venice

So Venice... It was interesting. I love car rides so getting there is already an adventure. Again, I went with my aunt Evelyn and Juan. We couldn’t really find parking so we just parked by some apartments and we walked to the beach. It was kinda crazy trying to get over there. There was lots of foot traffic and car traffic and the streets were so little! I had actually only been to Venice once before when I was younger and I don’t know why it seemed so different to me. Personally, I thought it was kind of dirty and crazy. Call me old fashioned but when I see a people dressed up as a marijuana plant and advertising it, it kind of makes me feel like WOAH!! Yeah it’s a really different culture in Venice.

Anyway, back to the drawing part. On the way over there I was trying to formulate a plan of what I was going to draw but it was useless since I’m not much of an artist. I can barely draw with a pencil, let alone with a spray can. We got assigned a little wall and I got the middle of it.  I wanted to get rid of the art that was there already so I just figured I’d start with that. I sprayed everything with yellow and after I was done I just sat there thinking what my next move was going to be. So I started to draw what I draw best… A TREE! I love trees and I’m always drawing trees on paper like in my notes and stuff so I decided I should try it with spray paint! this is what came out...

my tree

 So i liked my tree, i really did but i don't know it seemed a little too plain. I decided to leave it alone and I just watched Juan and Evelyn do their thing. There paintings where so colorful and amazing so I felt pretty lame with my lame tree. I wanted to add some color to it but i didn't know how to. I'm not very skilled with a spray can. I also didn't want to mess it up, but then i grabbed the pink spray can and this is what came out

I don't know if you can tell but my background has chicken pox!

Well, i was even more unsatisfied so....

this happened!

 

I didn't like it at first but when i looked at all of our drawings together it looked pretty good! So i was happy :)

So graffiti art is a lot of fun. There should definitely be more places like this where you can go and draw whatever you want, even a silly little tree. This experience was a great one and i'm pretty sure i'll come back and do it again.