other Naples urban art

Posted on February 5, 2026 by Mary C

There was far too much interesting graffiti and urban art seen in Naples to squeeze it all into one post. I have posted some previously and this post attempts to “finish” what I have from February 2024 – before I go back to Naples. Most of these images were taken while exploring the streets of the Spanish Quarter (Quartieri Spagnoli)

below: Electric! … but unplugged.

street art mural of an electric cord and plug lying on the ground

below: La Ditta Fortunato (The Lucky Company)

street art, shades of grey, a man with a sign La Ditta Fortunato

below: Zelda enshrined

a little street art piece that turns a religious shrine into a shrine for Zelda, the video game character and heroine.

below: Dancing in the dark

below: Superwomen sharing a pizza, street art by LiDieSis

street art by lediesis, two women dressed as superwoman eating pizza

below: Couple, staring into each other’s eyes.

street art, two people, middle aged, man and woman looking at each other

below: A street scene in the Spanish Quarter

Street scene, Spanish Quarter, Naples, motorbikes, graffiti, balconies, laundry, doorways,

below: Graffiti paper wheatpaste by Lingual (I think that’s what it says), a man’s portrait in grey tones, with two small green snakes slithering out of his mouth. Is this a political statement? He’s designed like an antique stone bust and carefully positioned on top of a real stone plaque on a wall in Naples

below: Graffiti cat

below: Like the image above, here is another strange woman sniffing flower parts

below: More than one person has left their shoes here…. A runner with a stopwatch in lieu of a head.

below: Very big hands, skinny arms and legs, and a puffball rabbit tail?

below: A small section of Vico Toto where there are some paintings that pay tribute to Totò, the stage name of an Italian actor Antonio “Totò” De Curtis (1898-1967). You can see more of the works here, Toto and friends, an earlier blog post.

part of Vico Toto, a narrow street in Spanish Quarter of Naples

below: Life is short

graffiti urban art, painting of two fish, with a big hook between them and the words life is short

below: Maradona (1960-2020) was a football hero to many and references to him are all over Naples. For more Maradona and football graffiti in Naples see “Football and the ‘cult’ of Maradona“

street art painting of Maradona, beside a blue bench

below: Let your phone blind you and suck your brains out! Graffiti by Inserra.

below: “Sempre la… stressa… cosa” or, in English, “Always there….stress… what” as he tries to balance a precarious load of chair, tire, fan, wine bottle, and more.

below: Punk chicken – except, don’t those feet look like a humn hand??

below: Outstretched hands encircle a shiny orb in a paper wheatpaste by Vivia Cirillo.

below: Perfectly placed skateboarder by Satwerz

below: “mmm”Il faccio mordere” or “I’ll make him bite”

below: Monochrome portrait of a local rapper, Geolier (Emanuele Palumbo), who is from the Gescal neighborhood of Naples. It was painted by Salvatore Iodice.

below: Two young men, by J.P. Gimenez

below: Sophia Loren serves up a pizza and on the right is, apparently, San Gennaro – On September 19, 305 AD, the Bishop of Benevento, Gennaro, died in Pozzuoli, martyred along with 6 others. As for the fellow in the middle – I don’t know!

motorbike parked in front of black and white monochrome street art paintings of three people, Sophia Loren holding a pizza, an unidentified man, and San Gennero who was martyred in 305 A.D.

Naples street scene with people, parked cars, street art, narrow streets, balconies, laundry,

below: Cartoonish interaction between telephone and eyepiece, only a fragment remains.

Napoli graffiti urban art, large paste up of one woman combing another woman's hair

below: Keyboard player

below: Cyop and Kaf painting high up on a wall. There are many examples of their work on the walls of Napoli! For more images, see Cyop & Kaf in Naples blogpost

mural by cyop and kaf on a wall, above the street

below: Another street in the Spanish Quarter.

street scene, shrines on wall, cars parked, graffiti on garage door, laundry hanging from balconies

below: Bright red lips and blue cheeks.

street art picture of a woman with bright red lips, grey eyes, and blue make-up,

below: Cave Gu-Tang black dog

cave gu-tang graffiti paste up of black dog

blue face in a street art painting, along with words viva napoli

Photos taken February 2024

love and angels in Naples

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Mary C

below: First angel seen – Sophia Loren by makergarcia

mural of Sophia Loren on a street in Naples

below: Second angel seen – Her (his?) face is covered (by her hair? by a mask?) as she leans over the globe. Is she mourning? Or protecting?

