Street Art Puppets
In a beautiful workshop about Street Art, made with the third class at the MART museum in Rovereto (Trento, Italy) we drew these drawings, imagining that we are street artists with large spaces available to be decorated. We worked with the professionists of EDUCATION AREA of Mart, with its section dedicated to the art teaching. They have proposed us a path through the elaboration of a “TAG”, a signature which can be drawn in various styles, following the trend of the GRAFFITI style. We have learned that the most current Street Art is not made only by elaborate writing, but also by figurative or abstract images, that arouse emotions and tell stories. The viewer is plunged into the large size of these figures, in their giant, engaging, magical narrative. The idea proposed by our talented friends of Mart, guided us in this discovery of the Street Art, focusing especially on PUPPETS, the great figures that populate the walls of large buildings in cities around the world. After seeing the work of artists like Ariz, Passo, Macs, Millo, Phlegm, we realized our puppets by drawing with colored pencils on tracing paper. The basis of the design are enlarged photocopies of buildings with large empty walls.
Instructions:
- invent a character
- deform the body and face (no need to respect the proportions)
- adapt the position of the body to the space to be decorated
- think of an object or an activity (the character has to do something with some object)
- tell a story (the character can think / feel / communicate emotions, a message or an intention)
- draw a background, realistic or abstract
- draw and color in pencil on tracing paper. You can also redraw the contours with a thin black marker
- put your own TAG (your signature with an alias)
