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February 2, 2005 at 10:16 am #1036138
I’ve been gettin into it now for a little while (but am still not very good at the moment!), is anyone here any good and have any handy tips for painting technique? (I’m learning very much through trial and error at the moment!).
😀 :p
February 2, 2005 at 11:03 am #1063927i’m no good at drawing, but i can mix your colours while it’s still in the can 😉
February 2, 2005 at 11:15 am #1063932cool,
yeah this whole graffitti thing is one of those things that is a lot harder than it looks, but I’m adamant to keep at it! It’s just so depressing lookin at the really good stuff and thinkin I’m never gonna be that good!!
:rolleyes:
February 2, 2005 at 11:35 am #1063928have you got anywhere to practice? or you just go for it where you can?
you tried any stenciling?
February 2, 2005 at 11:43 am #1063920its another thing that requires practice …. you may also want to find “safe havens” to practice as the clampdowns on this are getting bad (if you get asbo’d you can get banned from having art materials in public and can even get jail for breaching this order – its already a potential offence to have them “without reasonable excuse!”)..
I know a few of the writers in Reading; they say its all down to practice.
A lot of tagging is also practice; but it does get out of hand sometimes – we even had one of our local rig vans accidentally tagged (actually the outline of a piece) by people who were once part of the same crew!
The problem is it hots up the van as cops think its abandoned (plus a white van with graf is easier to note than a random white van with nothing on it) – any way it wasn’t a very good piece either.
I think the owner of the van may even have found out who did it, his thoughts were more – “why didn’t you ask us first and do a decent job of it? 😀 “
February 2, 2005 at 11:48 am #1063933I’ve actually got a big slab of mdf in the garden that someone was chucking out while refurbishing. So that’s perfect for me just to muck about on in the garden. Luckily when we got our flat in brighton we ended up with a wicked garden and a sheltered bit at the bottom so I can go out in rain and shine! I’m not very good but it’s good fun tryin! I don’t want to unleash myself on brighton city until I’ve got something really impressive to show!!
🙂
February 2, 2005 at 12:39 pm #1063921funny cat wrote:I’ve actually got a big slab of mdf in the garden that someone was chucking out while refurbishing. So that’s perfect for me just to muck about on in the garden.
🙂my friends do something like this as well. Probably the best use for the sort of MDF that gets put out in the street (usually from MFI furniture) – its usually too thin and crappy for speaker boxes, deck tables etc!
I think the van incident is probably a raver’s version of “friendly fire” 😀
February 2, 2005 at 2:02 pm #1063941hoping to get a graffiti art workshop of the ground soon in london just waiting for suitable premises anyone help. if I hear of anything in the brighton area will keep you posted
February 2, 2005 at 2:12 pm #1063934that sounds cool, please let me know if you hear of anything in the Brighton area as it would be good to hook up with some other people and get some good tips! Have you been doing it for long?
:p
February 2, 2005 at 2:29 pm #1063942never done graffitti art myself painted with brushes and do lot s of designs,but know people who do so thought it would be a good idea to get it together and at the same time help the youth in our community
February 2, 2005 at 4:30 pm #1063922TBH I’d just plug it as an art workshop and let those attending it select to do graf-style art if they so wish..
emphasising the graf element could alarm some people and lead to moaning locals creating negative publicity… but if you spin it as just something that actually does (and will) give the community some hope and maybe even keep them out of crime and violence…. I think randomartists (part of HDFK) do quite well..
if possible encourage your attendees to wear at least improvised masks (the decent ones aren’t that expensive anyway).
xylene (the solvent used in spray paints) is nasty – some years ago a friend of mine was trying out paints in a confined space (he’d started college and didn’t want to fuck his life up by getting arrested and charged, so he didn’t want to tag up the street or station) and was suffering all sorts of breathing troubles including coughing up claret.
Lots of graf artists brave this or think it is due to smoking, but trust me xylene does do your lungs in!
February 3, 2005 at 10:36 pm #1063923Anonymous
General Lighting wrote:TBH I’d just plug it as an art workshop and let those attending it select to do graf-style art if they so wish..i dunno, round london way there’s way more tolerence of grafitti and also some of the best writers in the country, i spose a “mural workshop” would get the idea across, but graff will bring in more specific people..
Quote:if possible encourage your attendees to wear at least improvised masks (the decent ones aren’t that expensive anyway).xylene (the solvent used in spray paints) is nasty – some years ago a friend of mine was trying out paints in a confined space (he’d started college and didn’t want to fuck his life up by getting arrested and charged, so he didn’t want to tag up the street or station) and was suffering all sorts of breathing troubles including coughing up claret.
