Chewing Gum Artist

Ben Wilson has found a unique way to celebrate London and bring street art to the next frontier: chewing gum. Due to the tedious nature of the task, he has developed a method of lying on the street while working on transforming discarded gum that he finds Ben's uses chewing gum as his canvas for painting Photo: ITV Tyne Tees An artist has brought his unique paint work to the North East. Ben Wilson is known in London as the 'Chewing Gum Man', because he uses chewing gum as his canvas. He paints tiny pictures Have you ever seen a wad of chewing gum on the sidewalk and wondered about the person who spat it out? Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has done more than wonder. She collects errant hairs, cigarette butts, fingernails, and discarded chewing gum from public An artist is making the streets of London a little more colourful by painting miniature pictures on pieces of discarded chewing gum. For the past six years, Ben Wilson has spent days on end scouring pavements for discarded gum that he can bring to life. which is elevating the once vilified medium of chewing gum to a state of high art and high design whereby anyone that comes along will be able to make their own chewing gum, in a craft-based way." Bompas & Parr had previous created a prototype of this “Culture, riding a mushroom cloud, came in from across the sea. People called it ‘occupation’,” the late Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu wrote in Asahi Camera magazine in April 1959. The text appeared alongside the first published photographs .

He uses recycled canvases that people spit out. More than eight thousand of them. The 'chewing gum man' paints finely detailed works of art on flattened pieces of gum. He chooses to use the yucky canvas because painting ON the sidewalk is a crime. Ben Wilson, a British artist, paints tiny little paintings on the chewing gum that mar the sidewalk of London. He transforms those black and grey blobs into delightful, colorful and meaningful works of art. Wilson, who's been doing this for six years It’s likely that most people will have a discarded chewing gum mishap at some point in their lives, but one artist is changing the image of spat-out old gum – by painting it. While local councils spend a fortune scraping hardened gum off the pavements This content has not been independently verified. Ben Wilson, known as the Chewing Gum Man, finds discarded chewing gum, blasts it with a blow torch and then paints, what some call masterpieces, it. Pedestrians watch him on the Millennium Bridge in London .

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chewing gum artist Michel Shammurux, Candy Curtain Berlin | File Size: 400 x 347 · 36 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist Poster Vintagem - Posteres Vintage | File Size: 361 x 450 · 62 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist MINHA COLECÃO DE IMAGENS DE ARTE | File Size: 362 x 373 · 36 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist Postado por bazar das pulgas bazardaspulgas às 20:11 | File Size: 400 x 261 · 44 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist Banana Peel Shoes | File Size: 450 x 350 · 4 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist Garbage Candy | File Size: 450 x 368 · 55 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist Its Time To Kick Ass And Chew Bubble Gum, And Im All Out Of Gum | File Size: 226 x 320 · 54 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist copyright vik muniz | File Size: 400 x 292 · 16 kB · jpeg Download

chewing gum artist Bubble Gum Machine | File Size: 300 x 300 · 12 kB · jpeg Download

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