Art Foundation

To experiment further and develop my journey with street art, I began to search for more artists and techniques to improve my work. To do this, I looked into the media and saw a news article about Banksy, which inspired me to look into his work and what he does.  Banksy His work was recently sold at an auction for £860,000; as the auction happened, however, the piece had shredded itself. This was done by a shredder most likely being hidden in the frame, as auctioneers were not able to search the frame beforehand. This had inspired me to look more into his work itself and see the meaning behind it.  Banksy is an anonymous street artist that creates street art with usually dark meanings such as terrorism, war and hypocrisy using stencilling. While he is mostly known for his work on walls, he has also done some illustrations onto canvas. Banksy has to use stencils for his work due to the surfaces he uses tend to be illegal, making it a necessity to get i...

I experimented with mono-printing as an art technique to try and broaden my art skills for the future.  Mono-printing is a type of printing technique that involves evenly rolling a thin layer of ink onto a surface and placing a surface of which you wish to print onto on top of the inked surface. To create lines, you would simply use any form of mark making whether it is a comb, branch, pencil, etc, on the back of the surface you are printing on to apply pressure to where the ink prints onto the surface. This would make patterns in the ink when it is printed onto the surface.  When printing, I created a print with the word "NYC" that relates to my project of graffiti as it is the place where the documentary Style Wars was filmed. I chose to print a word because I felt it posed a challenge as well as link it to my graffiti project in future development.  To print a word, you have to write it in reverse or else the print will come out in reverse. To do this, I h...