July 21, 2008

Street art on a small scale

When we think of street art, this would normally conjure up an image of graffiti, artists sitting on the corner of a street or even the really old-fashioned talent of painting on the pavement. However, all artists have different ideas and street art is one of those talents that require the artist to be diverse.

The London based artist known only as Slinkachu, is certainly diverse in the way that art is concerned as he launches a new scheme, which is on a small scale, as the canvases that he has chosen to display his skills on are actually snails.

These snails have found their shells being painted and painted in many varying styles before being let loose on the streets of London.

It could be classed as a harmful thing to be doing but he says that no snails are harmed in this process; they just have their homes vandalised!

Source [Metro]