#rickywatts

San Francisco born Ricky Watts says art was something inside him before he even knew what art was. In 8th grade Watts discovered graffiti and became obsessed with both the rebellious side and the challenge of seeing how creative he could make something in a short amount of time. After art school Watts says he spent about 10 years at a computer before returning to his roots and focusing on drawing and painting. Watts' illustration work often involves very detailed realism, but where his murals were once more letter-based he's evolved a very colorful abstract style with with his spray paint work. When Pow!Wow! launched its first @PowWowSanJose in 2017 Watts traveled a couple of hours south from his home in Sebastapol and painted this landmark mural on the side of one of San Jose’s oldest commercial properties, the troubled Gross / Holmes Building on N 1st St.  @rickywatts/

3rd post for the day… Our typical number… __ Ricky Watts on outdoor gallery curated by fnnch at Alamo Square by Painted Ladies in San Francisco, Ca __ Don’t know about the rest of you, I much prefer to see this art to the Painted Ladies. There is nothing special about those Victorian houses other than the lovely view of downtown from the park across the street. The City is full of beautiful Victorians with great paint jobs and other eye candy like this art __ Ricky Watts is a visual artist and designer who creates wonderful illustrations frequently of houses and Victorians! You can purchase his art at very reasonable prices on his website. He has a wonderful coloring book with 20 drawings if you want to color or just enjoy as line illustrations __ See his page @rickywatts __ https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkVGVWBHP8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s4zunuripitt

Recent Ricky Watts mural at The Container Yard.

Born in San Francisco, Ricky Watts says his distinctive style was born out of his younger years painting graffiti across Northern California. Today Watts's "abstract works of fluid shapes and psychedelic color patterns" are as likely to be found in galleries as on walls, with both found in all corners of the country. Watts is now based in Sebastapol, California, in the heart of Sonoma County, and in early 2018 he traveled just a few miles to paint @RileyStreetArtSupply on Maxwell Court in Santa Rosa—a Northern California art institution he says he's been frequenting since he was a kid.  @rickywatts/

San Francisco born Ricky Watts’ obsession with art began as a child, doodling his own comic books—most often, he says, involving “glorious battles between the U.S. Army and nuclear dinosaurs.” Fascinated with spray paint it was in high school that he fell in love with graffiti, and after graduation he started painting up and down the coast. Following his fine art debut in 2004 Watts has gone on to successfully juggle fine art exhibitions and mural work across the U.S. and in London, as well as serve a long list of corporate clients. In August, 2017 Watts was in the LA Arts District painting this new mural on the west wall of the constantly evolving outdoor gallery of The Container Yard.  @rickywatts  @thecontaineryard 

West L.A.

Work by Ricky Watts for last year’s edition of Cleveland Walls.

#Streetart by #RickyWatts @rickywatts in #Atlanta, Georgia, USA, for #OuterspaceProject @outerspaceproject More pics at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/09/19/streetart-ricky-watts-atlanta-georgia-usa/ #streetartatlanta #streetartusa #usastreetart #art #graffiti #murals #murales #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #streetarteverywhere #instastreetart #streetartphotography #streetartpics #streetartaddicted #streetartlover #igersstreetart #graffitiart #arteurbana #wallart #spraypaint #spraypaintart #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/CisD3-HojN3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=