Wall Preparation

 

The artist at work - Bob Cooney rolls the prepcoat

 

after spreading the plaster

Ready to start painting

credits and thankyous

Thanks to everyone involved for their trust in me as I took their pictures and sometimes bossed them around.

Happy Pappy - first suggested this to me

Skip - Caravaggio

Grace Woods - made the connections, and some excellent suggestions

Pastor Brian Unterrheiner and the Mission for the opportunity and budget and unwavering support through the long process

 Bob Cooney  wall preparation - plastering and painting including supplying the materials

Hilary Latta - painted fish in the painting to match the ones she painted in the real hall

Hilary Latta - sandwich arrangement

Benny - assistance with underpainting

Madeleine and the paint sisters[names] - paint mixing class

Steve Jarman - cups of tea - "you're being very naughty"

Photography:
John O'Driscoll
Roscoe Burke
Hilary Latta

Cast for Last Supper panel

Bartholemew - Roscoe Burke
James the Lesser-Hilary Latta
Andrew -  John
Judas -  John O'Driscoll
Peter - Sue
John - Grace Woods
Jesus - Byron
Thomas  - Nick
James the greater - Uncle James
Philip - Scotty
Matthew -Garth
Jude Thaddeus - Paul
Simon the zealot - Steve the coffee fanatic

Thanks to all the volunteers, as well

(This food) may contain nuts

 

Lunch, 26 October 2012.

Looks like the material budget has been approved, so I hope we can start preparing the wall and painting within the next week or two

Beginning of a study for the 'beloved disciple' (thanks Grace)

A detail of the hall.

The budget has been approved and a start date - wall stripping next thursday 8 November

a rough design

This is a rough layout, obviously based on the da Vinci, but using the Mission hall as the reference for the interior rather than Leonardo's proto-brutalist cellar. This is only a guide to the way the figures will be laid out, it'll depend on who the characters are played by

a couple more drawings

 

another dining room scene. I'm wondering how to use some elements from the hall in composing the setting

 

quick sketch of a dog (name?)

 

Veronica and the crew after lunch

design scribble

starting to get an idea of the hall

 

This is a vague idea of the dimensions. It'll probably sit a little bit lower on the wall, with the base 800-900 mm above the stage floor. Painting to be 4.5 x 2 m ?

I've got a few other drawings in a larger pad which I'll need to photograph to put in here, it's not really possible to scan them(with my A4 scanner - if anyone has a larger one they'd care to donate...)

a few quick sketches

Steve and some people at lunch

 

the tea stand

 

Brian and some of the crew

 

Nick and ? conversing after lunch

Scott

This is a portrait of Scott, who has been around the Mission and a volunteer for the last 5 years

Last Supper Mural at Newtown Mission

Newtown Mission provides a drop-in centre where people can meet and eat.

With the volunteers, the people who drop in, and pastor Brian Unterrheiner I am creating a mural of the Last Supper on the wall of the food hall, a former school hall in the style of an old-school school of arts. The mural is to be on the wall at the back of the stage.

The characters in the 'drama' are to be played by volunteers and regulars. I'm going to use the version by Leonardo da Vinci as a guide and freely adapt from it. I won't attempt to copy every gesture of the participants, but  use the gestures of the people who model the characters and their style of dress to create the scene, but adhere to the basic principles of his design.

In this blog I'll publish the drawings I make as I get to know the people, and design sketches , and some images of the work in construction