Bordalo II in Lisbon

Posted on December 2, 2023 by Mary C

Jellyfish, or in Portuguese, medusa, swimming near the waterfront in the Barreiro neighbourhood in Lisbon.

gargage, or small building, beside the road near the waterfront in Barreiro Portugal, with two large jellyfishes made of junk by street artist Bordalo

The heads are made like a collage using bits and pieces of junk.

The tails are rope and other long and string-like things.

ropes used to make jellyfish tail in street art mural in Portugal

This mural was created by Bordalo II (aka Artur Bordalo) in June 2022. Most of his street artwork feature animals made with this collage technique.

close up view of collage and ropes used by artist Bordalo in making jellyfish mural

Bordalo artwork of a jellyfish on a blue building

Photos taken February 2023

Barreiro train station vicinity

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Mary C

Although it is a city in its own right, Barreiro seems like a suburb of Lisbon. It is most easily accessed by a short ferry ride across the Tagus River from central Lisbon. The Barreiro train station is next to the ferry dock. There are now numerous murals in Barreiro in part because of a project called Art in Town run by the City Council and ADAO.

The building in the middle is ADAO Headquarters (Associação Desenvolvimento Artes e Ofícios, translation: Assoc for the Development of Arts and Crafts)

view from bridge, ADAO headquarters, an old industrial site, with street art murals on it

below: A hole in the concrete wall provides a short cut across the tracks as well as a different view of the murals painted by Gonçalo Mar (aka Gonçalo Ribeiro) and Odheit

concrete fence with part removed for a walkway, building with murals in the background

below: On the fence, a owl keeps a watchful eye on passers-by

on a concrete block wall, a street art painting of an owl's face

below: A closer view of the ADAO Headquarters mural . The fish-like figures swimming on the walls appear frequently in Mar’s work.

mural by Mar on A D A O building by the train station in Barreiro Portugal. Hands. Fish like creatures, a big pink flower, an adult habd reaching out and touching fingers of a small child's hand, grey hexagons

below: A head with long flowing grey and turquoise hair emerges from the hexagons.

mural of the head of a grey faced older woman with eyes closed, flowing grey hair, emerging from grey and turquoise hexagons

below: Backyard view

back of an old industrial building with a small fenced in yard, old plastic chairs, graffiti on walls,

below: Punk red feathers

street art painting in a yard, a brown skinned man with red feathers in his hair and orange paint marks on his face

below: Two street art portraits; the woman on the right was painted by Pedro Pinhal

two portraits, street art, on the left in black and white, an older wrinkled faced man while on the right in colour, a younger brown woman with a metal head band and necklace

a black and white street art portrait of a man with bald forehead but long hair at the back, hoop ear rings and necklaces

below: A mermaid, octopus, paper sailboat, and fish bones

below: Ursa’s laptop and old flip phone has begun to sprout.

below: Old School Futuristes

below: Each one teach one

below: Rays of sunshine above with sharp angles of concrete below.

below: Back to the front of the ADAO Headquarters ….

below: …. where this beauty stands by the entrance.

graffiti in Faro

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Mary C

below: Some sort of art?

graffiti, black and white wheatpaste of a man in a mask, wearing glasses, head and shoulders view, with text, I am some sort of art

below: And another some art

below: Recycle yourself

black stencil on stone, recycling symbol with word yourself below it

below: He sits behind the glass.

black ink drawing of a man's portrait, signed amarantejaoum, behind the window pane in an old window with white frame

below: Green hair, teal hair.

street art painting of a woman with greenish blue hair, blue eye shadow and red lips

below: Rube stork in black and white

sticker, line drawing of a large bird with its wings out stretched

below: Trump as purple clown. Maybe the colour suits him!

graffiti, Donald Trump in a clown costume including little hat, printed in purple and black

below: The world in red and white.

graffiti, red on white, a globe of the Earth being held by two hands

below: Two faces and an arrow

blue line drawing of a face, also a blue arrow pointing downwards

below: Ouvre les yeux. La vie est belle/ bleue. Open your eyes, life is beautiful.

sticker graffiti, two faces, words that say Ouvre les yeux. La vie est belle but someone has crossed out belle and written bleu

below: Not my World Cup … protesting the 2022 World Cup (football) being held in Dubai.

FIFA world cup trophy wrapped in barbed wire, sticker graffiti

below: Priority mail

graffiti made with a USA Mail priority sticker

below: A cute little couple by Costah (aka Nuno Costah)

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below: Love is blue

below: Question authority?

below: “A veces el cambio se siente como en arcoiris est blanco y negro” roughly translates from Spanish to English as “Sometimes the changes feel like the rainbows are black and white.”

below: On an old wall

graffiti text and a couple of images of people, on an old wall

below: Monkeys with weapons

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below: … and a red mushroom

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below: Fox under red

grey fo pasteup on a wall, with red spray paint above it

below: Batman!

line drawing of Batmans head

below: Yes, it’s just a chicken. If you are wondering why I took a picture of a sticker with a chicken on it, you are not alone. I think that the couple walking behind me, who stopped to look at the pole too, were also confused!

sticker on a pole, a black and white chicken

below: One frog, two frog; green frog, red frog (doesn’t quite rhyme does it?)

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below: Love and suicide and a question that is fraught with complications

graffiti, image of person with up-do hair style, with words is love suicide?

street scene in Faro, green tag saying ano, other buildings in the background

mural with roses and a jellyfish

below:Keep smiling … until next time!

