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So after two recent fish artworks, and yesterday discovering its ocean week this week, now I'm seeing fish everywhere. Our friend Dave is at it again.
I was lucky enough to bump into a street artist at work yesterday
@pixie.london here finishing off a portrait of her late grandma. I instantly recognised her sig from the previous page, as she'd also done the excellent portrait of her dad from the previous page, this one:
I said I'd seen the one of her Dad and thought it a lovely tribute, and I'd seen a similar tribute an artist did to his late granddad with the 'goodnight Vienna piece' (from page 38) and was sorry if he had passed away. I'm delighted to report @pixie.london's dad is alive and well
. I felt a plum for fearing the worse, why wait for someone to die before doing a tribute? Too right, I'm full of admiration she did that for her dad, who I'm sure will get to see it and bask in the glow, what a lovely present. High fives all round, 
. I looked up @pixie.london later and found her website, her name is Janey Louise Fletcher. It turns out Janey was practising these portraits as she was going to do a Vicky Pollard (from TV show Little Britain) piece at the Meeting of Styles street art festival in Germany, which I've just looked up and it runs from 14-17th June. More info here: http://www.meetingofstyles.com/blog/14-17-june-2018-wiesbaden-germany/. She's also off to the Upfest Festival in Bristol in July.
I mentioned I'd just taken a picture each day over the course of a week of the work on the previous page, and wondered out loud how much those concertina lifts were to hire. Straight off the bat Janey said £500 per day each. Woah, they had 2 for a week, that's £7000 just for the lifts, add in paint, 2 artists pay for a week, and the cost of cones and barriers.....that was obviously a big paid/sponsored thing, but even so I had no idea it got that expensive. I was reassured by Janey's plastic step that there are lower cost options available.
Janey also said it was her friend who did the excellent wool 'techni-colour yawn' from a few pages back. She said in the end someone set fire to it
. I know street art can be transient, but that was a despair at your fellow man moment for me. Any idiot can break stuff, but it takes skill and dedication to make something, so another big thanks to all the creatives out there. And thank you Janey for taking the time to talk to me, good luck in Germany
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I was lucky enough to bump into a street artist at work yesterday
@pixie.london here finishing off a portrait of her late grandma. I instantly recognised her sig from the previous page, as she'd also done the excellent portrait of her dad from the previous page, this one:
I said I'd seen the one of her Dad and thought it a lovely tribute, and I'd seen a similar tribute an artist did to his late granddad with the 'goodnight Vienna piece' (from page 38) and was sorry if he had passed away. I'm delighted to report @pixie.london's dad is alive and well
. I felt a plum for fearing the worse, why wait for someone to die before doing a tribute? Too right, I'm full of admiration she did that for her dad, who I'm sure will get to see it and bask in the glow, what a lovely present. High fives all round, . I looked up @pixie.london later and found her website, her name is Janey Louise Fletcher. It turns out Janey was practising these portraits as she was going to do a Vicky Pollard (from TV show Little Britain) piece at the Meeting of Styles street art festival in Germany, which I've just looked up and it runs from 14-17th June. More info here: http://www.meetingofstyles.com/blog/14-17-june-2018-wiesbaden-germany/. She's also off to the Upfest Festival in Bristol in July.I mentioned I'd just taken a picture each day over the course of a week of the work on the previous page, and wondered out loud how much those concertina lifts were to hire. Straight off the bat Janey said £500 per day each. Woah, they had 2 for a week, that's £7000 just for the lifts, add in paint, 2 artists pay for a week, and the cost of cones and barriers.....that was obviously a big paid/sponsored thing, but even so I had no idea it got that expensive. I was reassured by Janey's plastic step that there are lower cost options available
.Janey also said it was her friend who did the excellent wool 'techni-colour yawn' from a few pages back. She said in the end someone set fire to it
. I know street art can be transient, but that was a despair at your fellow man moment for me. Any idiot can break stuff, but it takes skill and dedication to make something, so another big thanks to all the creatives out there. And thank you Janey for taking the time to talk to me, good luck in Germany.
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