Painting Graffiti on the Highway!
Painting graffiti on the highway can be a rush for those with the courage to take the risk. One of the most thrilling parts of highway spots is the rush as you approach the wall. You can hear each car flying past you and you know that they’re going far too fast to stop so suddenly, however, there’s always a chance. A chance one person might slam on their breaks, and it’s for this reason the people in today’s video keep their guard up as they paint. If you’d like to catch the video on Youtube, here’s a link, "Painting Graffiti on The Highway” .
Zark is the first artist shown in today’s video and he takes to the highway to catch some quick tags. His tag is clean, effective and packs style into the tag as a whole though not all the letters have tons of style. This ends up working out to his benefit as most times, it’s far better to have style only where you need it as to not overwhelm the name as a whole. This also keeps the tag easy to read when people are going high speeds on the highway.
Rupa is up next and he decided to rock a tag on the lower section of an underpass. These can be tricky to do as your body is pressed close to the wall. Normally when we do our tags, we can gauge the the size of our letters and make any adjustments we need to on the fly. However, being so close to the wall distorts our perception of the space between letters, and it also hinders our muscle memory. All of these factors can make a sloppy hand style all too easy
Sage has submitted here in the past and last time he painted some graffiti on a freight train and last time he did an awesome job. This time Sage pains the side of a highway and really takes over the wall with multiple thowies. We don’t get a long look at what he did, but we do get to see his throwie for a split second on the footage.
Kens went out on a bit of a mission for his graffiti. As kens went around town, he takes us by various spots he’s painted. Some of these walls show straight letters he’s done, and in one scene he passes a small billboard and decides to paint a clean throwie on it. Notice how his throwie is pretty small, for those new to the art form something like this is normal. Normally we’d do a full-length throwie where the cap line reaches as high as our arm can go, the mean line rests at about the chest, and the baseline reaches either at our arm resting place or as low as we can go. In Ken’s case, the billboard reaches from around his chest and higher, this means his throwie’s baseline has to be chest high. Since the baseline rests where the mean line normally, rests, his throwie has to be compressed between the old mean line (now the baseline) and the cap line. Be sure to check out the video to see the throwie.
Graffiti artists are crafty and Egoistic shows that perfectly with his high vis coat. Often times writers will pull tricks like this to avoid suspicion as the make their way to the spot they want to paint. That being said, many workers simply are graffiti artists and happen to rightfully own one of these, so in all honesty, not sure where Ego falls as far as that goes. Either way, he does a pretty simple HGH on the wall, nice clean with a dusty fill and simple. There’s no need to always pamper the throwie, remember, the point of these is to just get them on the wall, and so long as the letters are good, a dusty fill like this is more than enough.
If you’d like to submit to be part of the series, feel free to email videos to (Theartistblockstore@gmail.com or Jongrim219@gmail.com). This series is for entertainment only, and we never recommend anyone break the law.
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