Curtis' Café

Whilst we were up Holbrooks decorating Hedgey's tattoo studio we were introduced to a guy who was soon to be opening a Café down the road. The premises had previously been a Café, all he had to do was put his stamp on the place which is where we came in. He wanted us to paint some signage for the place and after a lot of deliberating he decided upon using his son's name and called it Curtis' Café.

GSK motors

About a year and a half ago we were contacted by a guy who wanted us to paint 'Supreme Kebabs' on the side of his Kebab Van.  He enjoyed what we did to his van and got back in touch with us to create some signage for his brothers business GSK motors.

Benga'd Backdrop

We were back down the Kasbah last week for a quick little job.
The third installment of "No Pain, No Gain" this time with Benga headlining. We had to quickly get rid of the Sub Focus logo from last time and paint up Benga's!

Tattoo Times

We have been bit quiet on the blogging side recently, been spending too much time creating.

So a little overdue, our first blog post of the year.

We did some work last year for the tattoo studio 'Hedgey's'. Hedgey, the bossman was so impressed with the graffiti shutter & custom mural we did in the reception that he got in contact with us again  to pop back down the studio to create a custom mural in the backroom.  

Hedgey, being surrounded by artwork daily, knew exactly what he wanted us to paint, a skull tattooing. After grabbing some tins of paint we popped down and got busy.

Our murals are bespoke, one-off, unique pieces of artwork.

Interior walls, exterior walls, vehicles, backdrops, canvases, we can paint the image you want where you want it!

If you have an enquiry or would like to discuss the design solutions that we can offer you, then please get in touch.  

The Best Till Last

The last post of the year is one of our favourite custom bedroom walls that we have ever done!

We were approached by a lovely couple wanting us paint a feature wall in their new converted loft bedroom.
The lovely couple knew exactly what they wanted, "A section of their red and white floral bedspread painted on a larger scale but not a repeated pattern".

This one took a lot of effort but in our opinion the finished room looks fab!

A Nightmare Before Christmas

We popped up the Kasbah for the last time this year to do a spot of decor. Went up and bashed out two balcony banners for their Christmas Eve special "A Nightmare Before Christmas".

Merry Kasbah

No Pain No Gain

The Kasbah crew have started booking some headline acts for their mid-week raves "No Pain No Gain" They've had two acts pass through so far, Rusko and then Sub Focus. Both of which the phone rang "Hey Bring Colour, can you come down the club please?"

Next up is Benga & Youngman!!!!



Didn't manage to get a photo when we popped down for Sub Focus so robbed this off Digital-Flow's Flickr.

Spooky UV times

We were back down the Kasbah with some UV paint at Halloween. This time with shorter notice and more stuff to paint, two balcony's and both ends of the room.

#CovArt

With our great passion for Coventry and of Art, we love it when we stumble across homegrown talent. Gifted people doing things!

So we thought we'd do a little blog entry linking some #CovArt that we enjoy!

(click the images to follow the links)


First up is the facebook page for undoubtedly the most prolific writer in Coventry. Lots of photos of full colour's and dubs. As far as we're concerned ABLE takes the title 'King of Cov'. Well worth a peek!



Next up is the Mean Mr Myer's Flickr. This guy oozes style and has been an inspiration to all at the Bring Colour camp from early. Definitely check his stuff out!



As 3 is the magic number we'll end with L'art du Odour a tumblr blog documenting the work of artist Body Odour. A mixture of Street Art and Graffiti, some funky bits, have a look!

Rock The Kasbah! Neon Style.

Whether you call it The Tic Toc, The Colly or The Kasbah the place has been partied in for YEARS!
We spent most of our teenage years in there and still pop in now and again if its a special occasion.

So it was a pleasant surprise when out of the blue the phone rings and its the manager of the Kasbah, Rax, wanting some backdrops,
asking "if its something we could do?"
Our response as always "Yes! Of course we can!"

He wanted some backdrops painted for a UV Full Moon Party they were having,
so we went down and got busy with some fluoro paint!

Didn't manage to get any photos of them up and finished myself, but managed to find one on Facebook, Thanks Edward Taylor!

Cat Gained, Mac Lost

Well then, meet the newest member of the Bring Colour family, 'Tigga'.

Tigga has been making work extremely difficult as the little monster thinks that anything that moves is his to play with, Paint, Brushes, Pens, Pencils, Scalpels, Paper and worst of all, Hands.
When hands move he pounces, clawing for attention & biting for fuss.

Computer work had become near impossible with Tigga around. Accusations have been flung in the past about 'affairs with apple' but nothing compared to how jealous Tigga had become of the MacBook Pro. Tigga decided enough was enough and being shut out of the room so the lappy could come out to play was unfair and something had to be done.

