As noted in the recent July/August Carlsbad Magazine story titled Free Carlsbad, by magazine writer Wendy Hinman, there are a wide variety of free to low cost ways to spend your Summer in our village by the sea.
Obviously the beach lures with daily warm sand and blue skies, that is if the dreaded Eddie the Great Gray stays away. The sleepy village invites slow strolls and mid day pints. Mellow hikes around lagoons and through Eucalyptus is always a treat and a mid day Yoga stretch is just what the doctor ordered.
Published June 25th, 2012 in art and projects.Closed
Snyder has implemented his 4th drip and paste installation titled ‘Doodle’s Umbrella’ and will be giving away an original painting of the design to one lucky person.
To enter the contest, follow the below listed steps. One winner will be randomly chosen and announced at a future undetermined date.
1. Visit Snyder’s most recent drip and paste installation located at Majestic Flowers on Fairfax in West Hollywood.
2. Enter the ‘Majest Flower’ flower shop and ask to use the drip painted ‘omnipresent art’ water can.
3. Take a photo of yourself watering the flowers on the top of Doodle’s umbrella.
4. Submit the photo to Snyder via one of the below options:
Snyder’s 4th drip paint and paste installation in currently in production and will be implemented in the West Hollywood streets on or around Melrose Avenue on Sat. June 23rd.
In addition to this new installation, Snyder will be giving away one original painting. Full details on how to enter the raffle will be disclosed shortly after the installation in completed.
Watch the video for clues about Snyder’s upcoming location!
Restriction shouting signs scatter communities with warnings and potential penalties. One way streets snarl and red curbs shake fist. Parking meters set off smoke signals and the occasional security scribbles citations.
Each restriction is plainly visible through steadfast signage, but they aren’t always as black and white as one might think. As seen in the subtle differences between a cigarette and a pipe, a little creativity blends boundaries resulting in a…
Published June 18th, 2012 in art and rambles.Closed
The producer of Ultimate Surprises had known of my projects around the West Hollywood area and offered the to opportunity to paint a mural for a yahoo webisode. I excitedly committed to the project and set off for West Hollywood within the week.
The guidelines for the mural were minimal. I was asked to paint 2 young ladies as doodle characters with the only theme being something related to eye vision. I doodled a few options, but ended up using a design I sketched the morning of the project. Alex, the young lady being surprised with a slew of gifts including a vision package, was painted holding a bucket in one hand and a dripping paint brush in the other. Fake glasses were painted on her face to indicate her desire to see clearly again. Her friend Adriana and the one who contacted the show’s producers painted the words “Surprise Alex”.
I began painting around 7am while a crew of 10+ buzzed around me with cameras and sound equipment. GoPro cameras were hung from trees and any visible logos were blocked out with tape on all my cans and my shirt. Ironically the colors chosen for the girl’s shirts and the shirts they actually wore were not coordinated in advance.
I finished the last letters of the mural as the girls arrived. Alex had no idea what was happening until she got close enough to the mural to read her name. The gate which the mural was painted on was pulled up by Ryan from Positive Eye Ons and Alex entered to have her eyes checked.
Initially I thought my role was going to be limited to painting a mural with some video of the process spliced into the show, but I soon found out that my role had grown. Not only did I meet and introduce the project to the girls, but I was asked to return later where additional footage would be shot to conclude the webisode.
I arrived at the Ground Floor Gallery in downtown Los Angeles 2 weeks later to again meet the girls and surprise Alex with a painted canvas of the mural design. A good collection of my work was already hung on the walls from a previous show so the background for the shoot was perfect. In addition to the painting, Alex and Adriana were given scholarships to begin training in a field of their choice.
The entire project could not have gone any smoother. The producers were amazing and kept me up-to-date on any schedule changes. The locations they chose for both the mural and the secondary gallery shoot were ideal and Alex and Adriana not only were very deserving of their gifts, but were both very much surprised.
Thanks again Ultimate Surprises for involving me in your project!
Though rapidly becoming developed, some of the remaining empty coast land in Carlsbad can be found down South along the highway 101.
The past years have seen a rapid expansion of development. Gated communities have crept into wild growth and beach side resorts continue to pop up as often as roadside flowers.
