Exploring the Street Art at Lebuh Armenian (street), Penang Island.

We visited the Armenian Street (N5.41300 E100.33954) of Penang on one of the sunny day, the purpose was to search and locate the Street Art (Mural) of Ernest Zacharevic who painted a beautiful street painting on the wall of the pre-war shoplots and houses around the area. It was a awesome effort by the Lithuanian artist - Ernest who given a new life to the old town...

Lebuh Armenian (street)

"Ernest Zacharevic is a young Lithuania-born artist who is "making a scene" on the streets of George Town, Penang. This comes in the form of beautifully executed wall paintings, or murals, at selected streets in the inner city. The project, known as Mirrors George Town, is part of George Town Festival 2012.

Ernest Zacharevic's wall paintings in George Town include figure drawings and portraitures that celebrate the exuberance of life in the inner city. They range from the pensive "Boy on a Bike", the lively "Little Children on a Bicycle" to the whimsical "Little Boy with Pet Dinosaur".

So far six murals have been completed, with perhaps one more in the making. The project is funded by George Town Festival while the paint was sponsored by a paint company, Murobond." Source from here...

The famous "Little Children on a Bicycle" once we stepped into the street...

The area was full of tourist and been waiting for about 10 minutes to let the tourists snap their photos together with the 'children'...

I never walk in this street before after so many years...so I guess I have to thanks to Ernest! :)

Like the old building along the street very much!

After the first mural, we were attracted by a small shop like a art centre or souvenirs shop just not too far away...

At first, it was because of the special the signage...

follow by the recycle chairs...

Then...nice music played by an old man who sit just next to the signage...
He was playing on a unique musical instrument which I never seen it before!

The old man with his unique muscal instrument

The write-up...

My daughter was totally attracted by the music and stood there more than 15 minutes! The old man was kind to show my daughter the technique of playing it in the later part...

Some of the shops had coverted to a art galley and cafes...just like this Ederweiss Swiss Cafe...

Ederweiss Swiss Cafe

And the Colonial Hainanese Restaurant, but too bad it was close that day...

The Cafe and Restaurant were located just next to the movie firming area - Anna and the King on 1999.

Another 2 local Arts appeared in front of us...I believe these 2 were not from Ernest.

A traffic policemen holding a....Starbuck coffee?! (correct me if I'm wrong)

It was not a mural, it was made from steels and the shadows reflected on the wall...

I found these old bicycle shop was really classic and hardly can find one nowadays...

Classic bicycle shop along Armenian Street

Yap Temple spotted along...

The Armenian street is full colonial shoplots and houses...

Armenian Street of Penang

The unit below had became an Art Gallery...

And we discovered the Mr Sun Yat Sen Penang base also located in the street, it became the Sun Yat Sen Museum today...

Sun Yat Sen Museum in Penang

We continued our walk on Acheh Street...another Sun Yat Sen base is located in the street...

Another Sun Yat Sen's base in Penang

Suddenly my curious daughter stuck again in front of a woodcraft shop! She was observing the carpenter crafting the Chinese words on a piece of wood...I don't know how to call this piece of wood but you can see it hanged at the main door at every old shops or houses...

About 100 meters from the intersection of Armenian Street and Acheh Street, we found another mural in Cannon Street - "Reaching up".

Reaching up

This mural was easy to locate where it was just behind a Khoo Kongsi big signage...

The Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi signage

We had a break after the end of the Acheh Street and we missed the other mural which located along the street - The Famous Wooden Clog Painter Mr Ng Chai Tiam. Oh! I think it was a good reason for me to re-visit the Armenian Street again! :)

I will continued our searching for the murals at Penang in my next blog post...

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