Painting Projects Big and Small

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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Location Location Location

You can see the box on the right hand side of the pic. It sits outside Gloria Jeans Cafe and the Hogs Breath Cafe Coles as you can see has a big supermarket alongside. So there is heavy foot traffic and very heavy car traffic because you turn at the corner to go to Indooroopilly Shopping Town. As I... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

I will have to write to Qld Uni

any way the batteries are charged and so I will work on showing you the how of it all. Jo Sign in to see full entry.

With Traffic Signal boxes it is often the actual location that helps make the artwork whimsical or funny. This one is at the turn off to Qld University. The blokes that the fairies are throwing magic fairy dust to are scultped as gargoyles of a type inside the great court. (Central Courtyard.) They... Sign in to see full entry.

To See Today's Project

click here http://www.busywomen.com.au/recovery_resources.htm The Traffic Signal Box sides are what I am about to go out and paint. I am blogging the entire project. It may be boring or too fiddly to some. But for those who would like to do a box too! I might be much needed support, Jo Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

William Booth

This electricity box is on the corner as you turn into the street that houses the Moonyah detox and rehab in Brisbane. There are haiku messages on each side of the box. It was quite a trick to paint this box in appropriate colours. All of the old photos of Booth were quite black and dark and you... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 5, 2005

Beyond The Brewrey

If it takes a long time to load this pic will probably be up by the time you have read what it is all about. The traffic signal boxes usually have three featured sides. So this one is a wrap around. I have a pic of where it will be situated and I will upload that soon. Suffice to say it is directly... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 4, 2005

Serenity

Here is the deal. I keep thinking that I have dropped the res on these pics and then when I load them here they still seem so big! So while this pic is loading you can be reading and then by the time you have finished at least enough of the pic will have loaded so that you get some idea of what I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 1, 2005

Traffic Signal Boxes

This is a local City Council Project. You can read about how it works here. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/artists_making_cents/110619 I like to keep two projects at a time bubbling away behind the surface of my business. Fancy having someone else provide the space for public art works pay for... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Getting ready

So you can see the sun damage and the disrepair of this space. The project will be to repair the chairs and the hang canvas awning and paint them on both sides. I will hang them paint them and then once sealed turn them inside out and start again. The idea is to Create shade for my plants they... Sign in to see full entry.

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