Laws of street art

By Karan Singh

Types of legal graffiti art

• Paper cup graffiti – paper cup art is a drawing on a cup. It’s good because you can recycle the cups

• Masking tape art – its easy to come off and its not damaging the walls etc.

• Legal graffiti wall – a legal wall is when you have permission from the owner to do graffiti on it

• Rangoli graffiti – this is a powder art its good because its not permeant so it wont ruin anything.

What is the law

• Graffiti is a from of criminal damage and the law states that if you are caught doing graffiti you will be fined up to ₤5,000 but if the damage costs more than ₤5,000 the crown court will decide the sentence (most likely to pay the fine and community service).

Types of illegal graffiti• Tagging – tag is the artists name in graffiti, its like a signature

but for graffiti. Artist normally write it next to there art piece. Its illegal because its criminal damage.

• Throw-up is a bigger version of tagging but its normally in bubble writing and with more that one colour. This is illegal because it has not been given permission to do so (criminal damage)

• Stencil – is a art where you cut out stencils from paper, cardboard etc. to make a image so you can spray paint over it. This a more neater way to do graffiti because its not freehand. Its illegal because it ruins the property (building, wall).