arty fencing

Deb and I recently started a commission for some arty fencing in a new park being built. this job came about in a bit of an unusual way, the artist lined up for the job originally was unable to it. we have worked with this council before and they contacted us to see if we would be able and interested to do this, the only catch they needed it before the end of financial year (tomorrow). we said ok, and after some design work and meetings have come up with some arty fencing that will be installed tomorrow (yes - just on time)

this is deb on a site visit. we are creating 3 m long panels that curve

 

here are the prepped and painted reclaimed timber fence posts that have been installed on site already.

we are using anodized perforated aluminium sheeting for the fence panels.

we have used this before and like how we can still apply an image to the panels but the perforations mean the image is not so flat

we spent some time drawing and creating some images and once approved we then had them blown up to scale and cut out of some sign writers vinyl.

you apply an application layer of tape over the top and then lay it on the perforated sheet, then take off the top layer of tape as deb is doing in the photo above.

 

then the fun part, spray painting!!

we managed to get a nice colour fade here

 

with stencil waiting for paint to dry

 

stencil removed, paint dry

 

spray painting third panel

removing the stencil

 

finished product

stencil on ready to paint.

stencil with wet paint

stencil gone paint dry

 

as i said we install these tomorrow - final photos to come. lets hope it doesn't rain too much tomorrow. oh yeah also the theme of the park is butterfly, so we had to design with that in mind. not our favorite subject matter but i think the arty fence panels look pretty good.