Graffiti At Your School?! And Legal?!

Recently I've had an idea to bring new art to my high school. I've been thinking about working on a piece for my schools red hallway. The design that I've had in mind is something that says, "TIGERS". I could make it all capitalized with an outline first. Next, I could fill it in with black because the wall is already white. After the fill in, I can put on orange stripes in the letters, giving it that tiger's look. After the stripes are in, I can than outline the piece with white, bringing the letters to life and giving them their shape again.

After all of this is done, I can get into more detailed work. I could create it so its 3D looking; I can add a glow effect, shading to different color if I wanted. With the letters, I can draw a tiger or tiger eyes above the lettering. If I wanted to get really into detail with this, I could have the tiger looking like its busting out from the wall behind, and have the lettering kinda all busted up but still readable.

I'm still deciding how big this piece would be. I've got an idea that each letter might be 4 feet high and 2 1/2 to 3 feet wide. But these are just my ideas that I have right now. I could come up with something better in a little bit but I'd like to know what you would like to see in the design.

I've spoken to my principal at school to see if this would be allowed and we both agreed that this would be a new good thing for our school. Hopefully if completed and happens, it creates more tiger spirit throughout the school body. I look forward to this project because this will be my toughest one yet and I'll also be leaving my mark on the school.

Do you want graffiti at your school?

This one was a close call. I actually had to come back and finish this one. This probably took me all together in time spent an hour or so. I think I used 3 black and 2 white cans on this one. I was just finishing the fill in when I heard a vehicle pass over above. Talk about a rush of adrenaline, my heart was pounding so fast but the excitement was great. So I ran, and as I just left the area, the vehicle pulled in on bottom. Ended up being lucky and getting out in time. Next day though, just came back and finished it. I probably wont forget this piece because of the experience I had.

I created this piece way back ago. I think one of my firsts. If its unreadable to you, it spells out my name again. In this design i was going for more of a block lettering look. This one took me less time to finish because there is no fill in just outline. I only needed 2 cans for this.

This is a piece I created at my own place. I used about 8 cans on this one. If you are not able to read this, It says KYLE. Took me about half and hour to finish. To me, this is currently one of my favorites that ive created. I like the wavy lettering it has and the color I chose for it.

This is one of my artworks I have completed. Iv'e already posted about this in "Graffiti Near You" post. Is there anything you would wanna see added to it? I think the fading from white to tan could of gone a little smoother but in overall I was happy with this one. Had a couple paint runs but thats whats gonna happen when you spray paint on that type of material.

Crew Krew Cru!

Today its common for a crew to be in graffiti. A graffiti crew is a group of other artists or writers that perform graffiti. Most people think that graffiti crews are affiliated with gangs which is false. Most graffiti crews are unaffiliated with gangs. A graffiti crew can be created by anyone as long as the group is interested in graffiti and are collaborating about it. The bigger the group the smaller the risk of being held responsible for illegal artwork on buildings. The risk becomes smaller because from a legal point of view, anyone could have painted the artwork thats in that group.

Graffiti Near You?

Just yesterday I created one of my own graffiti pieces in town. My art is located at Molly's Rude Awakening. If you decide to go see it, let me know of what you think. The time I spent into it was probably around hour and a half and I used about 12 cans. I used the word "coffee" because thats what Molly had asked me to spray paint. The colors I chose for it too kinda makes me want coffee. Does it happen to you?