Kris Friesen
Galleries
Sandy Lane Contemporary Mural
Sany Lane: Mural Painting Event
Sandy Lane Auto commissioned this contemporary mural to be painted live and celebrate the grand opening of their second store in Edmonton. The folks at Sandy Lane were open to an experimental artwork with their company name, so as a mural artist I jumped on the opportunity to push artistic boundaries!
As my client's brand utilized vintage European cars, I decided to create a contemporary painting lit by neon signs of the 1960's. This bright outline approach illuminated the outline a classic Volvo sports car and even saturated a mechanic into a neon outline, only leaving his face and hands fully rendered. A neon sign in the foreground is abstracted into shapes and lines receding into the background, which loosely suggests a city skyline.
At the end of June I was invited by Tony and Jen Glumpak to attend the grand opening of Sandy Lane Auto‘s 2nd store.
The Sandy Lane group has expanded to the west end of Edmonton and are located at 15820 111th Avenue.
The event was planned by Vania Asenova of B5 Communications and featured the Smokehouse BBQ food truck, though my favourite part of the event was watching how artists Kris Friesen and Trevor Peters developed their murals throughout the evening.
Trevor Peters Kris Friesen Urban Metropolis Entertainment Group Looking forward to seeing the finished products next time I drop by.
Seeing a shop that was cleaner than my house I was also pleased to find everyone there easy going and extremely knowledgeable with a passion for european cars.
Usually I work alone on a painting with a subject matter that has been predetermined by a client and is rendered in a relatively normal manner over at least a week.
I have walls full of other artist’s work that I find experimental and have been meaning to emulate in my own pieces, so much that I was briefly stunted when I sat down to do a preliminary sketch.
I quickly became aware of how reflexive it is for me to base images on reality and funnelled this urge into creating shapes that could do what they wanted, rather than what they’re supposed to do.
I am available for freelance. Can't wait for the next exciting project! Could be yours?