Puerto Rican artist Alexis Díaz's new mural has been on display for about a month now. Visitors to my blog may remember his work last summer of an octopus-elephant hybrid that appeared on Hanbury Street (just off Brick Lane) and remained there for some time; there's a chance many have seen it in real life. (My original post can be read here: Street Art: Alexis Díaz.)This summer, the artist came back to London and created an eel-skeleton-tree-octopus hybrid.
As last year, I caught the artist at work. I also discovered the gradient-painted blue to green to yellow wall first and wondered what was going to go up there. Then I caught the sketch and the mural beginning to take shape over the top of it. This time, the artist painted the gradient background directly onto the wall first. The sketch was then completed and the background colour outside of the sketch was painted over in white. This technique is opposite to what the artist completed last time as this time, the gradient background is a part of the sketch.
The subject is equally as strange as the elephant-octopus last summer. However, this time, bits of the mural look like tree branches, and other areas look like bone, octopus, and eel. A couple of close-ups of the mural are below.
As usual, I enjoyed seeing this artist's work pop up on London's streets.
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