My Graffiti Drawings

[machineman9]

Good graffiti looks really good. And there are plenty of 'graffiti walls' set up just for people to do their art there. Obviously your art only lasts there for so long before someone else paints over them.


Keep up the good work... It can be a really interesting form of art.

[lunitic_8]

Hang on chaps. Nobody said that lunitic is planning anything illegal. Graffiti is a recognised art form these days. I have to admit that when it's done properly it's very clever.

A bunch of art students has just decorated a dreary pedestrian tunnel in Worthing with graffiti, with the permission of the local council. I'll get some photos next time I'm in the area.

PS. Of course some of the local graffiti artists couldn't resist adding to it.

yeah im not planning on doing graffiti illegally, and my graffiti work is strictly art nothing else. 8-)

and yes please post some pics of the tunnel

[lunitic_8]

[quote]You're "picking up graffiti?"

[BigTruck]

Agreed, some graffiti art is terrific, as long as it is done in the right...legal...location  ;)  

I didn't mean to come off as the fun police, I just get sick of driving through downtown and seeing useless crap spray painted on what could be nice buildings and such, add that to being irritated from a long traffic jam last night I probably sounded a bit harsh  

If it's something you do on your own canvas, by all means pursue the challenge and give 100%  ;)  Just don't let it turn into vandalism  ;)

[gtirob01]

Where I come from you could not only get arrested for that, but possibly have the wrong crowd giving you a hard time about it. While some of it does look pretty cool... most is gang related. However, there are some places like In Los Angeles and San Diego where they let graffiti artists have at it, and then keep it there as a mural.

Doing it in your own sketch pad, canvas, school paper.... thats fine. Just nowhere in public.

[beaky]

FWIW, there's plenty of publicly-sanctioned art that is a crime, IMHO...

And not to condone vandalism, but... some graffiti, like the NY subway car exteriors done "back in the day", or the work of someone like Keith Haring, can lend a lot of life and color to public urban spaces. When a municipality encourages such expression and finds a creative way to allow it (like the Chicano Park in San Diego, which features some amazing stuff), it's a civilizing factor to a community.

What ticks me off is when some brats put their lame tags on any blank surface, even the walls of private owners who can't afford to keep re-painting them... like dogs peeing  to mark their turf. I haven't seen much "tagging" that's more worth looking at than a pee stain.

[lunitic_8]

[quote]FWIW, there's plenty of publicly-sanctioned art that is a crime, IMHO...

And not to condone vandalism, but... some graffiti, like the NY subway car exteriors done "back in the day", or the work of someone like Keith Haring, can lend a lot of life and color to public urban spaces. When a municipality encourages such expression and finds a creative way to allow it (like the Chicano Park in San Diego, which features some amazing stuff), it's a civilizing factor to a community.

What ticks me off is when some brats put their lame tags on any blank surface, even the walls of private owners who can't afford to keep re-painting them... like dogs peeing

[beaky]

[quote][quote]FWIW, there's plenty of publicly-sanctioned art that is a crime, IMHO...

And not to condone vandalism, but... some graffiti, like the NY subway car exteriors done "back in the day", or the work of someone like Keith Haring, can lend a lot of life and color to public urban spaces. When a municipality encourages such expression and finds a creative way to allow it (like the Chicano Park in San Diego, which features some amazing stuff), it's a civilizing factor to a community.

What ticks me off is when some brats put their lame tags on any blank surface, even the walls of private owners who can't afford to keep re-painting them... like dogs peeing

[lunitic_8]

[quote][quote][quote]FWIW, there's plenty of publicly-sanctioned art that is a crime, IMHO...

And not to condone vandalism, but... some graffiti, like the NY subway car exteriors done "back in the day", or the work of someone like Keith Haring, can lend a lot of life and color to public urban spaces. When a municipality encourages such expression and finds a creative way to allow it (like the Chicano Park in San Diego, which features some amazing stuff), it's a civilizing factor to a community.

What ticks me off is when some brats put their lame tags on any blank surface, even the walls of private owners who can't afford to keep re-painting them... like dogs peeing