AS AN artist Stefan Smit has always been up for a challenge.
But even he knew that attempting to paint a five-storey mural on a building on the Foreshore, Cape Town would be difficult.
Still, Smit decided to give it a shot.
It was also the first time he’d be doing a painting from a suspended mechanical platform lift.
He knew that time was of the essence.
So he set out with his paintbrushes and over a hundred litres of paint ready to create a masterpiece.
He had been commissioned by public art agency Baz-Art to paint a commission for Homii, a new residential development