Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky have painted another large colourful mural. This one features two women, a baltimore oriole, and many fruits and flowers.
below: Close up of the bird, a baltimore oriole
below: Adorned with leaves, flowers, and fruit – blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. Lots of cherry blossoms and another bird too.
Sometimes I find myself in unfamiliar territory and so it was last week when I went to investigate some alleys where I’d heard that new murals had been painted. My previous post, Around Wadsworth Park, was part of the same walk; there was just so much to see that I split my photos into two groups. In general, the last post was north of Davenport Avenue while this post features Davenport and the streets & alleys to the south.
below: More raccoons by Emily May Rose, this time they are being watched over by a big white rat. Quite the dumpster fire!
below: A large mural by Birdo beside Charles Sauriol school
below: A man reaching out a multicoloured hand to a woman by Phillip Saunders covers the back part of the house
below: A brown octopus and bright coloured tiger playing together – a collaboration between Luvs and June Kim.
below: Baby birds with beaks uplifted in a mural by Bruno Smoky and Clandestinos
below: Blue jay and tomato face, rowdyradrat and Chris Perez
below: Taking cover under umbrellas on a rainy day in a mural by Elicser Elliott
below: Someone has extra time lying around, but without the coffee
below: Mural in a lane, signature says June, Bacon, and Erika.
below: Part of another June Kim feline
below: A man walks down the alley, between a mural on the right and Quick Recording Studios on the left.
below: In the window of the Art Academy of Canada, Davenport Ave.
below: A.J.’s So Fresh Coin Laundry, also on Davenport
below: A multi-lingual thank you to essential workers on Davenport – obrigado, gracias, merci, and grazie!
below: Boney Santa’s lost a lot of weight recently… he’s probably tired of all the weight gain jokes and comments though…..
below: More Emily May Roses’s mischievous raccoons and their cans of spray paint.
below: Anya Mielniczek’s woman’s face looks down the lane.
below: A closer look of the mural reveals another woman’s head on the far side along with people mixing together in the central portion painted by Raoul
below: HeldbyHuda mural
below: Patterns of circles and semi-circles on a gate by Stephanie Bellefleur
below: Another gate, but half of this one has been removed.
below: A Nick Sweetman painting of a large Cuckoo wasp feeding on a yellow flower
below: by Victoria Day
below: Sections of citrus fruit in glass bowls, by Steam
below: A pink and purple butterfly by Dani Coghlan
below: A floral wallpaper-like design by Tara Dorey
below: A collaboration between Diana Lynn VanderMeulen and Tebby G.
below: Pink flowers by Claire Browne
below: Self explanatory?
below: Planta Muisca mural with an orange snake under a purple night sky.
below: Birds wearing neckties and hanging out together in a mural by Rob Elliott
below: Sometimes while walking in this city during Covid and various lockdowns, even this might do!
below: Remains of a vegetable garden planted along the side of the alley. Portugal peppers once grew here.
below: Stop and smell the flowers
Support for the alley murals was provided by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Unfortunately, I have missed a few of the paintings. A complete set of photos can be found on Erika James’s Instagram page. She was one of the organizers of the project.
Some of the murals from this post can also be seen on by worldwide street art blog, Carleton Village murals Toronto 2021
At the corner of Roxton and Harbord, at what was once the New Moon Variety store, there is a large and colourful Clandestinos mural. The store is now Riders Cycle so it is apt that the mural features a large cyclist, a dapper fox with bright red cycling gloves and a wicker basket full of flowers and carrots.
A blue bird at the left flying in front of the garage door.
The window now looks like it protrudes from the wall and is part of the mural.
Like all good cyclists, he has a light on his bike but this light is a miniature person with a powerful flashlight.
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Another blue bird in flight, this time at the righthand side of the mural.
On Dundas West, just west of Dufferin, there are two lanes with large murals by clandestinos.
One is the alley to the west of the Lulu Lounge where both sides are covered with fantastic paintings by fiya, shalak, and bruno smoky as well as a few others. I blogged about it just over two years ago and here is the link to the original post, “life as the shadow of vida“. Earlier this week I took another look at it – it’s still looking great and there have been no changes so I didn’t take any photos.
The other alley is nearby but on the north side of Dundas Street. Actually, it’s hardly an alley, more like a driveway which made taking pictures of the whole mural difficult. Also, if you are traveling eastbound on Dundas, you’d miss it. Here are the pictures that I managed to take:
Peperonata Lane runs north from Harbord Street. Most of the garage doors in the alley have been painted. Some were painted as part of a Wallnoize project in 2013.
below: Take a seat… and see what kind of street art there is here.
below: A woman feeds the chickens.
below: This mural, done in 2009, is one of the older ones in the lane.
below: A deer and a hawk
below: Elicser people and a text painting by poise.
below: Split face on a fence, by fiya
below: A poser bunny
below: Multicoloured grumpy cat by shalak and clandestinos.
below: Wrinkled man with fish in hand, by smoky
below: A garage door painted by miles.
From City of Toronto documentation on the naming of Peperonata Lane, November 2012:
This blog post is a continuation of the ‘love letters in paint’ post. I decided to give two of the larger murals a separate post.
First, there is an awesome mural painted by Bruno Smoky and Clandestinos that stretches across the back of a building on Rebecca Street (one block north of Queen St. West). It too is part of the Love Letters to the Great Lakes project.
And second, in an alley just east of Ossington, is a mural painted on bright turquoise that is hard to miss! Actually it is a series of murals that covers the back of more than one building. It is another birdo collaboration, this time with Christopher Konecki.
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eyes on the street
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bird contemplating a wire
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outdoor plumbing
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characters on the north wall
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as I walk Toronto 