Written by Carson Ting.Posted on September 25, 2020.Filed under Murals.Tagged mural, openroad, supra, toyota.Comments Off on Work in progress shots from our Toyota Supra mural in Richmond..
We wrapped up our mural for OpenRoad Toyota in Richmond a few days ago. It took us 7 solid days to finish. Much longer than we thought due to the scale and complexity of the piece. Big ups to Mark Illing for his strong assist. Here are a few photos I took last week. Final shots of the mural to come soon. Stay tuned for the official launch details.
These shots were all taken on day 4 of production. Timelapse and video to come soon.
Water-based spray paint from Montana used for indoors. Truly odourless but a little too drippy for my liking.
Lots of taping and masking for the sharp lines. I think we used over 8 rolls.
We just almost 2 gallons of red latex paint. Red is not a fun colour to use as it takes many coats for it to be truly opaque and takes a long time for it to dry.
We just almost 2 gallons of red paint from Sherwin Williams.
I am extremely grateful for all the shine I’ve been getting with all the projects I’ve been working on through my studio. Last week Herschel Supply put out a feature for Annie Chen and I through their Instagram stories.
Our mural titled ‘Westend Bestend’ features everything that defines the Westend. In particular, my mural features Joe Fortes (A prominent figure in the early history of Vancouver, and the city’s first official lifeguard.) heading west towards English Bay and a great blue Heron taking flight while Annie’s mural is made up of beautiful patterns and cute tiny critters. Both murals converge at the tip of Nelson and Nicola with a two-faced raccoon which you’ll need to see in person for the full effect.
Big thanks to the Herschel Supply team for coming out to document our work and for the interview. Visit @herschelsupply on Instagram stories to go through our entire interview.
⚡PSYCHED⚡ to share our ‘Meet You By The Mural’ BTS video. Watch to the end for a little fun surprise.
Months of work distilled down to 60 seconds to reveal our creative development process for SFU’s latest mural. From the initial ink on paper to digital assembly and finally, the physical installation of this giant mural, measuring 154 feet wide to over 14 feet high. Big ups to Prismtech Graphics Ltd. for the amazing quality print and bang-up installation job despite all the curvatures on the wall.
Project managed by Aiken Lao SFU Project lead by Ailsa Brown Illustration and Design: Carson Ting Colour design consultant by Lemonni Design Printed and installed by Prismtech Graphics LTD.
Happy Friday! Here’s a quick and fun process video of my HOPE mural. The video was deliberately made gritty, dirty and scratchy, kinda like the state we’re in but we remain hopeful. Hope is what we need to keep our vision straight and bright. Have a great long weekend everyone! Music made by the talented Paul Chin from Toronto.
Turn up the volume!
Thank you: Vancouver Mural Fest Vancity Bank Robson Street City Of Vancouver Goodbye Graffiti
Location: 1168 Robson Street, Vancouver.Digital captures from my Nikon D600 + Nikkor 50mm F1.4 non-ai while taking breaks.
A quick timelapse of my process.
Post-production notes:
The mural took 3 days in total. 1st day was mostly prep work. This included picking up paint and art supplies, priming the wall and sketch work (using a grid system and a good old fashioned chalk).
The grid technique I used for this mural project.
The 2nd day started early at 9am until 6pm. The bulk of the work was done on the 2nd day and on the 3rd day I spent half of the day finishing up details, fixing mistakes, and photographing the final wall.
Because of the COVID situation, I decided to solo the job to minimize any human interaction. The wall was done almost exclusively with spray paint (from Layout art supplies) for speed. I didn’t have access to water and didn’t know how I was going to treat greywater so it only made sense to spray bomb the whole wall.
Fun fact:
The fact that I was soloing the job meant I didn’t have anyone to look after my gear if I had to go to the bathroom, so I decided to not drink anything for the entire time I painted. I was in eco-mode for the entire time which I was quite surprised how well my body adapted. Happy that I didn’t have to resort to adult diapers. ;)
“Everything that is done in the world is done by HOPE.”
—Martin Luther King
✨A Dash of Hope✨ is all we need. I’m super pumped about this new mural I did for the Vancouver Mural Festival and Vancity on 1168 Robson Street. Big thanks to Drew Young and the whole Vancouver Mural Festival team for inviting me to be among the 40+ artists to help brighten up the city with our art. It’s a sad sight to see what used to be a vibrant city to be now all boarded up in our battle against this pandemic.
We all just need a dash of HOPE while keeping away from each other and to stay home as much as we can to help continue to flatten this curve. We can do this.
Big shout out to City of Vancouver for the paint and supplies and Goodbye Graffiti for providing a protective coating to our (hopefully) temporary art. Also a big shout out to our amazing studio manager Aiken Lao for holding everything down remotely while I go paint. My apologies for all my late email, text, IG message responses.
Photo credit: Portrait shot by @Tootallthaison | A great talent. Give him a follow on IG.
Thank you to all the people that came to say hi from a safe distance, all the strangers that came up to give me props and thumbs up.
Digital captures from my Nikon D600 + Nikkor 50mm F1.4 non-ai while taking breaks.Digital captures from my Nikon D600 + Nikkor 50mm F1.4 non-ai while taking breaks.The talented Jopa stenciling tags on each and every mural. Check out his work on IG: https://www.instagram.com/brotherjopa/
And finally to the random crow that stalked me for all three days, thanks for stealing my bag of skinny nibs. You can suck it crow bird.
A victory prance after wrapping up the project.A work in progress shot.
Last Friday, GDC BC hosted an event called ‘Practivism X‘ that was designed to inspire attendees about the power of design and how it can spark societal change. The event was held at The Reliance Theatre in Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
For the event, we teamed up with Scott Gray from Mitchell Press to come up with a fun interactive mural. Attendees were invited to peel stickers off of the heads of two characters covered in our custom illustrations to reveal the word ‘PRACTICE’ on one mural, and the word ‘ACTIVISM’ on the second mural. Within minutes both murals were completely stripped naked to reveal the words inside the character’s heads and shared on social media.
