Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in. The rules are simple: 1) Create your image and post it up on your blog; 2) Put the "My Sunday Best" logo image link somewhere on your post so people can click and come by here; 3) Leave a comment here once you have posted; 4) Visit other posters' blogs and be amazed with their creativity! Please do not use this meme to advertise your goods or services. This is a creative meme and any inappropriate links or comments shall be removed immediately.
The theme is of your own choosing, so post on any subject you desire.
Last week, Emille in the USA posted some photos including a photo of her striking painting seen below. Please visit her pages for more interesting images.
The weather was rather grey, wet and cold today, so I delved into the archives to get some photos from a more clement day for the Travel Tuesday post! Fitzroy is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 2 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District. At the 2011 Census, Fitzroy had a population of 9,430. Planned as Melbourne's first suburb, it was later also one of the city's first areas to gain municipal status. It occupies Melbourne's smallest and most densely populated suburban area, just 100 Ha, bordered by Alexandra Parade (north), Victoria Parade (south), Smith Street (east) and Nicholson Street. Fitzroy has a long associations with the working class and is currently inhabited by a wide variety of ethnicities and socio-economic groups and is known for a culture of bohemianism, being the main home of Melbourne's Fringe Festival. Its commercial heart is Brunswick Street, which is one of Melbourne's major retail, eating, and entertainment strips. It has undergone waves of both urban renewal and gentrification since the 1950s. In response to past planning practices, much of the suburb is now a historic preservation precinct, with many individual buildings and streetscapes covered by Heritage Overlays. Its built environment is diverse and features some of the finest examples of Victorian era architecture in Melbourne. This post is part of the Our World Tuesday meme, and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme, and also part of theTravel Tuesday meme, and also part of theWordless Wednesday meme.
Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in. The rules are simple: 1) Create your image and post it up on your blog; 2) Put the "My Sunday Best" logo image link somewhere on your post so people can click and come by here; 3) Leave a comment here once you have posted; 4) Visit other posters' blogs and be amazed with their creativity! Please do not use this meme to advertise your goods or services. This is a creative meme and any inappropriate links or comments shall be removed immediately!
The mural above is found in Normanby Avenue, (corner of St Georges Rd), Thornbury, Melbourne. It is by Hayden Dewar. HaydenDewar works as an illustrator, muralist, storyboard artist and visual artist. Hayden produces imagery of a commercial and a personal nature. Media include painting, drawing digital illustration and design. Commercial pursuits include illustration for advertising and publishing, concept art and storyboard art for film, TV, and animation. Hayden is currently available as a commission based artist for murals, freelance illustration and storyboard art as well as private commissions. This post is part of the My Sunday Photo meme, and also part of the Photo Sunday meme, and also part of the Monday Murals meme.
Protesters in the Dandenong Ranges town of Emerald are braving near-zero night-time temperatures to stage a vigil, all in a bid to save a local bus shelter. Cardinia Shire Council has said the shelter is at the end of its life and wants to demolish it and build a new one. The protest has been organised by Emerald Community House (ECH), which uses the colourfully decorated bus shelter as a noticeboard. ECH manager Mary Farrow said the protesters were there to stop the shelter being demolished. "We've been putting up community information and community art [on the shelter] for seven years," she said. "We have an iconic art mosaic that was done by the youth, funded by the state of Victoria." The council maintains that the shelter is unsafe and has reached its useful life. It wants to replace it with a new glass one. Glass bus shelters are regularly vandalised all around Melbourne and the glass is regularly broken by hooligans. You can see the Council's views on the shelter here. This post is part of the Monday Mellow Yellows meme, and also part of the Blue Monday meme, and also part of the Through my Lens meme, and also part of the Seasons meme, and also part of the Monday Murals meme, and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme.
While visiting the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, there is a high probability that you will visit one of the nearby villages, which is a standard part of the "tour". The livelihood of the villagers depends on selling trinkets, souvenirs, sculptures and bric-a-brac to the tourists. We visited such a village and went on a tour of the alabaster "factory", where we were shown how the alabaster ware were made. Needless to say that the alabaster vases are mass produced in a Cairo factory using modern equipment and they are then shipped to these local shops where they put on sale. The "workmen" in these village "factories" go through the motions of "making" these vases using traditional techniques. I was more interested in the naive art murals that adorned these villages. As well as some copies of ancient Egyptian wall paintings, the majority of the murals depict folk art renditions of trips to Mecca. All Muslims who are capable of doing so must go on a pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca at least once in their life. It is beyond the means of most villagers and if one does succeed, it becomes a wonderful occurrence, which is commemorated in a series of murals on the home walls! So much for travel snaps... This post is part of the Monday Mellow Yellows meme, and also part of the Monday Murals meme, and also part of theBlue Monday meme, and also part of theThrough my Lens meme.
At the weekend we visited Canberra and on the way there we had a stop in Benalla. This is a small city located on the Broken River in the High Country north-eastern region of Victoria, Australia, about 188 kilometres north east of the state capital Melbourne. At the 2011 census the population was 9,328. It is the administrative centre for the Rural City of Benalla local government area.
We came across a trio of large portrait murals, painted side by side on the brick walls of the SEC building closest to Bridge St. It was easy to recognise the one by Rone, a well-known Melbourne street artist who has painted many murals in Melbourne and elsewhere. His trade mark is faces of women executed in a very realistic, chic style.
It turns out that Benalla hosted a street art fest from Friday the 27th until Sunday the 29th of March, when local and international street artists transformed 13 walls for the "Wall to Wall Festival". Wall to Wall is the first annual street art festival in Benalla, curated by Juddy Roller with the support of the Benalla Street Art Committee. The festival is all about rejuvenating the regional town and what better way to do is is to invite some big names in the street art world to paint bomb the walls out of Benalla. The line up for the three day festival includes: Adnate, Askew, Choq, Deams, Dvate, Ears, Guido Van Helten, Slicer, Rashe, Rone, Shwan Lu and Sirum.
The image by Guido Van Helten is painted from the photo of Ned Kelly’s nephew standing at the Kelly homestead in Greta West, just outside of Benalla in 1922. The wall in the picture is covered with carved initials. They included K.K., A.S., J.B., N.K., D.K., S.H., carved by Kate, Sherritt, Joe Byrne, Dan & Ned and Steve Hart, The Kelly gang and Family. Van Helten calls this image "Nostalgia I".
The central image is by Matt Adnate, an Australian painter who has established himself as a Street-Portrait artist. His realistic style is the signature to his work, using spray paint as his main medium. This stunning image of an Asian child clearly stands out for me as the pick of the three portraits here.
The last image by Rone is entitled "Darcy". This is the portrait of local Hides Bakery's waitress Darcy Spinks. Rone has given her the glamour treatment, allowing her to join his bevy of beauties of his past work.
1920s Photo of Ned Kelly's nephew used for portrait above
Matt Adnate's portrait of Asian Girl
Rone's portrait of "Darcy"
The real Darcy Spinks!
Unfortunately we did not have time to explore more of the murals in Benalla, but there is a video relating to the "Wall to Wall Festival" you can see here:
