In January I had my Grandson, Mateo, all to myself for a week. We went on a road trip down the North Island from Auckland to Wellington visiting friends and family on the way.
On the first stage of this journey he and I made an addition to the mural gallery in Waihi; a flat earth mural under the Fibonacci sequence mural. Mateo's first go at large scale reproduction of one of his and his Father's designs. It's not too bad, we could probably do better and I look forward to the time when we will :)
The person who commissioned this mural had an extremely aggressive and argumentative business style and paid me only a little over half of the cost. Still I was happy with a job well done, the cool photo above that my friend Eric took of me at completion of the work and the freedom to get on with my life.
Shop keepers and Artists are not a good mix
Work continues on the Mural Gallery...
Photo by Chelsea Haines from Atlanta, Georgia who was staying at Art School Waihi for a week and came to see myself, Bronagh and Chiara working on the Mural Gallery.
Lily, an English artist, came to stay at Art School Waihi and helped out on the mural gallery
Marga from Italy
Johnny's owl and Bronagh's fish nearing completion..
On a long black wall in an alleyway running between shops on the main street in Waihi the second mural has been completed. The goal is to cover the whole wall in a montage of different murals.
This mural is commercial art for the Hush Puppy Shoe brand
