Four-D, a mural on Woodfield at Gerrard East in Little India
by artists Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson, October 2013
supported by the city of Toronto and Gerrard India Bazaar
Posts Tagged ‘mural’
Four-D
Posted: December 9, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: arches, asian, bright, fabric, four-D, Gerrard East, goldish, Little India, multicoloured, mural, patterns, public art, Toronto, turquoise
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by kids
Posted: December 7, 2014 in locationsTags: Adam Beck Junior public school, art, artwork, buildings, city, CN Tower, dogs, elementary, exhibit, fence, flowers, houses, ladybug, mural, outdoors, painting, Scarborough, scenes, school, students, sun, Toronto, trees
On a fence at Adam Beck Junior Public school in Scarborough is a wonderful “mural” composed of pictures painted by some of the students. Kudos to all involved in the project!
A “Danger due to construction” sign, the CN Tower and a Toronto police car.
Ladybugs, flowers and trees.
On the very right is a picture that looks like a sunset or sunrise. What you probably can’t read are the words written on the blue stripe. They say, “the story of my life”.
Buses, soccer balls and a hat left on the fence.
Another CN Tower, an arena, and ice cream.
Stop bullying too.
A Canadian flag and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
heritage murals – Kingston Road
Posted: November 14, 2014 in history, locationsTags: bluffs, boat, Half Way house, heritage trail, history, inn, John Hood, Kingston Rd., Midland Ave., mural, mural routes, Ontario, painting, parking lot, Scarborough, Simcoe
The Heritage Trail murals are a series of murals depicting the history of Scarborough. The project began in 1990 and consists of 12 murals at different locations along Kingston Road (old hwy 2).
Just west of Midland Ave are two of the murals.
Half Way House painted in 1990 by John Hood at 2052 Kingston Road, the NW corner of Midland & Kingston Rd. It is a picture of the Half Way House inn (and stage coach stop) that stood at this corner. It’s name comes from the fact that it was halfway between the village of Dunbarton (now a part of Pickering) and the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. In 1965 the building was moved to Black Creek Pioneer village.
Just farther to the west is another mural. ‘The Bluffs as Viewed by Elizabeth Simcoe c. 1793’ was painted by Risto Turunen in 1992. It is on the side of the building located at 2384 Kingston Rd, now Wong’s Martial Arts. Elizabeth Simcoe was the wife of wife of Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
The property beside this mural is now vacant and is enclosed by the type of blue temporary fencing that you see around many construction sites all around Toronto. If there was a building there, it has been demolished, otherwise there is no work being done there at the moment.
under Adelaide and Richmond
Posted: November 13, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: Adelaide St., brick layer, bricks, city scenes, colors, colourful, colours, concrete, corktown, Enoch turner, faces, girl, graffiti, history, industry, King St. East, man, mural, overpass, Richmond St., school, Shalak Attack, startup, street art, supports, Toronto, underpass, woman, workman
Both Adelaide St. East and Richmond St. East pass over King Street as they converge into Eastern Avenue. Recently the concrete supports that help hold up these overpasses have been painted in bright, bold pictures. The murals are entitled ‘Frozen Memories’ and they were designed and painted by street artist Shalak Attack with help from Bruno Smoky and Fiya Bruxa.
Each pillar has a large face on the side that faces King Street and a picture that depicts something representative of Corktown on the other sides.
These murals are a part of the StreetARToronto Underpass Program or “StART UP.”
Enoch Turner established Toronto’s first free school in the Corktown area in 1848.
Two of the main industries in Corktown were bricks and beer. One pillar pays homage to the people who worked in these industries, including this bricklayer.
This mural is a another tribute to the early days of Corktown. Sailing ships, maps and compasses are for the immigrants that came here. The first church built in Corktown was Little Trinity in 1843. It’s stained glass window is shown here.
other views
Ultra Church
Posted: October 17, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, chicken, Church St., ear rings, faces, glittery, jewelry, lane, LGBT, men, mural, necklace, party, people, public art, smiles, sparkly, street art, Toronto, ultra church, women
A mural near Church and Wellesley
Most of the mural.
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walking the Milky Way
Posted: October 1, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: aliens, animals, brick walls, cement, cherries, city, colours, concrete, doors, faces, fence, fish, ghost, ghost dick, graffiti, Jarus, letters, metal, mural, people, persue, photos, shark, street art, Toronto, urban, weeds, woman, words
The Milky Way from Dufferin to Elm Grove.
Once upon a time this alley led to a dairy. Story has it that milk was often spilt along the way.
At the west end of the Milky Way is a mural of two horses (one shown here), a wagon wheel, and an overturned milk can.
There is also quite a bit of graffiti in the alley.
