Residents living in the Calgary community of Brentwood are excitedly awaiting the completion of a new mural that will liven up an otherwise bland underpass.
The east-facing concrete wall under Crowchild Trail is being transformed with a colourful abstract painting.
"The city would come and they would paint it over, but you get all different kinds of gray, and it just looked awful, so we got together and we said, 'We've got to do something and make this more vibrant.'""We put out a call for artists and we had four who applied," she said. "We were very grateful for all four of them and the work they did, because they all had to create a mural pattern.
Eva Gustavson worked with the young painters, and says it is a unique opportunity for them to work on a large-scale piece."This is probably one of the first opportunities they have to work on such a large canvas, and hopefully it'll inspire them to get into muralism as well.""In my community, we usually don't have such colourful things," she said.
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