paste up graffiti of an angle with large wings as she leans on a globe, with north pole at the top

below: Keep your heart close; protect it.

below: Three shiny hearts at number 28

below: A little artwork by ExitEnter, keep your heart held high – to which someone has added a whimsical kite.

below: Make Love! (there were quite a few of these around Naples) by the aptly named Unplatonic

paste up graffiti by unplatonic, woman's face with hearts, the word Napoli, and the words make love

paste up graffiti by unplatonic, woman's face with hearts, the word Napoli, and the words make love in red

below: “Til death do us part”

Photos taken February 2024

Black and White, and a little bit more

Posted on January 23, 2026 by Mary C

Encrypto Project #2 was a collaboration between four artists, URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter. It consists of a series of black and white paintings together on a wall in Abbotsford (Melbourne). Each painting is monochromatic and they are all abstract (except for the black figure by Michael Fikaris at the right end of the series, immediately below). It was painted in 2023.

righthand end of encrypto project number two,black and white abstract paintings on a wall in Abbotsford, by collaboration of URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter

below: Most of the series, along the side of a house and then the back fence,

encrypto project number two,black and white abstract paintings on a wall in Abbotsford, by URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter

part of encrypto project number two,black and white abstract paintings on a wall in Abbotsford, by URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter

below: The black figure with the big nose in the bottom sticker looks a lot like the man in the panel at the righthand end of the wall!

below: A well dressed lizard hangs out in the alley too!

Photos taken February 2025

Collingwood (Melbourne) portraits

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Mary C

A collection of faces that I saw as I walked around Collingwood one summer day.

below: She looks down on the parking lot.

street art painting, portrait, woman's eyes and nose on grey wall, high above cars parked below, lower part of face has been tagged over

below: Artist LING painted this image of Patrick Coyle on the side of the Albion Hotel. Coyle was the original owner of that hotel.

street art painting, portrait by artist LING, of Patrick Coyle, man sitting with a full glass of beer in his hand, elbow on table, chin in hand, face has mustache and beard

below: mmm

street art painting, portrait, 2 workman with beards and mustaches, yellow and orange high viz vests, black wool hats

below: An older portrait by Adnate graces a small brick wall.

street art painting, portrait, a woman, by adnate, with head scarf and red cloth covering mouth

below: There is another, much larger, Adnate mural nearby. This apartment building on Wellington Street was painted in 2018. I wrote a blog post about it a few years ago – Four Adnate Faces, Dec 2018

below: On the left, is a portrait by Vince Moloney. Three little yellow characters by dscreet are on the door to the right.

on the left, in grey tones, street art painting, portrait in greys of young man wearing large headphones and on the right, three yellow characters by dscreet, one of which looks like an owl

below: Another portrait by LING, this time it’s Alf Stewart who stars in ‘Home and Away’, an Australian soap opera.

street art painting, portrait by artist LING, of Alf Stewart, under a street sign that says Bedford street, red car parked in front, person on sidewalk beside,

below: Michelangelo on a wood fence.

Michelangelo portrait in many colours, on wood fence in alley,

below: It almost looks like someone is playing “Peek a Boo” although I am sure that the two faces were not painted at the same time, or by the same person.

below: Drew in bright colours

top of head in blue, bright blue nose, pink glasses, yellow and green eyes, red very short hair and red eyebrows, word Drew written across bottom of face, 24

below: One of the uglier faces that you will see today…

ugly mis-shapen face painted on gate, small forehead, large jaw, mouth and teeth, long nose,

below: With visions of palm trees in front of his face – a blue skull by Callum Preston

blue skull wearing red glasses with images of palm trees in the lenses, by Callum Preston

Photos taken February 2025

Hiding behind the Danforth

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Mary C

On the south side of Danforth, near Bowden Ave.., there is an alley….

below: Looking west to Bowden Avenue. There are a few street art pieces that have been painted in the past couple of years.

below: Natasha Dichpan painted this young woman and wolf (dog?). It’s probably a dog but for some reason I’d like to think that it was a wolf.

below: The multicoloured swirls of dots and splotches are by Andre Castro.

below: A young woman with flowing pink hair, pointy elf-like ears, and many eyes, rides on a blue pelican (or at least a bird with a big beak), painted by Katrina Canendo in summer of 2021. Pink mushrooms in blue foilage on the accompanying door.

