Painting Big
A trick when you don’t paint well, is to paint big,
at least your shaky hand can improvise but this won’t be seen from a few steps back!
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For those who never graffed, you need,
- A shop that sell proper graff-spray paint, else online
- To choose your color wisely before as you can’t really mix them after
- To have a wall to paint.. legally.. most likely just ask at the local shop/ local dudes.
- A strong finger to press the spray precisely
I was in March in Faro for a few nights and knowing the spot, was the perfect occasion to go for a little painting-time in the suburbs by the sea :
Faro sometimes feels like a forgotten place.
So here I went, for the color choice, having no plans or sketches..
About the color choices,
There is many nice tools to pick-up colors usually so they match, but hasn’t follow those this time
What I like to do is to pick up two colors with a good contrast, and then to add a declination of one of those. The two similar colors to bring depth, the third one bring contrast on a support that might already have a lot of colors.
Here a little webpage I coded to show the two ther color I would choose from any color :
From that point, I went full on naïve art, following lines and colors,
Here the result :
