Liverpool
If you're not completely sure graffiti is for you, the two-hour class at Zap Graffiti is a good starting point. Learn the basics, led by an experienced tutor, and create your first painting on a poster to take home. Materials and utensils are provided; all Zap requires from you is a rough idea of what you'd like to paint.
From £30; zapgraffiti.co.uk/classes-in-liverpool
Birmingham
Graffiti Artist sessions promise the real deal in street art, offering one-hour spray paint workshops with a professional artist. In any sized group, of any ability, learn how to form lettering, shading techniques and use of colour. For anyone aged over 10 years old years old.
£45; graffitiartist.com
Black Isle, Scotland
When not creating customised murals for skateparks and kids' bedrooms, or running workshops for young offenders, the graffiti collective Fresh Paint, based in the Scottish Highlands, hosts lessons for keen amateurs.
Nationwide
Made up of a team of professional artists, many of whom have been painting for over 30 years, Positive Arts holds workshops across the UK, working primarily with young people. It doesn't run regular sessions, but workshops and lessons can be arranged on request for any age, ability or group size. Choose from working on a canvas, contributing to a community mural or painting on one of London's five "legal walls".
Nationwide
Based in Manchester, but working across the country, Graff Workshop offers a wide variety of workshops, from birthday parties to team bonding days. It also offers the rWall: a digital graffiti experience, like painting but minus the mess. A modified can "sprays" infrared light on to a screen, which is digitally tracked, appearing as "paint". You can even add an animated drip effect. The image is saved as a jpeg so it can be posted online.
