Heavy Artillery Graffiti Crew

Amongst numerous invitations and job offers every now and then you get one that sounds so odd its worth doing out of curiousity. (see the Vienna trip from last summer). This one was up there no doubt, The basic premise was we were to travel to a village sandwiched between Napoli (Naples) and Salerno in southern Italy. Pretty straight forward so far, until the rest starts getting added in – We had to paint the inside of an ancient monastery that had been partly converted into a youth hostel. To twist the job further still i (AROE, English speaking) was expected to then give a lecture and powerpoint presentation on my personal history in Graffiti. Not bad? seeing as i can just about order pizza and spraypaint in the native dialect.

This is how it went..

Typical Napoli street.

The Venue..
Please note the great weather.

Now onto the typical pre-jam paint scenario that we all love so much.
First off-

TIGER PAINT? it seems wherever i go i seem to find a new brand to tackle.. i’ll warn you this one is shockingly bad, not control wise just the worst finish you’ve ever seen! its kinda ultra, ultra matt and when you fill over any other brand you can guaranteed see the original sketch lines straight through the fill colour… nice.

That said, there was still the mandatory paint scrum (fighting over the few cans of montana black range)..

But whatever the situation i feel that 24 cans was a pretty decent amount considering how little we were expected to paint.

This was the spot we were asked to paint..

This is how it looked once we’d redecorated..

Now on our trips we meet some cool writers/people, i’m not sure if many of you are familiar with the ‘WILD BOYS’ crew out of Napoli but they are fresh as hell and the coolest guys you could hope to meet. Heres a posse shot of us lot.

MR WANY, OPIUM, PENCIL, ROTA, AROE & ZEUS 40.

The WILD BOYS hospitality was incredible, they have this cool hangout/office/warehouse/art studio kinda set up and they ordered an almost continuous supply of pizza and drinks. A room full of cans was opened and an invite to paint any wall i wanted could not be turned down, so heres the results..

I look forward to my next visit to Napoli and the WILD BOYS are coming to the UK in the spring so be prepared for some Anglo-italliano nonsense in the coming months..

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