Are there any graffiti shops, meeting places, and/or legal walls in Virginia, preferably in the Richmond Area!

Question

Are there any graffiti shops, meeting places, and/or legal walls in Virginia, preferably in the Richmond Area?

I would like to know, I know about the meet-up thing. I live in Richmond, VA, and would like to know if there were any graff related places. I am 13 and I do graff. I write Klaus.

Answer 1

There are no "open" legal walls in Richmond. Every so often, a wall opens up for an art project or civil project. Keep an eye out for them.

I will implore you remember to not use graffiti to vandalize. Too many people forget what art is, and use it to damage rather than inspire.

Good luck.

Answer 2

sketch book, some of the graffiti the persons work looks like an artist but I would say 90% looks like some kindergartener did it.

Answer 3

In many cultures, being 13 means you are a man and you assume adult responsibilities. Think about it. It's time to grow up and stop writing on walls. If you are really creative start working to become an artist, author, scientist or the like.
Filling space with odd scribblings, even if on a "legal" wall, may make you feel good every time you see it, but the truth is that sooner or later someone will come by and simply paint over it.
Quality isn't fleeting - if you want to make a permanent impression you won't do it with a spray can.

Answer 4

wow i cant find any on google but dont listen to the first person im 14 too and i will never stop doing graffiti whether its legal or illegal i write Session...long but thats just my graff style

Answer 5

I would like to disagree on MIKE B point of view. In many culture, being 13 does not mean u are an adult or have to assume adult responsibilities. Being 13 means its a fresh start to understand and enjoy ur teenage years. Dude, i have a feeling that u dont enjoy ur youth days and have to work at the age of 13.

Graffiti writing is not about getting paid. It is more to passion. "if you want to make a permanent impression you won't do it with a spray can." ---i have to disagree too. We r talking about "GRAFFITI". Wat do u understand by that term? Graffiti are not suppose to be permanent. Its temporary and every writers noes that. In this case, ure common sense does not work. And also, any medium being used to do creative expression is considered Art. Jus because of the tools(cans) writers use, does not make them a criminal.

Dude, there are already established writers/artist that are already making permanent impression, gaining enough income. And their level are as the same standard as any other fine artist. And yeh, there are various type of ppl involve in Graffiti. U just have top open up more to see wheter it is art or vandalism. So yeh, no offence to anybody. Graffiti is a controversial subject. Only writers community understand what we r doing.

Answer 6

Why are therse so many kids on here wanting to do graffiti.?
really i hate these kids they ask how to think of tag names and how to do graffiti really there all idots. i mean im a writter and i never went to be that gay. i hope they never right to all u little toys. asking go to hell. are u willing for wats bellow happen and are u willing to do all this.,

first of all do u love graffiti. do u want to do it. do u know people who do it. do u live in a desecent size city. are u able to ride the bus or use public transportion., and can u outline tag. bomb. which includes one liners. throw ups tags., etching. toss ups. can u pice do u know crews. are u willing to get busted and get arrested and go to court, and mabye go to jail our get a crap load. of community service. are u willing to rack paint. hit up trains. you little toys want help how to do graffiti and ask question yall will never accomplish anything. and i hope all of yall get busted.

cause so many little kids wt and arent willing to go through that all.

hey man wat do u write why dont u list some crews hell u dont really know anything know do u. are u good do u love graffiti. are u willing to do graffiti after u get caught . can u bomb. outline tag. oneliners. pices. burners. or do u just bomb i know tons of bombers i from texas. and philly graffiti seen. i tight way better then nyc why nyc. is crappy and really shitty graffiti in tons of places. man philly i drove by and stood for a day. i saw .. so much i saw enem agua. hotheads. nope, espo. and allot others. see im more for the texas. dallas houston san antonio, austin texas graffiti seen.

