Penang Street Art is Marvelous

I just came back from a family trip to Penang on 25-28 Nov 2012 ....

Georgetown, Penang is not a small place. When I first planning to check-out the mural in Georgetown, every street looked so tiny on the map, I thought is an easy task because I used to do "photowalk" a lot, thus, I'm planning to walk around Georgetown to find out the location of all those murals.  

On the day itself, after I were walking around about a kilometer on the street under hot sun, I realized how wrong am I to walk in Georgetown, it was full of small lanes and junctions, you just couldn't figure out which lane to go and my family members are so tired walking together with me (they wanted to support me and join in to walk around)....

Without hesitation, I walked back quickly for another kilometer to get my car in the hotel, I decided to photo-drive instead of photo-walk, It was easy to drive around in Georgetown with the help of google map!! With car traveling around, I found my target one by one.

The mural of girl and boy riding bicycle .... It was my favorite, looking at the face expression of the boy seated at the back showing how scary he felt but excited, They looked so real. An actual old bicycle was used to decorate with the painting was a brilliant idea, it made the whole drawing standing out with 3D effect. 

Armenian Street

Another favorite mural was the young man riding a real motorbike and he was looking behind.  After I re-looked again at the photograph, and notice I have missed out the monster chasing the boy ... hahahaha .. 

How can I missed out the important part? Luckily I was using my 15mm body cap lens ... it was wide enough to include part of the monster body. (by the way, I also missed out the side drawing of a little boy who walked his monster pet... )

What's a mistake !!

The old looking wall with the red rough and tatty door had made the painting standout ... just awesome beautiful. 

Ah Quee Street

Thank to the blogger from "OnlyPenang" and it had given a full highlight about the mural in Penang. They have highlighted the artist is Ernest Zacharevic and even his facebook link. The drawing of people is so real with clear expression, those drawings are really awesome and give some excitement in the boring street.

Right opposite of my hotel has another big piece of mural ... while I was searching high and low, it was just under my nose ... hahaha, this big wall mural is located at Penang Road and it was huge. The artist managed to show the picture in great details. Beautiful.

  

Penang Road

I also found another smaller mural ... a boy is trying to take a little frog toy.

Some murals are difficult to find because they are located in different corner of the street. I have missed out a few, but because I was with my family, I don't have time to search back. The last mural that found was at chew jetty, The boatman and a boy ... I love it. Due to the mural is by the sea, the mural is facing erosion problem, part of the paints had peel off. Very soon it will be disappeared.

Beside mural, I notice some art structures were constructed by the road side. They are drawing but made by wire or tiny iron bar. Very nice and beautified the city. I captured a few shots for sharing here.

 
Can you read the message ?

hahaha ... old man likes me could not read due to my long sighted ... still too tiny .... let make it big ..

Hahaha ... the message is something to do with "One Leg Kick" .... for Cantonese people, surely would know what that means ....

This photo I have to stitch 3 photos together to capture the whole view ... 

It wasn't done using panorama function in the camera. I don't know how to use it. But I managed to combine 3 photos, guess is still okay for my standard.

In your next trip to Penang, don't forget to find those mural ... it is fun to do it.

By the way, i did up a map to indicate the location, I am not sure whether is all correct or not, I believe I have missed out a few, but it can be served as a rough guide :)

The end.