Roy Christie came to visit the college and shared with us his art work and some of the culture behing the art. Roy started graffiti when he was 8 years old, since then he has painted walls all over the UK and developed a name for himself as a profesional graffiti artist. Roy was brought up in Wembury, which isn't a typical urban area, despite this he found areas to paint and refined his skills from there. Roy told us that one of the main aspects of the graffiti culture is hip-hop music and he showed us a video of a b-boy explaining how, as dancers, there moves reflect the art work.
During the session we had with Roy he showed us how to create some graffiti, although mine was not that good I still managed to get some shapes down and create a basic image. My first shot at graffiti will follow in another post.
Here is a link to a video of Roy Christie doing some graffiti at Plymouth bus station. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_HsQzk2FTM)
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