Splash bright paint all over the walls and add Artwork anywhichway you like .
Colours do have an uplifting effect . We read magazine articles on how a slum in Indonesia or Brazil got a facelift with just 10 cans of paint . Not merely facelift. In certain cases, the paint changed the fortunes of the slum for better, making it photogenic enough to draw tourists ! Advent of Tourists is good news for small businesses ranging from water bottle vendors to trinket sellers to Guides.
Rows of colourful houses - the colours often clashing, not necessarily harmonious but making for very good pictures - have become tourist attractions , from Burano(Italy) to Nyhavn ( Copenhagen) to Kampung Pelangi ( Semarang, Indonesia) ......
Our Cities too went after Beautification with buckets of paint , but the emphasis was on Artworks . Ok, some employment for art graduates. Street wall art is fairly widespread now, can spot them everyhwhere .
Visiting Kochi ( Kerala) right after the Muziris Biennial 2014 had given us a lot of public wall art to "collect".
"Guess Who" was there, with those signature portraits , so resembling Banksy's work.
Here's an assortment :
