Watch the journey unfold from the first brush strokes to the finished product as Pete McKee repaints The Snog after it's brief time off the side of Fagan's.
Pete talks to Harry Harrison about the painting, the subtle changes in the new version and how much it means to him.
Pete talks to Harry Harrison about the painting, the subtle changes in the new version and how much it means to him.
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00:00 Tell me, what's it like to have the snog back on the wall of Fagans?
00:04 I'm very happy and it's having a great response from people while I've been painting it.
00:09 You know, lots of people taking photographs. I think they're just as happy to have it on the wall as I am.
00:15 And I think people will be able to see straight away that there are some changes from the original one.
00:21 Talk us through some of what you've changed and what you've kept.
00:24 There's a major change in Joy's coat. It's turned from brown to purple now.
00:32 So I thought I'd give it a bit more colour and life and a bit of baboom.
00:36 And then there's just subtle changes with the glasses and the hand and stuff like that.
00:41 Basically, I could rectify the mistakes I thought I'd made in the first one.
00:45 When I drew it the first time round, I was just sketching it as I was going.
00:49 Now I could be a little bit more clinical and a little bit more detailed with what I wanted to do.
00:55 So I'm really, really happy now. It's snog mark two and it's looking cracking.
01:00 I know that methods-wise from the original 2013, we changed the way we did it.
01:04 I think we had some stencils and things out this time. Talk to us through how you've changed how you've created the snog.
01:08 Yeah, well, the original snog was supposed to have been done via a projection method.
01:13 But when we got there in the morning, the projector didn't work.
01:16 So then I had to quickly change it to the classic kind of grid method,
01:21 where you put a grid on the drawing that you've got in front of you and then you scale it up on the wall.
01:27 And this time I wanted to keep faithful to the original as much as I possibly could.
01:32 So I used a stencil. So we've got the snog back to how it was when everybody saw it originally, with a few changes, obviously.
01:42 The snog is a very famous bit of art in Sheffield. People really, really like it.
01:48 And you've mentioned it already, but obviously, even after we finish, we've had people coming up and chatting to you about it.
01:54 Just talk us through the reactions from people today as it's been going up.
01:58 It's been fabulous and it's great because the Chinese community that reside here, where the students, they absolutely love it.
02:04 They've stopped in the Brighton Centre and taken photographs of it.
02:10 And, you know, for them it's a piece of Sheffield that they can share with their home.
02:14 And so it's great for them to get this reaction as well.