Gale Hart, a Northern California artist, creates intense characters and colour in her paintings to tell her visual story. Graffiti and stencil elements blend and blur with drawing and painting techniques, creating an image far greater than its parts.

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London-based graffiti creatives Paintshop Studio have teamed up with DJ Format to produce an animated graffiti video to promote Format’s new album release, Statement of Intent. Filmed and edited by Jeff Metal, and produced in just one day, the entire clip was created in spray paint and showcases a collection of rappers who feature on the album coming to life by painting and re-painting key elements.

London-based graffiti and design company Paintshop Studio have joined other leading artists and designers from across the globe to release a bespoke animated home screen for PlayStation PS3.

Entitled Peckham-on-Sea, the scene depicts Paintshop’s slightly twisted, light-hearted and oddly relaxing look at global warming. Originally created with spraypaint, then photographed and finally animated to create a truly unique piece of digital art.

Street artists NF and Lover have been getting up quite a bit lately. Here’s a recent collaboration that was spotted in the Bronx illustrating the dangers of cell phone use.

I just found Rad magazine online. It gives a overview of everything cool. The editors have not revealed themselves and have tried to give a very underground feel to it.

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When three renowned Australian street artists (Meggs, Lister and Kid-zoom) all independently visited the UK in June, VNA Magazine organized a meet up and invited the guys at Itdrewitself along to film the day.

The big map of Buenos Aires that I have is covered in squiggly yellow highlighter lines marking the streets that Annette and I have walked. After a couple years of street walking (in the non-prostitute sense of the term), I began noticing a particular street artist whose style was different to anything I’d seen previously on walls.

Then I was exiting the subway and saw a guy on a ladder putting lines on a wall. He was just beginning the design, but the style looked familiar, so I approached him with my camera in hand and asked him, ‘Did you create this?’, showing him a photo of the piece that first caught my attention nearly a year before. He took a while to answer. I think he was trying to decide whether I was looking to blame or compliment him.

It was indeed the artist whose work I’d appreciated as we walked the squiggly yellow lines of the streets of Buenos Aires. His nickname is Aires Mart and here are a few of his contributions to this intriguing city.

Being female and involved in the graffiti and street art culture, the beautiful and talented Lady Pink is one of my most inspirational female artists. Born in Ecuador and raised in New York, she started writing graffiti in 1970 and was one of the only females involved in the scene at the time.

Pink painted subway trains in the 70s and 80s and had a starring role the motion picture Wild Style. That and many of her other contributions to graffiti made her a cult figure in the hip-hop subculture. She still continues to create beautiful works on canvass and murals. I am currently painting a portrait of her which will be exhibited in Melbourne later on this year. I hope she will like it!

Street art and photography duo Jana and JS spray the walls of some of Europe’s best cities with their boundary-blurring work. They’ve got the art of a photo in a photo in a picture down.

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Itdrewitself met-up with the guys at UK street art magazine Very Nearly Almost for this candid look behind the scenes. Five years on from their humble beginnings as a black and white photo copied zine, the fifteenth iteration of Very Nearly Almost boasts full colour spreads packed with intimate features on the biggest names in street art from Sickboy and Shepard Fairey to Banksy. A beautiful and sincere homage to street art, graffiti and everything in-between.

Signs of the Times: the Popular Literature of Tahrir Protest Signs, Graffiti, and Street Art captures the art, feelings and emotion of the Middle East as the revolution erupted. The protest signs and graffiti are brought into context, making everyone realise we are all the same, with the same puppet strings as the West.

Blek Le Rat did what Banksy did twenty years before Banksy did. And that’s according to Banksy himself. Now creatives around the world have the chance to be flown to Berlin to take part in a live stencil art session with him. Upload a JPEG of your own stencil art to Hugo Create to take part.

Mainstreamers are two guys, Luka and Nootk, based in Moscow, Russia. They started out in 2007 doing graffiti, moved onto decorating murals, and are now involved in all sorts of creative activities. Mainstreamers follow one common path of creating characters out of objects and letters. Their colour pallets are always precisely chosen and work well with the themes.

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Rich Mix and Havana Club are calling on amateur or professional artists to submit designs for a specially commissioned wall art project. A panel of experts, led by Remi/Rough, will select two winning designs to feature on the Rich Mix interior wall throughout the year.

The design must embody the unique and inspiring attitude that reflects the true values of the Cuban capital: humanity, spontaneity and creativity. Design sketches must be submitted to Rich Mix (visualarts@richmix.org.uk) as a jpg and the closing date for entries is March 21.

Strolling the streets of Buenos Aires, you can’t miss the creative and kooky street art. Girl power is in fashion and Pum Pum is ruling the walls. The artist’s vibrant colours and charming characters draw you in to a fanciful world of large fringes and sweet cheep cheeps. But what does it all mean?

I’m impressed with the wide range of David Ellis’ work. Beyond just differing mediums — installations, paintings, and sculptures — Ellis’ vast portfolio ranges between street art and graffiti to conceptual gallery work. His works on paper are particularly stunning.

Danish outdoor artist Armsrock has amazed the nightly visitors to the local train station with his exceptional graffiti-style installation art series, Markinger. The temporary light installation was created by projecting unique engravings done with an etching needle.

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Montana has been the high octane fuel driving the global graffiti revolution for some time now. With the advent of the Alien line they have unleashed World War III weaponry in the battle against the banal.

Beastman (aka Brad Eastman) is back. I’m always fond of the Sydney artist’s work spontaneously popping up in my life, and was pleasantly surprised when I went to see a mate’s band gig last week and noticed his trademark screaming monster crisply adorning the walls of Oxford Art Factory. It was so new, the smell of fresh paint lingered through our favourite basement venue with every guitar chord.

Graffiti artists who buck trends and eschew easy pop references and repetitive style are ok by my book, particularly when they’re as prolific and ambitious as Guilo aka REMED. The French painter covers vast public surfaces with pattern heavy murals that incorporate Basquiat, Picasso, and Haring-sque images into his own distinct visual lexicon. Even when dealing with sexual or religious content, REMED’s work never aims to ridicule or shock — his whimsy, playfulness, and sense of color make his street paintings accessible to the general public, which is the main audience of any successful public art.