How to Spray-Paint a Photorealistic Squirrel on a Public Electric Box 

Now the real challenge: paint a photorealistic electric box on a squirrel

Thanks to Artists in Wonderland, I discovered you...and what a piece this is!👌👌

Perfect! One of my favorite subjects...the Squirrel, looks like a fox squirrel. I'm a wildlife rehabilitator, and I can honestly say that they are some of the funniest babies around. I love how you bring such life to your paintings.

Such a nice way to beautify the space

Probably my favorite title for a youtube video ever, so far, in my life.

Found you cause of Artists in Wonderland.....Stayed cause of your art work

I freaking loved the color palette in this. Super dope my friend!!

Came out awesome!! I love the grid stencil, so smart

Amazing! You are adding beautiful art to the mundane. Lovely!

Great play of light and love that you put the colours up on screen for us, inspired idea there. Thank for sharing your time and art with us, till next time

Great work, Nick! The use of the pegboard is ingenious. Your ability to use a can in such a small space, yet not overspray is...almost infuriating.😅 Beautiful. What a rad gig! Very dope.

Hullo Nick, absolutely a fantastic squirrel! Creating a beautiful scene on an everyday eyesore is simply the best!

Once again stunning! You did such a beautiful job with the fur, it looked nice even before, but those extra touches with a brush made it just the cutest fluffball! Squirrels are my mum's favourite animals, I showed her your art and she said you did them little rodents justice hahaha Thank you so much for doing this and sharing with us!

Great job! 👏🏻

80% of all these techniques were popularized by Greg Z, that's the original freestyle speed Painter spray paint artist from the 80s , the same guy that everyone in Vegas copies after he left. He would be very impressed. He loved this type of art over tagging. ❤

Great job Nick.. Squirrel looks fantastic mate... 😎👌

Love your work.

Gorgeous

My Mother painted a utility box in my brothers back yard. She camouflaged it so well that unless someone pointed it out, you would never know it was there!

Fantastic!

i like the addition of the color popups for each can u use

His face looks incredible. whoosa fluffy squirrel!

I am "truely impressed" !!

That looks awesome. Great work, i love the detail in your animals.

Came out so good and such nice weather. Thanks for sharing your thought and work process, I always get so inspired by these electric boxes videos ✌😁

How nice to see a red squirrel! The gray squirrels are forcing them out from everywhere!

OG's know what I forgot

Looks amazing! It's so much better than a plain metal box. Thanks for sharing your talents! Greetings from the United States 🇺🇸

Just discovered you and I am hooked! I sprayed some garden furniture this year and it was a massive pain in the hole. You are incredibly talented.

What am incredibly lucky neighborhood to have this art!

So enjoyable to watch

Alter 😀 das springt doch wirklich geradezu aus dem Kasten heraus. Echt krass geworden. Sorry für einen deutschen Kommentar 😀🙌

Great job Nick

That's incredible, bro! 😎

AMAZING!! Thanks.

Lovely! 😃

Very cute! 🙌🏻

I misread the title and thought it was, "Prehistoric squirrel" and my imagination went wild! This was better. :)

Beautiful piece. Your control is insane 🎨 🐿️

Ich mag es, dass es mittlerweile normal ist, dass die Stromkästen Farbe bekommen. Und dieser ist echt nice! Vielen Dank fürs Teilen. Ich hab einiges mitgenommen. Btw. Meine Kurze spielt PokemonGo und da sind einige solcher Kästen als Bilder von Pokestops drin, die man als Geschenke an Pokemonspieler in aller Welt verschicken kann. Ich freu mich über jedes Mural, das bei uns dadurch ankommt oder das wir in die Welt schicken können. Noch ein Grund mehr für tolle Motive und mehr Streetart. Und AiW war großes Kino!

Very cool! Good stuff!

I can F up a stick figure….my sister does plant life for a major video game company and has sold some of her art! But she calls me when her car, HVAC or a home appliance needs to be checked, everyone has their own strengths! Nice work!

Great job Nick moody!

Squirrels are my fav animal! I love this painting!

Cool and cute, nice work.

Wow, amazing work!

Gerne mehr davon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love to watch fellow artists work you can see what is going on in their minds when they are working their piece, well only because I too am a painter and love the medium. Paint is something that can create anything you want it to. and the one thing non-artists fail to see that we artists do is that when we paint something, we paint what we see, we don't trouble ourselves with the whole image that is done long before we pick up a brush. we simply recreate the lines and colors of the subject matter we see or are using for our work. as an artist becomes more familiar with their subject, the better at painting it they become. people fail to understand this can be done by anyone. they think it all hinges on talent. and I guess is a certain aspect it does, but there is no reason why someone cannot learn how to accomplish an image with whatever medium they choose and then paint the lines and colors that make up the image. After a while, they will realize that they somehow have the talent for it. meaning any skill can be learned by Humans, it is just a matter of how driven they are to learn how to do it. Thanks for sharing! You earned my subscription!

