Artist Daniel Mead (32), of Dunedin, paints a mural inside a Port Otago shed at Port Chalmers yesterday as artist Jack Winters (33), of Gore, holds the ladder.
It is one of four murals being painted inside A Shed to brighten up the town for cruise ship passengers.
Port Otago commercial manager Peter Brown said cruise ship passengers disembarking this season would pass through the shed where the four murals were being painted on a once-grey concrete wall.
Each mural, 3m by nearly 5m, featured a tourism operator - Larnach Castle, Monarch Wildlife Cruises, Natures Wonders and Taieri Gorge Railway.
''While the main aim of the artwork is to brighten up the area for passengers, it may also stimulate a few people to book a tour, cruise or train ride.''
The four companies shared half the cost of the painting and Port Otago paid the other half, he said.
Because the shed was on Port Otago property, the public would not be able to view the murals.
But they would be accessible during the next Port Chalmers Seafood Festival in September next year, he said.
The two artists have a strict deadline: to be finished by the time the first cruise ship of the season arrives on October 5.
Mr Mead has painted several murals in Dunedin, including a slightly larger one in George St, North Dunedin.
