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Lush currently have new products in store for their Mother's Day and Easter ranges. Some of these are new products, and some of them are old favourites. Sadly, I no longer have a Lush store near me, but I popped into one a couple of weeks ago to buy some items and to see what was on offer. In no particular order, my discoveries are below.

Mum: This is a bath bomb in pastel pink and green with the word 'Mum' on it. It is created with Lemon, orange, and rose.

Baa Bar: This is a bubble bar with lavender, rose, and ylang ylang to offer a soothing bath. It is in the shape of a cute sheep.

Elsie the Giraffe (You're Having a Bath): This reusable bath bubble bar creates bubbles when placed under running water. It has a citrus scent.

Your Mother Should Know: This bath bomb is bright blue, yellow and pink with a floral design. It has a floral scent.

Golden Egg: This bath bomb melt features a shimmery gold egg, and it's been an Easter product for a couple of years now. 

Which Came First: This bath bomb is a pink and yellow egg with a surprise inside. It has refreshing citrus tones. This is similar to their previous Easter egg products, but the eggs have a different design and colours this year.

Bunch of Carrots: These reusable bubble bar carrots are bright orange, pink, and purple, and they come in a bunch. This Easter product has been on sale for at least three years now; the first year that I encountered them, they were orange only. The last couple of years, they have introduced more colours.

Chick 'n' Mix: This bath bomb comes in three separate parts. The 'egg' shell breaks in two to reveal a bath bomb chick in the middle. This is a new product.

Chocolate Easter Egg: This soap is shaped like a giant Easter egg, painted yellow and green and pink. It has a sweet chocolate scent.

Love You Lots: This soap was launched earlier in the year for Valentine's Day, and it smells like roses.

This week, we were treated to a new and striking street art mural on Hanbury Street by Dale Grimshaw. Dale Grimshaw had previously painted (in collaboration with Mark Hat) this same wall a years ago with the same humanitarian cause and a similar portrait. More recently, he has also painted the Village Underground wall. This humanitarian cause is to help the people of Papua New Guinea. (I originally covered Dale Grimshaw's earlier work in my blog post here.)

The mural is created because Dale Grimshaw has a new exhibition at Well Hung Gallery called 'Pride and Prejudice'.

This is a colourful work with the subject painted in bright red and yellow body and face paint and colourful jewelery. The background is painted in black with gold pattern, which makes the subject the highlight. It can be found at the corner of Brick Lane and Hanbury Street.

A few weeks ago, street artist Ant Carver pasted a few new portraits up around Brick Lane. The artist did the same last year with his series of paste-ups in the dreary month of January (and also continued to add a few more during the course of the year), and I covered that work in my post here. Carver, based in London, normally uses oils to paint. His choice of subject is portraits, and these are finished off with bright colours. The photographs below are of the most recent works by Ant Carver. Sadly, most of these have been pasted over or have been weathered now.

Carver only pasted a few pieces around this time. Redchurch Street, Sclater Street, and Brick Lane were the areas where the works were pasted up. Hopefully, we will see more work from Ant Carver later in the year.

Last month, the streets around Brick Lane in London received some colour in the form of new paste-ups by Donk, Ben Rider (Zombiesqueegee), and Aida Wilde. All of these paste-ups appeared together overnight. Ben Rider is an illustrator who has worked on high-profile works for television, music, and consumer brands. His illustrations are eye-catching and comic style, and he often prints with flourescent ink. Donk uses photography to create paste-ups. Some of these are images with historical context and imagery, which are often placed with new graphics and inks on the sepia-toned background. Others are collages (such as the radio and man's portrait with the pattern over the top) or an image of a young woman painting a model of a house. Aida Wilde's work is primarily printing, and she creates work with bright typography (the "Daddy I Want" series) as well as portraits of animals (the tiger).

Many of the paste-ups can still be seen, although some of them have been ripped slightly. Check around Star Yard and the streets that intersect with Brick Lane.

I hope to be seeing more work by these artists in the future.

I recently discovered a large mural by street artist Dan Kitchener on Goswell Road in Clerkenwell, London. Dan Kitchener is one of London's busiest street artists. He paints street scenes illuminated at night, and a lot of his street scenes feature the streets of Tokyo, Japan (and other Japanese cities). This is one of the largest walls that I have seen with Dan Kitchener's work. It features a crowd of silhouttes carrying umbrellas in a night-time scene of a Tokyo street.

This work is located on Goswell Road near Clerkenwell Street.