damn man in austin they got probally the best names i think i mean. u got tons. of tight *** names. if u want to see some go to flickr. type in austin texas graffiti. and look in groups . theres. mpr, cts, rgk, half dead, orgasm. tons. those my favorites, houston got some tight stuff. okay tons of crew. houston got and dallas and san antonio great bombing seen not as great as philly in yall idustrial area there a **** load.

atx graffiti okay though only half dead and rgk. and milf. orgasm up on freights. allot . so was a2m 4dc dac. and mpr was up but then the police kinda got some mpr dudes. and they not really doing much. many more crews in atx and all just dont care to lite.really bombing. rgk got some tight **** up like some bill boards. man i miss austin. yeah but houston got tight ****. abels holding down crap.

but i can go own. um yeah philly handstyles tight, and only place ever were yall care so much about ur handstyles. in houston handstyles are lame comapred to phillys. i mean know just people right them fast or right it regular not much to it. it more about burnners. in texas well rellay. austin. i mean slerm, juse, jesse, organs. phiks, sekto, vomit, francis.
bombed allot . but the buff is really hard in austin and san antonio.

philly i like more then nyc for the fact it got less toy ****. and really just well how the city is set up and for the industrial side of that high way that look towards the watter. man theres tons of **** there. and really i like how the handstyles are and the tons of bombing also the tags some times. go from as high as u can reach to the bottom . NYC WAT HOT then well during them train days. revs. had tight stuff. wish i could have seen . some dondi or zephyr duster, seen, mare, taki, pjay, ,mad,.

but u want to meet writters. ha in atx there this wall u meet like everyone so many people hit it up . it a legal wall but near this train bridge. thats right near south lamar. pretty far. not really get some food. sit back and watch the trains pass. it tight. but hell.

really are u good i hope ur not some ******* to. ull hit someone up u dont know **** that., gay well i hope u pick me as best answer and reply with something that will give evidense that ur not a toy. and how ur the only person on here that. says hit up thats good never seen a toy who knows that. any how u got a alright. city and **** all toys. little toys should die. hopefully ur not a toy. and when i mean die toys. i dont mean someone starting out i mean someone starting out that suck and dosent know anything and dosent respect other graffiti artist. ALSO PEOPLE THAT GET ON HERE AND ASK FOR GRAFFITI NAMES AND ASK GAY QUESTIONS SAYING THEY WANT TO WRITE. AND BE ******* LOSERS.




i will say 99 percent of graffiti out there u people dont see, and think it all on bussiness haha, ,u dont go to ditches and train yards, and yards, and industrial areas, and on rooftops,, to free walls, legal. walls, train bridges, tunlles, all around the city, really do u people go there u dont so shut the hell up okay and unitl u do **** yall i hate people like u graffiti writers, arent as dumb as some of yall are, they know **** unlike ignorant fools like the girl above, me hahahah
why god i hope u dont try to do it. if u read everything below agree and are willing to mabye get beat up jumped. arrested community service, have beef seneak out and all that then just never mine dont do graffiti, if u just want to draw cool stuff, then ha its okay draw other stuff a disgrace to graffiti, ur kinda of dumb graffiti insnt just drawing, hahahaha, like tags, people are so ignorant wat do u mean.. normall writing into graffiti why cause it looks cool l,, DONT DO GRAFFITI IF u do u will get jumped probally by good writters they crush kids like u really man,, HAVE A GREAT LIFE STICK TO PAPER

i love graffiti and i think graffiti is a great part of hip hop hip hop rules. but any how everyone here who answered but that dude who did it for 20 years is retarted i know how none graffiti artist act.. most hate tagging bombing which u probally dont know wat that means. okay listen graffiti will be everywere even if u got a legal. big deal i and other artist will still do stuff. illegal. OKAY answer this qusestion to those who hate graffiti HOW MUCH GRAFFITI DO U SEE. U PROBNALLY SEE LIKE TEN PERCENT OF GRAFFITI THATS OUTTHER. okay people want to say graffiti sucks but they like murals. wat a mural and a tag is its the same thing. in the words of tumor i cant do that mural without a tag., okay a mural starts with outlinning and all that great stuff okay. I ALSO HATE the fact that people only like murals and they call other stuff sucky well okay who are u to judge something u cant do. i bet u cant even do a oneliner. or a descent outline. or a bomb. okay u evolve to murals. most legal artist were once illegal. and only legal stuff i dont like there choice. though, WHY DO People do graffitit they love it .... it is fun for them. they enjoy paining. they like destroying as gkae. likes to do. it reliaves stress .... its additcive and they cant stop. they need paint and love the smell of paint.. hell thats me right there. okay i love the smell of paint. but wat i hate is europeans trying to take graffiti from america saying they got tons. u cant say that. spray paint graffiti started in america. and about that person saying calogy got graffiti really thats so dumb. every large city will have graffiiti. THEN There are crews. that idoits think are all gang .... i cross out gang graffiti. were i lived there were some crews. I MEAN MASSIVE GRAFFITI CREWS WITH UP TO 30 names or peopl sighned on. they would jump gang members,. really there is saftey in numbers. okay really they beat gang members so bad. sometimes. to preserve good graffiti . they were nice people they would see some little gay kid writing bloods./ they go over there and beat the living hell out of that kid. so bad they wouldnt do gang graffiti again. gangs are really dumb if u live in the ghetto like deep hood. gangs dont leave there areas. but these graffiti crews. usually wouldnt go to the real hood they let the police do that okay. then graffiti U SAY U like it but u dont like wat u dont like tagging or as someone who noes about graffiti would call. a handstyle/. well handstyles dont have to be read able they can flat. and normal . BUT u think kids most do it for know reason. that not true the ones who do it for no reason i get them and make them stop cause there messing it up.. BUT EVERYONE HERE WHO ONLY LIkes MURALS IS STUPID> THEN U DONT LIKE GRAFFITI IF U ONLY LIKE MURALS> ha then u say u like it thats allot of bull if u dont appreciate tags. AND ANYONE WHO DOSENT WRITTE DONT SAY U LOVE IT. IT IS ILLEGAL GRAFFITII IS ILLEGA U LIKE ILLGEAL OKAY.

people need to think that hey mabye somebody dosent have to be god. at something for them to be., good just cause i cant do a great mural right know dosent mean idotis . should say they dont like my stuff. well hell why dont they do it people need to appreciate stuff below murals. when u can do that then u really like graffiti untill u can do that. and know wat is Good u PEOPLE have KNOW RIGHT SAYING U LIKE GRAFFITI .... Okay here is one how much graffiti do u see u see. nothing

okay do u go. to ditches in feilds. do u go underground. do u go under like bridges. or undersome highways. do u go to legal walls. do u go to..train bridges. do u go to train yards. do u go to yards. do u got to abbonded buldings. do u go around massive citys looking for graffitit. do u go to really industrial areas. of town and look for graffiti. do u go on rooftops and look for graffiti hu do u .... do u do any of that u dont i really doubt. u DO BUT THEN U SAY THAT THESE ARTIST ARE RUNING IT FOR THE GOOD ONES> WAT THE HELL. are u retarted UNTIL U GO TO THOSE PLACES I LISTED AND SEE STUFF.

then u can not say that. people arent good. do u even do graffiti how can non writters say that its completttley idotic. do graffiti witters start wars. and **** know do they. write on people houses or cars......know okay all the places i listed is were graffiti will be there and then the streets. the only ones that can do anydamage. are on rooftops and industrial areas. okay that **** usually gets buffed. wat about those freacking huge concreate places u pass. theres almost alwetys graffiti there of the highway. it dosent usually get bufffed it stays. up it dosent do anything,.... know bombing is doing crap like OUTLines. throw ups. oneliners. tags.bombs. hollows. fills.in .toss ups. and different color ****. bombs are usually 3 or to colors. while the rest can be 1 to 2 cans needeed. for hollows and onliners. usually u need only 1 can, or outlines. u need normally one can. then bombers may not be the best artist but they do wat allot of artist dont do they go out and do that stuff. The best thing to be is an all around graffiti artist. one who bombs. and pices. or does really good bunners... then u can call ur self a king. but the king or the crown has comm down... know bombing crews are putting up crowns.. it alright. but if there good at bombing i think it okay.... i alweys have a side for piecing though..
below is a bergs tag. i choosed bergs cause he one of my favorite writters. hes from austin . all the good writters.
RGK,and the smaller crews of rgk, rats get killed and many more stuff it stand for. omg,jk, THERES half dead a mainly diverse crew. the writters each one has a different style.

HD,ohno,SH,RGk, a2m 4 dc dac, orgasm. omg,jk. cts,. and allot of other great crews.

theres RGK,HD,SH,Jk,Seks,CTS, and allot of others. other graffiti crews here are some from los angelas. MSK,Awr,TKO , Nasa.. in NYC there is allot. theres was. UA.ktr. and allot of others.im not big for nyc grafff. im more into texas and LA graff. and old school nyc. philly got to stuff to. and to that IDOIT above saying that most graffiti is gang stuff she is a retrted. i would know not here. she is dumb if she saw tko. she think it some gang its a crew with members or freinds who like to do graffiti togethere and chill there probally really nice people. AND WHO IS SHE THAT LOSER WHO PROBALLY ONLY SEES GRAFFITI ON HERE WAY TO WORK.. WHO are these people to claim that it gang. well until u know or are like me. and freacking right then u can say. AND THE IDOITS GIVE HER A THUMBS UP> ITS SAD THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE IGNORANt.

below is a king named berger or bergs,. any how u dont like tags hu well ill show u wat else he has done.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8746622@n03...


above a tag. oh wait look wat else he can do http://www.flickr.com/photos/8746622@n03...
oh wait look wat else http://www.flickr.com/photos/8746622@n03...
and heres some more
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19758014@n0...

but heres wat u people see. barley cause u dont look for stuff or go anywere . or go to these bridges and other places.
oh here a bomb. under a bridge were i have been. ha u dont know crap . that place know one but writters see. and mabye some bums.'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scanez/1277...
or something else
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47836260@n0...

heres a slerm, organs, a half dead,. bombs. on a bill board something like u or other people might see on ur way to work

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23782701@n0...

oh look one of those bombs. the slerm on the bill board ur thinking um its not great. okay could u climb u or other people climb up there and do that.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47836260@n0...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaanah/6603...
or an rgk not there best rgk straight letter. but hell SOMETHING U migh see goin down south lamar. in austin texas.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9382232@n08...
or a nice morns, and bergs bomb. mabye of i think south 1st

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9590725@n05...

oh look a great organs and slerm theres tons of better ones i just dont care to look for all of them

or an rgk bomb. more like a throw up. really high up on mopac in autin texas. they dissed a tgf. crew. tgf member ginew went over there crap. on the side of this bulding so they one of the like 30 members went up there and did that.
Oh look it gomer. ha yeah he sucks yeah right
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8600360@n08...

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=go...

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=sa...

or this saber this is as big as a football feild. done with a roller

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@n0...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/awr_msk/poo...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/10429018@n0...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gutterborne...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gutterborne...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7556336@n04...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7556336@n04...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/19544516@n0...

oh a horse bomb does he suck no he dosent suck at. all and to the people who dont write above me espically the one above me saying. that most graffiti is rebilous crap and wat not. yeah how can a non writter say that . . wat a fool

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47836260@n0...
look wat he can do also
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26162803@n0...

hey some of the pices like that second horse pice are at a legal wall which im not going to say were.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9382232@n08...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26162803@n0...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7390341@n02...

ha see tags. dosent mean they suck have a great life. hopefully u pick me as best answer plz i can show people how great graffiti is. i have nothing against u just wanted to infofm. u

WAT CITY IN DO U LIVE In. i can tell u some stuff about that city mabye were some legal walls are .


and allot of legal walls want stop graffiti most of that was illegal u can choose to do legal. and have ur stuff get gone over fast.. and allot of really good pices are legall. but same with illegal.most legal good stuff is on some were not like a legal city wall. like someones. house who lets it or someones bussiness wall. u know.
Im not trying to call u retarted i was just saying u like graffiti i was saying u retart to the people who hate graff and they read it. BUT any how can i Plz be best ANSWER


dont do graffitii UNLESS U HAVE READ WATS ABOVE AND DO HOURS OF **** LIKE THIS AND RESEARCH IT AND ALL< OKAY AND PREPARE TO GET ****** UP PROBALLY GETTING ARRESTED,, RACKING PAINT GETTING IN GRAFFITI CREWS, HAVING A GREAT NICE LIFE, AND ALL AND FUN,, AND ALL THAT CRAP,, READ WATS ABOVE OKAY,, GOOD DAY, BASIACALLY UR QUESTION IS

RELLY TOY, IF U EVER DO GRAFFIT AND BECOME GOOD U WILL SEE THAT WAT U ASKED IS REALLY GAY,,
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IF U JUST DOING LEGAL CRAP, ON CANVASS, THEN GOING TO GET UP AND WAT, NOT, U JUST NEED TO PRACTICE OKAY, AND U NEED TO PICE, U CANT JUST TAG,, THEN U NEED TO READ WAT I TYPED ABOVE COPYED ABOVE,, CAUSE IF U JUST TAG,, PEOPLE GOOD WRITTERS WILL FIND U AND BEAT UR ASSS,I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN BEFORE, OKAY



GRAFFITI IS NOT SOME GAME WERE YOU MEET UP AND PLAY AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No good writter wants to hang around a 13 year old for god sakes im 17 at 13 no one is good yall **** suck..do u really do graffiti........ i hope not ur a toy a loser to graffiti legal illegal can u paint have u ever picked up a can of paint. WAT HAPPENS WHEN UR TOY *** GETS busted when u get arrested have to pay like mabye 7,000 thousand dollars for one illegal bomb or for one tag with paint they can charge up to 500$$ dollars cash.. u will get community service ur parents will **** u over. it can ruin ur life i hope u no this.. and at 13 u dont go to shops there arent little come here graff shops.. u will never be a true writter.. UR A TOY>> TO that idoit 13 year old named run dmc or watever. when HE gets busted he will see wat ******* graffiti does to ur life.. U PROBALLY WoNT EVEN READ THIS ALL>> IF U DO AND U AGREE with everything i said I MEAN IF U READ THIS ALL???: ALSO THE LINKS AND THIS PARGRAPH HAVE BEEN POSTED LOTS OF TIMES >> SO THE LINKS Wont work.....AND ARE you WILLING TO SPEND 2 years learning **** and getting in trouble then stealing paint and bombing..it takes like 2 years to learn basic ****.. also do u want to go to jail or court and mabye tag and do **** to other writters then to get ur *** kicked... BEING a writter is being a normal fun person u do tons of fun ****.. but bottom line its illegal cops dont make arrest or care much if ur good and do pices mainly but when u have ur tags. u have to have throw ups tag bombs. outlines.toss ups hollows then they fine you and give u some bill u have to pay for the damage u have done i got charged 10,000 dollars and it ******* sucked they also make **** up u can paint over my stuff but they choose to use watter and chemicals cause.. they can charge us more. and GOING TO COURT AND GETTING FINED THEN BY ALL MEANS WRITE GRAFFITI>>>I DO THAT AND IM A TRUE WRITTER ATX H TOwn graffiti texas heat and style LA bots for ******* life.. peace toy

rent o do i no u haah ur a complete fool.......... dude who asked this i should be best answer i gave u allot to read so u can understand allot of it dosent follow well but still