{"id":315509,"date":"2025-12-14T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315509\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:49:08","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-artist-blown-away-by-feedback-after-superstar-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315509\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne artist ‘blown away’ by feedback after ‘superstar’ mural"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Shepherd ‘jumped at the chance’ to design a mural of the Black Sabbath singer<\/p>\n

An artist was ‘blown away’ by positive feedback after he painted a stunning mural of Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n

Paul Shepherd, from Caerphilly in Wales,, has been a heavy metal fan since he was a teenager and cited Birmingham’s Black Sabbath as a musical influence growing up.<\/p>\n

Approached by Lee ‘Kenny’ Kendrick for his record store, Kenny’s Vinyl Vault, Paul was tasked with an Ozzy mural on the high street in Abertillery.<\/p>\n

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Over five days, Paul created an eye-catching mural of the late Sabbath singer and admitted it was a no-brainer when presented with the task.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Ozzy Osbourne mural in Abertillery, Wales(Image: Paul Shepherd )<\/p>\n

Speaking to BirminghamLive, he said: “When Kenny approached me for this, I jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Shepherd has been a heavy metal fan since he was a teenager(Image: Paul Shepherd )<\/p>\n

“There are certain jobs you do because it’s a job, but this is something I wanted to do.<\/p>\n

“Kenny picked the design of Ozzy and I think it’s because it’s one where it shows off his personality. Everyone knows Ozzy, whether it be just from his television appearances so I did some research into what he was like as a performer.<\/p>\n

“I lean towards realism in my work and wanted to make something where it looks like he’s jumping off the wall.<\/p>\n

“He’s one of the all-time superstars and up there with someone like Freddie Mercury.<\/p>\n

“Kenny was over the moon with it and I’ve had nothing but compliments from people in Abertillery.<\/p>\n

“People were excited to see how it would turn out and I’m blown away by the positivity, it’s fantastic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Shepherd ‘jumped at the chance’ to design a mural of the Black Sabbath singer An artist was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2775,96,128,2776,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-315509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-black-sabbath","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}