Bubbles in Renfield Lane

Probably a good example of why I should try to make some effort to look at new/media again, but I suppose I won’t.

I found this pair of ‘Bubbles’ in Glasgow’s Renfield Lane a while, round about the time my plan to walk around looking for more interesting goodies fell apart. That had started around Glasgow Cross, but as I found more items in lanes and corners I wasn’t expecting to find anything, I realised I was going to have to change something, and switch to a plan that looked in more detail, or risk missing things like this, which have appeared where there was previously nothing.

Possibly yet another candidate for my petition to have Glasgow City Council make wheelie bins in front of murals illegal, I’m given to understand these are Rogue One creations – so the signature must be hidden somewhere behind those damned bins!

These appeared toward the end of 2019, and the subjects are apparently not imaginary, but modelled by daughters of one of the artist’s friends.

While it’s nice to now have clever enough software to enable full width, relatively undistorted views of these murals to be created – bear in mind one cannot take a single pic as the lane is only a few metres wide – I really am disappearing down the proverbial ‘Rabbit Hole’ too often, and spending FAR too much time tweaking them.

On the other hand, it’s fun, especially when a good result pops out at the other end.

Yay! I have my own Rogue One mural at the end of the street

It’s not often I stop in genuine disbelief, but I did have one such moment recently when I returned to one of my walking routes.

I hadn’t been near this spot for months, or more, and really was taken aback to see this superb, and large, mural on the end wall of a local vet’s practice.

I was even more amazed when I realised it was signed by Rogue One.

I wonder how long it took?

Not only the fur detail and all the brush strokes that would have taken, but the edge of the double thickness wall on the cardboard box. That took patience!

Beechwood Veterinary Centre

Think this needs a revisit, and quick reframe to find the viewpoint where the box edges on the wall match the box edges on the fascia (vertical part of the roof). I didn’t realise the box flap extended onto that area, and should have been matched in the shot.