Awards Night
I’ve recently discovered a new outlet for my art - painting Traffic Signal Boxes - referred to as TSB’s.
I’ve done three so far, and Jade has done two. Since we paint together that’s five each, sort of. But we each have our own style, and our own page on the Urban Smart website.
This is my page, and this is Jade‘s. We’ve both got another box each pending, and have our eye on some more for after that. You have to live in the council area of the boxes that you paint, although it is possible that we could paint some elsewhere too, depending on who “owns” the box. Some are council boxes and some are Main Roads.
This is my first one, and the first one we painted.
rainbow net by wiccked
It’s based on a zentangle design, and the rainbow is also a pride symbol, so it’s my quiet gay pride box. Except it isn’t very quiet. It’s quite bright, and fits in really well in front of the car yard where it lives!
My next design is one of my Tree of Life series of paintings. The others are all on paper. #8 is on a TSB outside Capalaba State College.
Tree of Life #8 by wiccked
Only three sides of that one are painted.
Jade’s two boxes came before and after that one. Her first one is a puzzle - you can get the full text on her own website,
message on a box, by jade leth, photo by wiccked
Her second one, which is very close to Stephanie and Abigail’s school is a Fridge. Stephanie, Abigail, Kristian and even me all did paintings for it, which Jade has reproduced onto her box design.
Jade’s Fridge, by jade leth, photo by wiccked
You really need to go see that one on the Urbansmart website, so you can see all the sides - or go to my flickr photos and look at them all there. Those two are only three sided too.
My latest one is four sided, and feels like it’s out in the country, which is quite appropriate for it’s design, which is called My Country.
IMG_5492 by wiccked
Gum leaves and rivers, blossom and gumnuts, earth, sea and sun. And a dance or two. Named for the poem by Dorothea McKellar, and based on my love of this land, and this earth.
Each year the Brisbane City Council holds the Artforce Awards (the project used to be run by Artforce, but now it’s run by Urban Smart), and the artist get invited. We got our invitations today.
I also got an email telling me that “one (or more) of your artworks has been shortlisted in the 2010 Artforce Awards”.
Originally published at The Onion
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