Yellow Brick Road

What an exciting week it's been in the Land of Le Beef, with the completion of the first ever Land of Le Beef mural.​ The mural lives at Fill in the Blank, a creative and social workspace in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

The piece is located on a wall leading to the washroom, and so I wanted to do something that would reflect that, and lead the viewers' eyes in that direction. I also wanted something that would reflect the randomness of the venue (Fill in the Blank is by it's very nature anything that you want it to be - where anyone can show up, and anything can happen), and I thought the Wizard of Oz was a good metaphor of this.

The challenge for me was to recreate the mural in the same style to the rest of the Land of Le Beef family in a completely different size and medium. ​I actually translated as well as I could have hoped. The materials used were pencil, acrylic paint, and oil-based marker. Below is a bit of the process and stages...