My First Ever PAID Mural in Australia | Good Company Cafe, Joondalup, Perth #6

Painting my FIRST paid mural in Australia — a full behind-the-scenes on a huge cafe mural in Perth, from cold outreach to the final reveal. 🎨 This one's special. To land my first professional mural commission out here, I posted in local Facebook groups every single day and got ghosted more than once — until The Good Company & Co, a cafe in Joondalup, said yes. What followed was seven-ish days (we lost count), a scissor lift, dodgy Perth weather, a free pizza off Dino from Napoli, matt's birthday, and a mural absolutely packed with hidden meaning. Because this isn't just any cafe. It was built by Lee and kerry for their son Ben, and it trains adults with intellectual disability into real hospitality careers. Every element painted — the bees, the umbrella, the sunflowers, Ben himself — means something. Stick around to the end and I will talk you through all of it. If you've ever wondered what it actually takes to land and paint your first mural commission — the outreach, the Procreate design, the scissor lift wobble at the top — this is the honest version, warts and rain delays included. 📌 In this video: mural painting process, first paid mural commission, cafe mural Perth, mural artist behind the scenes, scissor lift painting, mural time lapse, moving to Australia, Bethany Payet Artist. 0:00 The finished mural 1:02 How she landed her first paid mural (outreach) 2:19 Designing the mural on Procreate 4:03 Scissor lift training 4:22 Priming the wall 5:48 Day 1: the squiggle grid 7:07 Day 2: outlines & colour blocking 8:03 Day 3: adding the flowers 10:48 Officially a scissor lift driver 12:08 Day 4: the highest bits 15:03 Free pizza off Dino from Napoli 18:48 Day 5: purple jumpsuit era 19:20 Ben sees himself on the wall 22:21 What the mural actually means 24:09 Day 6: the text & tape grid 26:11 Day 7: 6am scissor lift deadline 27:56 The Wizard of Paint 31:16 Final day: finishing touches 34:24 The graphite transfer trick 35:57 Staff thumbprint bees 36:30 It's finished 37:19 Every hidden element explained 40:28 Lee's story: why they built the cafe 44:24 Goodbye Perth, on to Brisbane