03-19-2015, 11:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-19-2015, 11:11 PM by panamaniac.)
This is kinda cool:
Huge mural will rise this summer along Kitchener's River Road
Waterloo Region Record
By Gordon Paul
KITCHENER — When you are an artist with an ugly 30-metre-long backyard fence, it's only a matter of time before the paint hits the brush.
"My wife's been after me for 10 years to paint this fence," says Kitchener artist David Whitley. "She was the one who really pushed me: 'Why don't you do this? This is sitting there, it's an empty fence, it's kind of ugly, there's nothing there and it has such potential.'
"I thought, 'I don't know, I don't know,' and I hummed and hawed about it."
Then, last July, Whitley, 48, got inspired to do much more than a simple Tom Sawyer whitewash job.
He is painting 25 4x8-foot (1.5x2.5-metre) panels for a mural that will span the length of the back of the fence facing busy River Road in Kitchener. The project will end up taking "hundreds and hundreds of hours," Whitley said in an interview Thursday.
The mural's theme is childhood and will feature Whitley's paintings of such things as a dinosaur with a roller-coaster on its back, a man sleeping on a camel and a masked sasquatch wearing running shoes. ...
...Whitley has launched aKickstarter campaign to try to raise $6,500 to pay for materials. It is a little more than halfway to the target with a March 31 deadline looming.
"We're hoping the cavalry comes in at the last minute and helps us out," he said.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5516...iver-road/
Huge mural will rise this summer along Kitchener's River Road
Waterloo Region Record
By Gordon Paul
KITCHENER — When you are an artist with an ugly 30-metre-long backyard fence, it's only a matter of time before the paint hits the brush.
"My wife's been after me for 10 years to paint this fence," says Kitchener artist David Whitley. "She was the one who really pushed me: 'Why don't you do this? This is sitting there, it's an empty fence, it's kind of ugly, there's nothing there and it has such potential.'
"I thought, 'I don't know, I don't know,' and I hummed and hawed about it."
Then, last July, Whitley, 48, got inspired to do much more than a simple Tom Sawyer whitewash job.
He is painting 25 4x8-foot (1.5x2.5-metre) panels for a mural that will span the length of the back of the fence facing busy River Road in Kitchener. The project will end up taking "hundreds and hundreds of hours," Whitley said in an interview Thursday.
The mural's theme is childhood and will feature Whitley's paintings of such things as a dinosaur with a roller-coaster on its back, a man sleeping on a camel and a masked sasquatch wearing running shoes. ...
...Whitley has launched aKickstarter campaign to try to raise $6,500 to pay for materials. It is a little more than halfway to the target with a March 31 deadline looming.
"We're hoping the cavalry comes in at the last minute and helps us out," he said.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5516...iver-road/