Sunday, August 30, 2009

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.

Monday, August 17, 2009

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

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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...




Friday, July 31, 2009

A Bunch of G's Chillin'



On July, 30th Harbourfront Community Centre's Youth Wilderness Project visited the beach. We discovered that it is faster to ride a bike to the beach than to take the TTC from the Centre. Some of the activities we did were football, swimming, volleyball, play catch, eat, and most importantly relaxing in the shade.









Thursday, July 23, 2009

Mural Project transforms corner store at 230 Bathurst St. (north of Queen on west side)


Jared cleaning the wall for the mural.

Adding some touches to the final pieces.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009

Survey Question # 1: What do you like best about your community?














Photo by HCC mural project, 2008

Survey Question #2: What makes you feel unsafe in your community?



Photo by HCC mural project, 2008

Mural Project Rough Designs for HCC Sail Boat Please vote for your favourite in comments!


Astra-ology:
By Brittany, Jared and Ryan




Spirit of the Sea:
By Anya, Kirsten and Michael



Abstrakt Soul
By: Jasper,Jessey, and Max

Group colab


So this was our first group "project", it was pretty much a "draw and move" process to see our groups creative genius this is our art baby.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Welcome To The Official Blog of HCC

Welcome all to Harbourfront Community Centre's new blog. Take a look around and leave us a comment!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Sunset by Tara

When I thought about a sunset it made me draw a sunset.
When it was done it look like a master piece.
It made feel harmonious and warm and comfortable.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Painting from a projection


Jessica lent us the media cart, Stephen, Jeremy, Ana and Michael use paint markers to paint in the lines...Adeyemi shoots video....and Ryan plays the piano...

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Sparkly Building


Me and Javon did this together. I drew it with pencil first and when I was done, I painted it. We painted together. I used a sponge. I thought the sponge would rinse the painting but it didn't. When I was done I used gloss to make it shiny. By Robert.

Selena's and Myah's and Tara's paintings








ME AND MYAH AND TARA PAINTED TWO PANTINGS AND IT WAS FUN. BY SELENA.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Buildings


I like the Tip Top Tailors buliding because a long time ago it use to be a clothes factory and now it is a condo and people live there. The building is also across the street from my house.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

The beach


Beaches are all over the world. Beaches have lots of coconuts. Beaches can be an island too. Beaches have sea creatures in the oceans. Beaches have lots of shells. Beaches are really hot. The water is hot or cold. Beaches are very cool.
Ethan

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Sun Setting by Avani Karir

I think this is a catchy painting and you can buy it.