Street artist roa biography of michaels youtube

Matthew A. I think an artist can be everything. I make drawings and do whatever I want to do. Eller: But, in particular, you work with animals as your subjects. And your gift is that you can look at a wall, or nature, or whatever it is, and you can make it work? ROA: Yeah!

Early morning bike ride through Ghent in search of all the remaining ROA street art.

I think a mural is always a combination, like almost a duet, between the mural and whatever you paint it on, and the architecture of the wall itself. And then additionally, I try to paint exclusively local species of animals. ROA: A lot of these things developed very organic. I created my own rules for myself way back in the beginning when I first started painting murals.

One of my first rules was to try to think about all the coolest animals commonly used and not paint those, but do the other ones instead. Maybe paint the animals that are forgotten, or paint the animals that are the less loved ones.

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But always something that is local to the environment. Eller: Is your choice to exclusively paint animals a commentary on animal rights, or is it just an overall concern for the earth? ROA: Yeah, totally!