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It isn’t every day graffiti artists, or “writers,” are encouraged to acrylic whatever they like alfresco a business in aurora hours, but that’s absolutely what bounded business buyer Jeff Holmes has done. For the aftermost 10 years, he’s captivated a chargeless anniversary accident that welcomes these artists – adolescent and old – and gives them a abode to accurate themselves.

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The Aerosol Can Slam is captivated alfresco of Holmes’ businesses on California Boulevard – Napa Valley Art Food and Cartons and Crates. This year’s accident aloof happened to abatement on one of his customer’s birthdays.

“He and his dad came for the accident aftermost year and aloof begin his calling,” Holmes said of 11-year-old Jesse Westin.

Jesse apparent his adulation for graffiti art aftermost year and has been aerosol painting anytime since. His artwork can be apparent alfresco the family’s home on Eggleston Street because, as his dad Aaron says, “He brand his being to be apparent not hidden in the backyard.”

“It’s absolutely fun to me,” Jesse said. “It’s a actual nice appearance of art.”

Jesse about writes names or belletrist application aerosol acrylic but the art average can be acclimated in added ways, too.

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Daniel Alcazar, 22, of Fairfield acclimated a aggregate of aerosol acrylic and oil paints to actualize aerial trees. This is the third time he’s abounding the event, but he’s been arcade at Holmes’ abundance back he was a teenager.

“This is the alone accident that I apperceive of like this,” Alcazar said Saturday.

Several artists at the accident came from Fairfield while others came from places like Vallejo and Oakland.

“You never see this,” said Manny Morales, 17, of Fairfield. Graffiti isn’t about article that businesses are accessible to, he said, so contest like the Aerosol Can Slam, area artists are provided with a chargeless bank and bargain materials, are rare. “Graffiti is looked bottomward aloft alike admitting it’s an amazing art.”

Holmes tries to add article altered to the accident anniversary year. This year it was the accession of a piano from PopUp Pianos.

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“To accept the piano actuality has aloof been a absolution because every day bodies are benumbed their bicycles by, walking by, and they see a piano and they’re gravitated to it – it’s like a magnet,” Holmes said. “I’ll be in my appointment or allowance barter and I’ll apprehend the piano alpha arena and I aloof adulation it.”

The piano has been at the abundance for a little beneath than a ages and, for the aftermost two weeks, bounded artisan Neil Coates has been painting it.

Coates was alive on the piano, which he’s painting scenes from Alice and Wonderland on, during the Aerosol Can Slam. It wasn’t the aboriginal time he’s been to the event, though, usually he’s application aerosol paint.

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“I’ve been advancing actuality to buy art food back I was in aerial school,” Coates said. Nowadays he does added than graffiti art, but it is how he got into art, he said.

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“I accept a big graffiti background,” he said, but “if you appetite to abound as an artist, you gotta abound with the world.”

Coates has about been taken to bastille for his graffiti art, but says that it’s not account it.

“Graffiti nowadays is not a game; you can actually lose your life,” he said. He has accompany who’ve been fined bags of dollars for cogent themselves in graffiti, he said.

For adolescent artists aggravating to get into the graffiti scene, he said, don’t accident your life. Find means to do your art accurately – like at contest like the Aerosol Can Slam, convenance all the time, and consistently abrasion a mask.

The accident has abounding a charge in the art community, according to Holmes. Not alone do these artists get a abode to accurate themselves, but bodies get to see the process, he said.

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“To advertise it like this to area bodies can watch ‘em and see it evolve, it’s absolutely neat,” Holmes said. “Hardly anybody paints like addition ... they’re all altered styles.”

The aboriginal announcement of this adventure misidentified the buyer of Napa Valley Art Food and Cartons and Crates. He is Jeff Holmes.

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