Natasha Jay (she/her) 🇪🇺"Instead of using actual spray cans, some artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces and they are calling it reverse graffiti"
(This one is by Paul 'Moose' Curtis of the Reverse Graffiti Project )
Desatyr
Different Drummer@Natasha_Jay You can also do Greenfiti. Adding plant food to water and painting with that on surfaces, especially rough ones, causes moss to grow where one has painted.
Stephen Greenham@DifferentDrummer @Natasha_Jay That's amazing 😍
Aubrieta@DifferentDrummer
I tried that with using shredded moss and buttermilk. Shredded moss to have little starter-"plants". Buttermilk for nutrition.
It never worked out.
Was someone successful with growing moss somewhere?
@Natasha_Jay
@Aubrieta @Natasha_Jay It's hit and miss. The big lush ones you see tend to be where people have grown moss in sheets and affixed them to walls. the earliest ones, however, were just done using the method I mentioned above.
It needs as much luck as work. Moss spores are most places (not exactly in the middle of a desert) but it helps if there is already lots of moss naturally occurring in the area you plan to paint the water/plant food solution.
I first saw this many years ago as a kid.
ein kleines z@DifferentDrummer @Aubrieta @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
Ok thanks. I was wondering what I did wrong because it didn't work out when I tried it. So it's actually not that easy and you have to be lucky.
Ok thanks. I was wondering what I did wrong because it didn't work out when I tried it. So it's actually not that easy and you have to be lucky.
Miss MegaphonI'm curious: Were you ever lucky with doing moss graffiti on your own, @DifferentDrummer?
I tried this several years ago (when I was young and doing street art more frequently) with varying techniques, and it never worked.
Also, I've never seen moss graffiti in the wild, so I guess most of it is just online fame of the few pieces that exist.
SchACABfstelze 🎗🖤@Aubrieta @DifferentDrummer @Natasha_Jay Dunno but i would imagine that the wall also needs protection from sun and heat for the moss being able to flourish. Basically only walls where moss or lichen would also appear naturally, if not cleaned by humans
TripTilt /// tt@DifferentDrummer
can you elaborate on the "plant food" part? I though you put moss into a mixer with a lot of water and spray that somewhere...
can you elaborate on the "plant food" part? I though you put moss into a mixer with a lot of water and spray that somewhere...
@TripTilt Essentially the guy I watched doing it as a kid many years ago used (chemical) liquid plant food, the stuff you buy at garden centres. I imagine the solid soluble equivalent is the same.
Essentially he painted in onto a brick wall, overlaying the slight residue of the day before, for several days. Not long after it started greening up.
I think it's all very different these days where people are going for 'installations.' Probably a lot more involved.
Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️🌈@DifferentDrummer @Natasha_Jay
These are gorgeous, never heard of them.
John G Fitzgerald@DifferentDrummer @Natasha_Jay I'm going to try this.
@j_g_fitzgerald As mentioned in further replies in the stream it depends of environmental factors, but however you try it; persist! It doesn't always take first time.
Star12Mt@DifferentDrummer @Natasha_Jay I've never seen either of these techniques before and they are both amazing, now I have to do a deep dive into where these things are taking place😊
@Star12Mt Good luck. I think it's changed over time (and been location specific). If what you do doesn't work first time, persist. 👍
CaliCarol@DifferentDrummer @Natasha_Jay
Very cool.