Photo and video featuring Charley Chase (adult move star)
ISTHISTHEFUTURE recently caught up with LA, Body Artist ’2BLOK ONE’ to ask how he entered the world of bodypainting … this is what he had to say…..
ISTHISTHEFUTURE: “Nice to meet you 2BLOK, please introduce yourself”
2BLOK: “I’m a local graffiti writer from San Fernando valley, Los Angeles and growing up in L.A. I was always intrigued by all of the art that would surround me I was always be inspired by all the murals in my neighborhood/ I never understood the exact purpose of graffiti but I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of. Then the day came when I just did my part and started getting into it I grew a passion for the street, I felt free creating my style and becoming a different person, it would separate me from other people and made me unique.”
2BLOK: “I’m a local graffiti writer from San Fernando valley, Los Angeles and growing up in L.A. I was always intrigued by all of the art that would surround me I was always be inspired by all the murals in my neighborhood/ I never understood the exact purpose of graffiti but I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of. Then the day came when I just did my part and started getting into it I grew a passion for the street, I felt free creating my style and becoming a different person, it would separate me from other people and made me unique.”
ISTHISTHEFUTURE: ” How long ago did you get started in Graffiti?”
2BLOK: “I started painting walls in ’08 and from there I started evolving my techniques and creating everything I would image in my world . As time went by I started talking to other painters from my part of the city, one of the first graffiti painters I met was K35, he’s a well known artist he took me under his wing and should me around plus in the same time he became a father figure. It took time getting accepted from well known artists. I started painting on canvases and got into characters and doing portraits but I always had graffiti behind it.”
2BLOK: “I started painting walls in ’08 and from there I started evolving my techniques and creating everything I would image in my world . As time went by I started talking to other painters from my part of the city, one of the first graffiti painters I met was K35, he’s a well known artist he took me under his wing and should me around plus in the same time he became a father figure. It took time getting accepted from well known artists. I started painting on canvases and got into characters and doing portraits but I always had graffiti behind it.”
ISTHISTHEFUTURE: “How did you make the transistion in to Graffiti BodyArt?”
2BLOK: “At around the same time I met K35 I got to know SOGR UNO, he’s a well known and upcoming body artist we became friends quickly. He introduced me to the world of body art. I Learned how to manipulate acrylic paint and using different mediums and everything that paint would stick on, specially beautiful girls. From the first time I painted a model and using their wonderful body’s as canvas made me push myself to different levels, always perfecting my body art. Every time I get a chance to do body art I try to do something different and I love going big using every part of the body I can.” “I’m always looking forward to the next body art event or photo shoot this is what I live for.”
2BLOK: “At around the same time I met K35 I got to know SOGR UNO, he’s a well known and upcoming body artist we became friends quickly. He introduced me to the world of body art. I Learned how to manipulate acrylic paint and using different mediums and everything that paint would stick on, specially beautiful girls. From the first time I painted a model and using their wonderful body’s as canvas made me push myself to different levels, always perfecting my body art. Every time I get a chance to do body art I try to do something different and I love going big using every part of the body I can.” “I’m always looking forward to the next body art event or photo shoot this is what I live for.”
You can see more of 2BLOKS Graffiti & Body Art on 2BLOK’s facebook page.
‘Designated Graffiti Area’ – photograph by Johanna Köhlin-Clarke (Featured in book)
Ye Olde Carlton Arms Hotel, NYC – painted by BANKSY 1999 (photo – Åke Eson Lindman)
BANKSY at work during ‘Walls on Fire’ – Graffiti event in Bristol 1998
Liu Bolin in the supermarket
JR in the Toy Shop
Liu Bolin – “Graffiti Mural” -NYC, Kenny Scharf Mural, 2011
Model: Chyna (Graffiti by Demer)
Models: Goddess and Diosa (Painted by Will Kasso)
Models 
Model: Coco
Model: Chyna (Graffiti by Demer)
Models: Baby & Charlie
Model: Liz Nunez
Models: Baby & Charlie
Model: Coco
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