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Making of Tates Avenue ‘every street tells a story’ mural

26th January 2011

Areas: making of street art

As part of the Belfast City Council’s Re imaging communities project I was commissioned to design two 2 metre by 9 metre murals for the underpass of the Tate’s Avenue bridge, Donegall Avenue.

The following images document the making the project from initial concept to final artwork.

You can view detailed images of the Tates Avenue 'every street tells a story' mural in the projects area of David Creative.

The proposed area for the murals. The underpass of the Tate’s Avenue bridge, Donegall Avenue.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedUnderpass concept This was my original concept for the Tate’s Avenue Re-imaging communities project tender. Rather than focus on celebrities that may have lived in the area I decided to celebrate the stories and the people that made the community what it is. On winning the tender, the Belfast City Council was keen to develop a second mural to be placed on the opposite wall of the underpass. Through consultations with the community representatives a second mural was developed to illustrate the Bog Meadows, an area memorable to the community when they were children for playing games and catching tadpoles. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedRevised concept for panel 1. From left to right: Old man pulling back curtain on history of tate’s ave, Men going to football match at Windsor stadium, man saying goodbye to wife, Kids playing behind ‘Andy of Broadway’, ‘minister on bicycle’ talking to Andy and an Austin seven. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedArtist’s impression of panel 1 in underpass.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedRevised concept for panel 2. From left to right: Background of the bog meadows, Mickey Marley’s Roundabout, Children searching for tadpoles, Pitch and toss being played, Washing lines, Children swinging from lamp post, Father taking son (football in hand) to Windsor stadium and Jamesons sweet shop. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedArtist’s impression of panel 2 in underpass.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedDeveloped panel 1. In consultation with the community representatives the Austin seven was replaced with a Nummy grocery van and the street was shortened to reveal a row of terrace houses in the background. First person handwritten descriptions were also added to link with the idea that the old man was recounting his memories of the area. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedDeveloped panel 2. In consultation with the community representatives a few gypsy caravans were added to the Bog Meadows background. A police officer was added to link in with the pitch and toss game the men are playing in the middle. As they were gambling someone always had to lookout for an approaching officer to avoid them being caught. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedOn sign off of the developed concept I proceeded with the final artwork. The first thing was to create a 3d working space of the street in Google Sketch up so I could place my characters upon it. I then sketched in the characters to scale in Adobe Photoshop using a tablet. Once I was happy with their placement and size I printed out each character in red and inked over them. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedThe characters were printed out in red as a guide that could then be taken out in Adobe Photoshop once scanned in leaving only the black lines. Once the black line art of the characters was cleaned up I started to add tone on a separate layer, then outputted them as two separate files to be traced in Adobe Illustrator. As the final artwork was going to be a size of 2 metres high by 9 metres wide the artwork needed to be supplied as an Adobe Illustrator vector file as the Adobe Photoshop pixel based file would be simply too big to work with. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedOnce all the elements and backgrounds where traced in Adobe Illustrator they were brought together into the final artworks. The artworks where then outputted as Adobe Illustrator EPS files and printed onto metal panels. . © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedPanel 1 of ‘every street tells a story’ on location. Donegall Avenue, underpass of the Tate’s Avenue bridge.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedPanel 2 of ‘every street tells a story’ on location. Donegall Avenue, underpass of the Tate’s Avenue bridge.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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Tiger beer storyboards

26th January 2011

Areas: storyboards

I have just finished a series of 14 storyboards for a Tiger beer advertising pitch. As is the case with all pitch work I cannot show you all of them but I’ve included one of my favourites below.

Black and white version brush pen on paper.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedColoured version brush pen on paper, coloured in Photoshop.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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Little Doses tee shirt design

13th January 2011

Areas: music textiles

I was recently commissioned to illustrate a new tee shirt design for the Scottish band Little Doses, based upon the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff guitar pedal.

If you want one of these you can buy either a white on red or a cyan on black tee shirt at the Little Doses store.

The design for the Little Doses tee shirt.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedThe white on red tee shirt.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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2010 review - Summer Base

11th January 2011

Areas: making of paintings street art

In the summer of 2010 I was invited to be part of a 2-day street art and music festival ‘Base’ in Belfast alongside greats like Mr Kern and Elph.
Below I’ve included a step by step of how the piece was built up from inspiration to final piece.

My inspiration for the piece came from the painting above “lost sheep” where for the first time I was starting to combine my painting with my narrative illustration. I liked the idea of illustrative characters mixing with a painted scene to create a new interpretation of the scene.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedEnd of day 1 painted scene finished with areas left for characters to be inked in.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedDay 2, started to ink in the bird characters. I decided that one of the birds would be dead with the other saying something.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedDay 2, started to add in the tree officer characters using the tree trunks as their legs. I think the public started to get the concept.. © Copyright David McClelland . All rights reservedDay 2, finished piece “tree officers investigate”, and yes the tree / three pun was intentional.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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2010 review - The Beat Hotel

7th January 2011

Areas: character design sketches

Early last year I was commissioned by Film Trip to design several characters for their upcoming production The Beat Hotel. The Beat Hotel is a music puppet show, a dark comedy set in a purpose-built hotel.

As they have released a pilot for the show I can now show you some of my designs and pictures of how the puppets turned out, without letting the cat out of the bag.

Alvin Feinstein character design.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedJim Fawndah character design.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedFrom left to right: the finished Jim Fawndah, Alvin Feinstein and Rusty Lane puppets, copyright http://www.filmtrip.tv<Film Trip><blank>. © Copyright David McClelland . All rights reservedThe pilot for The Beat Hotel copyright http://www.filmtrip.tv<Film Trip ><blank>. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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Recent paintings - Lines in the sky

5th January 2011

Areas: paintings

A sneak peek of some sketches I’m doing for a painting I’m working on at the moment.

Lines in the sky 1, acrylic on paper.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedLines in the sky 2, acrylic on paper.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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