Preparations for Saturday’s Groovin The Moo are in full swing, with organisers readying Maitland Showground for thousands of music fans.

Artists from Steel City Collective have been covering the scrim, the black material that lines the perimeter fences at most music festivals, with street art.

The scrim prevents people from watching the festival from outside the showground without ­buying a ticket.

Lead artist Eryn With A Why said 10 artists would cover about 200 metres of scrim with art during the two days before the ­festival.

She said artists mixed themes of space and Greek mythology to fuse different types of odysseys because Groovin The Moo had been promoted as being Australia’s biggest musical odyssey.

“We’ve gone with the theme of odyssey that Groovin The Moo is cycling out across all of the events,” she said. “We have gone for a Greek-inspired and space odyssey. 

“So we’re going ­mythology, Greek gods, clouds and a bit of space.

“We were thinking about great odysseys with epic types of imagery.”

A trained fine artist, Eryn With A Why has been making street art for about 18 months and ­contributed to last year’s scrim at Groovin The Moo.

“We’ll be doing live art on the day and body painting as well,” she said. “It’s going to be pretty cool.”

UK hip-hop artist Dizzee Rascal will headline the sold-out festival on Saturday.