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Article taken from World-graffiti.com - Original post

WG - What influences your art?

I really like 3D, realism, letters, old school, cartoons, abstract and many more, that I can mix with my creations and paints.

WG - Where did the round circles style come from?

VERDE – I used to paint cartoons, letters.. but nowadays I am painting abstracts things, something like free raffs.. putting my mind far way to aprimorate my draws and my tecnics as I like.

WG - What artists do you like at the moment?

VERDE – I enjoy OsGemeos, Finok, Insane, Ciro Shu, Zezão.

WG - What are your favourite sneakers?

VERDE – Vans.. I’m really an addict! LOL

WG - What sort of graffiti are you into? Do you like the wildstyle type more, or old school fat bubble lettering?

And if I have a bigger wall, I can do it in an hour..

WG - Do you paint with a crew or on your own, or both?

VERDE – Sometimes I paint with a friend, Gui (you made an interview with him too), or at the Graffiter Meeting and sometimes alone, it is more a kind of “motivation-thing” and one of us likes to express an individual feeling.

VERDE – I really like the color Green (translating to portuguese is gonna be my name.. VERDE), and Black.

Have a look at VERDE’s Flickr, it’s sick, and here is a video of VERDE painting, great vid!

GUI Talks to WG about Graffiti and Painting in Brazil

Street art and graffiti in Brazil is as vibrant as ever, I first saw GUI’s graffiti art on Twitter (@XGUIX) after he put up a some photos of him painting in a toilet in Brazil (the shots are included, really awesome…).

I love the variety in his art styles, that still keeps the interlocking themes. I’m a big fan of bold colours and solid black lines too, and GUI’s got them, and then some!

WG – What artists out there inspire you, what artists do you like at the moment?

GUI – Some artists that I always have admired are “Os Gemeos”, “Vitché”, “Onesto”, and others. Nowadays I appreciate “Titi Freak”, “Mr. Zero”, “Highraff”, “Flip”, “Finok” “Aryz” from Spain… there are a lot of people doing a good work, but I can’t remember all of them right now.

WG – what music you listening to?

GUI – I listen to almost all kind of rock, since classics to the newest crazy bands and music. I listen to rap and electronic music too. Actually it depends on my mood and what my ears need in the moment.

WG -What materials do you use to paint? So do you have a favourite type of paint or cap?

GUI – I use látex with some pigment to do the foundation, and spray Montana.

I like to use fat cap to do some bombs on the streets and to fill some draws… and pro skinny cap to do the trace (lines) and outlines of my personage and etc.

WG – Is graffiti popular in Brazil or do government councils and locals try and stop it? I’m interested in what normal people in Brazil think of graffiti and street art. In the UK/USA some are more relaxed about it than others…

GUI - Graffiti here in Brazil became popular with the ascension of some guys that do graffiti to the artistic world (cause mostly of people used to see graffiti as something bad, and now some of them can see it as art). But in my city, São Paulo, there’s a law called “cidade limpa” (cleaned city), and when the government think that in some place shouldn’t have a graffiti, they erase the draws painting the wall with gray ink, but it just makes us to want to go back there and do other graffiti, making it to be a persistence and resistance “fight”.

Some people relate graffiti to something dirty, they don’t understand the street art, so sometimes we have to listen some people complaining. But in the other hand, when I’m doing some painting, a lot of people pass and compliment… so, sometimes I can’t imagine the reaction of people.