All systems.......GO!

Its seems the weeks go by fast and its only when you look back that you realise how much can get done. Bonzai blessed us in the yard with a new piece and he is now in Los Angeles painting some huge walls. We finished the hubcaps painted by Tumi and some of the children from Alaska Informal Settlement in Mamelodi and also by the pupils from Thabisang Primary School in Soweto. Putting the finishing touches to the artworks was Streatham MP Chuka Umanna who came to visit and see what we were doing.
Watch this space and keep thinking of new ideas...whatever they are.

 New heat......Bonzai

 Enter the dragon

 Kung fu

 The Hulk

 www.viva-sa.co.za

 Tumi's Hubcap

 Chuka adds some detail

 nearly done

 Tumi and Chuka's finished piece

 The girls concentrate on the painting

 Jestr, own crew.....in the gallery

 Jestr, new pieces

 Venus Part 1....watch this space

 new pieces for outside

 more fish

 From Soweto to Notre Dame Estate

 The hubcaps in the flower

 Chuka adds the details

 just one more bit.....over there

 Thanks Chuka and Thabisang Primary School, Soweto

Watch our space...Soweto

The children of Thabisang Primary school in Orlando West, Soweto got together last week to design and paint a hub cap as part of our recycling project in Notre Dame Estate, London. The whole task was completed in just over an hour and we are looking forward to displaying the finished artwork shortly. Many thanks to Ekse and the children for creating this amazing art.

 Watch this....

 First we draw some designs

 lets think of a pattern

 we paint the hub cap

 first designs

 now add the graphics

 some fine detail

 we discuss style and technique

 we have more drawings

 Nearly finished

 The finished piece's

 Thank you Thabisang Primary School

 thanks guys

Our Hubcaps back in London

Watch our Space....South Africa.

On a recent trip to South Africa we dropped into the Alaska Informal Settlement in Mamelodi which is between Johannesburg and Pretoria in the Tshwane District. Many people here live in small homes often constructed using corregated iron sheets and various types of timber.
Some of the residents homes were painted and we managed to get a small group of young people together to paint a hub cap and some art for us which will be coming back to London to be displayed on our walls in the Notre Dame Estate.
Also during the visit we met Meleney and Leon Kriel who run the Viva Foundation which runs programs in the informal settlements and is doing positive things for the residents. Check out there website here www.viva-sa.co.za

 Before and...

 after!

 We are painting fish today

 Dave's home before

 finished

 At Boni's home

 thanks Boni

 Lets paint this

 The local artists get to work

 heads down its flouro dot time

 more stripes

 finished

 lets paint some found wood

 nearly finished

 The young people of mamelodi

 Completed piece

Our hubcaps back in London.