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 :)

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

                                                             Marga from Italy

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

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.

Horse Mural begins

I have been commissioned to paint a mural for an animal farm, what one might call a petting zoo.
This is being done in between work on building Art School Waihi and is an opportunity for Girl Friday, my invaluable art school manager, to get first hand experience in mural painting.

Restaurant Mural: Cibo, Parnell, Auckland

Waihi Murals