New historic mural on Priestgate

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00:00So I can see behind you, we're in the closing stages then of this new artwork.

00:16This is a Wilfrid Wood painting from 1946, we think the sort of street architecture might

00:24date a few years earlier, like 10-15 years earlier at most, but yeah, final stages, date

00:326, 7, something like that.

00:34Yeah, so just tell us a bit about how you've managed to create the watercolour effect together,

00:38that's quite a challenge from what you would normally be working on.

00:41So we originally, we were going to spray paint like an undertone and then do like some acrylic

00:49watered down over the top.

00:51The spray paint was too shiny, couldn't achieve the effect we were trying to replicate, so

00:57in the end we mixed watered down acrylics to create a more of a traditional water kind

01:02of look, trying to stay true to the original image.

01:05Nice, nice, has this been one of your toughest projects yet in the city centre?

01:10It's not been tough, weather's been okay compared to the Beatles, the artwork's okay, it's just

01:18the wall, the wall, the equipment we're using, awkward, awkward, not difficult, awkward.

01:25But we've got there in the end, we're finally nearly there.

01:28That's it, yeah, that's it.