In the Netherlands and some other countries the comic is called Suske & Wiske, but in other countries it’s also known as: Bob & Bobette / Finn & Fiffi / Willy & Wanda and a couple of other names. During our childhood we did read a lot of these comics and we wanted to pay tribute to it. Of course with a little twist to it, as we usually do when painting these kind of concept walls.

The wall is painted in the characteristic style of the cover of the albums; with warm red background (done with roller paint) and the title in the same letter style as the comic to give it the exact feeling as if looking at an original album cover. We gave it the title ‘de baldadige broeders’ (which can be translated as’ the nasty brothers’).

All the main characters of the comic can be found on the wall and also a Dns piece to make it more ’streetwise’. The background was improvised on the spot by looking through various albums we brought with us. Because of the size of the wall the very small details where added with a black Molotow one4all marker, to give the wall some extra detail. All in all again this was a very fun project to do! On to the next one…

For the endresult check here > click <
Making off pictures can be found on the Molotow blog > click <

Weather temperatures in Holland are still pretty much below zero, sowe decided to do another indoor spot. Indoor spots are good for trying new directions and are fun to do during the winterseason.

We had the idea of making rather simple pieces which are partly disintegrated by a tornado.
We painted the wall with a selection of greys from the belton range.
We kept the style of the pieces pretty basic because after adding all the effects we wanted the letters to still stand out and not becoming unreadable.

First we painted a comic style tornado in the middle.
Next we started painting the letters and put an outline around it and added a simple 3d.
After that it was time to add the movement lines in the fill and 3d to create a motion effect.
To spice it up we added some dirt all over the piece to make it look more realistic.
The transparant black came in handy for some drop shadows.
The last thing was to add some finishing touches such as adding the crewname inside the tornado and do some minor touch-ups.

All in all it was a good exercise and the effects work well.

The endresult can be viewed here > click <
More progress / making off pictures can be found on the blog of Molotow > click <

Summer has finally arrived in Holland so we thought it was time to do another productionwall in our hometown.

The idea was to do a wall with a wolf in sheep’s clothing character and a little piggy and call it ‘Still not loving police’ (named after the song Still Dre by Dr. Dre). We recieved some exchange sketches by Noks from Serbia and decided to paint them also on this wall.

Painting someone else’s sketch forces to put you out of your comfort zone. This can be good, you learn to understand how another writer thinks and construct his pieces. You can learn a lot from this and it helps improve your style.

Because of the relative small size of the wall we had to work very clean in order to make our pieces stand out. Therefore we used Belton cans, you can make really small details with those cans. We painted several names around our pieces. Those are people we recently painted with or did hang out with… Not that they necessarily also still not love police…

We painted in chill modus and got a little carried away with adding details and effects. Another wall done and we learned a lot from this experience… on to the next wall… Thanks to Noks for the sketches!

For the whole wall check our photobook after the jump > click <

A while ago we we’re invited to paint on a huge truck. This truck had to be painted on a family festival somewhere in Holland. The theme of the festival was oldschool videogames.

We painted a lot of cars before but never a huge truck, so we didn’t have to think long about this oppurtunity and agreed to come over. We thought about the idea of doing something with oldschool videogames and thought Space Invaders would be a nice theme to work with. The truck had to be painted in one day, so we asked out crewmember sperm if he was down with us to do the background. This way we could easily paint this concept within one day.

After preparing the concept and selecting a wide range of cans for the background we we’re eager to paint the truck and left early. When we arrived at the festival we had to walk pretty far and then we finally arrived at the spot where we would paint the truck…. This was definately not what we expected! We we’re flabbergasted by seeing the surface where we had to paint on. It was on some cheap plastic which was mounted very loosely on a truck. We took our stuff and left in a hurry and searched for a wall in the neighnourhood where we could paint the concept on.

We knew a place nearby and painted the concept there. It still came out fresh we think, but it would look even nicer on a truck… Well sometimes things don’t go as you plan but you have to make the best out of it.

For the endresult check our photobook > click <

This wall was done in our hometown. Our zodiac sign is lion, so we thought it would be nice to do a wall with a few lions. > Check the total wall here <

We painted a wall in our hometown at the front of the “scheepvaartmuseum”. It’s a cool spot in the middle of the shoppingarea.
For the endresult  check our photobook  > click < or check it yourself when you’re visiting Sneek city.

The year 2009 is almost over… for us it was quite a good year productionwise. We have lots of plans for 2010 prepared allready.. so stay tuned for updates!
We want to wish everybody happy holidays! and peep the endresult of the christmas wall we did here

In Holland we have an alternative santa claus called “sinterklaas”. We celebrate this on the 5th of december. Last year we made a banner and mounted it at night under a bridge so that when the “sint” arrives by boat a broad audience would see our work…

We made another themewall in Drachten city. This time with a halloween theme. Here in holland it’s not common to celebrate halloween, overhere we have “Sint Maarten” it’s the Dutch version of halloween which we celebrate at the 11th of november. See the whole wall after the jump

The other side of the srv car we did with the western theme (see post below) was done in Vaughn Bodé style. We tried to give the letters some of the typical Bodé flavour. We’re happy with the endresult and it looks very colorfull. Click here for the endresult.