Eyes on the Streets

and feets on the ground. Graffiti, street art and murals seen while wandering the streets and alleys of our colourful world.

by Canal St. Martin

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Mary C

below: Green leaves growing everywhere in a piece by Mowcka

below: Another Mowcka piece with more green leaves. Long flowing hair and a cat mask add to the woman’s character.

paper wheatpaste drawing by mowcka of a woman holding a smaller woman wrapped in two green leaves

below: Bald Eagle carrying a box with its fragile contents, by The End. (the end of animals)

graffiti on a concrete pillar including one by The End of a bald eagle carrying a package, tied with a rope, in its beak

below: A concrete pillar with a number of tags, slaps, and other graffiti.

below: Up high on a pillar, a black and blue box above a bird and a mosaic Super Mario character smashing something to smithereens. As an aside, that’s probably a camera up in the very corner keeping an eye on me as I click away.

below: Love in triplicate and something about Alice and La France.

below: Sugarlandia is Calling. It seems to be full of monkeys swinging from vines and parrots sitting amongst big leaves.

below: Doing the splits… or running in a very strange way. But when you’re green and have horns maybe no one questions what you do.

old building beside a canal, St Martin canal in Paris, now covered with graffiti

Photos taken March 2023

The End

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Mary C

of endangered animals in Paris – animal portraits by a nameless stencil artist (pochoiriste) who signs his work The End

below: Orang-outan (orangutan) vs bulldozer.

below: Colourful bird, La calliste multicolore or in English, Multicolored tanager. It lives in the the mountains of Colombia.

coloured stencil street art portrait of an animal, a bird, the multicoloured tanager from Colombia, by The End

below: Lynx

coloured stencil street art portrait of an animal, boreal lynx

below: Rhino and jockey in a piece titled “Race of Life”

coloured stencil street art portrait of an animal, a rhino or rhinocerous, with a jockey riding on its back

below: Bengal tiger

coloured stencil street art portrait of an animal, bengal tiger

below: A closer look at the tiger

coloured stencil street art portrait of an animal, close up look at the tiger's face

below: Panda

coloured stencil street art portrait of an animal, black and white panda

below: Bald eagle

coloured stencil street art portrait of an animal, bald eagle in flight, carrying a package in its beak

below: Lion