below: She also seems to have an extra arm as well as an eye on the back of her hand. She ate the mushrooms?

below: By Sasha Fonkatz, the only man on the block. The calligraphy in the black box on the right says: “Sometimes you have to be a lion to be the lamb that you are” (a Dave Chapelle quote). I am not sure what the whole story is surrounding the pink faced man, but the first two lines start “A true community is not just about …”

below: by Amani Muhammad, blues…. blue woman, blue pigeon, and blue butterflies among the pink and red flowers

below: Another Katrina Canendo piece, this time from April 2022. On the sidewalk on Bowden Street with Danforth Church in the background. Once called Chester Baptist Church, the building was completed in two stages. The original building was built in 1911 while a newer addition fronting onto Danforth was added in 1931.

below: Bowden Ave. The street is named after John Wilson Bowden, a builder who purchased land in the area in 1858 and subdivided it in 1871.

below: Behind the church

To the west of Bowden there are a couple of garage doors that have been painted but that was long ago. Some have been tagged over.

below: Long ago as in 2012 which is when this double garage was painted – CHEST on one side with Magical Mystery Tour and RASR on the other with Imagine. Beatles fans I presume.

below: and 2013 (pest, bacon, nozer).

Photos taken January 2023

Rankins Lane (Melbourne)

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Mary C

below: Time for coffee, time for shooting. ….

graffiti in Rankins Lane, Melbourne, paste ups of three little men saying hey, it's coffee time, also a very blue shadowy character with a gun in each hand and a long robe and hood that covers his face

below: ET

graffiti in Rankins Lane, Melbourne, paste ups and stencils, globe parachute on an iguana, ET in a black robe and framed with flowers, words that say your dreams will come true if you keep wishing, and last, a big black question mark,

below: King of Clowder’s double headed woman stencil

below: Paper paste-up behind a plant – it’s a large espresso maker repurposed as a planter.

below: Rabbit and Cat, BFF

below: Happy Day

below: Words of advice – “Don’t trade your authenticity for approval.

below: Part of a large tropical mural by Deb with birds – parrots and flamingos – and a big pink royal looking cat.

mural by Deb in Rankins Lane, very pink, women, toucan, and flamingos, tropical plants

below: The other part of the Deb mural.

mural by Deb, a vulture and a plate of cupcakes

below: Recess time with scissors and combs.

below: Crab and beetle.

below: More pink. Mama Cat? With many kittens?

below: Clownish?

below: Gas mask and coveralls

Photos taken March 2025

Austral Lane

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Mary C

There was not a lot of street art in this central Melbourne alley but I decided to give it its own blog post anyhow.

below: A cat and a dog… and then someone added “woof” and “meow”. Clever, right? Groan. The cat stencil was created by Melbourne artist King of the Clowder aka Night Krawler.

street art on a white painted brick wall, Austral Lane in Melbourne, a green dog head with red tongue hanging out, a black and white cat with a pink tongue, a yellow tennis ball bounces between them

below: Robobop is Robert Scholten – ink drawing of a mask in two pieces.

below: Kyobi is also in Austral Lane.

Photos taken February 2025

Uniacke Court

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Mary C

….. another Central Melborne lane with street art

below: A very large woman, painted by Deb, stands at one end of the alley

man on sidewalk beside car, looking back towards entrance to Uniacke Court, a lane in Melbourne, with a large mural on the wall

below: A Joker mural, painted by Heesco (aka Heesco Khosnaran)

entrance to Uniacke Court, a lane in Melbourne, with a large mural on the wall, ugly man with bulging pink eyes and large teeth, big pointy chin, wild green hair

below: Harley Quinn

below: The Corporation and a hungry little black bird.

mural, urban art, small black bird looking upwards, with beak open, stencil on brick wall behind says The Corporation, with marionette string

below: A leopard silently watches from the doorway, another mural by Deb

painting of a leopard by DEB sitting in a doorway

below: Tattoos and golf clubs

man with tattoos in his face, mural, holding a golf club in his hands

below: Be rationally crazy idea

below: Some small graffiti too – including Tweet with a several balloons.

below: Small white stencil

Photos taken February 2025

the smaller stuff too

Posted on January 16, 2026 by Mary C

…in Graffiti Alley

My previous post was also about a walk down a section of Toronto’s Graffiti Alley (Spadina to Portland). This post is from the same walk – because there were so many images that I wanted to share, I decided to divide the fun into two parts. This second part takes a closer look at some of the smaller pieces.

