Hand Painted Murial for Glastonbury

I've recently taken on a mammoth project with two of WHoArtNow's veteran painters, Steve and Nick. A giant hand-painted Murial, measuring an incredible 80 ft x 16 ft which will be used for Glastonbury & some other festivals for this Summer of 2008.

The giant image is hand painted in a distinctive Lichtenstein style, on up to 50 wooden boards, which will be assembled at the coming summer festivals. Steve and Nick are true Veterans of the Murial circuit, painting professionally as freelancers for almost the last three decades. I am very pleased to work with them & have them on-board with WHoArtNow on a more permanent basis.

I have to say the Glastonbury Murial is looking fantastic so far, the sharpness of the painting is second to none, and I really couldn't tell it apart from a screen print. The reality is that you could never screen print anything this big, there are just no screens large enough. And solvent printing may be a little bit cheaper, but they are no way near as durable as these hand-painted panels, each having up to 4 undercoats and a few layers of varnish over the top. This is precisely why a lot of our clients are regressing to using traditional hand-paintings again, it just looks that much more impressive, and gives the art a more traditional feel. We are finding more and more that art and design is turning full circle, with more and more clients choosing hand painted art over more modern Computer aided designs (CADs). When new technologies arrive they can wipe out entire industries, and it would be sad to see the skill of hand-painting to disappear. So we are working extra hard to make sure that it is not lost in the ages, a victim to the modern day computer and Adobe Photoshop.