The Making Of The Welling Court Murals Year Four - Let's The Painting Begin! (Part I)

Now in it's fourth consecutive year, the Welling Court Mural Project is bigger and better than ever as  Ad Hoc Art kicked off the summer in LIC/Astoria, Queens with a huge block party featuring over 70 top New York and international artists.  Did you miss any of it?  Not to worry, as it's all here over this series of blogs.  You can also head to Welling Court / 30th Ave & 12th St. and surrounding streets stretching throughout the neighborhood.  The photos for me, began early in the week around the rain, and due to that, many artists were still finishing up murals on the weekend.  

The perfect paint for the Art & Fashion Salon, get it!?

Here are a bunch of photos of the murals in progress and completed.  I thought seeing a few in progress and then the completed pieces would be an interesting way to put my hundreds of photos to good use.  The line up included tons of big street art and graffiti names, to mention a few, Aiko, Beau Stanton, Billy Mode, Selso, Chris RWK, Fumero, Gaia, Hellbent, Isy & Sot, Joe Iurato, Lady Pink, Never, ND'A, Royce Bannon, Russell King, Matt Siren, and many many, more.  Have a look at "Part I, 'In Progress."  Visit: http://adhocart.org/site/ to learn more.  Here's what I saw....

Over a week ago before the event began we saw this Olek / Alice Mizrahi piece, here again Olek assembling her yarn bombing pieces on the wall with Mizrahi's portrait...

...and finished.

To the right, the elaborate sketch on the wall by graffiti veteran and legend Lady Pink...

Lady Pink and her finished work of art.  

When asking her about the mural she said this was "the first time she had worked with stencils on the walls."  Of course, I was blown away as it was beyond perfect.  But then again, look who we are speaking about!

I was able to meet and talk with Toofly as she was one of the first finishing up her brilliantly colorful piece early....

Finito.

A great colab between Matt Siren and Russell King, I was watching the piece from mid way....

...to the finished product.

The very well known, international stencil/street artist duo from Iran, Icy & Sot are everywhere, including gracing 12th St. at WC in a big way.  This (and Lady Pink's mural) are perhaps the most elaborate and finely detailed of all.  Well, they all have amazing detail, impossible to pick favorites here.  See how it went from this above....cleaning up the old, making way for the new...

2012 mural...

To this finished product, yes, same wall.  We barely blinked and poof, it was done. You can see more of their work here: www.icyandsot.com

The King Bees working it...

www.kingbeeuw.com

Finito!

Mata Ruda & ND’A working on their masterpiece that curved around a building!

Here are a few more works in progress.....

Katie Yamasaki & Caleb Neelon 

 

And that's just Part I on a couple blocks - I haven't even scratched the surface!  Much more to come tomorrow, see more blocks/more murals in progress, the finished pieces and all the block party action. More of everything!