My previous post featured the work of Otto Schade and his "Elephutterfly" mural on Hanbury Street. The end of last week brought a new mural at the end of Hanbury Street off Brick Lane. This work by Chilean artist Otto Schade (or Osch as he signs his art) is completed in the arti's ribbon style of painting. The subject incorporates street furniture into the artwork and features a giant hand pinching a CCTV sign (which is the actual CCTV survelliance sign). The work is titled "The CCTV Camera Sign". Finding street art that incorporates some detail of the street or wall into the piece is always fun.

Additonal posts on this blog with Otto Schade's work are:

Elephutterfly
Peace and Love on the Streets
Zany Zebras and Street Art in Southampton
Winter 2015 - 2016 Street Art Round-up
New Street Art (Portraits, Meercats and More)
Spring and Summer 2015
Bristol Upfest 2015
Summer 2014 Street Art
Early Spring 2014 Street Art Round-up
Horror Crew, Otto Schade, HIN and others
Street Art: Otto Schade
Olympics

At the end of last year, street artist Otto Schade painted a wall on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane. The artwork is painted on a wooden wall inside a courtyard just off Brick Lane. Originally born in Chile, Otto Schade now lives in London and is one of London's busiest street artists. He has two main styles of work. One of these is an orb of bright orange or purple with a silhouette showing a social message. The other style of his work are portraits and other subjects that are created using his ribbon effect. His latest work is a new style of its own. It is titled "Elephutterfly", which appears to be a large Monarch butterfly at first glance. However, when looking closer, the butterfly's wings are the side profiles and trunks of elephants.

Additonal posts on this blog with Otto Schade's work are:

Peace and Love on the Streets
Zany Zebras and Street Art in Southampton
Winter 2015 - 2016 Street Art Round-up
New Street Art (Portraits, Meercats and More)
Spring and Summer 2015
Bristol Upfest 2015
Summer 2014 Street Art
Early Spring 2014 Street Art Round-up
Horror Crew, Otto Schade, HIN and others
Street Art: Otto Schade
Olympics

Fanakapan recently returned to Star Yard to refresh the wall that he has been painting on for awhile. The latest piece replaces his large chrome 'X'. The latest piece is a large chrome balloon dog. The background is black, but it has been tagged with silver paint. The piece is a really fun one when examining it closer and spotting the items inside the reflection, such as the viewers and buildings. The artist had painted "Power Tools" on the large Village Underground wall at the end of last year.

Previous posts with Fanakapan's work on this blog are below:

Fanakapan Paints "Power Tools" on Village Underground Wall
Fanakapan Paints "Drunk Glass Elephants"
Fanakapan, Horror Crew, & Jerry Rugg
Louis Masai and Fanakapan: "Freedom?"
New Chrome Street Art Mask by Fanakapan
Balloon Animal Street Art
Cranio & Fanakapan
Fanakapan and Horror Crew

One of London's most active street artists is Mr. Cenz. Mr. Cenz has been painting the streets for a since the late 1980s. His work mainly features female portraits, which he paints using bright and contrasting colours, and they are often painted in grafitti style with geometric pattern. His most recent work was painted on Fashion Street three weeks ago, and it features a female's portrait using purple and green paint. This particular wall has been the canvas for quite a few of the artist's murals, and he often refreshes this wall.

Additonal work by Mr. Cenz can be seen in my following posts:

Mr. Cenz Paints Hanbury Street
New Street Art by Mr. Cenz
Street Art: Mr. Cenz (2015)
Autumn 2013 Street Art Round-up 

While wandering around east London a few weeks ago, I wandered behind a building that I often do not visit. I just happened to see part of a mural on one of the walls at the front, but I'd never wandered at the back. I discovered that one of my new colleagues (who also happened to be working on a different team on the same floor with me at the same company four years ago) is also a street art fan, and she runs Instagram account londonartcal (her Twitter page is https://twitter.com/londonartcal) where she posts updates of street art; we've been out at lunch getting photographs occassionally. She said that actually the wall at the back (at the corner of Old Street and Great Eastern Street) does have murals. So, we had a look. We discovered murals that I had not seen from Jay Kaes and Falko One.

Jay Kaes is a busy street artist in London, and his primary subject is painting female portraits. He recently painted on Pedley Street. He collaborated with Core246. 

Falko One is a street artist from South Africa. He has painted a series of elephants on walls across the world, including the one below. The elephants just fit in and work within the space of the walls that they are painted on. This fellow hides in the corner. The wall next to it is occupied by a gorilla. 'Living in a Box' and 'Food Clothes Medicine' are the names of these murals, and they were painted toward the end of 2015. Falko One's primary subject to paint are animals that are in danger.

Unfortunately, the bin was in the way, but the large elephant is nursing a smaller baby elephant that is obscured by the bin.

Have you ever found a new wall with street art on it that you walked by hundreds of times and never looked?