Project; Street art

Exercise; Street art

Research point

This is my partner once we went to take our plastic dog bank for a walk. We found a wall graffiti that looks more like an act of vandalism .

An Mexican wall mural so colourful and exciting in its perspective.

 

Another interesting picture of Mexican wall mural taken once I went on holiday a few years ago .

 

 

 

 

This mural is on the wall near Polish train station in my home town Lodz. Picture taken a couple years ago by myself.



These three pictures has been captured in London near the Modern Tate Gallery.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

 

             I managed to find a few pictures in my home gallery. They are not the best out off wall murals in the world as I suspect; however they are only examples of what people can create on the walls in public places. They represent a different style and capture different issues that matter to the local people. The Mexican one is clearly captured a beauty of the local land as the Polish one treats more about political issues that matter my town and country. They are a good examples of what can you do and how to use the space that is given to you. The public will pass it bye in a rush or on holidays. The question is that do we want to say through the work on the wall? Do we have any message to send? Or are we not bothered in getting to other peoples minds and make them think?

 

 

 

 

           My first idea is to create a big bold graffiti based on this sketch. I am thinking to design a look like a female clown face with a clown big makeup with some messages written on her face? Sound interesting to me but not sure where could I place it and where could it be displayed? This means that my messages should be universal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            This idea came to me when I was looking at my photos where I had to dogs next to each other. They are absolutely different as one of them is real and the other one is plastic. I thought to create a funny illustration where the real dog is jealous about the plastic piggy bank dog. It made my smile when I picture this situation in my head.

 

 

 

 

          Another idea came to my head based on the picture I had in my gallery. This is someone who is in need and asking for money with his plastic dog that happens to be a piggy bank. I thought to give a sense of humour I should place someone with a real dog which is frustrated about the fake one.  

 The summary of my Today work

 

 

 

 

What have I done so far? :

 

·        created a spider diagram

·        did a research based on my privet pictures

·        managed to develop some ideas

·        made some comments while I was creating the sketches

 

What else would I like to achieve/do next time? :

 

·        create a complete idea for the mural

·        document my work as I go

·        do more research if needed

 

Is this work still in progress? If YES how long do I want to spent time on this exercise to be completed? :

 

·        yes this exercise is still in progress

·        approximate time needed for this exercise 4h

 

 

Day 2

 

 

 

             I have started to work on some ideas for the graffiti on the wall. These are my sketches but I am not really convinced that I want to go this way. I am thinking to change the field and the audience. In stead of trying to explore the wall for the general public to see I am thinking to design a wall in the kids play area in the garden  or a nursery. As I would like to work with the children audience one day. I think this is a great opportunity to practice something that may be more related to my future dream job.  

 

 

 

 

The size of this mural is impressive. The bright colours and the shapes of the animals clearly show the purpose of this work. This is something to think about once I create my own idea.

 



  

This is a lovely idea for creating a sense of magical space as the stage is for all children.

 

 

 

 

I though of using my own art work as a reference for this exercise. These are my 2year old son's walls in his room. I created this big friendly shark for him as he loves the sea and sharks. The idea was to make this wild animal as friendly as I could so he wouldn't be scared to look at him at night. The shape is quit round and exaggerated in size. His teeth are big white and round so they do not look scary. His colours are bright and with a touch of lighter tone to make him more shiny and attractive to the eye. I asked my little one to make as many hand prints on the wall to make it looks like a sea and in fact I wanted to capture the size of his little palms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This wall represents big black cloud with small drops. I used black wall paint and in this way this space has already different use as well. My son can be creative on this surface while keeping his small pictures or whatever he wishes to stick to it as this is a magnetic paint.

 

 

 

 

 

I think I have an idea for this wall for the children class. How about creating a bright beautiful wall full of bubbles in different shapes? I am thinking to have a child blowing them in the air. The bubbles may go even on the ceiling?  I am very excited about this idea and my nose tells me to stick to it and develop bit more this idea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research on the bubbles:

 



 

 

 





Beautiful big bubbles full of different colours. It is really tricky to paint bubble and not to loose a sense of it fragile. I think I should stick to very bright and brave colours but be sure which one I want to use and not to overwork it. I will have to remember about the amount of paint layers and everything should be fine.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The summary of my Today work:

 

What have I done so far? :

 

·         researched on children murals

·        changed and developed a new idea

·        designed a main character

·        researched and developed small sketches of bubbles

 

 

What else would I like to achieve/do next time? :

 

·        I have to develop more shapes of the bubbles

·        put all together the bubbles and boy's face

 

 

 

Is this work still in progress? If YES how long do I want to spent time on this exercise to be completed? :

 

·        yes still in progress

·        estimated time 2h



 

 

day 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being self- reflective on this exercise

 

I started this exercise from researching in my own archive of photos I took through last few years. Then I moved on to the spider diagram. It definitely was a good idea to do a few sketches as well. The list of media I used for this task is very short unfortunately:

·        black paper

·        pencils

·        colour charcoal

·        hair spray to fix the charcoal on the paper

·        Photoshop

 

I did look at the other artist however I do not think they have been a massive influence on me this time. Most of the artists are people I have no information about their names as they have been street artist which work happened to be captured on my photos. Therefore I am unable to support my self -reflective not with their names.

 

During making of my final image I managed to try a few different ideas and the last one in my opinion is the most successful. It really shows differences between my first idea and the last one. It looks like it could be on the wall on some primary school.

Am I going to work with this type of media or similar idea? Perhaps yes. I would love to explore a bit more the technique how to create a good mural in door and outdoor as well.