Attempts to thwart development have been lost, but the battle continues…
The editor of Vandalog street art blog recently published bold accusations regarding my art and my influences, specifically stating that I have “failed to develop a personal style” and that I lack creativity and originality. I admire RJ for putting his credibility on the line for the sake of personal expression, but in this case, he should have done your research.
While attending college in the SF East Bay Area circa 2002, I began putting sculptures in the local streets of Hayward. I instantly became interested in the idea of connecting unsuspecting passersby with art, both connecting them to my ideas, as well as to each other through discussion amongst themselves. At that time I was introduced to the aesthetic of stencils through Banksy’s work. I began studying his technique and the possibilities of stencil work, but never used the technique in the urban setting.
After graduating from college in 2004, I returned to San Diego and began implementing full scale stencils into the streets as a way to introduce art and creativity into an artistically bland community compared to the culturally laden streets of SF. I implemented dozens of pieces over nearly 2 years. Each piece of art was carefully placed with the goal of creating a relationship with its surroundings and historical relevance. Many got buffed, but I was adamant and continued preparing new pieces. So yes, Banksy’s aesthetics directly influenced my early stencil work.
Around 2007 and after years of hitting the streets, a large collection of used stencils began to pile up. I began experimenting with new ways of reusing these old stencils and flirted with a new technique. I wanted to create the hard edges from a stencil, but wanted more texture. After a series of experiments with different paints and surfaces, I discovered my signature drip technique. I began dripping layers of acrylic latex directly through stencils onto cardboard resulting in technique I call a “Painting Paradox”. It combines the wild, spontaneous and gestural drips with the restricted, premeditated hard edges of the stencil. I focused on this technique primarily on cardboard, and eventually on canvas, for the next few years. My first body of drip paintings was shown during a solo show at my Carlsbad based studio in 2008, with 2 follow up shows documenting my refined technique in 2009 and 2010. I created a short film documenting this process titled ‘Labor of Love’.
While still dripping paint on canvas, I began my experimentation with the idea of omnipresent art -the idea that art is in everything and all around us. I recognized that even our most mundane and overlooked possessions have artistic qualities and could be described in terms of the elements of art. I wanted to exaggerate these overlooked artistic elements and began dripping paint on disassembled appliances, furniture and toys, and reassembling them. These drip sculptures were first highlighted in my 2009 solo show and would implemented into the streets in later stages of my evolution.
At this time I had begun to slow down my street work. I dove deep into experiments with different types of paint, sheens and drying times. I invested a good 3 years primarily experimenting and only showing my work through my studio and Carlsbad local coffee shops. The years experimenting in my studio refined my technique, but I missed the streets. At this point I decided it was time to introduce my drip-through-stencil technique to the streets. Due to the fact that dripping paint on a vertical wall is nearly impossible, I began experimenting with dripping through stencil directly onto paper, which could be easily cut-out and pasted to walls. I introduced this new stage of my style evolution to LA in 2008 with pasted image of a Carlsbad homeless man, highlighted on unurth.com. Though this was a new aesthetic, I remained interested in the relationship between art placed in the streets and its surrounding environment. In these early pastes, I married the two through color.
In the years since those initial pastes in 2008, I have put up drip pastes in New York, Boston, Virginia, Rhode Island, Ireland, San Francisco, all over California and most recently implementing my first large scale Urban Pop-Up Gallery entirely in the streets of Australia and China over a 5 week street art tour.
I continued experimenting with the possibilities of dripping paint and evolved my drip-through-stencil technique from the restrictions of a flat surface to a combination of paste and installation. In May of 2011 I implemented my first drip paste installation into the Los Angeles streets. This was a large 3 layered drip piece of Van Gogh’s sunflowers. Along with these sunflowers, I included a hand crafted table cut in half, dripped and attached to the wall directly under the sunflower paste-up.
I enjoyed the 3 dimensional aspect of the installation combined with my drip and stencil aesthetic, but wanted to include the engagement of my art with the local community, ultimately encouraging urban exploration. In June 2011, I implemented my first community based art hunt in LA focused around a centerpiece drip paste and installation. This centerpiece titled Doodle’s Urban Garden, was my first introduction of Doodle in the streets outside of Carlsbad’s doodle hunts. Doodle was created by dripping acrylic latex through stencil onto paper and was pasted to a wall. A radio flyer wagon was cut in half, drip painted, reassembled and attached to the wall, along with a halved vase and drip-painted flowers on paper. The evolution of my drip technique grew with the implementation of 10 additional drip flowers hidden in the streets. An hand drawn Doodle illustration was awarded to the first community member to find and photograph the centerpiece and each of the 10 flowers.