below: Peeling paper hands…. A 33wallflower33 group of three women in their dashing outfits … and a charming man with devil’s horns and red glasses.

below: Although it’s getting more difficult to see, there’s a Poser rabbit by the door. The door is disappearing behind a layer or two of paper and paint.

below: There is a little pink stikman on the light above the door.

below: Once upon a time this skinny little guy was pink but ooops, a layer of paint and now he’s prematurely grey.

below: In her face – another stikman

below: Last stikman for today… sometimes you find them tucked away in hard to see places.

below: Party line? Four hands phone.

below: A bleeding heart, a pansy flower, and a woman with a red hat and big ear rings.

below: Polly wants a cracker before she takes over the world, or at least that’s what she told me.

below: A young woman with blue lipstick and jagged pink make up on her cheeks. A spiked collar is around her neck. Make of it what you will.

below: Another young woman, this time she’s a little softer (at least in appearance) – drawn by Catchoo.

below: Multiple Sailor dudes (trp613) in two varieties hanging out with a happy little catchoo critter and its smiley daisy balloon.

below: “Save me”!

below: It looks like catchoo has been busy.

below: More of that wall.

below: Darth Vader makes an appearance too. Who’s that man peeking through the hole?

below: One flower sprouts a bald person while the other produces a sunny orb. That black octopus doesn’t look very happy – perhaps in this winter weather it needs more than just a woolly toque.

below: There are those women again!

below: Dogma slaps standing tall in his puffy jacket and bright red mitts.

below: Riding a D7606 crayon – T-bonez always finds new adventures.

below: A collaboration between Tamm Shinzo and April Showers Art produced this little round piece – sitting on top of the clouds with the moon shining over her shoulder.

below: Cryptid Supremacy – a rat with a very long tail

below: More rats, this time “the rat race is rigged”. Also another skull (skulls are very popular!), this time by Broke Canvas (aka Colin Green) on yellow. And third, is it a rainbow or a very sad face? – slap by Rider Waitress (aka Frances Sousa)

below: While we’re dealing with rats – Squee! They are all fleeing from an NYC trash can. Don’t litter!

below: Another small collection – Catchoo shows up on a soy sauce bottle while a Sentient Cookie (aka Cecil Tian) character gets taped to the wall… remember that banana?! And last, in the top left corner, a Cartoon Car Slaps.

below: Juice box time. By Clem Crevetz

Photos taken January 2026

Graffiti Alley – first visit of 2026

Posted on January 14, 2026 by Mary C

This blog post is a quick look some of the “art” that can be seen in Toronto’s Graffiti Alley at the moment. There is lot on display even though I only walked between Spadina and Portland so this post focuses on the murals and larger paintings that I saw. The smaller stickers and paste ups will be in a subsequent post (sooner rather than later I hope!).

below: Blue birds and big ugly black dogs.

below: A portrait of Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine’s blue and yellow colours.

below: Daisy, in rabbit ears

below: On one of the corners, there is a long grey mural with bits of red….

below: “A lone samurai known as Ghost stands on watch”. A story and a mural by Dewucme

below: Portraits painted on skateboards – there has been a collection of such portraits hanging here for at least a year. I am not sure if these three are newer, or if I just forgot them last time. (Link to blog post of skateboards from 2025)

below: Portrait by Bunso

below: Other part of the above mural, but painted by a different artist (I think)

below: In memory of Andre Campbell

below: Behind the Queen Street stores

below: Painting on hoardings as downtown redevelopment (and subway construction) slowly encroaches on the Queen and Spadina neighbourhood.

below: “Find peace in your chaos” Plus, it seems to be wearing shirt and tie but it’s also drooling and looking just a little unhinged!

below: Monstrous television screen head with bloody gums and matching tie.

below: “Who you gonna call?” Ghostbusters green slimey thing!

below: He’s got one big eye and a scowl on his face. There’s a burning cigarette in his mouth and the Ace of hearts is tucked into his hat band. Quite the character.

below: Not all cats are cute?

below: A woman with her purple hair tied up with little glowing (but ghostly) lanterns in a mural by MonkYi

below: Climbing green onions (scallions?)? An upside down blue goose? … And in the middle, yellow siu mai (Chinese open-topped steamed dumplings, a dim sum favorite), all images from the imagination of Mixt Paints aka Kelcy Timmins Chan