continue to do it in the streets. Many are now so busy with galleries that they forget the streets…

FT: What’s coming up in the next few month? Projects, shows, collab?
C215: Exactly. A lot of things. Too many certainly. I would love to stay somewhere quiet and hidden and cut new stuff without an Internet upload during months and then suddenly show everything

FT: What’s your real goal?
C215: Basically just being free of painting until I die. Surely also make my 5 years old daughter Nina proud of her father, and teach her what I know if she’s interested.

FT: Any words of wisdom?
C215: Stop consuming.

 If you want more C215 artwork, check his flickr! C215 !

We presented you EON75 four month ago. Here’s for you Fatcap readers new walls from this gifted graffiti artist from San francisco.

Walls from his europe trip, he was also part of the Meeting of style (check the pictures here ).

Click on this link to see THE BIG CASTLE !! Meeting of styles graffiti wall

Eon75 and Obra

Eon75 and Chor Boogie, graffiti wall in San francisco

Hey fellaz,

As we told you HERE, we love the site Graffgirlz. Thank’s to the graffgirlz team, you’ll have the pleasure to read on fatcap an interview per week of female graffiti artists. Here’s an interview of EKOS. She’s from Canada, graffiti from Toronto! Big up to her!

WARNING: We also told you that fatcap don’t give a fuck about the sex of a graffiti artist… so don’t be boring on your comments. By the way we ‘re down with the last answer of EKOS… if a writer rocks, It rocks…

Presentation ( age, city, how long painting, crews…) :
I’m originally from Halifax, but I’m now living in Toronto, Canada. I’m 21 years old and I have been painting for 4 years. I’m not a member of any crews.

How did you first get into graffiti ? Why this mode of expression?
I always liked looking at graffiti picture, but I never tried it myself. It’s something I didnt see much of in Halifax until I really started looking.I started sketching really cheesy drawings in my blackbook, and I met some people in high school who painted, and thats how I started. None of the people I started painting with really paint anymore though.

- What is your definition of graffiti? Do you living it daily? How do you see the world of graffiti today? Why do you love graffiti?
I don’t really have my own definition of graffiti. It means lots of different things to lots of people. The world of graffiti today is very advanced compared to what it was when it began, although I still would have loved to be around when it began on the subways in new york. I love it because its an amazing feeling, and i find it very satisfying to paint something I’m happy with.

- What are your sources of inspiration, and your references in graffiti?
Im inspired by my friends, by bright colors, and simple but stylish letters.

- Do you have supports of predilection, preferred environments? What do you think of the use of canvas?
As for preferred environments I guess I like painting on the train tracks, in spots far away, on a hot sunny day, with lots of beer. I think the use of canvas is ok as long as its not all you do. For me I do canvasses when i get a bit of time, and I do them mainly just for myself, to give to friends, or to trade. I’m not trying to make a whole career on canvas painting.

- Do you make vandals sessions regularly? If not why? If yes How you feel when you are doing illegal graffiti? What is different between the experience of doing illegal and legal walls? Do you get the same satisfaction?
I don’t make them regularly, but I’m not opposed to them. Its obviously a rush doing Illegal graffiti. I like hitting spots that are illegal, but not completely street level. Spots where stuff will stay up a bit longer. I try to limit my illegal activities due to the profession which I am trying to get into. i wouldn’t be able to do it if i got arrested again. Theres a difference between doing legal walls and illegal graffiti, but I think it’s good to have a balance of both.

- How do you wish to evolve in graffiti, what are your projects (exibitions, trips, new supports…)?
I wish to keep painting and drawing as much as possible. Sometimes I go through phases where I just can’t think up new stuff, so I dont end up painting for a while. then theres this burst of energy and inspiration where I’ll pump out a bunch of sketches and go painting as much as i can. I also plan to work on canvasses a lot more over the summer. I’m quite enjoying that, I dont have any plans for exhibitions or anything though.

- According to you, being a woman in graffiti which is a world mainly masculine, it is an asset, or a difficulty? How are you perceived by the male writers? Do you have privileged contacts with the other females writers?
I don’t like the whole thing about being a girl really. I find that females get special treatment sometimes. For example girls who aren’t that good get so much respect simply because they’re a girl. If they were a guy doing the exact same pieces no one would look at them twice. I like it when people meet me and they’re like “Oh, I had no idea ekos was a girl”. I want to be able to push myself to paint as best i can, and for people to like my pieces before they know i’m a girl. i dont really have too many contacts with other female writers. There aren’t too many in Canada anyway. I know a couple, but I dont have contact with anyone from the States or anything like that.

- Any last words or shout outs?
Shout outs to everyone I know, they know who they are.

Thanks to Graffgirlz team

Stay tuned for more interview next week!

