Zender One showed “old school” graff techniques and character design.  We drew our own characters and learned about positioning, body proportion, sketching, and refining.
  
Zender introduced deco and prisma markers.    We created tight pieces using the deco and prisma markers.

We had a Chess and Domino tournament. 

It was so much fun!  It was a close game. Hector and Fernando were the champions.  

Guest speaker: Sano One who  shared a brief history of the Graff scene and the “B-Boy” (Break Boy) style and background. Sano showed how to draw a B-Boy in his own style. By the end of the day we were able to develop and draw a B-Boy/graff character.

We kicked off the month at the Lummis Day Festival celebrating the rich cultural history of the northeast L.A. hoods, and bringing it to life with music, visual art (graff), and other art forms.  We painted four pieces on canvas LIVE! at the festival. 

Graff artists Ziggy and Bhet gave us a live demonstration of graff techniques we can apply to our own pieces. They also showed us aerosol control.

We started with acrylic brush paints and began learning how to mix and combine colors. We learned some nice painting techniques.
 
We created our own collages using paint, cardboard, and the brush techniques we learned. 

We learned canvas painting techniques.  All of the canvases were started in acrylic paint and finished in aerosol. They are going to be displayed an  exhibition.  It was a pretty cool project.  It was different but fun!

We made an urban themed collage.  We had to cut and paste pictures that we relate to from magazines.  After we did that we varnished and painted something that described us on top of the magazines pictures.   Most of them came out pretty tight!

We’re learning print making!  We did an intro workshop with potatoes, woodcut, linoleum and vinyl.  The potato one was kinda tough but fun once you got the hang of it.  After that workshop Zender taught us monoprinting.  He demonstrated first and then we got the chance to try it.  It’s crazy how it all works.  The techniques are different from what we’re used to seeing but what you make is pretty cool. 

We learned more aerosol techniques.  We’ve been spending a lot of time developing our can control and technique.  There have been a lot of guest speakers to help us that.  Zender has been teaching us how to use our aerosol techniques on murals.  He’s getting us ready for the mural restoration projects he has in mind for us.

We’re going to the The J. Paul Getty Museum.  Arts and Literacy to the West Side!  All Arts and Literacy students are welcome.  Bring a friend.  Sunday, June 25th.  Meet at Rock Rose, 12:00 noon. We come back at 5:00 p.m. We got a free bus free ride.  We’ll be raffling off cool movie posters and  King Kong movies donated by NBC, and giving out snacks and drinks on the bus to those that come.  It’s only $2 per person.   DON”T MISS OUT.  SIGN UP NOW BEFORE THE SPACES GET FILLED UP!