BLU Practitioner Study

Blu is an Argentinian.street graffiti artist who has been known for his graffiti since 1999, he started out using spray paint as there wasn't much else to use, what got Blu noticed in 1999 is his illicit graffiti which he decided to share with in the historical center and suburbs of Bolonga, the capital of Italy's Emilia-Romangna region. In 2001 Blu showed Bolonga what he was really capable of, he had moved on from spray paint, and was now using house paint and rollers mounted on tall sticks. He painted the streets of Bologna with huge human figures, with different expressions.

Blu found other people who shared his passion for graffiti street art; Dem, Sweza, Run and Ericailcane, these people would influence Blu in his early career. During the time he found these people who shared his passion he started experimenting with animation. It wasn't untill 2004 that art galleries started to notice his work, but Blue didn't like to be known so he never attended any of the shows. In 2005 Blu started travelling around the world,  painting murals in different cities, some that related to the cities background and some his own work.

Today Blu still uses animation, and there are many of his video's on YouTube, to create his animation he sraws his image, takes a photo, paints over it with grey or white paint and then draws his next frame and takes a picture and so on. This is my favourite animation from Blu: