BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Fresh out of the St. Joost Academy since last summer, the Bogota-born, Netherlands-based illustrator Fernando Leon just spent the first week of August creating this new mural called “Greediness”.
Fernando Leon. “Greediness”. Contorno Urbano “12 + 1” 2017. Barcelona. (photo © Clara Antón)
He’s been getting more of these mural-based opportunities lately, even though he began as a teen doing graffiti and confesses that he hates rules. A fan of day long drawing sessions and traveling, Leon found this project with the 12 + 1 Project outside of Barcelona to be rewarding because he is continuing to expand his vocabulary of characters and styles outside of the letter-forms he did as a teenager – and he wants to do a lot more.
Based on the successes of his commercial projects like beer bottle labels and skateboard designs, the non-stop illustrator and muralist definitely has more walls in his future.
Fernando Leon. “Greediness”. Contorno Urbano “12 + 1” 2017. Barcelona. (photo © Clara Antón)
Fernando Leon. “Greediness”. Contorno Urbano “12 + 1” 2017. Barcelona. (photo © Clara Antón)
Fernando Leon. “Greediness”. Contorno Urbano “12 + 1” 2017. Barcelona. (photo © Clara Antón)
For more on Contorno Urbano and the 12 x 1 Project please click HERE.
For more on Fernando Leon please visit
Instagram: @_fernandoleon
Facebook: www.facebook.com/fernandoleonillustration
Website: www.fernandoleon.nl
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