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beside 530 Richmond West
Posted: September 18, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: birds, Bruno Smokey, chickens, ears, eyes, face, faces, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, Kevin Ledo, kid, man, mural, old man, Shalak Attack, skeleton, street art, Toronto, uber5000, woman
There is a mural in the lane way that runs beside 530 Richmond Street West (and connects with Graffiti Alley). It was completed earlier this summer. It is a collaborative effort by Shalak Attack (woman’s face), Kevin Ledo (child’s face), Uber5000 (blue cat) and Bruno Smokey ( man).
A number of people were taking pictures when I was there.
death dangles from her ears
grimaces? smiles?
ghetto cat
I guess it’s dinner time…. pizza, tacos and beets!
eyes to the right
chicken fingers
alley animals
Posted: July 14, 2014 in graffiti and street artTags: alley, animals, beaks, bird, bunny, city, cranes, dinosaur, doors, downtown, elephant, garages, graffiti, hummingbird, lane, mural, pig, rhino, rhinocerous, street art, tags, Toronto, urban
A selection of the graffiti animals that I have encountered in the past few weeks.
rhino and his feathered friends, parking lot off College St.
This is only part of the mural…. more below.
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large beaks, large birds
This is only part of the mural…. more above.
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oink, oink
A mural by ACS murals
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guardasaurus to watch over the door
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posr rabbit tucked in beside a garage – hiding from those who are hunting rabbits
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Creature with scales and a tail, Willis St., near the northwest corner of Queen and Bathurst streets.
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Elephants herd of three, but you can only see two of them in this picture. The elephant on the right didn’t fit in the photo…. but it looked just like the one of the left except it’s facing the other way.
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hummingbird hovering beside a garage door
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St. Enochs Square
Posted: July 10, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: black and white cat, boy, brick wall, cat, city, dandelions, downtown, EGR, EGRart, Elicser Elliott, lane, mural, painted wall, people, rejuvenation, Shuter, St. Enochs Square, street art, Toronto, urban
St. Enochs Square, between Massey Hall and the back of the stores facing Yonge St., just south of Shuter St.
This mural was painted about a year ago as part of a project to rejuvenate this alley. It was a collaboration between EGR and Elicser Elliott.
entrance to St. Enochs Sq. on Shuter St.
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left side of the mural
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blowing dandelions
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panorama of the mural
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suitman north and south
Posted: December 6, 2013 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: Adam Smith, black and white, businessmen, Dupont, equation, gita, halos, Joel Richardson, mathematics, men, mural, railway, red, stars, street art, suitman, suits, the Junction, Toronto, underpass, yellow
The suitman mural is on a railway underpass on Dupont St., just west of Lansdowne Ave. It covers the walls on both sides of the street.
It was first painted and funded with $2000 received from the City of Toronto’s Clean and Beautiful program. But after Rob Ford was elected mayor and began his “clean up” campaign, it was painted over with dull grey paint. Rather silly considering that Joel Richardson was paid by the city to paint it in the first place. Late in October 2011 it was replaced with a similar mural. It took six weeks to repaint, 25 gallons of paint and 100 large cans of spray paint.
Most of the photos taken were taken on 30 November 2013. Some photos are from a two years previous and they are marked as such.
South Side of Dupont St.
The picture on the south side depicts business men lined up to form mathematical equation.
The eastern part of the equation. That’s not a check mark on the right of the photo, it’s part of a long division sign.
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divide then multiply
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Well suited for a close up. (Photo taken Nov 2011)
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To the east of the bridge.
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X and + towards the bridge. (Photo taken November 2011)
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This photo was taken from across the street – looking through the concrete pillars that support the railway bridge.
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Immediately west of the underpass.
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This is one of the photos that was taken two years ago. I have included it for comparison purposes as the man wearing the gas mask is no longer part of the mural. Instead, three sitting women have been added at the bottom of the letter X. The next picture shows this part of the mural as it looks now.
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To the west of the train tracks. Note the absence of the man with the gas mask and the addition of the three women.
North Side of Dupont St.
Photo taken November 2011.
“And do thy duty even if it be humble, rather than another’s even if it be great. To die in one’s duty is LIFE: to live in another’s is death.” [quote from the Bhagavad Gita, a 700 verse scripture that part of the Hindi epic ‘Mahabharata’]
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Looking back under the bridge, following the arrow.
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Photo taken November 2011
“This at least would be the case in a society where things were left to follow their natural course, where there was perfect liberty, and where there was perfect FREE both to choose what occupation we thought proper and to change it as we thought PROPER. THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of different employments of labour stock, must in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality” [quote from “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith]
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More information on this mural: http://joelrichardson.com/2011/10/
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