last days

The mural is now fully operational, youre welcome to go by and give it a high five. These are two very important people, Georges from Antico Martini - who fed me several solid meals - and Elizabeth who did everything for me so I could just paint without any distractions or preoccupations.

you can see the final Monitor article here - http://www.themonitor.ca/article-267890-NDG-mural-celebrates-Diversitree.html

the signature was later modified to add Prévention NDG and correct caisse "populaire" ndg
and I couldn't fit in everyone but Guillaume and George Blott leant a heavy hand throughout, as well as Sean 109 from Royal Taxi!

thank you NDG!

end of days aaaaaaaaaaand done!

The next post will have the final product without the scaffold..I will announce the inauguration of the wall in case you can come as well!

pre floral product

the cage

my lovely lady posing by the sage flowers that were added on the last day









An unexpected appearance in the NDG Monitor..

with big Carlito at his mural inauguration

days off - between the lines

Among the many distractions throughout the mural where the Journees de la Culture weekend, where I was asked to create an interactive live art event at the heart of the events.

Every thing turned out great and if you wish to see more on this youre welcome to backtrack on my flickr to see more - http://www.flickr.com/photos/peru143/




I also escaped to Ottawa for a couple of days to help my friend move and we sneaked a piece in on the local hall of fame..

Day in Day out

Making the world a better place, one neighbourhood at a time.
Assisting work by Guillaume and George, or Team G-Force as they are known in the streets



and Antico Martini of course, who have been plenty generous, feeding us whenever hungry
Big ups!

Days of our lives

here i am connecting the sky to the mural..Alizabeth had a genius idea the other day..she said it would be great to make seasonal art landscapes where every turn of season you'd change the colour of the leaves and then make them fall, and then cover it in snow
I'll be working on that idea..

Days go on

The sketching was fast and easy, its colour time!

photgraphy by Guillaume le Grand

Dia Uno

Monday night, Guillaume, George and I got to the wall and projected the outline of the tree..

It was a little chilli..

but I took us a lot less than we expected ;)

to be continued..

patching up a broken heart

SO, unfortunately this evil man got his way and we had to cover the wall in gray! Im sure the community is not very happy about this either, but that's politics..

I recently came back from an exhibit in Toronto as the Burroughes Gallery (which is up until the end of month - see detail below), and I started the next mural!






I titled it Diversitree as it remains along the theme of diversity and its a tree!
It is on the corner of Cavendish and Somerled, if you wish to pay us a visit (Im working along side my good friend George again on this one, and Guillaume helped me kick it off)

the sketch has changed from this version but i'll let it be a surprise..

Day Four

At 9am today I was blessed with another helpster, George Blott, my old colleague from college. We've painted (and continue to) many murals, and have even lived together so we know each other very well. George is one of my top 10 friends on Facebook. Actually I dont have that feature, but if I did, he would be up there.

thats me!

the fade in the sky has been quite a challenge being so large..I have ordered a gallon of purple to finish the gamma

unfortunately, at 6pm a man passed by to ask us to stop working as the Mayor received a call about he mural not being totally approved..we had a meeting that night where many people showed up to hear about the mural and artist, including local citizens, Mayor Tremblays brother and representatives from arrondisement Cote-des-Naiges, prevention NDG and Des Jardin. We explained out goal and everyone was very enthusiastic and supportive of out mission, but there was one rude man (a city official of the area) who spoiled it for everyone and now the project is on pause until Monday where a meeting will be had about this.

Crossing my fingers,
:peru