Woods Street Art Space Mural by Melbourne Muralist & Street Artist Lukas Kasper

Woods Street Arts Space: Youth Mural Project

Collaborating with local youth to create an interactive mural in Laverton

I was approached by The City Of Hobsons Bay Council to facilitate a 4 week project with young people in the local area. Throughout this process I taught them the fundamentals of painting murals with techniques from scaling to the basics around paint. After we sat down and drew all of our ideas we came up with a concept around the key elements of The Woods Street Arts Space which is “The Arts” primarily: Theatre, Music, Visual Arts & Dance.

Myself and 4 young artists put this project together and during the painting stages we had a whole bunch of their friends visit to help us bring it to life!

From Sketches to Mural Concepts

A great part of this project was working with young creatives that already had a distinct drawing and painting style, this made the process really easy for creating a visually striking concept design. Here you will find some of those starting sketches that helped form the final concept.

Community Focus Mural Outcome

This mural was to be painted in a really tricky spot through a very narrow hallway and down a spiral staircase. Due to this I came in a day early to sketch up our final concept putting colour swatches in areas to simplify the painting process, but when the young artists came in I encouraged them to follow this general structure but if creativity struck to do whatever they’d like. This made for the perfect process of creative freedom/structure to both learn and play while ensuring a professional finish at The Woods Street Art Space for years to come.