Street Artist
HAPPY DECAY is an Australian street artist. Here are related articles for mural paintings and street art work. Based around the Sydney – Canberra region.
University of Canberra Street Art
August 2, 2019 / From Mural Paintings
Canberra Street Art & Urban Beautification This street art was for the University of Canberra. The original project started with requesting me to create an illustration / mural for their POPP outdoor ping pong table though after some discussion it was decided that a full urban makeover would be a good extension to this space. […]
Sydney School Mural Painter
June 18, 2019 / From Murals & Illustrations
School Mural Painting Recenlty a Sydney school contacted me in regards to painting a mural for them. As a part of my mural process creating a rough illustration of the mural after the intail briefing is the first visual step for the overall mural painting direction. If you like you can view my folio of […]
Sydney Mural Painting with Mulga the Artist
June 12, 2019 / From Murals & IllustrationsSydney Mural Painter – Mulga the Artist I’m heading to Sydney tomorrow to go and help with painting a mural with Sydney mural painter Mulga the Artist. Now when I say help, this is more or less me probably going to be doing blocking in work, fetching paint, cleaning brushes and running to get the […]
Painting a Mural Checklist
June 10, 2019 / From Tips & Tricks
Get ready to paint a mural What I will cover here are the items I needed for a recent mural in Canberra. The mural also consisted of running a few workshops with the time a well. In general, before starting the mural it is important to know the size of the mural, the condition of […]
Mural Artist in Canberra
June 6, 2019 / From Murals & Illustrations
Mural Project in Woden – Canberra As someone who had lived in Canberra for over 10 years and since made the move down the South Coast (some people say Canberra’s beach come holiday time), it’s nice to be heading back to apply my street artist skills to this mural in Woden. Most of my time […]
Live Mural Painter at the Festival
June 5, 2019 / From Murals & IllustrationsThis Saturday as a part of the River of Art festival, I’ll be doing a live mural painting at the Moruya Markets. I will be set up for painting the mural from around 7am then will be painting to about 1pm. I will have a temporary wall created from plywood to paint on and will […]
Woden Town Square Mural
June 4, 2019 / From Mural Paintings
Lovett Tower Mural in Woden This mural was a project run by Transport Canberra and City Services. The location was at Woden Town Square around the base of the Lovett Tower. My responsibility was to complete a 25m long by 3m high mural within a week while also running a number of mural workshops with […]
Street Artist in Canberra
May 19, 2019 / From Mural Paintings
Canberra Street Artist Responsibilities Live mural painting for the day Paint two murals, each 2.4m X 2.4m As a part of the street artist mural category for Art, Not Apart in Canberra, I painted two wall murals for the festival. I created a custom illustration first on my digital sketchbook then printed this out for […]
Fitness Tips for Mural Painters & Street Artists
May 18, 2019 / From Tips & TricksThe Body as a Tool I had a little laugh to myself when starting off this article, think about it, fitness tips for artists. But the facts are one day, after doing a full day or even working on a 5 day mural something in your body is going to just ache. If you are […]
Bear with Bunny Slippers
May 17, 2019 / From Freestyle Illustration
This illustration was going to be stand alone street art though go used in a larger mural. The main figure is a bear who is wearing an African mask while casually wearing bunny slippers. The idea is that what may seem frightening on appearance is actually soft and cuddly. This type of illustration could work […]
