Ememem is a street artist who is constantly looking at his feet while walking. If you wonder why it is because this is the best way to spot potholes and cracks in the pavement which then can be transformed into beautiful mosaic artwork.
In his hometown, Lyon, Ememem is known as the „surgeon of the streets” as he looks for cracks in the asphalt that require care and healing. Once he finds the perfect spots, these get stitched with the help of colorful ceramics mosaics, wood, and bitumen.

The technique created by Ememem is called „flacking” which comes from the French word „flaque”, which translates to „puddle”. Fans of his work are closely following the pavement and sideways, to spot a new Ememem and the artist has established a large online fanbase. He has visited several other major European cities and left his mark on the streets of Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, and Milan.
Through his work, Ememem is trying to tell the story of the city, heal its cracks, and bring beauty into each citizen’s life, giving them a reason to smile whenever they spot his work on the pavement.

Illusion art is great, as the possibilities it offers are endless and Portuguese artist, Odeith is a master at it. He uses spray paint to create his works and concrete blocks as a medium, and the results are stunning visual pieces that come to life right before the viewer’s eyes.
His latest work is a mind-bending illusion in which he transformed a cement block into an abandoned school bus and it became viral on the Internet in no time. Odeith’s work looks so real that taken out of context and placed on the street, passers-by would have a hard time telling if it is a real bus or not. Creating illusion art requires a lot of technical knowledge and it is most commonly a choice of graffiti artists, who are used to placing their works in a natural environment or incorporating them in urban areas.
Odeith documented the process of creating the school bus and step by step photos show the preparations needed before the work, such as adding outlines and mark points. Once these are set and followed when starting to spray paint, the 3D bus starts taking shape and emerges from the concrete block.

Streets artists are unfortunately still very underrated, though they can do magic with buildings or entire neighborhoods.

Almost every major city has its local street artist which leaves its mark on the city at every corner.
In Braga, Portugal he goes by the name of last1 and you will instantly recognize his works as they are all 3D murals.

Tom Bragado Blanco, known as last1, was born in Marseille, France, and is 33-years-old. He recently created this beautiful artwork of a giant sphynx cat on an old gas tank and caught the eyes of everyone crossing the area.
The result of the optical illusion created by the artist, the sphynx cat looks like it is sitting in the grass. The painting was inspired by the cat owned by the artist’s girlfriend and it took him 2 and a half days to finish the mural.
This specific painting technique used by Blanco is called anamorphosis and creates a distorted vision that makes a painting look odd from one point of view and normal from another.

To learn more about last1’s incredible work, check out the selection of his paintings and put Braga on your must-visit list.

Image credits: braga_last_one

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