Peace yo

Zephyr, Min one, Revolt. West side Tunnels graffiti, 1983!

Enjoy the oldschool graffiti!

Do you know the Concrete Alchemy Tour? I discovered it through Vyal .

Concrete Alchemy is a tour of 15 visual artists visiting 5 major urban centers on the East Coast over 7 days. These artists are major driving force in pushing the limits of contemporary urban arts. Their work dictates the future progression in graffiti and street art…

cern | chor boogie | col | crol | demer | eric kennedy | kasso | mike ciccotello | mr. maxx moses | plan | rain | ricardo barros | veng | vyal | werc

Go check the site !

More pictures? YEAH

Here’s what happened when i did my first graffiti.

I love you momy.

Yo gamers! Fatcap gives you some funny pixel street art! Here’s some Nintendo street art Mario, Luigi, Toad, one up, Yoshi, Megaman…

Pictures by The funky Horror

Here’s the history of a wall’s life. Graffiti gives walls new skins again and again, it makes them young and beautiful, old and dirty, smart and colorful.

Big up to Knautia! We show you her work HERE. You can also check her street art blog. I find this pure wall history on her flickr. Enjoy!

If you want to see the all life of this wall (more than 50 pictures!) check the Knautia flickR HERE!

Peace yo!

Company Flow, End to end burners! arrghh so fresh…

Today Fatcap the worldwide graffiti and street art blog presents you an alien artist, who’s not doing graffiti and street art. Felice Varini is amazing. The Swiss artist creates magic paintings. 3D effect, volume and many other weird things. We love it. When you see his work you just can’t believe it. You’ll understand and see his painting just from a unique vantage point. He’s a boss of geometric perspective and localized paintings. He uses projector-stencil technique to do some of his artwork

You ‘ll find his amazing work here: Felice Varini official site

From the unique vantage point:

and then from an other one :

We did one month ago a cool interview with the street alien Gabriel from Los angeles. He’s a street photographer. Here’s a selection of his last pictures from his Flickr. Enjoy the Los angeles graffiti!

Pure graffiti piece by RIME

SAUTER graffiti

DIZER

Augor

Hey people, do you know Pesci One? He’s a great graffiti artist with crazy skillz from Palm Springs. Fatcap asked him to tell us his graffiti story. So here’s for you the whole story of Pesci One. Enjoy!

Ever since I was a small child I was interested in art. I can remember drawing on my bedroom wall with crayons like age 4 in low income apartments in south Palm Springs that my mom, myself and my little brother Frankie lived in. Man was she pissed, but I think even then it was an early indication that I was destined to be into Graffiti.

I reached my teenage years and my friends were skateboarders. We hung out in downtown Palm Springs in the 80’s during the crazy Spring Break times when downtown was packed with college kids armed with squirt guns and kegs, who’s only mission was partying and getting with the opposite sex which was what Palm Springs used to be all about during those times!

Well that whole scene had a big impact on me especially once I got into Graff. A lot of my older friends(Toper & Devine) were already going out to Venice Beach every weekend skateboarding and were soon influenced by the LA Graff scene at the Venice Pavilion mainly & also the rest of Los Angeles.

When they would return back home they would always be carrying markers and hitting up every place we went to skate so I eventually did the same. Can’t lie man it was fun leaving a mark. That’s how it all started… Dan “89″ wid a Marks-A-Lot. Just trying to get up during the Spring Break times & beyond!!!

As I wrote and took trips to Los Angeles I found myself more and more observant of how the catz in LA were getting down with the cans. Catz like: Chaka (the tagging monster), Cab (for his repetitive lettering on freeway signs one after another after another after another etc…..), Hex (for his serious piecing skills), Pale, Poize, Fun, Risk, Fusion, Wisk, Kofie, Saber, Plast, Zip & Theme STK who hit up in Palm Springs & Sleez were bigggggg influences on me. I didn’t know any of them except for the marx they left. I realized that was the level I wanted to be at in the fame game but I wanted to do it where I lived. AND BOY DID IT!

I would leave LA and come back home to Palm Springs and bring out the same intensity which enabled me to get noticed quite quickly by locals because it wasn’t that way where I lived and it is a fairly small resort town. I noticed that it was an “open market”, so to speak, and I took full advantage of that. Eventually, local catz started doing the same and BOOM, Graff was full-blown in the Desert. I joined a local crew called PSA (Palm Springs Artists). We just started rockin the cans and practicing. My friend Cezer(Defs), Yipes, Toper, Outer, Chose, Merk, Sketchie, Bust, Heist, Chalk, Alert, Smash (STP), Fry (STP), Sniper(STP) all three catz from Banning, and friggin so on. The local scene just grew and grew. I remember all of us would gather at different friend’s houses every weekend and have sketch parties where we would all draw together and party too. I have been doing it that way since, but of course as I got older I calmed down on the illegal stuff and focused more on can control skillz and making a profession outta this!!!

Now I am still down with the aerosol art, but not so much Graffiti anymore, though still an appreciator of those who do it and do it well.

I try to push my styles and art abilities by what I see and what inspires me. I can’t always put a label on that. Once I had an art gallery owner say that I lacked cohesion, but I say it’s more that I am still an experimentor of new things still trying to push the card to that next level for myself. Nevertheless, I am still an artist. In art there are no rules!!!! As soon as I try to over analyze it I find myself unable to do anything but be stagnated, discouraged & unproductive. I gotta let myself go where it’s going and keep my art clean, crisp and fun! If I’m not having fun there is no point to this for me at all then. So who knows where it’s going…. as long as I am going I am happy with my art. If I am happy with the art I have produced then I am happy. Ultimately that is the most important thing for anyone right!!!:) Peace….

Pesci•One (Palm Springs Artist)

Do you want more??? Go check the official site of PESCI ONE

Pesci’s myspace

Pesci supports Kilatwill , Aesthetic Arrest and Solid Tatoo

Thanks to Pesci!

Hello street art lovers!

Today you’ll meet a great graffiti artist named VYAL. He’s from the east side of Los Angeles. His style is amaaaazing! We find him through the work of the Crewest Gallery. We ‘ll talk about this galery very soon, stay tuned. ; )

VYALONE is the kind of artist who tried to be rounded in the art and performs tags, lettering styles, or characters.

“I find that I continue to be involved in graffiti because it suits my short attention span and to me the art will never get stale.”

For the worldwide graffiti blog Fatcap.com, here’s Vyal! Enjoy the talent!

Fatcap: Where are you from? What’s your background?

VYAL: I am from Los Angeles . Ive been writing the name VYAL since 1990. I represent the COI crew as well as the legendary LOD crew, and i am also down with 90DBC from Paris France.

FT: How would you define your work and what inspires you?

VYAL: My work tends to be very dark at times but also very psychedelic as well. I am inspired most by Graffiti Artists around the world, but Influenced by alot of indiginous art as well as the old school murals from Mexico and the CHICANO artists and gang graffiti aorund East L.A., where i spent a lot of my time growing up. I tend to stray away from the traditional styles of Graffiti but stay true to things like letter structure , and the b-boy characters that came out of N.Y.

FT: What was the interest in art and what lead you to create all those things?

VYAL: I was influenced at an early age by my brother, who would always draw these amazing characters and weird shit. I was also influenced by old school horror movies and artwork that was on the cover of records like IRON MAIDEN , and BLACK SABBATH……etc. So at an early age i was drawing monsters and weird stuff. When i was introduced to Graffiti Art , it seemed only logical that i use a spray can to create my works..

FT: What was your best and your worst creation?

VYAL: My best creation i think has yet to come, i’ll leave that to the individual who looks at my work when im dead to decide that. My worst work ???? HA HA!!!! I ‘ll use the same answer for that too!

FT: If your style was a music band or a song? Which one would it be?

VYAL: … GREAT QUESTION!!!!!!……hmmmmmm….i would have to say PINK FLOYD…..(is that giving myself to much credit?????). Its just that they’re experimental, but also dark and political. I think a lot of the murals in East L.A. and Mexico are very Pink FLoyd…….

FT: What’s your worst and best habits?

VYAL: Not wearing a mask when i paint…. Taking care of my dog (SHADOW)

FT: What kind of books do your read?

VYAL: Conspiracy theory, Books on Magic and Mythology, Aztec and Mayan history, I also like reading U.S. history books just because i wana learn how to fool a nation of people for 500 years…

FT: Do you do drugs? Do you need something particular to be creative?

VYAL: No i don’t do drugs. I take medicine ritualisticly every now and then, just to release my mind from the robotic state of everyday life here in the U.S. Ive always been creative even as a young boy, my minds always been the best place to get away from the rest of the world.

FT: Do you feel the work you are doing is something that should be preserved or stayed transcience?

VYAL: I would like for it to be preserved, it would be the least i could ask for……

FT:Do you dream in graffiti and colors ?

HAHA!!! Yes actually….

FT:What did you do last week?

Nothing interesting UNFORTUNATLEY…….

FT:What was your most adventurous and dangerous graffiti artwork?

Painting some illegal shit in BERLIN…….It was ESHER, BUKS, MAN ONE and MYSELF, we were painting a couple of yards away from a busy train station and had to hide under the train tracks as the train rolled over us every 15 minutes or so, on the other side of the wall was the freeway with lost of cars going real fast…we were sure we were going to get busted…

FT:What kind of reaction do you want to evoke from your art?

