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| photos by Keegan Hamilton |
| Jonny Xacto used stencils and freehand spray paint for this piece on the Flood Wall |
The flood wall that runs along the Mississippi just south of the Arch at
the terminus of Chouteau Ave has to be one of the longest murals in America. The art is always in flux, with new images constantly going up on top of the old ones. On Saturday, five St. Louis artists added a few impressive new layers.
The "Big Oil Kills" piece pictured above is the work of a street artist who goes by the name
Jonny Xacto. Here's him working on new stencil on the wall:
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And the final product:
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| The word on top says Warlord in manipulated Hebrew and Arabic characters |
The paint session was spearheaded by
Justin Tolentino and
Jason Spencer, who paint collectively under the name
Like a Beer in Deadlights. Here they are at work:
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| Tolentino on the left, Spencer on the right and Tony, their photographer on the far right. |
And here's the final product, titled "Trice," which took about four and a half hours to create from start to finish and was done entirely freehand with brushes:
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| It's Trice, as in triceratops |
They were joined by two other artists as well.
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