This book is as good for leafing through as it is for those looking to follow a theme. Whimsy rules too, quite often in work like Hayley Welsh's pink wall admonition in Perth, Western Australia 'Together let us all combine'.
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In Lisbon, Ephy's beautiful artwork also has thought-provoking text: 'Without the cracks on the walls the city cannot breathe'. In the USA, SOMO.PNG simply challenges readers to 'Ask a white person where they're really from'. In London, David Selor declares 'English rain gave me fleas' and draws the dog lamenting this. Some just like to 'embroider' the urban environment, and still others see a joke in everything. Many have a burning passion to share their ideals and beliefs in storeys-high creations.
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Most street artists are serious and very talented. Much more than just a picture book - although it is that too, with around 300 images - this book also tells the stories behind the art that most of us tend to use as a travel-selfie backdrop. Urban Scrawl is the fifth book she has published on this topic.
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The author, Lou Chamberlain, herself an artist, author and arts educator, has spent over ten years photographung and chronicling street art. This book is the ideal way to see what can be done, and has been done worldwide in the name of 'street art' or, as this book so cleverly calls it: Urban Scrawl. However, most of us don't have the artistic skills (or the head for heights) that this would entail, and of course no one is encouraging you to break the law. And let's face it - isn't that most of us? This is the ideal Christmas gift for almost anyone - especially someone who has a hidden desire to see their wit and wisdom metres high on a building.