Klingatron | Nottingham Billboard Takeover from Rob Antill on Vimeo.
Above is the result of a project me and Klingatron have been talking about doing for the past 8 months or so. He is a stencil artist based up in Glasgow, I love the work he does and thought it would be awesome to document the process of him installing one of his pieces.
Click more to read about this project and see a bunch of photos…
The first challenge was thinking of a suitable spot for James to work on. I had a few places in mind where I’d seen graffiti in Nottingham. Then I remembered the billboard on Huntington Street. For some reason there was always a piece of work up there. I thought this would be ideal!
Alex (who was a big help throughout this process) went to the local graff (Montana) shop in town and asked about the billboard. They said it was owned by Switch Studios. James got in contact and arranged a date to come down…
Here James and Alex painting over the previous piece by the Oxygen Thieves.
Little preview of what’s to come.
Work begins on the background.
Installing the black base layer.
Adding detailing to the background.
Day two: work begins on the first grey layer.
Removing the stencil, never to be used again.
Its worth noting we got extremely lucky with the weather over the three days. Not a single drop of rain and blaring sun. The stars had aligned.
Filling in the spaces from the bridges that hold the stencil together.
Taking shape.
Adding the final touches.
Details.
Finished.
The final shot. I’d recently seen some stuff on ‘Hyper-Lapses’ and I wanted to give it a try. It’s not mega smooth.. but I know now for next time what to do, to make it better.
Here’s some stats about the project:
- Billboard – 11ft x 20ft
- Glasgow to Nottingham – 303 miles
- 10 days of solid cutting
- 8 rolls of masking tape
- 2 tubs of emulsion
- Number of layers for image – 5
- Number of hand cut stencils – 125
- Number of sheets of card used – 200
- Number of scalpel blades used – lost count
- Number of cans of RedBull consumed – lost count
- Paint used – Montana Black, MTN 94
- Number of days painting piece – 3
- Number of Time-lapse images captured – 41,000
- Project file size – 167GB
Big thanks to Switch Studios and SmallKid for being so hospitable. Thanks to Alex for helping out over the 3 days. And thanks to Klingatron for effort to make it happen!
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