Emily's Street Art

The challenge this week was a lot of fun. We had to create street art and I LOVE street art. It's basically any art you find in the streets for everyone to see. Everything from yarnbombing to Ellis G. to Paper Monster. I’m a huge fan. For my own project, I enlisted some help. First I’ll show you the final project so you don’t get too bored with all the “making of” details. Voila!

Josh and I spent Thanksgiving week touring the city (DC) and taking pictures of what we saw. We found the brick wall in Baltimore and instantly fell in love with it and chose it as the background. (Since we couldn't exactly paint right on it, we had to take some pictures and go that route.)

These pictures were taken at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum (which is TONS of fun!). Can you name this president? We added one of his quotes to the final piece as well.

We also featured some simple light painting.

Then Josh combined everything together on the computer using whatever he used doing it however he did....

And....once again.....

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!

Rules for artwork inspired by Work of Art, Season 2, Challenge #6

This week's Work of Art challenge is a little bit unfortunate... for Tewz, that is. The show's street art specialist was eliminated just before the street art challenge!! Oops, sorry, I forgot to say "spoilers!" Sorry!

That's right, we're doing a street art challenge this week. Hooray, we get to deface public property!! Um, no. Ours isn't even going to be public (well... except for the blog postings at the end of the challenge). We're going to do a lawful, scaled down version of this challenge. It's as simple as this: create our own interpretation of street art. Due date: Monday, 21 November. I'll post my blog that night, and Emily will add hers whenever she feeeeels like it. Oh, technically this one's a team challenge... so collaboration is allowed, if desired.

To remind you, here were our pieces that were inspired by last week's newspaper challenge: