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A lot of the artists of street art have never studied art and they do it for fun. The city of Melbourne gets these artists to do murals or other types of legal street art, or they make lanes were street art is legal for these artist. In case they try to do illegal art. Many of these artists do illegal art for the thrill, get their “name up” or just pure vandalism. The government tries to stop these artists by giving them a lot of opportunities to do legal murals. The form of art that some people find to look very discussing is “tagging” tagging is when some one just does hand writing on a wall, it normally looks very bland. Also, stencil art sometimes can be very bland.

The City of Melbourne is trying to get more legal artworks which are called "piecing". The artists that "piece" can get paid for their work. This type of art can also be your job; people travel all over the world doing pieces on walls and they get paid a lot. Also some people get paid a lot for doing stencil art work. The stencil artist Banksy recently sold his art work for a lot of money and he only started as a small stencil artist.

Some very influential graffiti artists are: Pilfa, Greco, Reka, Zime, Enuf, Since, HaHa, Meow, Stanley, Bonez, Props, Askew, Hooker and there are many more. A lot of these artist do or have done illegal art work in the past. Many other graffiti artists respect these artists and their morals. Some of these graffiti artists became big by starting off doing illegal graffiti, then the city of Melbourne saw their talent and asked if they could do commission work.

The City of Melbourne doesn’t want to get rid of all graffiti artists all together. This is because graffiti is something big in Melbourne now. The City of Melbourne is very welcome to new graffiti artists they always have different programs to do with graffiti. If graffiti artists can’t get any commission work, there is always the option of going to any of the free graffiti lanes in Melbourne.

__Some artist that have influenced Melbourne’s graffiti:__ Askew: Askew started to do graffiti art work when he first started high school. His work was inspired by the graffiti around Auckland. When he was younger he never really got to do things by himself because of his 6 brothers and sisters. So he thought he could express himself through graffiti, and it would also make him rebellious. He started doing graffiti with his friends because of peer pressure and everyone else was doing it. Askew keeps doing graphic designs because he loves coming up with new styles and evolving. Hooker: Has lived in Melbourne his whole life. All his life he has loved drawing and was very good at it. When he first got started he made stickers and would stick them around the place. His friend who was in to graffiti got him in to it. He started off doing illegal graffiti. He did it because every piece of art work he did would make him feel good. He nearly gave up his talent but he kept persisting and is now very good.

The artists that do chalk drawings along Southbank need permits to do there art work. The chalk drawings are normally very detailed and good. Some times people do them to send a message to others. For some of these people this is there job and they go around the world showing there talent. Some times homeless also do drawing for money. The chalk drawings along Southbank are very popular. Many people that work in the city take a stroll down there on their lunch breaks and look at all the great art.

We like most of the artists