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Take a RISK

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RISK

RISK, an American graffiti artist from Louisiana is considered the "Godfather" of West Coast Graffiti. 
Kelly Graval moved to LA in 83 with his family where his new high school became his personal canvas.
After winning the Scholastic Art Competition he received scholarships to Savannah School of Arts and Design as well as Pasadena Arts Center. 
Focusing more on his street art, he was not committed to school and found himself arrested a few times.
Eventually he went back to school at the University of Southern California Fine Arts.
With over 30 years of being a street artist, RISK was the first to paint freight trains on the West Coast, top to bottom, and started the freight train movement. He is also credited with being the first to paint the NYC subways after hitchhiking from LA to NY during his spring break while attending high school. RISK not only collaborates with other street artists such as Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Futura, and Ron English,
but he has also been commissioned to work on movie and music sets for Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michael Jackson,
Aerosmith, and Blink 182 throughout his career. 
Via RISK's work, he wants to challenge the community to unravel the true meaning of "RISK"

Take a RISK

A situation or exposure to harm, danger, or even loss is considered a risk. Everyday we face challenges or risks in order to overcome daily obstacles, achieve our goals, follow job orders/duties, maintain societal norms, be true to ourself, etc. For example, police officers and firefighters take risks in their everyday line of duty, medical staff, first responders, stock holders, gamblers, graffiti artists, etc.
​People take risks everyday to ensure they go down the right path, do what's best for themselves and/or their family, etc. 
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RISK....
What comes to mind when you hear this word?
Think about the different risks you take everyday
or that you see others making.
Compile a list of these risks along with images
​ that can be used to portray these risks. 
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SKETCH...
Choose one of your risks from your list and begin finding
reference photos that can be associated with this risk.
In your sketchbook, make a few thumbnail sketches juxtaposing the images in different ways until you have a strong, unified composition that represents your risk. 
Once you have a successful composition,
begin adding color and/or different elements
you would find in either RISK's work or in the style of graffiti art. 

Teacher Example

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Reflection

  1. What risk did you choose and why? 
  2. How does your choice in imagery portray this risk?
  3. What do you find most successful about your composition?
  4. What would you do differently? 
  5. How did you incorporate graffiti art and/or RISK's style into your art piece?
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