This is my first foray into wheat pasting. Ever since moving to Austin in 2020 I had been enamoured with the street art scene. Stickers, murals, tags, graffiti, wheat pastes, I loved it all. In particular near my apartment I would always see pieces by three specific artists, Angry Cloud, Smack, and TV Head.
One day I finally said fuck it, I’m going to figure out how to do this. I don’t think of myself as being a very creative person so after finding and following the aforementioned artists I reached out and asked for advice on how to proceed. I have found the Austin art community to be wildly friendly and open to sharing ideas, space, and time. Having no sense of how to cut stencils, what the negative space should be, or any idea of how to make glue I waddled through the process and eventually got something up in an area almost no one would see.
I don’t have any major connection to this character I just happened to be watching the show Smiling Friends and the designed seemed quite simple to trace out. I only ever put up one or two of these.
To the right of the final picture you can see a piece by Smack and I’m 95% sure the destroyed piece to the left is a TV Head image. Ask for help, fail a bunch, but most importantly give it a try.
