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Graffiti Art a Simple Diy Idea for you to Make at Home.

Graffiti art are you a fan? I am, I enjoy the looseness of the style, the freedom and wildness of it all, not to mention the colours!

I don’t however, approve of vandalism and graffiti ‘tagging’, that’s a subject far removed from Graffiti Art and Street artists.

This idea would work very well in a teenagers room

Selwyn Senatori

I recently met a wonderful artist in Shoreditch, London. It happened quite by accident, Marc and I were having lunch at the Hotel he was exhibiting at, his name was Selwyn Senatori He was very elegant and very funny. If I could afford his art work I would be snapping it up. Here then is the obligatory selfie taken by Marc…

Graffiti Art in Shoreditch

Shoreditch is filled with the most awe inspiring graffiti. A city art form we dont see much of in rural Dorset! In london it is everywhere, colourful, cheerful and doesn’t take itself too seriously!

Inspired by what I had recently seen and after spotting a similar project in Abigail Ahern’s decorating book. I set to work on my own version…

A Graffiti Art Diy:

You will need some ‘tourist tat’ oil canvases you know the type almost like the paint by numbers you probably worked on as a child (oh my goodness how I loved my oil paint by numbers sets when I was young!) I find lots of these pics at boot fairs. They are invariably freshly painted.

I could never use old ones, so please don’t be horrified by my irreverent use of somebody’s ‘ART’ In fact I have old kitsch ones up on the wall too…

Spray paint, I think luminous colours work well I used neon pink, but you can’t actually see how bright it is in the pics for some reason?

Be brave and just go for it..!

Next either sketch a very simple design with a pencil on the canvas first, or go free hand as I did with my peace sign. For the heart I ripped out a heart shape from a piece of paper and used it like a stencil, then sprayed over it.

I like that one the best, it gave a clean edge…