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… another walk down Graffiti Alley

group of people, back to camera, walking down graffiti alley

below: Part of a monochrome mural by Nicolas Araneda aka niko.volts that has a lot of very American feet walking all over the faces of other people as lay on the ground….   ‘Trampling’ might be a better verb than ‘walking’

part of a mural in shades of grey, black and white, of feet wearing boots that look like the American flag, walking over the heads and faces of other people lying on the ground

below: Some walk in heavy boots, and others swim with open mouth ….

large fish mural in graffiti alley,

below: Looking crazed and demented, “Lobo” by Horus (aka Trevor Goodwin)

evil villain face with red eye, white wrinkly skin, yellow teeth, graffiti on a wall in graffiti alley, by horus,

below: Not quite so crazy or so demented but certainly not cuddly and warm either.

face, graffiti, white skin, yellow hair, red lips,

below: “Bring your green hat” by FreshPaintDaly aka Billy Creekwater

Donald Duck like character, but older and seedier, with black hat, text balloon that says bring your green hat

below: Two (and a bit) of six panels, drawings by Hartshorn (or posts collective).

street art drawings on the pavement

street art painting in graffiti alley, in alcove that was a window, now boarded up

street art painting in graffiti alley

collection of graffiti slaps covering a door in graffiti alley

below: “Not today Satan”.  There’s a lot going on here – the Silly Sausage Gang being front and center.  33wallflower33 in her white coat with the fuzzy collar and little decorations by catchoo .  There is also a T-bonez (of urban ninja squadron fame) wearing a green shirt and a necklace with a pendant – that’s Sticker Eddie he’s wearing, apparently.   The red-hearted pug’s name is Mopsi. Mopsi has something in his mouth but the donut is in the way (for more Mopsi see the Instagram page of his creator, So schoen immer weider)….   And the other dog is a collaboration between TRP613 (check out the reflections in the sunglasses!) and DivadogLA

part of a door covered with graffiti stickers and other slaps

below: “Get me out of here” and a dose of Instant Karma.

two graffiti paste ups, one is a young woman saying get me out of here, the other is a large hand holding a glass that says instant karma

many paste ups up high on a wall

below: Free Iran

free iran mural in graffiti alley, woman holding a white dove that died because shot with an arrow

below: This painting of a woman with her headphones above and yellow birdie walking a dog below was one of the first murals in Graffiti Alley – the work of Uber5000. Not many originals still exist!

uber5000 mural in graffiti alley, yellow birdie is walking dog, woman with headphones, on brick wall,

below: Elicser Elliott’s contribution to a larger mural that has been painted below the pink Poser bunny, “Don’t watch me cry”

street art painting by elicser elliott, part of a larger collaborative mural, man with burgundy baseball cap, with hands over his eyes. back of hands have tattoo words, Don't watch me cry, written over the two hands

below: Half a face.  He only needs one eye to stare at you.

half of a purple face, urban art, with other shapes and colours on it, black and grey eye and nose

below: Gold…  With a garland of white and blue flowers.

street art painting, gold male face with light blue highlights, wearing garland of blue and white flowers

below: A very large and very purple bear is at the door.

street art painting covering a door in graffiti alley, a large purple bear's head and face

below: He or she looks rather cramped in there. Signature says Neem?

street art mural, blue face

below: Another flower garland and another Neem head squeezed into a box.

two graffiti paintings, on left is black and white face with fingers in front, on right is an orange face with a garland of daisies on its head

graffiti alley, people taking pictures, people walking past

below: Scowling and smoking with ace in his cap.

mural in graffiti alley

below: Skydome forever and ALCS, as well as Vladdy’s number 27 shirt and World Series 2025…. little blue and white pieces of ceramic that celebrate the Toronto Blue Jays that someone lovingly made.

graffiti or urban art made of a collection of little ceramics, all decorated with toronto blue jays baseball team symbols

below: One Inch?  …  And other stickers crammed together.