Lots of graf artists brave this or think it is due to smoking, but trust me xylene does do your lungs in!
yep seen a few mates do this to them selves..and its amazing the excuses thy come up with..one mate way using uv spray in his room on canvas for a few weeks, made himself horribly ill, and was blaming his diet, smoking, the type of weed he bought..any other than he was sleeping in a room he’d filled with toxic chemicals…so out doors only. used to do a graff jam at talents in bristol for a night called titan up, only used pens, but we had some twat come in with a can, and gassed the place out..lots of people left, including him, forcably.
i learnt the basics of oldschool graff from my cousin, doing peices on part of “heathem house” youth club somewhere near kingston. when they demolshed the hospital over my back wall, i went and bought a load of carpaint and practiced on its oon to be demolished walls. in bristol, i stencilled a lot, mostly little interventions like plugsockets or flowers or circuitry on the walls. also wrote with two crews out on missions, a couple of productions in bedmo sk8 park (DLH) and put up a few of my own scenes. i mainly do characters or images rather than words, but if i can make the words into the shape of the subject, then all good.
graff is hard. its expensive, risky, and easy to fuck up (guilt trip time ;( ). on the other hand it can be potitical, exciting, creatively fullfilling, socially rewarding and if done well has the potential to really brighten up a neglected wall or building.
i’m blatantly up for linking up for some practice, sketching, whatever.
for materials, you’ve got a nice surface, but i dont know what cans you are using? i recon the bestest are beltons for matt finish and montana for gloss. if your webbrowsing, then you could do a lot worse than http://www.graphotism.com/gotflash.asp
in brighton, go find Rarekind, its a graff shop near the north lanes on th way down to london rd, toward the ocean rooms. they all are full of front, but theyre lovely blokes really, so long as you can put them at ease…they have graf jams outside the shop, and can get you anything you need, from magasines to spraycans.
i cant wait to move to brighton, i hope we can go out painting together… give paul somethin more to photograph.
any specific questions, ill be happy to answer.
February 4, 2005 at 12:14 pm #1063935Yeah in Brighton it is really cool to have the Rarekind guys to go and see, anyone see them on Faking It? When you do move to Brighton you should come round and give me a few tips!
:rolleyes:
February 4, 2005 at 7:25 pm #1063924fuck tips, were gonna go out and let brighton know who’s in town!
February 4, 2005 at 7:38 pm #1063925lorraine23 wrote:never done graffitti art myself painted with brushes and do lot s of designs,but know people who do so thought it would be a good idea to get it together and at the same time help the youth in our communityblatantly, grafitti gives a lot of people pride in their community (as strange as this seems to a lot of people) good grafitti, done well, can show the positive creative youth in the area care so much about where they live that they give up their time and money ( and potentially freedom) to enhance a potentially run down area.
fuck it, noone may care, but in my area in the last couple o years the pigs started an anti grafitti campaign, when there was no graf in town (well, some, by the skate park where it should be); since the camaign, there has been a massive escalation in graff, rubbish graff. these two little kids tagged their way home (including people’s houses and two cars!) with the worst tags i think i’ve ever seen.here’s a link to the story:
http://icsurreyonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200surreyheadlines/tm_objectid=15119560%26method=full%26siteid=50101-name_page.html
these kids never practiced.blatantly. anyway i sent the paper a letter (i was bored, what can i say) and here it is for your perusal:Dear advertiser,
I have just read the article on the scrawl that was daubed on st Martins
walk. I walked past it on Monday, and I have to say it’s terrible. I fully
respect Graffiti as an art form, and think is has a vital role to play in
the quest for freedom of speech, free expression and the development of
subversive thought. Until recently I was living in Bristol, where the
council has a more positive approach toward the nuisance.Instead of seeking to demonize and eradicate graffiti and its writers,
they have accepted that Graffiti thrives off conflict. Anyone can see that
since the Police’s attempts to crack down on the problem, it has escalated
in size and complexity. Therefore the sensible course of action is to
decide where we would deem graffiti appropriate. There must be some walls
in Dorking that we can sacrifice to the painters, at the end of they day,
they’re only going to be painted, not knocked down. There are many drab
walls in our town that could do with a lick of paint, why not let the kids
have a saying how they’re painted? Surely there’s no harm in a muralI totally sympathize with the car owners who have had their property
defaced, that kind of vandalism is inexcusable. This should not blind us
to the potential Graffiti has for enriching our physical and social
environment. Graffiti is one of the oldest indicators of mans
civilization, from planned hunts on cave walls to subversive propaganda
against corrupt governments.Graffiti has along and rich history, and the most recent chapter, that of
the hip hop graffiti “tags” and “masterpieces” is no less relevant to
society. The reclamation of state and corporate governed space by the
individual, the communication of ideas within communities, the sense of
pride and belonging it can instill are valuable ingredients for an
enriched society.A beautiful mural can be a joy to behold, a pleasure to walk past
everyday, proud that someone cares so much about that area that they
sought to change it for the better.These young hooligans should be taught the value of graffiti and the
responsibility that goes with it. Graffiti writers can be a beneficial and
enhancing aspect of the community, but it takes acceptance for them to
truly flourish.I believe that through acceptance and education, we can use the creative
and destructive force of these young rebels and mould it into a positive
and useful creative output that benefits us all. I firmly believe that if
there was an area set aside for painting, the painters would respect the
community more, and therefore think twice about defacing private property
We have an opportunity here to open our arms instead of starting a war,
and I think its time we were more accepting and less accusing.your sincerly, use
mary white house, eat your heart out!
