Mural Walk makes page 12 of the Toronto Sun

The Mural Walk that was held on Thursday Aug 27th was a blast! About 20-25 people showed up: Building owners, City staff, friends of the Mural Project and the media came out for 45 minutes and walked to 3 locations in the Queen and Bathurst area. To see a video link, click here.

Please join us for a Walking tour this Thursday Aug. 27th @ 10 am

This Thursday August 27th @ 10 am, youth from HCC's mural project will be leading a walking tour of 3 murals that we completed this summer. Please join us @ 10 am at 318 Bathurst Street (1/2 block south of Dundas on the west side of Bathurst). For more info: download the event press release.

Spirit of the Sea“Spirit of the Sea” is a design created for the purpose of beautifying the Harbourfront Community Centre boat. The concept behind the piece relates to the mythology and fantasy associated with the sea. Mythical creatures and dream-like images reflect a world of wonder and imagination. The mermaid featured at the bow (front) of the boat, represents the spirit (or soul of the sea who watches over the waters and all of its creatures. The images are meant to illustrate a sense of harmony, the constant cycles of the moon and sun and the ebb and flow of the waves.

Pictured here are the artists that made this project happen: (Front Row L-R) Michael Brown, Ryan Beckford, Kirsent Webb; (Standing L-R) Brittany Martel, Jessey Pacho (behind), Anya Karir, Max Ouelette, Jasper Urbina and Jared VanderReest

Youth Link in the week of Monday, Aug 10-15 2009.

On Monday Aug. 10th, we went to the YouthLink which is located at Queen and Spadina Street. We spent a week there, painting walls and the doors. Before we painted the walls, they were all graffitis, a whole bunch of writings there. They were a mess. So now, that we have finished "decorating" the walls...they are much better looking than before. We used, spray paint, paint and tempra paint. We had fun.


These are the three boys from our mural project, they are posing for a picture. Here, you will see, Jared, Jessey and Japser pretending to spray paint. The picture, however, were used for

Painting a sailboat at the The National Yacht Club.

The mural project started painting on a boat, with a permission from the HCC, of course. As you can see by the pictures, we had fun, but we also took a lot of time and effort to get things right. And, ahem, we kind of fooled around a bit.

Anya and Kirsten painting happily...please don't mind Kirsten, she was just fooling around.


Jasper giving it a "go" to paint a boat, and he looks like he is having fun!
Michael using french curves on the boat...

Max and Jessey cleaning the boat with solvent paint.

Ryan sketching on the boat...

The HCC boat, her name is Austra II. This was taken before the paint or the sketching got there. Beauty, isn't she? But wait till you see her now!! AMAZING!

Variety Village on July 29th 2009.

On July 29th, the mural project went to the Variety Village to do some art activities with the kids. We played/did pass and draw, pictionary, string beads, face painting, origami and booklets.
The kids had fun, and so did we!!

A play dough structure, by one of the kids at the Variety Village...

Kids at Variety Village playing pictionary with the mural project...

Break Dancing at July 24th, Cypher by the Lake!

On July 24th, the mural project got involved with the HCC youth program. We did live painting, we did some breakdancing. We also ate hotdogs- yum!! We were hoping that someone will buy our paintings, but oh well..


Live painting by mural painters.

Jessey busts some moves....

This guy is breakdancing...