The scene was set, Tigga was chilling on the sofa, the lappy was switched on and open and a fresh cup of tea was just put down when........"boom" Tigga saw his chance and pounced, knocking the tea all over the lappy and swiftly fleeing to avoid the aftermath.

We switched the lappy off, took battery out and with fingers crossed left it upside down to dry out. After giving the lappy to the Apple Dr to fix, we were given the worst news back, the lappy was dead. Sad Times.

Although we're down a lappy and some recent work has gone, all was not lost! We had learnt from our past mistakes with "Mac Death" and had most things backed up on an external hd.

So that is why our internet presence has been quiet recently. We've degraded and are using an ibook g4, which just isn't a MBP but at least its not a PC! Now its time to catch up!

Misleading Appearances

Whilst trawling through files on the hard drive looking for an image we ended up stumbling across some photos of a empty shop project we did in 2007 and decided to blog it.

Before we were called Bring Colour we were going under the name Bring'in Colour and in the summer of 07 we worked in partnership with Coventry Arts collective Dialectic Arts and did a project called "Misleading Appearances" in an empty shop down Spon End Arches.


The driving force behind Dialectic Arts, Artist Kyla Craig had worked her magic and convinced the owners of the building to let us use it as art studios whilst transforming the venue into a space that we could use to have an exhibition.

The building had previously been a furniture shop but was now being used to store tyres, so it was filthy! We got the keys to the place, moved in and made a start.


We worked 24/7, shifted all the tyres, tore down the ceiling, ripped out decaying walls, replaced the loo.......


.........Cleaned the place from top to bottom, Sorted the Roof, Painted everywhere,..........


.......had new lighting and a new circuit board fitted. The place was ready to be used!!!
Artists moved into the space and started to get creative.


The place was being used as a studio space and creative hub. What we had intended! Then the plans got under way to organise the exhibition.


The owners of the building were paying increased attention to what we were up to as we had clearly highlighted the hidden potential of there building.

After transforming the building, setting the date for the exhibition and speaking to the owners about when the project will end and they can have their building back and sorting a date for that, we closed up shop and went to Bristol for a break.

On returning from Bristol the owners of the building had changed the locks, we tried speaking to the owners to see what was going on, but all we got was his employee saying he wanted his building back.

Annoyed, Disappointed, Angry, Frustrated and Upset are a few words that spring to mind!

We managed to get them to open it up for a short while so we could get our belongings back but that is how the project ended!

Still gutted about how messy everything ended, but you learn from your mistakes and there are plenty more empty shops out there! So keep your eyes peeled because we might pop up in your local empty shop!

Back to School Part2

Bring Colour artist, John Mckeown was asked to return to his old school, Cardinal Newman for the second year to deliver a workshop as part of their community arts festival.

Last year he delivered at graffiti art workshop but this year did a street art workshop on the theme of music as the school wanted to display the work in the music block when finished.

We haven't yet managed to get photos of the work finished and mounted in the school, but here is a few of what we got up to.

HEARTS

We are quite excited about this one at the Bring Colour camp! Coventry's No.1 collective Hearts Gang have started bloging.

These guys get up to all sorts. The collective Includes Photographers, Film makers, Graffiti, Street & Tattoo Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, Musicians and Poets. Well worth keeping an eye on what they're up to!

The Illustration below is by Artist Andrew J Smith.
To check out the HG blog click on the Illustration!

Vendetta Bass

We were contacted by a new Coventry based record label "Vendetta Bass" to produce some artwork for them. They wanted a logo bashed up, Some artwork for Vendetta Bass's first release "Digital Era - A. English Haters AA. The Sound" and some promo artwork for the Label. So we got busy!

Henley Green

Here's a couple of pics from Henley Green Community Centre, Coventry. We got invited up to facilitate a series of art sessions with the outcome being the young people producing artwork to decorate their newly acquired youth room.

The young people worked really well, were not the best at turning up on time & things went a little bit wrong at coffee time & when cupboards were unlocked, but they still managed to produce some decent artwork.

We did more of a street art based workshop and had the young people doing some photography, computer based work, Stencil Making and some actual decorating!

MJ

We were asked to paint a picture of Michael Jackson on a bedroom wall but without him being blatantly recognisable. So we went and got creative!

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The Baggy Oak

We were contacted by The Oak because they were after some signs painted. We painted two signs to go next to the road and also did them a chalkboard for inside.

Ice Age Dino

We got asked to do a feature wall in a Childrens bedroom with the theme of the Ice Age film with an added character from the film Dinosaur and this is the result!