Regarding the similarities between my Doodle character and the work by Dran, Vandalog has made astute observations, though his accusations are nothing more than coincidence. I have been creating large quantities of art my entire life beginning with over a decade of childhood doodles. These doodles included copying favorite cartoon characters at a young age and slowly evolved into a simple template accessorized to make my own character. This character remained in the pages of my childhood drawings until a few years ago when I began hiding renditions of him painted on cardboard in the Carlsbad village. Like the drawings I grew up doing in the margins of my school notes, on napkins and on restaurant places-mats, they were just doodles. Word of these hidden doodles spread and people began referring to them as Doodles and asked when the next Doodle was to be hidden. The name stuck.
Within the discussion of originality and creativity, both which Vandalog has accused me of lacking, I have implemented a series of 3 installations into the Carlsbad streets experimenting with art placed in the urban environment combined with the unpredictable variable of weather, both which have been described by others as highly creative and original.
Like other artists with very original styles, I was exposed to a style early in my career that very much impacted the beginning stages of my development. In my case it was Banksy’s stencil work. I studied it. I copied it and I used it to find my own way. As my combination of drip-through-stencil aesthetics, placement, and community engagement continues, I occasionally revisit past stages of my evolution including single layer stencils and my childhood doodle illustrations, though always conscious of placement and creating a relationship with the surroundings.
Next time you decide to attack someone’s art, style and conduct, make sure you sit down and do your research, because as a voice of a movement, your credibility is on the line.
Bryan Snyder from Snyder Art and Susanna Kurner from Hello Trouble are taking there passions to the streets of West Hollywood for a day of art, music and shenanigans…
WHAT: Live music and a Doodle mural WHEN: Sat. June 2nd WHERE: On Melrose in West Hollywood
Carlsbad may not have an overabundance of murals, but more have begun to pop up in the recent months including Snyder’s A Welcoming Fall, Baker’s piece painted on Pig Liquor and Carlsbad’s newest hand painted masterpiece located on the historic Lola’s Market and Deli by local artists Phyllis Swanson and Amy Burkman from Studio2Artists.
Burkman began with a portrait of Sisters Ofelia Escobedo and Connie Trejo, the ladies in charge of Lola’s. Also included in the mural is sister Frances Jauregui-Moreno who often visits the establishment.
2 more large scale murals are located across the street collaborated on by both Swanson and Burkman, each depicting Carlsbad. One includes a view along the coast with breaking waves, jetties and the lagoon while the other showcases Carlsbad’s agricultural roots. Each piece is framed with a faux border creating the illusion as if your are looking out a window.
Snyder Art continues to fill the empty spaces of the Carlsbad Village business with his signature drip technique paintings. Snyder’s newest hung painting is on the center wall at The Compass(website) located in the Village Faire.
You can see more of Snyder’s paintings at the following establishments:
• The Compass (map)
• Paradise Pizza (map)
• Skylar’s Home and Patio (map)
• Grubby’s (map)
• Cessey’s (map)
Contact Bryan Snyder if interested in housing a painting: theartist@snyderartdesign.com
North County San Diego is scattered with communities. Each one is described differently. Encinitas has been said to be artsy. Some have described Oceanside as beach grunge. Del Mar is posh and Leucadia is funky.
Some describe the Carlsbad Village as sleepy, quaint, boring and quiet.
A new page is added to your life story each day. Life changes begin new chapters and the margins of your pages are scribbled with memorable quotes. Achievements are underlined and people you helped are bolded.
Your last page may be written, but your story will always be told.
A nationwide call to cover the night asked Invisible Children supporters to cover public walls with KONY 2012 themed flyers and other media in an act to bring attention to Joseph KONY’S inhumane actions towards children and to help restore LRA affected communities in East and Central Africa to peace.
On the night of April 20th supporters hit the streets with a variety of glossy colored flyers and black and white posters. Chalk messages were scribbled on beach-side benches, walls and sidewalks while most early morning walkers passed undeterred.
