Here are some handy tips on how to paint aerosol art, or how to draw graffiti art as it is otherwise known. To design your own graffiti, first decide what word or words you want to paint and what letter style you are gonna go for. You need to start with some graffiti outlines sketches [...]
You know there are some crazy cool grafitti drawings out in the streets now and I don’t know why this art form has such a bad press so much of the time. Maybe its just because the media mainly focus on the damage that’s done to trains and such. But listen up, there’s a message [...]
Self expression comes in many shapes, forms and sizes and graffiti art is no exception. It is a voice, a message, a statement and a call for attention, for whatever reason and many young people are drawn to it, maybe because they feel they are otherwise not being heard Before embarking on Graffiti Painting, one [...]
Graffiti is an expression. What we think of this expression is down to opinion. Some people see graffiti sketches as a blight on the environment that needs to be erafdicated as soon as possible. Yet others see it as a true artistic expression that is even collectible, hung up in art galleries and donated to [...]
If you think Britain’s Got Talent was amazing with such top winners as Susan Boyle and the fantastic dance troupe, Diversity, then take a look at what Kseniya Simonova is about! Talk about graffiti art … this is not drawing or ‘scratching’ on the wall as the name graffiti suggests. Neither is it rebellious or [...]
Graffiti Art takes to the gutters. We’ve never seen them look so clean! A new expression of street art has come to the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, nicknamed Storm Drain graffiti. Artists are using their talents to decorate the storm drains in a variety of ways. Leonardo Delafuente and Anderson Augusto, known as 6emeia, [...]
What has Graffiti to do with Marx? Read on to find out … Karl Marx has this theory of social alienation that proposes the idea that in a capitalist system – much like the 24-hour consumer fest we Americans find ourselves bogged down in – the lower rungs of the class-war ladder are pressured into [...]
The breakdance group, Diversity really rocked on Saturday … … and took the place by storm, coming out the overall winners in Britain’s Got Talent and well deserved it was too. Their performance was brilliant! It is amazing to think that such top class performers have been together for less than 2 years. Made up [...]
Since its birth, graffiti, or graffito in singular form, has always met two very conflicting views from people. For the conservatives, it is nothing more than a form of vandalism. For the modernists, it is an art form. Consisting from simple scratches to elaborate paintings on the wall, this art form is ancient and, like [...]
You can travel almost anywhere in the world, and you will probably see graffiti. Although graffiti art is usually more common in big cities, the reality is that it can occur in almost any community, big or small. The problem with graffiti art is the question of whether it’s really art, or just plain vandalism. [...]
Before embarking on Graffiti Painting, one should be aware that there is a thin line between vandalism and graffiti. Only when one is safely on the right side of the law, should any kind of creative liberty be assumed through Graffiti Painting. Painting Graffiti is an art of big scale. Its grandeur is enhanced by [...]
In this article, we’ll take graffiti art to mean wall art drawn with spray cans in public places. This is necessary to avoid confusion, for graffiti art can also be taken to mean an act of vandalism in a very general sense. But when I was taking a closer look at the origins of graffiti [...]
Graffiti street art it seems is now coming in out of the cold. Many graffiti creators are becoming known for their unique styles and their art is in demand. The only way I know that the illustrator, designer and street artist Toofly’s real name is Maria Castillo is because that’s the name displayed with her [...]
Graffiti art doesn’t just mean art we see sprayed on walls. Get graffiti spray paint here In fact, it has such strong characteristics that it’s easy to spot them everywhere – in schools, on sidewalks, on bicycles, on automobiles, on skateboards and on textbooks, just to name a few examples. Graffiti art has a loose feel [...]
