More fight time.

We got asked to do this little number in a boys bedroom.

We can paint whatever image you want wherever you want it.
Get in touch for more info: info@bringcolour.com

Blitz Coventry Issue 01 Launch

Bring Colour were approached by the Herbert Art gallery to be the local involved with there Street Art season. We were asked to organise the launch event and we did so happily.

We got local MC's "Ricta" & "Idyllic" to come down and perform with the help of DJ "Fury", there was live illustration by 8 local artists with a bit of public participation. This was also the perfect event to launch Bring Colour's first publication: Blitz Coventry.

We did 100 ltd edition numbered copies of blitz and sold out in under 3 hrs. The night was ace, and the Herbert was buzzing!

Thank You to everyone involved and everyone who made it down. Special Thanks to (Full English) 12 Gates Photography.

Hedgey's

While we were painting warrior shutter we were approached by a Tattooist who asked us to come down to his new studio and do some artwork.

Good artist and a nice guy, if your after some new ink, pop in and see Hedgey.

28 holbrook lane
Coventry, United Kingdom

Visit his facebook page.

New Year

We have got a good sized list of things to do for this year...........

Studio, Paint, New website, Exhibition, Blitz no.2, and the list continues with a few things that we are keeping close to our chest!

But first we have a few things to report to put 2010 to rest.

To start we have givin our logo and banner a bit a of a face lift.

Red Red Rose

A little Canvas of a rose head we got asked to do for a birthday gift.

Warrior Martial Arts.

We can work with complete creative freedom or like this job, paint to the customers exact specification.

We were contacted by Tony Pillage from "The way of the spiritual warrior" academy as he wanted the shutters of his new fighting supplies store adorned with an advertisement for the dojo 2 minutes walk from the shop.

He gave us a sketch of what he wanted with all the info and we went down and got busy.

The way of the spiritual warrior, 996 Foleshill Rd, Coventry.

House Party

After the success of "Get Involved" last Christmas, City Vinyl are dusting the cobwebs off of the sound system to bring you "HOUSE PARTY".

We got asked to bash together a quick flyer for the night, so we did!

Up and away!

Mario and Yoshi mural we did on a child's bedroom wall in Earlsdon.

GODIVA!

Well then, Godiva festival 2010!

Bring Colour were involved in the Godiva Fest in 2007, missed out in 2008 due to lack of funds, painted the gardeners shed in 2009 and this year we worked in partnership with BBC Blast and FARGOS.

We had 4 artists doing a demo over the 2 days and also ran drop in workshops for festival goers.
It was Manic at times and we certainly learned some things!

Hectic weekend, Changed Bring Colour!

What don't kill you....................

Fredrock

Had to blog this little banger that was down the boards!

"A Tiger eating a Leopard"

by Freddie the Fox aged 5 nearly 6.

Summer party!

We were contacted by Ian Kane from Warwick SU to take part in there Summer Party. Bring Colour went up to the Uni and tag teamed three 8 by 4 boards. It was a good day, the sun was shining, tunes were playing and we got to freestyle some boards.

Check out the video of the day!

Back to School!

Bring Colour artist, John Mckeown was asked to return to his old school, Cardinal Newman to deliver a graffiti workshop as part of the schools first Community Arts Festival. The Festival was held to celebrate the school becoming a specialist arts and community college.

DOWNTIME!

Not had much of a web presence recently, everything has been a bit hectic. Everything has been in storage, well, in a pile (photo above) whilst we have been moving base. We have still been active and therefore have a lot of updating to do! The updates will follow, but we just want to say thank you to those people who have shown support over past months. Thanks!

Sub Zero

We have been working with Sub Zero, one of Primeline Musics signed Artists. We have produced the logo above for him and are currently working on the code for his myspace and some graphics for youtube. Sub Zero has an album droppin this year on Primeline Music, keep an eye out for it!

Fallen Soldier!

We have had some sad news, Tom Sutch AKA FuFaNu passed away recently. This guy had Creativity running through his veins. Skating, Street Art and Graff was how our paths crossed. He played his role in smashing Cov, our particular favourites were his FU! dubs on the bank up ball hill and another on the dj shop on Radford Rd. If you look carefully you will still find a few stencils about too! FU! FU! FU FA NU! rock n roll!

lurking

We are currently working on some graphics for Coventry M.C. "Lurkah" We have just done his youtube page at the moment, Check it out! You know you love Cov town!

Exclusive Roots

Exclusive Roots is a fair trade shop on park st, Leamington. They sell fair trade products from Africa in there shop downstairs and have been working on opening a cafe upstairs, we were contacted by them to add to the "Shack Chic" style of the place.

Primeline

Primeline Music is a new venture from those productive folks up at the Venny, Wood End. Primeline is a record label run by young people, for young people. We were asked to produce a logo for the record label, a vinyl label for the first vinyl release from producer "AMEC" and cd artwork for the compalation "Trial & Error".

Primeline Music is a non for profit organisation that not only offers a creative outlet for disadvantaged young people, Primeline also has education, training and development side to it, supporting young people develop music and business skills that enable them to maximize their potential.

Bring Colour are fully behind this project and we think it is ace! Trial and Error has been played at least once a day, since we got hold of our copy. A couple of tracks get reloaded as soon as they finish!

Support Coventry Music!

Get your copy from: www.primelinemusic.com

Back when........

Writers in Coventry didnt have legal spots like the blue boards in Earlsdon. ASP, JECT, MARSA, TEK, CEPT, KRUGA, XORB, REL, ALERT, to name a few that have left there mark. Growing up in Coventry, seeing the remains of these and all of the other writers had such an influence on the whole Bring Colour camp.

The picture above is of a painting by ASP 178, a writer who clearly did his fair share and was king'in Coventry in the late 80's and is still up a fair bit now.
It seems that the younger generations of writers dont know, dont care or have been missinformed about the history of the Coventry graffiti art scene.

Knowing your History is important for numerous reasons.

• We learn from our mistakes.

• We share a common experience that binds the scene together.

• We learn where the scene has come from.

• The graffiti scene can build upon past accomplishments, and it also helps us to speculate the future.

Our passion for Graffiti/Street Art and inparticular Covenrty graffiti/street art has lead us to start to produce Blitz Coventry. Blitz is documenting the past and present bombing (graffiti writing) of Coventry. If you have any images that you would like to be included, send them to: blitz@bringcolour.com

"Know your history!!!"

GYGL

Coventry GYGL contacted us because they wanted to create a piece of art for LGBT month, the group had already written a song/poem that they want to look like a Coventry street sign on a wall with graffiti on. Good fun was had.