Fibonacci and the Flat Earth Mural

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 :)

Bhudda's Eyes

   
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

Horse Mural; Chase on a red field..

Work continues on the Mural Gallery...

The Mural Gallery Artists At Work

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.

Art School Waihi Mural

 Lily, an English artist, came to stay at Art School Waihi and helped out on the mural gallery

The Mural Gallery Continues.. enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

                                                             Marga from Italy

                                Johnny's owl and Bronagh's fish nearing completion..

The Mural Gallery

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.

Various Murals. enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

Dog Mural

 This mural is commercial art for the Hush Puppy Shoe brand

In a Mission Bay Bar

Department of Conservaton Mural

Nelon Mural Tutorial

'Temptation' by Nikki Romney and friends

I was invited to Nelson to teach some artists all the little tricks and tips of  large scale exterior painting.  

Nikki Romney, above left, a brilliant portrait artist who works in oils was the instigator of this project and with many emails back and forth she found some funding for me for the travel expenses and a wall and worked up a design.

We screened her unfinished (!) design up with my overhead projector early Friday morning and Nikki had her first taste of working in acrylic. 

We were joined on Saturday by Betty Salter, an animal portrait artist mainly who can paint anything.

On the Sunday we were joined by five other artists and that was stressful but fun.

Karin Fruehauf, above right, was one of those five and she came back Monday too which was my last day on the job having allowed 4 days to impart my knowledge and experience and get it up and running and the final design worked out and with my three new artist mates onto it and confident.

Great to be working with other artists.

Street Art 14 11 13

Painting Puppies

 

Pop Art Murals

 Corporate Art designed to brighten up the working day of  the staff at Yellow Pages. Fun to do.