Street Art

In situations like these when a global pandemic, Covid-19 has forced everyone to surrender down and hide in their holes, no individual remains unaffected. With schools, parks, sports clubs and all leisure activities places closed, children remain caged in their homes. In such times, one feels the importance of outdoor activities and its immense importance. For children outdoor activities are as important as quality indoor activities. Outdoor activities develop beneficial qualities in children including confidence, teamwork, patience and tolerance, sportsman spirit, sharing, observing and most importantly learning.

Confidence building

Children who are engaged in outdoor activities tend to be more social and interactive helping them to build confidence in them. Outdoor games and activities help children to make friends through games saving them from violent video games and harmful activities. Their interaction with other kids also helps them to adopt qualities from their friends.

Exercise & Teamwork

Playing games outdoors is a great exercise which helps children to maintain a healthy system and an escape from various diseases. Playing various games with children help them to build attributes like sportsman spirit, patience and tolerance, sharing that will have a long-lasting impact on them. Children who play outdoor activities also display more acceptance. They play along with children with diverse backgrounds and cultures, which creates an opportunity of brotherhood and learning. 

Learning

If you’re worried that your kid would just end up playing games due to outdoor exposure, here is the good news, outdoor activities can be a source of learning and understanding certain mechanisms as well. It is encouraged to let your kids have some fun time as an incentive when they get enrolled in kindy adelaide at first. 

Outdoor activities are a great chance for children to learn. They do not only learn playing different sorts of skills but help them explore their talents and skills as well. A particular outdoor game lets a child imbed focus, determination and hard work while playing that game. An outdoor game and activity lets him acknowledge the importance of these three qualities.

Break from a monotonous routine

As it is said, a caged bird can never recognize the importance of wings. A kid who remains indoor entirely misses out on a lot. Outdoor activities allow children to have a break from all the mundane and boring activities. Outdoor games and activities serve as a change in environment imprinting a positive impact on the child.

Exploration

Sometimes, when a child is exposed to society, he feels gratitude for the things God has bestowed upon him whether they’re materialistic ones or in the form of human relations. Outdoor activities provide kids a chance to explore the beauty of nature as well. They get to feel the outside world and take in the fresh air which is refreshing for their mind, body, and soul. 

It is not wrong to say that there’s the darker side of the story as well, outdoor activities can make a kid neglect his other important tasks as homework, or time spent with siblings or parents but that is where the balance and check is required. Overdose of anything is harmful. Correct concentration can do wonders!

This phrase, attributed to Banksy , explains in a very simple way what Street Art is for me: a way to beautify and enhance the world around us, especially in places often forgotten and even more often decaying. Obviously it is not only this, it is also a way of conveying important social messages, publicly and without censorship, a way to decontextualize art and bring it to a different and, more often, younger audience. And probably many other things.

Over the years, street art, first considered as a mere act of vandalism, has earned a place of honor among the tourist attractions of many cities and also some controversial museum honors (controversial because for many it is a contradiction to present street art in a conventional museum).

Street Art in Itraly the most beautiful places
Italy is full of street art. In Rome there are entire neighborhoods that have come back to life thanks to it, like Tor Marancia . In other cases, individual works embellish buildings scattered throughout the city. Here is what our friends of #inviaggiocoiblogger tell us about Street Art in Italy.

Steet art in Carrara
Speaking of street art in Italy I cannot fail to mention that absolute masterpiece which is “David looking at the moon” by Eduardo Kobraportrait at the Carrara quarries. It is an exceptional work from many points of view. To begin with, if you think of street art, you always refer to urban and underground contexts and you would never imagine finding it in the mountains as in this case. But there is much more than that. The David di Kobra is a celebration of Michelangelo’s David in the places from which the genius of the Renaissance drew the material of his most famous work. It is a tribute to Carrara, as the cradle of sculpture and, at the same time, to the creative flair that has always made men shape matter by transforming it into art. Like a writer who sees a canvas of a thousand colors in a block of marble. And then the David is gigantic and, last but not least, it is incredibly beautiful. A rainbow flower has sprung up in the midst of these ice-white craters.

The history of the murals, in a nutshell
Man has always painted on the walls: he did it in the caves, depicting hunting scenes for propitiatory purposes, and he continued to do so in the following centuries and millennia, decorating palaces and churches.

The term murals indicates, in the broadest sense, any painting made on a wall, without therefore indicating an exact historical era.

Nonetheless, it should be stressed that, in its more modern sense, ‘murals’ mostly indicates large-scale paintings with political and ideological connotations, and for this reason often executed externally, for the benefit of the entire citizens.

The flashback of mural painting, after a few centuries of languor, had no social purpose: at the end of the nineteenth century the artists returned to decorate the walls for exquisitely aesthetic purposes, as the murals of the Montecatini spa remind us, for example.

It was shortly afterwards in revolutionary Mexico – when the population opposed the dictatorship of General Porfirio Diaz, between 1910 and 1920 – that the ideological ‘mural’ was born, made in the public square or along the streets to communicate precise messages to the masses: the the social value of art, in those years, was definitively rediscovered, even if it combined visionary or expressionist paintings with realistic style murals.

Starting from the Mexican experience, the mural intended as a powerful form of expression and communication expands all over the world, in the most diverse styles.

Making a mural: how to start?
To make a mural we do not start immediately from acrylic colors for street art .

In fact, it is first necessary to prepare the wall to receive the painting.

The first step is to thoroughly clean the wall on which you are going to paint: whether it is an external or internal wall, it must be freed from dust, incrustations or other stains that could compromise the perfect result of the work.

To carry out this cleaning operation, you usually start with an overall brushing of the wall , then pass everything with a sponge dipped in water and detergent , then rinse everything and leave to dry.

If you want to extend the subsequent duration of the mural as much as possible (which in any case, with acrylic colors for wall painting, will already be very long in itself) you can do even more, scratching the wall paint with some abrasive paper, and then proceed with cleaning.

Once the wall has been cleaned and left to dry, it is necessary to apply a primer, which, in addition to leveling the base, will serve to give the work more strength, enhancing the color range. On our e-commerce you can find different types of primer, from white chalk to modeling paste, up to black chalk.

When the primer is also dry, your wall will be ready to be finally decorated.

It is not said that you can start immediately with brushes and acrylic paints. In most cases, in fact, you will need to draw a preparatory sketch, starting from a smaller sketch made on paper.

In this case, there are two options: you can adopt the grid technique, so that you can patiently bring your design onto the wall, square after square.Otherwise you can instead speed everything up using a projector, so as to ‘print’ your preparatory drawing on your wall, following all the signs with your pencil.