Graffiti grannies! Armed with spray cans, Portuguese pensioners take to the streets to show off their art skills Portugal's oldest graffiti artists belong to group called Lata 65 ...

Four grandmothers from Aberdeen appeared on This Morning today to showcase their graffiti art skills. Holly and Phil also picked up the spray cans, with Holly exclaiming 'this is so great'.

Both are around a metre high, although they lack the detailing using layers of stencils and spray paint which is the hallmark of Banksy's distinctive 'look'.

The image of a parachuting rat was believed to be the only remaining work by the British artist left in the city, after vandals tipped paint over a stencil of a diver in 2008. Cleaners however ...

It is the first time the Lata-65 Young At Art project, which teaches graffiti to pensioners, has taken place in the UK. Pearl Cameron, 68, a retired teddy-bear maker, signed up for the classes ...

Fairey — whose 2008 Barack Obama portrait, “Hope,” distributed first in LA, became iconic — says he realized street art’s power after his stencils of outsize wrestler Andre the Giant ...

But after spending 16 years spray-painting underground, SEEN, real name Richard Mirando, became disillusioned with the graffiti scene and set up his own tattoo parlour as a way to continue making art.

Coun Nigel Francis (Con, Otley and Wharfedale) said of graffiti: "It can be used as an art form if it is done in a specific area. If children aren't given a place to do it, property will be damaged".

Scottish News Aberdeen Scottish 'graffiti grannies' spray paint Aberdeen city centre wall A group of 16 pensioners sprayed a mural on a wall in the Granite City as part of the Nuart Aberdeen festival.