This piece has been a long time coming. The photos of the mural have finally made it to cyberspace and I can rest at last.
I have been working on this at intervals over the last year, beginning in March 2012 and finalizing it in 2013. Between university, work, family and social commitments, I have been slowly hacking away at this. It feels good to finally have something to show for it. Below is a client testimonial from Jackie Pettit at The Shack.
For someone who has mostly worked with portrait and small scale pieces to this day, working with street/mural art is an entirely new realm. I have long been fascinated with mural art, but time and efforts has never allowed me to part-take in such a project until this was offered to me.
The youth centre I attended for many years as a teenager posted up a photo of a large canvas they had put up sometime in 2012 and sent it to me on facebook. This is where the journey begin.
So given a large, public work space and freedom to experiment I couldn’t say no. This is created for The Shack Youth Outreach Epping, located behind St Alban’s church at: 3 Pembroke Rd in Epping NSW
As a non-profit, self funded drop in centre, The Shack operated over the last 10 years with the support of local residents and clubs in providing a safe saven and assistance to local youth in the Northern Districts of Sydney.
The design was created mostly from a quick sketch and a lot of improvisation. However I am thankful that the lovely ladies at the youth centre got this set up for me and waited patiently whilst I made with my slow and often interrupted progress.
Boring details aside, from here onward are the progress photo.
Watch me paint, it’s exhilarating. Really. If you have ever watched an artist at work, you will find new reasons for fast forward buttons.
I did a lot of prancing around on this glorious day. The moment was jolly, the day was sunny… and the photo, will it would have been perfect if the shadows stopped playing tricks on me.
Thank you for reading! Hopefully you enjoyed the pictures.
