The lifts are off the site and the bulk of the painting is complete. The next step is getting the lights up and running, choosing a running pattern, and then stepping back to look. It’s important to see the paint under the influence of the light. This is where the magic happens. The painting process will continue guided by the way the LED colors make the paint glow and transform into a continuous rainbow of colors.
With the mural completion date fast approaching, Meg can be seen painting right until sundown. It’s not unusual for her to keep daylight savings hours, squeezing the final rays out of the day.
Philadelphia Team Repairs and Restores Murals
Read today’s Philadelphia Inquirer for a positive and informative story featuring The Evolving Face of Nursing.
Melissa Dribben describes the process of painting over older work, bringing new life. Meg Saligman and James Shuster are quoted, explaining the process of this mural. Of the technology planned for the mural, Meg says, ”This time, the nursing community was more interested in looking to the future.” And when asked what James is working on, he replies drily, ”I’m putting in the top of this guy’s head because he would be incomplete without it.”
Thanks to Melissa and the Inquirer for an excellent story.
Please click on the link for the whole article.
We are proud to announce our first exterior installation. Artist Alex Derwick has painted two figures on the front of Meg Saligman Studios. He is a founding member of the art collaborative The Tomohawks, based in White Plains, NY.
The work is designed as a representation of a private one sided relationship played out on a public wall. You can see more of Derwick’s work at his blog.
We hope to use this space as a changing gallery that showcases innovative projects.
The blazingly brilliant colors are now on the wall, in contrast to the primarily sepia toned sections.
Look for illusion to emerge. Flat surfaces pop into three dimensions.
The far right panel is well on its way, and the project is making fast progress.
Meg’s mural Common Threads, the most loved piece of public art in Philadelphia, is pictured in a new article about the City of Murals just published in Budget Travel’s blog This Just In.
You can link to it here:
http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2010/05/philadelphias_the_city_of_mura.html
It’s International Nursing Day, and Florence Nightingale’s birthday today, and nurses, administrators, sponsors and the media gathered at Broad and Vine Streets for a press conference.
It’s all kinds of up and down on the lift. Rather than use scaffolding, the team at Broad and Vine gets maximum flexibility with the lift.
Work continues on two panels. Here are James, Meg and Martin in various stages of liftoff, some anlges near and far, and a view from the top.
Mural is making exterior progress. Pre-painted panels are now being installed on the center panel of the work. And on the left side, a rough sketch is in place to guide installation of the next batch. Lights are all installed.