It’s a Marmite thing, maybe you love it, perhaps you hate it and possibly you’ve even done a teensy-weensy bit of graffiti yourself. One of the most popular remembrance pieces of street art is the Biggie Smalls painting in Brooklyn, New York. Street art has always been somewhat of an riveting art form to enter into or just keep an eye on. “Tags” are used to express “I was here”. There’s commonly a interesting story behind each creation, so don’t … >> Read More

Learning to produce great pieces of graffiti art takes time and a lot of practice and dedication. You need lots of artistic ability and plenty of attitude that you can translate into your art. Generally great graffiti art will: 1. Be painted in vivid colours, to create emotive images and grab attention. 2. Include graffiti style lettering with letters that overlap and are drawn in 3D.

Graffiti is a visual practice of expressing oneself through writing letters or drawing pictures on the wall. It is accepted as an art by some circles but considered as vandalism by some others. When we consider the shapes plotted in the walls of the craves in the ancient time, we can say that this way of expressions can go back to the primitive ages.  But the impetus for modern graffiti as the art of drawing on the walls was the … >> Read More

To understand why graffiti is so vilified by the powers that as mere “vandalism” one must know what vandalism actually is. Painter Gustave Courbet (a famous vandal himself,) considered it to be the “destruction of monuments symbolizing war and conquest,” a perhaps romanticised view I find difficult to agree with; since when did a bunch of chavs ever justify overtly the arson, for example of a bus shelter in terms of the shelter’s socio-economic significance? I’ve yet to hear one. … >> Read More