On October 12, Oceanside native, and current New York transplant, BB Bastidas painted a mural on the Carlsbad Art Wall located on the east facing wall of Señor Grubby’s in the Carlsbad Village.
During a brief return to his hometown of Oceanside, BB was able to squeeze in a visit to neighboring Carlsbad for a single day mural with help from his painting assistant nicknamed “Crab.”
The two stared at the blank wall. BB envisioned a trailblazing Indian cutting through unmarked land while Crab planned a morphing pattern of trailing lines.
BB began the base of the mural by rolling a colorful background gradient from orange to yellow continuing an aesthetic recently painted in the streets of New York only weeks prior.
These visually similar designs connected the coasts through a southwestern palette infused in psychedelic contrails of native American history—and perhaps a metaphor for the artist’s relocation.
Friday morning awoke with a stare into the wall which looked like a mirror reflecting the early morning sky. A bright orange emerged from the dirty ground and transitioned halfway up the wall into a blinding yellow.
Friends frequently visited BB throughout the day eager eager for any update and to hear stories of the trailblazing artist. His focus was fixed on the task-at-hand, but periodically snapped by conversation.
A paintbrush and tube of black acrylic paint quickly transformed the right side of the wall into an outline of an animated Native American Indian atop a horse frozen in mid-gallop. BB used these outlines to guide earthly fills with a dash of turquoise in harmony with with wall’s overhead trim.
A pattern of morphing black lines trailed the galloping horse across the entire urban canvas suggesting the contrails of momentum, although one might interpret the emergence of a chasing shape within the pattern. Either way, the Indian’s eyes glared forward and his chin asserted confidence and triumph.
As the final brushstrokes completed Carlsbad’s newest mural, BB shared stories from his first six months on the east coast and reminisced about his childhood growing up in Oceanside.
Although he will always have a legitimate love for his hometown, he also embraces his new adventure, leaving behind yesterday’s chaos while looking forward to the blank canvas of tomorrow.
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Click HERE for photos of past CAW murals
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Started in March 2015, Carlsbad Village based artist Bryan Snyder will be bringing a street artists/muralist every 2 months to paint a mural on the east facing wall of Señor Grubby’s in the Carlsbad Village.
Click HERE for photos of Snyder’s street art workshop: March 22
The goal of the Carlsbad Art Wall is to serve as a conduit between aspiring artists and professional artists, to provide a platform to engage and educate the Carlsbad community in the creative act of large scale public painting and to introduce a variety of new art and creative processes to the Carlsbad comm
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