Signs - Movember

Sign photographed in November last year in Fremantle in front of the Old Bridge Cellars (OBC). Since we are in the month of Movember I thought it would be appropriate.

The Movember charity raises money to fund projects for men across mental health and suicide prevention and prostate and testicular cancer prevention by asking men to register with the charity, and start growing a moustache and motivate friends to donate and support the movement.

At my husband's old working place, all the men would be asked to participate and grow a moustache and the company would equal the donation amount the men had collected during the month.

Do any of the men reading this blog participate?

For other signs from across the world please check Tom's blog.

   Photo taken in Fremantle harbour when my daughter, son in law and his parents and brother visited us     in December 2019.  (here my son in law was taking the photo)

 

Monday Mural - Paint Subi 3

If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you find murals everywhere.  

Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters.  Looking forward to your mural finds posted this week.   

Monday mural meme is posted at 12,01am Monday, Western Australian time. Thanks, Sami. 

The following mural on the Subi Art Walk  in November 2017, was painted by Hayley Welsh, with her trademark whimsical characters. It can be found in a laneway near 144 Rokeby Street, Subiaco, entitled "Become what you dream to be". 

She was still busy painting it as you can see by the unfinished flowers, but she had a chat with the group about her mural. Even though I've been to Subiaco a couple of times since I've forgotten to go and take photos of the finished mural.

Hayley works as a full time artist and has studios in Perth and in her native town of Blackburn in the UK, and usually spends summer with her family, when she creates UK based work.

PS: It was an extremely busy week at work, with a colleague on holidays, which meant I had to work about 10 hours a day, except on Wednesday when I worked 7h, so by the time I got home all I wanted to do was just to fall into bed and sleep, which meant I didn't really get to read your posts.   I'm also training a newly employed colleague which drains my brain even further... She has one more week of training and then she will be working with me for 2 or 3 half days a week to see how she copes.

I've previously shown you another mural painted in Perth by Hayley, for Form 2016 at Curtin University, which you can check by following this link:  

https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/2017/02/monday-murals-beast.html

Monday Mural - Paint Subi 2

If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you find murals everywhere. 

Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters.  Looking forward to your mural finds posted this week.   

Monday mural meme is posted at 12,01am Monday, Western Australian time. Thanks, Sami. 

Continuing my Mural walking tour during Open House Perth 2017 -  on Saturday, the 11th November 2017, our next stop was in front of a huge and very colourful mural being painted by Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel.

Covering two four-storey walls of an apartment building backing Forrest Square car park (Dennis Street, Subiaco) the vibrant mural represents native Australian flora and fauna using a lot of geometric shapes. This was apparently quite a small project for the artist, as his murals are usually painted on buildings 10 to 20 floors high.

I got to chat to the artist and another artist friend of his, in Portuñol/Portunhol 🤣(mix of Spanish and Portuguese), and they told me they would paint from 7am to lunchtime, then go and have lunch at one of Perth's beaches and return to work from around 4 to 7pm, to beat the heat and to enjoy our fabulous beaches too.  

They loved what they had seen of Perth, the city, the people, the beaches... and told me I was so lucky to live here. Which of course I am!

                  

                  

The artist and friend just before I approached them for a chat

Signs - Personalised Number Plates VI

For other signs from around the world please follow this link to Tom's blog.

Monday Mural - Paint Subi 1

If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you; 

just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you find murals everywhere.  

Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters.  Looking forward to your mural finds posted this week.   Monday mural meme is posted at 12,01am Monday, Western Australian time. Thanks, Sami. 

Again, while going through old photo murals I found murals I had photographed in November 2017 in Subiaco, an inner city suburb, and never posted.   

I had mentioned the Paint Subi project that was held on the 11th and 12th of November 2017, in my post about Open House Perth 2017, but never posted the individual murals.

On Saturday 11th November I had joined the Mural Walk, and most of the local and international artists were still busy painting their murals for the week long "Paint Subi" project supported by Form WA.

The first mural we visited was at 15 Railway Road, and was painted by Sioux Tempest, a Perth artist who has painted a few murals around our city.

The next mural was on nearby Rokeby Road, painted by Dominican born American artist Evoca, on the walls of the Australian Post building in Rokeby Road. Boy on the red bike,  shows a young postal worker on a bike delivering parcels alongside a black swan - the official state symbol of Western Australia.

    

Next week I'll show a few other murals from Paint for Subi.