Big picture: How artists including Rone paint enormous silo murals and city art

As more and more murals crop up on silos throughout the countryside and on towering city walls, it’s hard not to crane your neck upwards and wonder how the artists do it.

Painting something in the right proportions on a canvas is hard enough, but doing the same thing on a very large scale is extremely difficult — even for the best in the business.

Beyond a paintbrush and gallons of paint, the artists who tackle these towering objects must be equipped with a stomach for heights, some functional maths to calculate scale and proportion, and a few tradie’s tools.