Traditional graffiti culture, spray paint techniques, and tools. Artist profiles, train writing, removal art, graffiti documentaries, and the history of marker and spray can expression in European graffiti scenes.
Graffiti culture through tools and technique—spray paint mastery, can control, and the traditions of European train writing and tagging. Discover artist profiles, technical skill development, and the underground graffiti scene.
This collection documents traditional graffiti practice, abstract styles, and the culture surrounding train writing, removal art, and legal walls. Explore how graffiti writers develop technical skill, the social dimensions of the scene, and documentaries that capture this crucial street art tradition.
Graffiti Future: LED Spray Can
Halo - LED Spray Can
For some time, light-writing is a new trend activity of some urban artists, creative nerds and other, both technically and artistically, interested people.
Recently, Paris-based designer Aïssa Logerot developed a new, trend-setting instrument, called “Halo”. It looks like a spray can, with an LED light in place of a nozzle, whereby graffiti artists are able to use it like their original spray cans, with the same gestures!
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Reverse Graffiti - Top Artists
Do you know reverse graffiti? Imagine you sit in a car an the windows are so dirty, that you can draw little figures, slogans or tags onto it with your fingers - that’s reverse graffiti! It is the art to make detailed, stencil art alike images out of dirt.
“Do not spray, but cleaning” is the motto! This is why the reverse graffiti artists use soap, high pressure cleaners and water instead of brushes and cloths.
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Kusho: Writing in the Sky
Shinichi Maruyama’s Kusho
Since 2003, the Japanese artist and photographer Shinichi Maruyama - born in Nagano - lives and works in New York City. He generates a new remarkable art movement, called Kusho.
Kusho, which means as much as “Writing in the Sky” is in my opinion paraphrased at its best thus: A human being takes an oversized, broom-like paintbrush, dunks it into a bucket full of more diluted indian ink - it’s a special black colour mixing - takes position in front of a camera and wags the brush through air.
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