I'm No Street Artist: Kristine's entry for Work of Art Challenge #6

This week's Work of Art challenge got the best of me. I'm pretty sure I demonstrated that I not only lack street art skills, but that I don't even know where to start when trying to create a work of street art. Ha. Here's what I ended up making:


I guess I started out with an OK idea. Initially I considered buying a bunch of legos, and using them to create a "wall," upon which I would paint something street art-ish. In developing this idea further, I decided I could upgrade from legos to Jenga, and create a mini building to use as my canvas. Except I could only find Jenga Holiday Edition:


As friendly as the holiday theme was, it didn't quite fit my big city building concept. So what did I do? I bought some cheap acrylic craft paint, and turned these bricks red!


Oh, wait, it gets better. It wasn't enough to have big red bricks. I needed to make smaller brick patterns... and did so, in thin black pen. Turns out, it's not easy to draw on Jenga bricks. Here is my attempt at turning the bricks into yet smaller bricks:

Next I needed a suitable background. A few days ago Emily mentioned chalkboard paint. I thought that sounded interesting! I decided to make a city nighttime skyline for the background. I used chalkboard paint for the buildings, and more cheap acrylic craft paint for the sky:


I used chalk for the background building outlines, windows, and stars. Then I used my favorite thin black pen and drew tiny windows on tiny post-it notes. And this is my stellar final piece:


Should I even try to justify this as "street art"? Probably not. But I'll try anyway. It involved the use of chalk, and some street art uses chalk? I made brick designs, and sometimes street art appears upon bricks? Aw, I give up. I promise, next week's art project will be much, much better. It definitely might be much better. It may possible be slightly better. Or perhaps worse? I tried!! Really!