Photos taken February 2023

wheatpaste on the windows

Posted on February 18, 2023 by Mary C

On blackened windows in a row of abandoned houses in Barreiro (an area in Lisbon) there is a series of images.

below: Kouka Ntadi’s image of an African woman is the only signed piece.

black and white image of an African woman

a graffiti piece, with image of a Campbells soup can

black and white image graffiti of a jelly fish-like creature with body of a hand grenade and small wings

wheatpaste paste up image of two children sitting together and looking out the window

four images on a wall, one is a wheatpaste bicycle

two graffiti pieces on a wall, one is the back of a man as he uses a long handled roller

broken glass

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Mary C

Or maybe, “they do it with mirrors”. Her face was complete not too long ago but now she is missing a nose and part of her lower face. Pieces of mirror put together to create a portrait, the work of OSIR (OSIR_DES’p’EJO)

She is located near Lisbon Cathedral.
Photo taken mid February 2023

Yes, YouCanSpray

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Mary C

Miraduoro da Graca, Lisboa

below: A smiling older man with birds

street art high on a wall, realistic portrait of an old man with leaves and feathers on half his face, with orange birds making a frame for his face and shoulders by oze art

below: A portion of the wall was painted by Diego Tiradentes. Eyeballs

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below: A red and white monkey playing with the sands of time

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below: Blue, blue, my world is blue. Even the happy face mask is blue. Mural on the right by RossellaRZ. On the left is #dogood #begood woman with closed eyes by Osiris Rain.

two murals on a wall, on the left in shades of grey a woman with long curly hair and eyes closed with words #begood #doggod #playhard #workhard. on right is blue person with blank face holding a mask, also in blue, with a happy face

street art painting of a blue person holding a blue mask on a stick in front of her face. Mask is a happy face, real face is blank.

street art mural on a wall of a young man with a leaf painted on his forehead
murals, street art, on an outdoor set of stairs, in the rain, people with umbrellas

below: Rezende

two street art portraits of women

below: Lonely Man by Gustavo Baseggio
mural street art in blues of an older man in a cap, title Lonely Man, painted by Gustavo Baseggio,

below: This colourful mural was painted by Jotapê of the artist collective, Jotapepax

mural street art in bright jewel tones, purple, dark pink, turquoise of a person sitting looking at their hand, also a long arm with fingers

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below: Tiago Hacke

below: Purple skinned couple by Féto and Nate
street art mural, a couple, man and woman, both with purple skin

below: A leopard by Marcello Mea

street art of a black and white leopard

below: A colourful threesome by Alex Kaleb

colorful mural by Alex Kaleb of three people standing in knee deep water, two with blue hair and one with red hair

A mural in Lisbon of a young man or woman with longish black hair, with word GO written on one cheek, blank white eyes, bluish colour to his skin

on a wall, a painting of a green and purple face, purple hair and ear, green hand, on polka dot background

part of a Lisboa mural of a greenish yellow skinned man wearing light purple top, reaching out hand holding two ice cream cones, wide open startled mouth and long nose, signed waroox

part of a mural, heavy set man with small mustache, wearing a diving, or skiing mask, open mouth,

mural at the bottom of a set of stairs, pink city buildings at sunset or sunrise, people and car in front are a bluish purple

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Photos were taken in December of 2019.

Link to Yes You Can Spray instagram page

Patio de Dom Fradique, Lisbon

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Mary C

entrance to Patio de Dom Fradique, sign on gate post, people walking up the path, street art on walls in the distance

below: Maybe it’s a hand wrapped in ribbons? Painted by osch aka Otto Schade

mural by Otto Schade in Lisbon of a hand with finger pointing made of ribbons wrapped around and around

below: A man with his musical dog by omik, aka Mickael Guedes.

murals on an old wall in Lisbon, in front is a man holding a whistling dog by omik

below: Another person by omik, this time a long haired woman in a pink dress and bare feet.

street art painting of a young woman with large head, white eyes, long reddish hair, pink dress and bare feet, by omik a k a Mikael Guedes
an old twisted tree in a courtyard beside a path, with street art on the walls around it, Lisbon

below: A guitar playing, cowboy hat wearing, man who has seen better days, by Toys Daniel.

older painting on a wall, some paint peeling, a bear-like man with yellow skin, blue cowboy hat, playing a guitar
street art painting of a young woman on a door, she's looking upward, beside a small square window with a metal grille

below: A fish on an old wall, a fish out of water, by Vibes aka Will Vibes

a mural of a large fish parts are realistic and parts are collages of other images including a mans face

small painted multicoloured flowers on a wall

near Picoas metro station – Lisbon

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Mary C

The Cronos Project initiative involved painting murals on the walls of three large abandoned old building on Av Fontes Pereira Melo close to the Picoas metro station. They were painted by several international artists including the Brazilian Os Gémeos, the Italians Blu and Erica Il Cane, and the Spaniard SAM3. Since the murals were painted in 2010, smaller graffiti – both paint and paper – has been layered over the lower portions.

below: She seems to have a ball of string in her hand and that string goes all the way to the next mural on the corner of the building (out of view in this photo)

below: She appears to be keeping an eye on that kraken, octopus that has appeared. Note the string across the picture.

below: View of two sides of the building

below: He holds the end of the strings in both hands.

below: A closer look at the man with the gold crown and the bendy straw. Whatever he was drinking has been painted over.

below: A large silhouette in the darkening sky.

below: Painted windows make a starry sky while wrought iron railings speak to a past elegance.

below: A silly yellow cat on the balcony

below: A large green crocodile (alligator?) clumsily crashing through the building.

below: A cute little couple, paste-up by Costan with a wolf (fox?) prowling in the background.

below: Wakeup! to a bright green alarm clock.

below: seeing triples, stencil featuring Elton John by A.L. Tony

below: Rui Veloso, Portuguese singer, another stencil by A.L. Tony

below: The Costan couple again, still with their hands forming a heart, along with some black stencils by Dalaiama – black birds in flight and two euros.