INSPIRATION…..Happiness, anger…….If i can get someone to rethink what they are doing with their life , then I’d be happy…..

FT:Did you get girls easier with your art skillz?

It was the ONLY way i could get girls!!!!

FT: What are your favorite spots?

For graffiti??? Alleys of East Los.

FT: Ever have any serious graffiti beef?

Not really…. Some minor stuff, the individuals involved througout the years have been mature enough to talk it out. There’s enough violence in this world , to many people are dying for no reason but the almighty dollar. Oh yeah ,note to the readers, people die here in L.A. because of Graffiti Beef…

Can you talk about the work that you did on the Fotograff expo?

I curated the show @ CREWEST gallery because i found myself surrounded by friends and aquaintences who were capturing L.A. and the Graffiti scene in all kinds of cool ways. I have an old friend by the name of SAHL who was actually my first inspiration for creating this show. He got into photography through graffiti and he has this collection of amazing photos from over the years.He had never shown his work and i found out that a lot of the guys in the show had never shown their photos either. I felt that there hadn’t been a photography show that showed the world through the eyes of a Graffiti artist and the result was amazing. The show did really well and a lot of people were inspired as well as impressed.

FT: Describe a typical day for VyalOne?

Wake up, Drink coffee, go back to sleep……Wake up again, drink coffee, think about everything i have to do , then go back to sleep…….HAHA!!!!!! Actually, Alot of research, reading , learning, developing, evolving, painting…..EVERY DAY…..

FT:How do you choose your images and where they are placed in the street?

I don’t usually work from sketches or references. Whatever i paint usually gets disscussed prior to painting a wall, lately i’ve been painting more freely, mixing things together and having like half a piece and half a character. Walls are hard to come by at the moment here in L.A. and the laws against expression are getting stiff… So i am currently trying to focus on large trucks that are used for shiping they make for great canvases and your art travels as well…..

FT:What do you think about hype?

It can be missplaced, which makes it bad.

FT:Name an artist whose work you respect and admire?

Where do i begin??? Dali, Gigger,Diego Rivera, Frida Khalo,Dondi,Jeyd, Werc, Man One, Asylm, Sherm, my crews COI, LOD, VT, 90DBC, the graffiti artists in Mexico City, Mookiena, Saner, Tiza, Plop, Hollow, Teox…….The graff artists of Central and South America….Os Gemeos, Nina, Nunca, Seak, Daim,on and on ,and on and on…….

FT:How would you describe street art and what makes it different than graffiti or would you say it all falls under the same umbrella of shit. Don’t you think it’s different?

Graffiti art is a whole other world then street art, Graffiti has all of these intricate parts that you have to learn , like Hand styles , throw ups , straight letters , wild styles……etc….And its through this process that people become interested in being artists. Street art to me feels like Artists trying to be like graffiti artists but without all the hard work that Garffiti Art involves. There are of course exceptions to this just like with anything else.

FT:What is the CONCRETE ALCHEMY ?

I was  part of it. It’s a tour called CONCRETE ALCHEMY ( Albuscav.us ) in which 15 artists toured part of the east coast and created 4 murals and 3 gallery shows. It was a lot of fun, and were looking forward to doing a lot more events and touring under the CONCRETE ALCHEMY title. I wana send shout outs to everyone who was on the tour and everyone we met along the way……..

FT:How do you feel about the commercialization of street art in recent years?

Its natural for street art to become commercialized because its geared towards the general public. Graffiti art has also followed the same path because it is public, but its not for the general public. Graffiti art is resistant to exploitation because there are so many people doing it in so many different ways……..

FT:What’s coming up in the next few months?

Show etc… A one man show in Copenhagen @ PLAIN GALLERY in September, I’m really excited about that!!!! My first one man show internationally… as well as a handful of other shows before then. WORK, WORK, WORK until then, stay alive and survive……

FT:What’s your real goal?

To be happy ……..and create some works that help to inspire others.

FT:Any words of wisdom?

‘No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice’….Chronicles of Narnia…….

The official Vyal’s website : www.vyalone.com

Thank’s to Vyal!

Graffiti styles part 6 : Fatcap Tag

The fatcap is a cap that you can put on your spray-can to enlarge your stroke. It’s the favourite caps of vandals. You know what’s our name…uhuh Fatcap rules!

Check the other graffiti styles :

• 3D

• Wildstyle

• Graffiti piece

• Tag

• Throw up

Here’s some pictures of fat cap tags :

Big fatcap tag by The SMK in Toulouse, France… damn this bus station is ok now…

Tag by Kole. BOOM!

This Kooce fatcap tag is strong, I know you want to lick it…

Pure style by Nylon… love this tag.

Fatcap tag in New York. Love it. Pure letters flow.