Photo by Craig Baxter.
Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Filipa "Fairy" Crofskey repaints John Noakes' mural at the Marion St bus stop in Portobello Rd, Dunedin, recently.
Ms Crofskey began working on the mural about a month ago after being asked to do it by the Dunedin City Council.
She was about one-quarter of the way through and, depending on the weather, hoped to complete it by Christmas.
While she was working from a photograph of the original mural, the "colours will be a lot brighter" and she wanted to add other characters, including a Smurf.
Because the work was a reconstruction of an existing mural, it did not require resource consent. When it was painted over, people were "up in arms", then "really glad" to see her redoing it, she said.