More illustration than photo realism ❤

wow! nice one.

This is so cool ! My community has commissioned all the utility type boxes in our small downtown and each one is very different style and subject. But never saw the actual artist at work ! So thank you for sharing and your art is awesome as well !

Sick piece nick!!!🔥🔥🔥

Wooooow your intro!!!!❤❤❤❤

Awesome

Your title is the very opposite of click-bait. We got exactly what you advertized!

Awesome work as always man! Super! And very nice little video edits with those what colors you used. Nice work.

awesome

Excellent

Very cool

Inspiring 🎉

Oh my gosh that so cool using spray paint with a brush! I love 💕 how realistic it looks, even down to the fur textures!! The way you are able to blend the colors together without any issues of lines or splotches of paint is amazing. I am curious to the number of cans of paint it takes for this size painting to be done? Definitely a gorgeous piece of art! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. 🐿️💕

Nice, thank you Sir

Nice job, it looks really great! That dang tape 😉

Just had dinner and watched this. Perfect! Its exactly what I was hoping to see. I dint usually comme t on RU-vid clips because Im watching it on TV but I got to gi e you your Props Nick! Geil gemacht!🎉

you got so much talent bro!

Good jobs bro

Amazing as usual Nick!

So cool 🤌🏼

Good work🎉😊🎉

Sic work. All my pants look like yours lol..

Great video, thanks man.

It’s crazy to me the detail you can paint with spray paint.

It is so charming when non-native English speakers try to say "squirrel". I think it is the hardest word to pronounce in the English language. This is in no way a critique of your English, which is actually very good (better than many native speakers). More importantly, the painting is outstanding. It seems like you did that quite quickly. How long did it take you? You seem to have a very refined ability to pick out colors and create a palette, which works extremely well. I love seeing these kinds of public boxes painted in this manner. It just brings a smile to everyone's face that sees it.

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Well, first you have to catch a squirrel and train it to sit on an electric box. Then you have to train it to allow you to paint it ... and that's not so easy! 😮

Very good. Hope you got paid well.

MARV . . . !

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Teach!!!

I think it is fantastic that companies will pay you to turn an ugly gray box into a beautiful work of art.

Real nice stuff this! Here they're just stickering the boxes. They have been hiring people for a some of the overpasses tho. which is nice. What caps do you usually use for these lvlup boxes?

Very cool! Do you ever get annoying people who think you are vandalizing? Heidi p.s. edit - if I lived nearer to you I would take those throw away brushes off your hands to repurpose them into art! 😊

Gorgeos! Question: Are you commisioned by the city or the homeowner? If by the homeowner, do you get permission from the city first?? I have a box in my front yard (not on the sidewalk, ON my property, but obviously I don't OWN it. So I am just curious.

Style...

Lots of squirrels and girls in the world, please paint a girl with the squirrel next time! Lol.

that`s illegal!

Are you using spray paint in standard rattle cans, or refillable cans with special (replacable) nozzles?

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Do you put any clear sealant on these?

10:30 yw.

Nights 🌙 in White Satin ......

Great job, Nick. Two questions, though : How king did it take you? And if you wish, how much were you paid for this one? Thanks and Hi from Réunion Island, Indian OCean.

You can generate some cool AI images to spray paint.

I bet you didn’t anticipate the hardest part of this project would be pronouncing the word “squirrel” 😅

‘Photorealistic’ would we say that? Well executed work of art, yes! Photorealistic, not in my opinion, sorry 😢👍🙏♥️🇬🇧

Spray paint is normal paint with LOTS of thinner.

Goeie dag Mineer Nick please hit translate

Question do you PROTECT YOUR LUNGS? SEEN and heard far too many spay paint artist end up Dying far too soon, Because their are so few who do your type of Work not much is really heard about it. Enjoyed.. I know a Guitar Store, May be I can do this on his wall that is NEED of work, and I would love a Used Guitar, strings, Case for the art, NORMALLY I work REALISM Nature Art in Acrylic then OIL. on small canvas, but I do not have money to buy a used guitar. I am what one would call the REAL starving artist in USA before someone USED the name to mass produce same style of art, and call it Starving Artist. Guess all who help do the paintings are so called limited in $$$ money.? NOT sure I am 76, so it would mean using a ladder, And working around a time to complete, and never done anything this large, Most of my work is on 11X14" canvas( all I have available, a few are a bit larger) Would have to use your "GRID" or GOLDEN MEANS to map out. and a Template to map out first.

Wo wohnst du? Deutschland?

Nice squirrel, but not even close to "Photorealistic". Are you sure you know what that term means?