Hi-Fi Murals


Well, this summer has been all about the Beatty Street Mural, it was co-ordinated by Ace Pintura . Much time was spent painting and headaching over this project. I did get around to doing some other projects. The Peak House is a drug and alchohol halfway house for teens who got a retaining wall painted by me. A graffiti styled piece with the word "strength" and characters like a phoenix plus flowers. Photos will be posted soon! My favorite piece this summer was the "Monkey Wall". At least this is what we call it. I'd painted over an older mural of mine on Cordova Street in Vancouver titled "Kong". The original piece was painted in January of 2004 and it was starting to get weathered. Not bad for a south facing wall 6 and a half years. The new piece was something I had approached as I would one of my paintings. The piece is abstract with 2 graffiti letters. "S" for sez, me and "E" for Ekons, a friend who helped me with the piece. In addition to upcoming photos is a stop motion video I have almost finished editing. Speaking of videos......I had the pleasure of working with Alberto and Cecelia of Streetbox Videolab from Venice, Italy during the painting of the Beatty Wall. They put together eight videos of this huge project and you can see them by clicking on this link. Here are a list of the Beatty Street Mural videos Beatty Street Mural 1.1...an intro to the beginning of this mural with nighttime projections Beatty Street Mural 1.2...the beginning of painting on this wall including some great time lapse work Beatty Street Mural 1.3...a video tutorial on how to paint realistic looking rust Beatty Street Mural 1.4...we have some difficulty with our spray paint order and go to a hardware store to fix it Beatty Street Mural 2.1...we go to Seattle to pick up paint from Art Primo so we can continue with the wall Beatty Street Mural 2.2...a portion of the wall gets sandblasted by our friends at Franklin Industries Beatty Street Mural 2.3...another piece of wall is prepped for Peeta's piece Beatty Street Mural 2.4...Peeta is featured painting his amazing 2D sculpture Below are some photos of an ongoing project on the side of the new GROOP GALLERY in PG as well as a "mural" that's going on the side of the Studio 2880 building in P.G. This is painted on two sheets of plywood with one youth and one 'senior'. This will be put up alongside twenty or so other 'murals'. I consider it kind of small for a mural but, you say tomato........ The Groop Gallery is a new contemporary gallery in PG which has my full support by showcasing not only my ongoing mural project, but my first feature show and other ongoing shows in PG.
	Left: finishing touches on the Studio 2880 mural freestyled in my backyard. Right: Groop Gallery mural in PG. An ongoing project, full of madness.

Instead of galleries, I've also been staging high end homes to show my work. Generally high end houses and condos for sale that want to get spruced up for the open houses. This is a new approach for me and it explains why I haven't been as busy in the gallery world as much as I'd been in the past. I've posted photos of the new work and some of the staging on the artworks page.

	Left: the Studio 2880 mural complete, spraypaint on plywood. It is entitled "Circle of Life". In September, after the pieces go up I will post a photo of the mural alongside all the others up on the building. Right: a piece entitled "Rage of Enlightenment". Viewings are available by appointment. Just send an e-mail.
	On the left is the cube titled "The Wurld IS Flat". A 24" cubed version of one of my paintings. More photos forthcoming in September. To the right is a life drawing done in what is, I suppose my current life drawing style. I'm having fun with it.