ALIENS MURAL IN EAST LONDON

End of the Line challenged the artist "Jim" (no relation) to paint a 4-piece mural based on H.R. Giger's ALIEN, in East London.

They post:

Jim was getting itchy trigger finger. We set him a challenge to paint all four panels on Great Eastern St in one day, no backup, no support just a big bag of paint and a handful of caps, Basing the production on one of our favourite film franchises, Alien, by Ridley Scott and HR Geiger, visionaries both.

The epic Alien production proved that the Samurai Painting style ( No Thinking Just Movement) and offshoot of the Shaolin Shadow painting School can cover large areas with style and grace without getting caught up in indecision and monotony. This confident application of paint shuns the status quo of run of the mill photo-realism and adopts ultimate fun as its core principle. You should be able to see the paint strokes, the mistakes, the artists own true style and not hide behind technique and glossy reproduced image. The spray can is king and influences the final production.

FUN!!

But I wonder if they realize the mural Jim did was a recreation of RAYMOND SWANLAND'S original art for the 2009 comic mini-series "ALIENS: MORE THAN HUMAN", from Dark Horse Comics.

I love Swanland's art!