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Finished this today. It's based on a folk tale from 1649 about a kid who went to fairy parties on Calton Hill near Leith. One time some soldiers tried to get the kid to show them where the entrance on the hill was and and the fairies got upset and murdered him.
Fun times
https://www.scotclans.com/story-…
It's house paint and acrylic gouache.
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- lovely workfadein11
- Cheers Fadein!
I like painting those boxes but they're magnets for dog pee so painting the bottom parts were rough.PhanLo - great work!Krassy
- Super cool. Do you apply to the city for this sort of thing or just renegade it?scarabin
- Nice!GuyFawkes
- Did you paint it on site? Or is it a wrap that you painted and applied? Great work man_niko
- @scarabin this one was paid for by the company doing Tramworks on the road but I've painted a few over the years, never as detailed though.PhanLo
- @_niko I painted it on site over two days, got a bit fiddly near the ground level.PhanLo
- gorgeuos!neverscared
- Awesome! I love it!brt44
- that's greatFax_Benson
- Love the color palette!Leigh
- love it, nice workBluejam
- In a town close to Frankfurt, they just invite artists to do art like yours (German article): https://www.hessensc…SimonFFM
- Nice. In Taiwan they paint all of those street power box things, with local landscapes:shapesalad
- https://www.lenscult…shapesalad
- Cheers folks!
@Simon, yep, Germany like France has had a healthy attitude toward public art. Like it's just part of the culture.PhanLo - That project was really successful with good public interaction, but the council folk don't see the benefit. So instead of building on it they move on.PhanLo
- I sometimes get messages from people that say a certain painting lifts their mood everytime they see it. That's the power of public art. @shapesalad Cheers!PhanLo
- This is really superb, Phan!Continuity
- You're growing up before our very eyes @PhanLo!!!
So... Proud...ideaist - Awesome, dude. As alwaysGnash
- Killer stuff. I truly hope nobody tags it or defaces it. Really dig the color palette!stoplying
- You can't go wrong with eye alignment, just requires a straight linei_was
- Only in Scotland could fairies murder some cuntNairn
- Hey, Phanlo - do you have any decent how-to/educational resources on painting over projected images? I have a client wanting to do a 12m-wide design...Nairn
- ...which is impractical for the 36"x24" stencilling sheets I usually use. (I often register multiple sheets together, but his design doesn't fit this well)Nairn
- Love it!mort_
- @ I_Was he's pretty Slothed out in that sketch for sure.PhanLo
- @stoplying they get fairly hammered with dog pee and people spit on them a lot too. It's really random how long they last, the lack of outdoor boozing helps.PhanLo
- @Nairn Depending on how complex it is, I'd usually create some grid points with tape that I could align the projector up with. I've been using watercolour...PhanLo
- pencils to draw stuff on walls as it can be removed reasonably easy with a wet brush. So get one near the colour your painting.
Get some frog tape to mask the..PhanLo - area off you want to paint then block it in with a mini roller. We just painted a tech company's floors and they wanted a giant QR code, that we just gridded...PhanLo
- out. Then frog taped out the design. Think we were about £180 in tape by the end of the job.PhanLo
- But little guide points to register will really help. Look forward to the Nairn blog post about it ;-)PhanLo
- Nice PhanLo!!! Now that you have the template for the boxes, you should create your own gorilla art campaign...and plaster the city with them.utopian
- @Utopian, yep for defo, I reckon I can get away with undercoating them a colour and putting a sticker on the main face. I look like an old workman now :-)PhanLo
- Súper cool!Chimp