Saturday, January 8, 2011
Graffiti Prevention - Practical Tips and Ideas
Graffiti is the illegal spraying of paint, dye, permanent inks or other substances to mark buildings, fences and surfaces open to the public. It is a community problem that drives down business revenue, lowers property values and promotes a view that it is an unsafe community.
The following ideas can help graffiti prevention and graffiti removal:
o Remove graffiti as soon as possible. Graffiti vandals move to another location once their "art" isn't displayed any longer. Graffiti is easier to remove in the first 24 hours as it hasn't been exposed to the elements for too long and hasn't had much of a chance to penetrate into the surface.
o Install video surveillance cameras
o Install lights, maybe sensor lights.
o Make access to the site harder. Install gardens with thorny plants or shrubs near to or to cover walls. Move bins from near walls as they are great climbing tools for access to roofs.
o Keep your property looking neat and clean. A property that looks neglected attracts graffiti vandalism.
o Install a sensor sprinkler system
o Take photos and report graffiti to the Police as they sometimes keep a database of graffiti in the area
o Apply a sacrificial or non-sacrificial anti-graffiti coating to the surface. An anti-graffiti coating is a transparent layer that can be applied to porous materials such as brick, limestone, concrete, etc. as well as metal. The layer of coating keeps the graffiti at the surface, not letting it penetrate into the porous surface which makes the removal of the graffiti much easier. You should choose the best coating that suits your particular situation. They are explained as follows:
Non-Sacrificial Anti-Graffiti Protective Coating
Anti Graffiti Protective Coating can be applied to any surface that vandals want to graffiti. It comes in a matt or gloss finish and can be painted, rolled or sprayed onto a surface. The coating can be clear or tinted to your required colour.
When you get graffiti on a surface that has Anti Graffiti Coating applied, it can be removed with ease by either yourself by applying warm soapy water or a mild graffiti remover, agitating the graffiti, then hosing off with water or calling in your local graffiti professional.
Sacrificial Anti-Graffiti Protective CoatingSacrificial Anti Graffiti Coatings are great for all types of surfaces. The Sacrificial Anti Graffiti Coating is easy to apply by painting, rolling or spraying. When you have been vandalized with graffiti, it is a matter of applying hot soapy water to the area that has graffiti.The graffiti will disappear as well as the coating. Letting the surface dry for 15 minutes, the Sacrificial Anti Graffiti Coating is re-applied to the area that was removed.
The difference between sacrificial and non-sacrificial anti graffiti coatings is that sacrificial is removed with hot water only and no products are required. The sacrificial coating then needs to be re-applied.
Both coatings can be applied over painted surfaces or non-painted surfaces depending on your requirements. It can be applied to most surfaces such as brick, concrete, metal, perspex, road signs, wood, etc.
All in all, the best strategy to prevent graffiti is immediate removal within 24-48 hours. Contact your local council as they usually have a graffiti prevention strategy in place.
Tutorial : How to Spray Can Graffiti Art ?
Talk graffiti will not be ending in a debate. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, from the beginning until now there is a debate about the graffiti itself. Some people it is great art and creative, but some are thought graffiti was a vandalism, whereby it violated the law. Here we will not talk about it, should we set aside first. In the art of graffiti, spray paint is a common and important tools in image processing. All ideas, imagination and the artist's mind about the social, economic, legal they express in a painting by graffiti. Read on to learn how to spray graffiti in making good and right.
1. Study the style of other graffiti artists. Graffiti is predominantly an urban art form but can be found even in rural areas.
2. Write your name with block letters on a wall where no one will mind. Remember graffiti is illegal. Leave space between your letters.
3. Select a style that you want your graffiti to emulate. There are many styles; choose one that comes close to your abilities.
4. Dramatize your letters--outline the letters you drew on the wall in the style you have selected.
5. Establish variations in your lines--make some thick and others thin. This process will help you determine the areas to shade.
6. Control your urge to go crazy with your spray can--most times less is more. Choose one symbol as a signature for your art graffiti.
7. Decide where you want to apply color and shade. Be decisive since your artwork is a representation of who you are.
Please give your comments about this graffiti image, Thanks....
Friday, January 7, 2011
Digital 3D Graffiti by Brad Schwede
Some 3D graffiti Brad Schwede's work, he is an artist of digital graffiti. Many works of graffiti created through computer technology using adobe photoshop. From start to form a simple design to 3D, even the effects and colors are made with the application. He created change where most graffiti is considered illegal by some people by bringing to the digital design more legitimate but do not leave graffiti element itself. Even more extreme in making changes in the form of design.
Please give your comments about this graffiti image, Thanks....
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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