At Fresh Creative Co., we are passionate about art work and enjoy nothing more than passing on our skills to groups of all ages and abilities. Keep reading on to discover how we aim to show the positives of creativity within graffiti and art forms.
Introduction
Our graffiti workshops start with a brief history of graffiti, exploring it’s roots and the story of its evolution into the street art scene of today. We’ll have a selection of images and art books for participants to look through to get inspiration for the sessions. We’ll also start a dialogue about graffiti art, it’s place in society and its culture. We will be on hand to answer any questions the group may have. Our hope is to show graffiti art in a positive light, encouraging it as an artistic endeavor and a vehicle for creative expression. Despite graffitis roots, we do not encourage vandalism, instead focusing on the creative aspects of the art form.
Sketch
We start our sessions on paper, each student picking a 3-5 letter word that will be used as their ‘tag’. We then take you through some of the basic techniques of creating graffiti style art and demonstrate some basic lettering, giving you the tools to begin drawing your own graffiti style pieces. Taking this a step further, we then demonstrate how to go about adding a 3d effect to your letters, giving your sketch more depth.
Outlines
After the class has sketched up their deign, its time to start painting the outlines onto the boards/wall and we start to discuss the basic techniques of can control and the application of spraypaint. Tutors are on hand for help with marking up the initial sketch from paper.
Filling In and Final Touches
Once these mark up lines are in place, we’ll help guide you through the process of filling in those letters, teaching the techniques used for blending colours together and painting cleanly. This is the part where you can really have fun and express yourself, safe in the knowledge that we’ll be on hand to help tidy up any mistakes that might creep in. There will be opportunities for participants to work both individually and collaboratively depending on your preferences.
Health And Safety
We cover health and safety requirements required when working with spray paint and all necessary precautions are taken to ensure the well being of participants in our graffiti workshops.
We have several venues to host events, but we can also build temporary walls, enabling us to bring the fun to you if your space is suitable.
Typically 90mins – 2hours However activities can be tailored to fit within corporate days or conferences as a fun break in the day, or we can provide full day program for team days and other events.
Our minimum is 10, up to working with entire schools with 300 pupils. Typically groups will be split into no more than 15 people per artist, to allow maximum one on one time in each group.
Your session can be tailored in a number of ways by focusing on a specific message or theme important to your business, alternatively, we can help you create artwork on the day that is completely personal.
We offer a number of mementos your team can take home. A full photo and video service is available to remember the day. Many groups opt to take a street art tour to gain insight into other artist’s practices before getting to grips with spraypaint themselves. Please contact us for more details.
Packages start at £260 + £11 materials cost per participant (based on a minimum of 10 people, maximum of 12, for 1 hour 30 mins). If their work is produced on boards, they will also get to take their artwork home.
All artists are DBS checked and have comprehensive public liability insurance. We are able to provide risk assessments on request.
Most graffiti workshops would be run collaboratively on 4ft x 8ft boards choosing a 3-5 letter word. An average session would include a brief history of modern graffiti covering different styles and techniques.
If you are looking for Graffiti Workshops in the Swansea area, Fresh Creative Co. have a studio space on Humphrey Lane. Alternatively, we can come to your venue, but there would be additional travel fees.
Simple! Give us a message (by clicking here) and we can talk through what you’d like to have painted, then we will come up with some ideas and agree on a price. A deposit will then be taken upfront which will be determined by the full price and we will get you booked in!
For any other questions please feel free to message us and we will be with you as soon as possible! We look forward to hearing from you!
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Fresh Creative Co
Humphrey Lane Studios,
Swansea,
SA1 6BU
+44 (0)7306 562 255