Street art: nothing but urban poetry

This is James from Newcastle on Tyne in northern England. He was working on this huge wall with a milk crate full of spray paint cans. He explained that he first did the work on paper and transferred it to his iPhone after coding all the colours. The numbers and letters on the wall are colour codes.
This was taken in Newtown, a very old inner city suburb of Sydney. It is quite well known for its street art.

[Diana]

It will be interesting to see once he is done! It sounds like quite a job.

[Boxplayer]

Fascinating insight into how they do their art.

[Taffy]

Interesting portrait in context

[Issi Bannerman]

Nice shot of James though!

[Beryl Lloyd]

Interesting!

[Susan Wakely]

Interesting to know the planning that goes into it.

[John Falconer]

@ludwigsdiana @boxplayer @taffy @jamibann @beryl @wakelys
Thanks for the much appreciated comments. It really was an interesting chat.

[Wylie]

Difficult to pick the colour here :)

[winghong_ho]

Lovely capture in b&w.

[John Falconer]

@pusspup
The numbers represent a spray paint colour. He has the actual drawing on his iPhone with the colours/numbers superimposed. Easy!

[Christine Sztukowski]

Nice capture

[Jan Talmon]

Nice

[Mags]

Neat shot!

[Harry J Benson]

Interesting

[Inga Johansson]

Interesting facts and nice portrait.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Cool shot and so interesting.

[Fisher Family]

A lovely candid shot - works well in b&w!

Ian

[Margaret Brown]

Interesting art process, looks good on black

[Kathy]

Reminds me of the computations attributed to mathematicians as seen on tv and in movies.

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot of the artist at work.

[Carole Sandford]

Nice capture of your Geordie painter.

[Islandgirl]

Interesting street art!

[eDorre]

Striking art and a good story too

[Yao RL]

I wonder anyone can decipher it. Looks great.

[Pam]

Great shot of this artist.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Urban murals have gone high-tec! Good shot of the artist at work.

[John Falconer]

@365projectorgchristine @talmon @marlboromaam @hjbenson @keramin @mittens @fishers @craftymeg @randystreat @pyrrhula @carole_sandford @radiogirl @edorreandresen @yaorenliu @pamalama

Thanks for the much appreciated comments. Some of the art on the buildings in this area is just huge.

[Rick]

Interesting artwork.

[John Falconer]

@rickster549
There is some good stuff on the walls and fences around this suburb.