Liqen

This week the best mural out there was produced by Liqen in Chichester. His large sketch-like mural carries a compelling sense of movement. If Pixel Pancho and his robotic creatures collaborated with Blu‘s universe, their work would probably resembles Liqen‘s

Aryz x David Choe x RETNA

A new trio has formed: Aryz and David Choe hooked up with RETNA to work on this new mural in downtown Los Angeles. Their distinctive styles don’t merge together quite yet, but the final product is memorable even if their idiosyncrasies are discernible.

ROA

ROA! As always, he successfully creates a eye-catching spectacle; this particular mural is in Chichester.

Seikon

 Seikon was spotted in Poland producing one of his kaleidoscopic shapes.

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This week in the international-street-art-sphere portraiture was the method of choice. Just for you, we’ve compiled the portraits that we found to be most striking. View them below.

Aryz (above) worked on a collaboration with David Choe in L.A. You can clearly distinguish the American’s artist surrealistic style colliding with the Aryz‘s creepy world.

Invader

Last time we heard from Invader he was pasting a mosaic of Spider-man onto the Parisian landscape. The French artist now dropped a new work in London depicting another hero, Luke Skywalker, chilling out with his father, Darth Vader.

Ben Slow & Mear One

Ben Slow and Mear One worked on a politically charged collaboration for the streets of San Francisco. The two street artists portrayed Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in a light that acknowledges their shadier dealings.

Jack TML

The incredible Israeli artist Jack TML was recently in Germany to paint an indoor piece somewhere in Munich. His figurative work is charged with feelings of distance and proximity.

Aryz, prior to his collaboration with David Choe, worked on a gigantic mural in San Francisco. The Barcelona-based artist worked on merging the insides and outsides of his female character using his signature color pallet.

Stik is currently honoring the Chichester Street Art Festival  alongside Run & Phlegm. Working with his minimalistic stick figures, the British artist produces a piece that creates movement through subtlety.

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Nicolas Le Borgne aka Odo is a French artist and illustrator. Clearly influenced by: psychedelic pop culture, tattoo art and street artists, Odo transforms childish symbolic characters into chaotic monsters. Some of the artists that shaped his work include Barry Mcgee, Basquiat and David Choe.

The young artist’s pieces are rich and stimulating. The contrast of vibrant colors and death-like characters make his pieces that much stronger. The medium he uses vary from ballpoint pen and inks to coffee and tears. Odo is driven by his art. Each piece can take up to a month working 10 to 12 hours a day.

I don’t know about you, but his works made me want to get a tattoo…

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