Street Art is for Everyone
Street Art is visual art that is meant to be viewed in public places. Anyone passing by can see it and interact with it, which separates street art from the paintings and sculptures living in art galleries. Choose an activity below to put yourself in the shoes of an artist who used cities and urban places as their art playground.
Street Art is visual art that is meant to be viewed in public places. Anyone passing by can see it and interact with it, which separates street art from the paintings and sculptures living in art galleries. Choose an activity below to put yourself in the shoes of an artist who used cities and urban places as their art playground.
Keith Haring Side Walk Chalk Figures
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-Keith Haring was an American graffiti artist, painter and muralist. -He is known for his lively paintings of people, often made of simple outlines and shapes. -He helped bridge the gap between street art and fine art galleries and museums by making art 'for everyone'. Project: Create a large Keith Haring inspired drawing with side walk chalk. 1. If you have a sibling or family member that will let you trace them, ask them to lay down on the driveway or side walk in an "active pose". Using a bright color piece of chalk, trace around their entire body, from head to toe. Only draw the outline, no face or details inside. Ask them to do a couple different poses to trace to make a more interesting chalk drawing. Keith Haring often put multiple figures in his paintings, some even upside down! See the examples above for some ideas. Active poses examples include dancing, jumping, opening arms up for a hug, bending down or crouching- anything that shows movement. *If no one is available at home, no worries! You can draw a person or even your pet without tracing. Just use simple shapes- a circle for the head, oval for the body and long ovals or rectangles for arms and legs. Cats and dogs will also work great as the subject for this project! 2. Using a different color piece of chalk, draw motion lines around parts of your figures. If your figure is dancing, draw lines around where the legs and arms would be waving. If they are jumping, draw lines below the feet to show movement there. 3. Finish off by taking a step back. Check out your drawing, what does it need to look more complete without adding too many details inside the figure? Can you draw part of a horizon line below someone jumping, to really make it look like they're taking off? Is your drawing balanced or should you include another figure on the other side? Would adding a simple shape like a heart or making dots or lines in the background pull it all together? 4. Take a picture of your creation and email it to your art teacher before the rain washes it away! 
Keith Haring Inspired Figures by Bach students!
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Make an 8-bit work of art, Invader-style
Invader is a French street artist known for his square tile murals of video game characters and other fun subjects like food. He has been known to use images from classic 8-bit video games such as Pac Man and Spade Invaders.
Make a pixel drawing out of squares using the free site below. Save your art to your desktop and email it to your art teacher! To make a second one (or third, or forth, seriously it's so much fun), click the back button and reload the website a couple of times if needed.
Go to:
https://make8bitart.com
See example below.
It helps to draw a quick sketch of your idea before trying to figure it out on the website. You can think about what colors you need to use and get the basic shapes out of the way.
Mrs. Alseri's PS3 controller
