And so to the Tower. Angelo had this great idea of painting these towers in the countryside around Grottaglie. It was more difficult finding a suitable tower though as many of them store electrical generators and have wires coming out the top. Not so good with a cherry-picker.
We even door-stepped a princess, yes a real life princess, to ask if we could paint the tower on her land. She was totally up for it and even asked me why I wanted to paint something so ugly and I mumbled something about it being beautiful when I’m finished with it. So we were about to set off when she realized that I wanted to paint the tower, not paint a picture of it. She changed her tune fairly fast, too much risk with the generator inside and all that. Dammit. At least I got to speak to a real live princess.
So this tower was the eventual candidate. I was well happy with the location, perched amongst the vineyards. Nice.
I took a looser approach to handling the figures this time round, using white emulsion and a brush with black spraypaint. The oil- based spraypaint and the water-based emulsion don’t like eachother but I think that gives a nice raw finish.
Tags: Fame festival, post-graffiti, Street Art, Studio Cromie, Vineyards, Walls
June 26, 2009 at 12:36 am |
Looks great! How tall is it? The wrap around the corner is fresh.
June 30, 2009 at 1:09 pm |
[...] June 30, 2009 A nice series of photos showing the process of making Conor’s piece on a water tower in Italy. Link. [...]
July 1, 2009 at 7:16 am |
Fantastic work and as amazing as ever.
Really looking forward to visiting grottaglie for this years FAME.
July 10, 2009 at 11:53 am |
Wow looks amazing I saw your work in lazarides close up – even nicer!