Street Art

(The following photos by S. Gant in Asheville, NC)

​LINKS TO EXPLORE

LINKS TO EXPLORE

Street Art with Google Art Project

Illustrated Street Art Terms

Awesome Street Art Images

10 Graffiti Terms

Types of Street Art

Street Art Utopia

Street Art vs Graffiti

Graffiti Diplomacy

Activism

Banksy

Stencil Print with Freezer Paper

Stencil Portrait Examples

Good Stencil Tips

How to do your stencil portraits!

Create a Stencil using Microsoft Word

Create a Posterized Image using Stencil Using Picnik

Graffiti Maker

Assignments 
(Look through the links above to get answers to the questions.)
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1.  Art Journal Research
     Define the following:
Tag, Piece, Crew, Mural, Installation, Stencil, Yarn-Bomb
Name 9 Forms of Street Art
​Answer:  What is the difference between street art and graffiti?
​Look through the Banksy images below.  Which is your favorite?
Explain why you like that particular image.

2. Make a Stencil Photo:

1. Upload any photo to an online photo editing program (Fotoflexer, Pixlr, etc.) If you know how to use Photoshop, of course that works as well. 
2. Turn your photo first into black and white (grayscale). Then fool around and adjust the contrast until you have a super high contrast image.
3. Print
4. Shade in the areas that need to be black and then cut those out using an x-acto knife and a cutting mat underneath.
​5. Spray paint!