Saturday morning muckabouts.
I swear my eyes are actually pale blue tho
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Squish
Some behind the scenes snippets from my big ‘ol mural.
I was well beyond the comfort of a small canvas, and certainly had never picked up a spray can, so I spent about a week mucking around on a wall that was inevitably going to be covered up.
Swipe for the final mural —>
• 1-2: trial no.1. Using Bunnings sample paint for the base and black spray paint for the outline. Here, I discovered that spray cans are fun.
• 3: experimenting with a base coat of paint (a pale blue that I happened to have) and all spray paint on top. The undercoat was awful to paint on the brick, but it made the colour pop.
• 4: outlining the blocked colour from test no.2
• 5: testing colours. Nothing special about the design, mostly just seeing how the colours interacted with each other.
• 6: a beetle bug. Testing the subjects.
• 7: toying with adding people… this didn’t eventuate
• 8: the final
Twiggy
- gouache
With a week or so of practicing on an empty wall, I figured out how to hold a spray can and eventually built up enough courage to attempt this whomping mural! Although I have never, ever painted anything larger than a standard canvas and certainly haven’t tried anything in the realm of street-art, I couldn’t bypass the opportunity to paint a mural at @rockitclimbing_derwentpark when it arose. πΌπ
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There’s still plenty to learn but the goal was to get some colour and fun onto what was a very dim wall… I’m happy with how it turned out! More pics/process to come π
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Leaning on a wall
Lil commission drawing π«Ά
Mum and friend x
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My own face is the easiest to paint because I won’t get offended if it ends up ugly. π»