February 7, 2005 at 9:03 am #1063936USE wrote:fuck tips, were gonna go out and let brighton know who’s in town!Ok!!!!!!!!! 😀
February 7, 2005 at 7:35 pm #1063926we do have to practice first, unfortunately, unless we can find somewhere to deface that is truly fucked an dunt matter. i spose thats still practice, tho!
is always good to find out each others strengths and combine them in the most effective way…
looking forward to it already!
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April 9, 2005 at 11:50 am #1063913all u lot r dickheads
stop chatig bout graffin and go out and do it u lil pussysApril 9, 2005 at 3:20 pm #1063929Unregistered wrote:all u lot r dickheads
stop chatig bout graffin and go out and do it u lil pussyschatting about people chatting abut whatever people want to chat about
April 11, 2005 at 8:36 am #1063937Unregistered wrote:all u lot r dickheads
stop chatig bout graffin and go out and do it u lil pussysu know what? your spelling is terrible, your graffiti must be full of mistakes, he he :lol_dork:
May 10, 2005 at 11:48 pm #1063914yeah bruv. just use your whole arm to follow the can if you see what i mean. dont use ur wrist cause its all about being precise, and using ur wrist u dont get it straight. start off with simple colours for dubs too, or use chrome and black. get hot on ur bombing first too cause that teaches u can control.
peace to all writerz worldwideMay 11, 2005 at 6:39 pm #1063930An Exeter student is running a series of graffiti art workshops – in a bid to stop youngsters from defacing the city’s buildings. Sian Melodie, a third year media arts student based on Plymouth University’s Exeter campus, has launched the project as part of her degree course.
The participants are six volunteers aged 14 and 15 who attend the local youth group at the 100 Club on Wear Barton Road, Countess Wear.
The club will host a series of weekly workshops on the finer arts of the spray can. And organisers are stressing that the workshops, which are part-funded by grants from the police and the National Lottery, will encourage young artists to use their talents at legal graffiti sites in the city.
The teenagers are currently working on designing their own pieces for a showcase at the city’s Spacex Gallery, on April 16.
One youth worker has even offered to let them spray his car if the designs are good enough.
Sian is working in conjunction with the Exeter Volunteer Bureau and the Ivy Project, a lottery-funded initiative that provides people with opportunities to do their own projects.
And despite its bad reputation in some quarters, the artist said the project would have a positive influence on the young people involved.
She said: ”At the workshops we also have lessons where we educate the young people about the implications of graffiti.
”Graffiti is art. I agree that it is vandalism if it is used on the street, but we are encouraging young people to take it off the streets.
”You are allowed to do graffiti art in certain areas, like the skate park.
“People still complain, but I don’t see that as vandalism.” Sian decided to base her project on graffiti as the art form has recently enjoyed a revival.
Graffiti art in its modern form blossomed in the 1980s. But due to its associations with vandalism the value of work by artists has often been overlooked.
Copyright 2005 Express & Echo (Exeter)
i like seeing this work
the showcase at Spacex gallery was excellent
June 27, 2005 at 9:04 am #1063915ure all shit
June 27, 2005 at 9:09 am #1063938Femz wrote:ure all shitnice to meet you too :cloud9:
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