Roy Christie: Graffiti art and its culture.

Roy Christie came to our college to talk to us about Graffiti art, its culture and his life with Graffiti art. Roy started Graffiti when he was eight years old, since then he has become a professional Graffiti artist and he intends to remain so, as I quote "I will never give up Graffiti art". Roy has painted walls all over the United Kingdom. Roy told us that part of the Graffiti art culture, is the Hip-Hop music that comes hand in hand with it. Roy showed us a video of a B-boy, which was part of a street dancers, mainly break dancing, showing us how their dance reflects the the music and Graffiti art together.
During our sessions with Roy, he also introduced some graffiti art, shapes and how to draw them, even though I didn't do well at all with this, it was still and interesting experience and was great having him at our lesson.
Personally, I think Roy's work is very creative, he puts alot of passion into his work, and I think his art is pleasant to look at. To me Graffiti can be very creative. But like some Graffiti, it can be unattractive and poorly done. Usually it comes across as distastefulness vandalism. But when you get Graffiti artists like Roy, they put alot of passion and effort into their work, with outcome becoming something you can truly call ART.
Below is a link to a video of some work Roy and his friends did in plymouth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_HsQzk2FTM