WHoArtNow Launches Its Hand Painted Mural Service

WHoArtNow are proud to introduce our new hand painted mural service, and with our 2 veteran painters Steve and Nick joining the team things are going to get big. As more and more large advertising and mural work now goes to the wide format print industry, Steve and Nick have valuable talent in a dying industry.




With over 60 years combined commercial painting including film sets, theatrical sets, festival hoardings, shop fronts, pub signs and building site shields to their name. Their most recent project, the 80ft giant painting the smaller Mexican air stream trailer and the Monster Bar all got their summer debut at this years Download festival and will be seen at this weekends Glastonbury and next weekends Silverstone F1 race. The level of quality and dedication to the job are second to none and there are advantages to using hand painted murals over wide format printing. Each 8ft x 4ft board is treated to 3-4 coats of undercoat, and finished off with 3-4 coats of heavy duty varnish to make them not only waterproof, but far stronger and more durable than the more modern solvent printed posters. The other major advantage is not having to use CYMK colours. The main problem with CYMK colours is there are some shades that are impossible to print. Fluorescent colours can't be reproduced, yet with hand painting, anything goes! All Steve and Nick's work is on a commission basis and prices start from £155.

If you would like more information about commissioning Steve and Nick, please contact WHoArtNow contact pages or more information. Please beware though, we are seriously busy with work, (at June 2008) so there is currently a bit of a waiting list for all hand painted large jobs. If you are interested, we would advise you contact us soon rather than later.

Hand Painted Murial for Glastonbury

We've taken on a mammoth project for two of our veteran painters, Steve and Nick. A giant hand-painted Murial, measuring an incredible 80 ft x 16 ft which will be used for Glastonbury & some other festivals for this Summer of 2008.

The giant image is hand painted in a distinctive Lichtenstein style, on up to 50 wooden boards, which will be assembled at the coming summer festivals. Steve and Nick are true Veterans of the Murial circuit, painting professionally as freelancers for almost the last three decades. We are pleased to have them on-board on a more permanent basis.

I have to say the Glastonbury Murial is looking fantastic so far, the sharpness of the painting is second to none, and I really couldn't tell it apart from a screen print. The reality is that you could never screen print anything this big, there are just no screens large enough. And solvent printing may be a little bit cheaper, but they are no way near as durable as these hand-painted panels, each having up to 4 undercoats and a few layers of varnish over the top. This is precisely why a lot of our clients are regressing to using traditional hand-paintings again, it just looks that much more impressive, and gives the art a more traditional feel. We are finding more and more that art and design is turning full circle, with more and more clients choosing hand painted art over more modern Computer aided designs (CADs). When new technologies arrive they can wipe out entire industries, and it would be sad to see the skill of hand-painting to disappear. So we are working extra hard to make sure that it is not lost in the ages, a victim to the modern day computer and Adobe Photoshop. You can expect a lot more hand produced art from us in the future, we are certainly moving that way with are street art prints and Plastic art ranges, as well as bringing new artists on board like BOYD to produce hand produced, hand stenciled real art.



If you would like a quote on any hand produced art, Murial's, film or theatre sets, please let us know - you can email us on the WHoArtNow contact pages. We intend to keep this news feed going, so watch this space and you can follow Steve and Nick's progress through the 30 day marathon of solid painting that they are undertaking!