The wall sits right between a police station and a school — a pretty interesting spot for this piece.
Big thank you to my neighbor Guillermo, who filmed a lot of the process and even invited me into his family apartment, where I got to see the biggest toy collection I’ve ever seen in my life. (You’ll see more of that in a YouTube video sometime soon!)
Wish I had a bit more time to refine some parts, but the past month or so has been quite rough. Still, I’m really happy I got to take part in this anniversary edition.
Over the past year, I've had the privilege of traveling, painting, and capturing the process along the way. This video documents my first trip of 2024, taking you behind the scenes of the mural I painted for the DUK Festival in Čačak, Serbia.
In the video, I wanted to capture the scenery of the local flea market, as the mural's subject is the famous flea market in my hometown of Zagreb.
Filming my travels and mural projects has become essential to my process. It allows me to reflect on the work, the challenges, and the small moments that make each piece unique. Editing all the footage takes time, and, as they say, many of the cool shots end up on the cutting room floor. However, as I continue developing my filming and editing style, I might eventually create more extended versions of my travels and painting process.
I want to emphasize that my goal isn’t to become a YouTuber or anything like that. Painting large-scale murals is challenging enough, but having good process footage to look back on—especially editing it during the cold days—helps me stay in a creative mindset and motivates me to keep working.
Watch the full video here.
The mural titled "Browsing" features two scenes and marks a slight shift in my style and approach—something I had been eager to explore for some time and finally had the opportunity to do so. The first scene is inspired by the view you encounter every Sunday while walking toward Hrelić, where many people sell old items along the embankment that runs parallel to the market. In contrast, the second scene depicts items you might find while browsing. I sometimes buy things like this for drawings and small studies, just for fun.
While I’m happier with some parts than others, I’ve stopped viewing my work as a "finished product" and now see it as an opportunity to experiment and try something new each time.
Finally, the new season of painting outdoors has arrived.
This is a cropped image of the first day's progress.
I'm trying a different approach this time by doing an underpainting and solving the light and shapes monochromatically first ( because I have more time than usual to finish).
The mural is organized by Pučko Otvoreno Učilište-Zabok, and the wall is on the building of the Regeneracija factory.
“Polupani Lončići”
In Croatian, that would mean something like smashed or broken pots.
This phrase would be used in our childhood game known as hide and seek. During the game, if you saw someone snitching, not counting correctly, calling out the wrong name, pretending to have not been seen and called out, simply cheating, or in other words, not playing by the rules, you or some of your playmates would have to yell "POLUPANI LONČIĆI"
The phrase would symbolize the end of the unfair or crooked game. It would also mean a reset, a new start for a fair and just game.
I also started filming and editing my own painting process, so here is my first ever "serious" video.
Subscribe to the channel for more future videos, from now on I'll try to do this for every project.
I spend a week with my brother in Bol on island of Brač. While my BROTHER was filming the whole Graffiti Na Gradele event, I was painting one of the walls for the same festival.
This time I painted a portrait of my graffiti friend Casino, portraying him as Dionysus, a god of wine, fertility, ritual madness and theater. In my version, he is a god of hedonism and street art :)
So it's been 5 years since I first painted over this abandoned old boat titled "Unnatural Habitat".
I came back to it because it was kind of washed of and I wanted to do something different/ new but again same as the first time....and make another GIF :)
first two photos before intervention- 2012. and 2017.
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