Intro to Graffiti & Street Art

$333.00

Unleash your inner urban artist and dive into the vibrant, dynamic world of street culture!

This immersive course takes you on a creative journey through the rich origins and fundamentals of graffiti and street art, breaking down the techniques behind the world's most expressive public art forms. Over five action-packed days, you will explore a diverse range of mediums, moving seamlessly between freehand spray-painting, precision stencils, custom posters, and handmade stickers.

You’ll start at the very beginning by adopting your own artist alias and sketching fundamental letterforms before stepping outside to master the basics of spray-can control. As the week progresses, you will dive into the history of the movement, design multi-layered stencils, craft eye-catching posters, and print your own stickers. Under expert guidance, you’ll watch your ideas leap from the pages of your sketchbook onto large-scale surfaces, developing your unique style using your favourite mediums.

Beyond your individual projects, you’ll join forces with your classmates to design and paint a massive, collaborative outdoor graffiti mural. It’s a high-energy, hands-on week of colour, community, and creativity. You will head home with a fantastic collection of your own custom-made street art—including stickers, posters, reusable stencils, and an exclusive course reference booklet—alongside the confidence to keep making your mark!

Unleash your inner urban artist and dive into the vibrant, dynamic world of street culture!

This immersive course takes you on a creative journey through the rich origins and fundamentals of graffiti and street art, breaking down the techniques behind the world's most expressive public art forms. Over five action-packed days, you will explore a diverse range of mediums, moving seamlessly between freehand spray-painting, precision stencils, custom posters, and handmade stickers.

You’ll start at the very beginning by adopting your own artist alias and sketching fundamental letterforms before stepping outside to master the basics of spray-can control. As the week progresses, you will dive into the history of the movement, design multi-layered stencils, craft eye-catching posters, and print your own stickers. Under expert guidance, you’ll watch your ideas leap from the pages of your sketchbook onto large-scale surfaces, developing your unique style using your favourite mediums.

Beyond your individual projects, you’ll join forces with your classmates to design and paint a massive, collaborative outdoor graffiti mural. It’s a high-energy, hands-on week of colour, community, and creativity. You will head home with a fantastic collection of your own custom-made street art—including stickers, posters, reusable stencils, and an exclusive course reference booklet—alongside the confidence to keep making your mark!

ESSENTIAL INFO

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👥 Suitable for: Ages 12 to 17

📍 Venue: Bellingen Public School

📈 Level: Suitable for all skill levels

Schedule: Mon–Fri, 9am – 4pm (5 Full-Days)

🏷️ Extra costs: This course has a cost of $115 for materials

⚠️ Extra info: This course includes an excursion to the graffiti mural location in town

Required skills & experience

  • No experience required

Supplies that will be provided by your tutor

Cost of $115 includes:

  • Professional artist quality spray paint (5 colors each)

  • Pencils and drawing tools

  • Scissors and stencil knife

  • Surfaces for painting and application practice

  • Paper and acetate for stencil making

  • Sticker paper

  • PVA Glue and spray adhesive

  • Use of VR headset (Oculus Quest) for spraypaint simulator

  • Course reference material booklet

NOTE: Supply costs will be collected by the tutor before Camp Creative.

Supplies that you need to bring to class

  • A4 sketchbook (or larger)

  • Pencil

  • Eraser

  • Pencil sharpener

  • Clothes for painting

  • Any color paint markers/ink markers and preferred drawing materials

  • Optional - Portable VR headset (Oculus Quest etc.) with 'Kingspray' app installed

  • Optional - A P2 respirator is recommended for participants with asthma/breathing difficulties. All aerosol painting is done outdoors in well ventilated areas.

Learning outcomes

  • Students will take home several pieces created over the week including stickers, posters and reusable stencils as well as a course reference material booklet.

  • Learn how to make stencils and stickers for your street art

  • Complete a huge outdoor piece of graffiti with your fellow students

COURSE PLAN

DAY ONE

  • Demonstration and brief history of Graffiti origins

  • Choosing an alias (artist name)

  • Sketching letter forms

  • Learning spray-painting basics

DAY TWO

  • Demonstration and brief history of Street Art

  • Designing stencils

  • Sketching posters and sticker ideas

DAY THREE

  • Developing Graffiti letter sketches and adding colours on paper

  • Spray-painting letter pieces from sketch

  • Developing poster and sticker designs

DAY FOUR

  • Multi layered stencils

  • Developing pieces in chosen mediums

  • Designing a collaborative mural with our sketches

DAY FIVE

  • Refining designs and final posters, stickers, paintings and sketches

  • Painting collaborative mural

COURSE TUTOR

Kade Valja

Kade is a multi-disciplinary artist primarily exploring interests in organic form, energetic forces, technology, consciousness and perception using a wide range of ever-expanding media.

He runs school holiday aerosol workshops every school holiday in Grafton NSW, and teaches after school art at the Grafton Regional Gallery. His workshops across the Northern Rivers region, ranging from traditional painting approaches to stencils to augmented reality (AR).

Kade has been teaching at Camp Creative since 2023.

My daughter loved the course! Kade was amazing.
— Happy Camper Review
I love love love this!!
How amazing and those kids would be super proud that their artwork catches everyone’s eyes as they go past, so much better than a plain wall.. we need more and more of this! How talented they should be EXTREMELY proud! It’s so awesome.
— Bellingen Community Feedback
This is fantastic! We need way more street art in Bello, and what a great experience for the young artists to learn from a mentor. Looks fantastic.
— Bellingen Community Feedback

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