A thick dew slowly engulfed the coastal village causing the thin strips of tape to saturate with moisture and drop KONY branded material to the ground. Frantic chalk scribbles soon became illegible blurs of colored powder as the boardwalk flow thickened. Large KONY tags drew some attention, but the messages may have been tainted with the lack of creativity and effort.
The idea to use the streets to spread the word may have been a good idea. Hundreds of pedestrians travel the Carlsbad boardwalk each day and the village is often animated with activity, but a successful Guerilla campaign carefully walks the line between acceptable use and vandalism.
Did the Cover the Night Guerilla campaign error in their implementation of marketing material? Could they have exhibited more effort and creativity?
How could they have better used the streets to express their ideas?
As a kid growing up in the Carlsbad Village, local artist Bryan Snyder used the local streets and beaches as his canvas. His early passion for baseball was expressed year around on the Chase and Pine fields. When not on the diamond, Snyder could be found skateboarding all day in the Village. His passions were found early and expressed often within the streets of the village.
Now as an adult and a Carlsbad resident 28 of his 31 years, Snyder continues to express his passions and creativity in the Carlsbad Village Streets through art. His most recent public art installation stopped the 100,000 estimated faire visitors in their tracks.
“As a conceptual artist, I attempt to connect the public’s mind with my ideas,” Snyder says. “What better stage to do this than along a constant stream of 100,000 people all in search of something to look at?”
Thousands of cameras shot photos of the eerie though subtly innocent sculpture shaped out of newspaper, shrink wrap and packaging tape. Snyder’s sculpture was finished with acrylic latex drip and sat upon 3 buckets of paint with a sign that encouraged photos.
Keep your eyes out for future Snyder Art street installations!
Vendors lured with brightly colored merchandise and a smoky food court sent the smell of grilled meat tumbling down the heated asphalt. Bands splashed the sunburned faces with tunes in the beer garden and local shops took a back seat on Sunday May 6th during the 39th Carlsbad Village Street Faire hosted by the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce.
Memories of last year’s November street faire in the rain vanished fast like a shallow puddle on the sizzling Grand Avenue asphalt. The first of the two annual Carlsbad faires began early and lasted into the early evening as an estimated 100,000 attendees came, shopped and ate.
A dense vendor wall lined Grand Avenue and the connecting perpendicular streets with a wide variety of eye catching merchandise. Local artists showcased their newest canvases and favorite prints while smooth talking salespersons traded spam for weekend getaways. The pushy pushed insipid knockoffs and the mellow sold one-of-a-kinds.
Waves of visitors crashed upon the village like a surging tide upon our sleepy village. Parking lots which normally remained vacant blocks outside the village ran a price tag of $15 and shuttles transported sunburned village visitors to and from through out the day.
The crowd crept along Grand like a slithering snake. A long stride was as common as an empty parking space. Baby steps and shoulder bumps bounced bag carrying faire visitors along the boundaries of the faire like a battered pinball. Fueled by the grilled tri-tip, the crowd continued its amble towards the coast and back.
Kids’ fingers turned pink and sticky from cotton candy and looney characters were brushed on their cheeks. Giraffes, monkeys and peacocks were twisted into shape by clowns and the a collection of crisp bills blew in the wind at the peak of a climb.
Village visitors and locals brave the mayhem the faire brings each year. They gear up for a long day in the sun battling unflappable currents and intolerable irritations. Some love the culture connected through friendships associated with each faire visit. Others indulge simply for the thrill. Either way, when it’s all over, each visitor breathes deeply after the realization that they survived the chaos of another Carlsbad Village Street Faire.
Snyder Art is celebrating the arrival of the 39th Carlsbad Village Street Faire and largest one day street faire in the nation with a one day art hunt and raffle. Follow the below steps to win an original piece of art by Bryan Snyder.
HOW IT WORKS:
1. Find the original drip sculpture within the May 6th Carlsbad Street Faire
2. Take a photo of the above sculpture
3. “LIKE” the ‘Snyder Art and Design’ facebook page
4. Upload your photo to facebook
5. Tag ‘Snyder Art’ in your photo
Click HERE to become a fan of the Snyder Art facebook page!
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