man in red shirt is taking a picture, behind him is a sign that is covered with graffiti stickers

graffiti stickers covering a sign, a mural of a face is behind it

below: “We are the colours of corn”

feet on paved alley, where someone has written we are the colour of corn

below: More stickers and pasteups including catchoo’s dumpster fire that t-bonez from urban ninja squadron is using to dry his socks and underwear.

graffiti stickers and slaps on a wall

below: A couple of contributions from Dogmaslaps here (they’re all about dogs in case you haven’t guessed yet).

below:  More pasteups, some of which are quite intricate and detailed … especially the top two (vulture and jaguar?) which are both the creations of Ezpektro.

below: Sharing space with the Ezpektro pieces are a few smaller pasteups, some of which were made by artists that are new to me.  There is a pink bike in the top right, the same bike that is in the Make Art Not War poster in the above image…  BikeDeSuro creates stickers and wheatpaste featuring bikes.  From the left, a woman by Fiigueers and then a young girl with the Spanish words, “que nunca se apague la llama de la autonomia” which translates to “may the flame of autonomy never be extinguished”… The collection is rounded out with a guitar player from Sentient Cookie and a cute little green guy from Catchoo.

 

below: MonkYi cat with a very real looking heart in his claws.  Two carp swimming on the pavement in front.

below: Charmander, a Pokemon character.

orange pokeman character, urban art

below: Alfred E. Neuman makes an appearance in a couple of places – he’s the dude from MAD Magazine.

Alfred E. Neuman graffiti, also a woman on a television screen, as well as a very large painted eye

Alfred E. Neuman as a graffiti sticker, along with a black and white little bird

below: By 50 shades of greatt aka Adam McKnight – It looks a lot like Sponge Bob… maybe it’s his cousin?  But what’s with that tongue?  It looks like a slug is trying to slither out of his mouth.

square cartoon character with skinny arms and legs, and big white hands, purple tongue sticking out, by fifty shades of great

 

below: Verity and a happy face.

graffiti, including a yellow happy face and the word verity

small graffiti on round metal disc, graffiti is image of person with head of a large baseball,

below: Someone is not impressed…. Lame

concrete block at the base of a sign on a metal pole, stencil graffiti on the concrete that says lame

below: Green guy says: “In one year’s time, strike your blow, I shall return.”

stickers and paste ups, graffiti alley

below: “These days will define us”

small sticker graffiti with words these days will define us, with a drawing of the Earth

street art painting of a purple and yellow bear's face and front paws

Photos taken August 2026

the smaller stuff too

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…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.

graffiti stickers covering signs at the entrance to graffiti alley where there is lots of street art in the background

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.

paper paste up graffiti on a door

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.

a door covered with graffiti, with more street art paint on the walls beside it

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

pink stikman graffiti on a light over a door in an alley

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

white stikman graffiti on a white wall behind metal bars

below: In her face – another stikman

small red stikman on yellow paint with a woman's face at the bottom layer

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

green and black stikman hiding behind a hook with a black strap on it

below: Party line?  Four hands phone.

old phone booth but with 4 receivers, all covered with paint and graffiti

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

small graffiti in graffiti alley, a red painted heart, paper paste ups of a pansy flower and a person's head

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

paper paste up graffiti, one is a green bird with text that says bird takeover

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.

graffiti, woman with blue lips and spikey black hair, beside word peace stenciled twice in paint

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.

lots of paper pasteup graffiti in graffiti alley, one is a catchoo character holding a daisy shaped balloon

below: “Save me”!

paper pasteup graffiti in graffiti alley, including a blue floppy disc with text that says save me, by catchoo

below:  It looks like catchoo has been busy.

graffiti on a wall in graffiti alley

below: More of that wall.

lots of slaps, graffiti on a wall in graffiti alley

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

orange skull, graffiti on a wall in graffiti alley, also Darth Vader,

urban ninja squadron and others, graffiti on a wall in graffiti alley

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.

paint graffiti in graffiti alley, black octopus wearing a red toque

below: There are those women again!

33wallflower33 sticker of three flapper women

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

2 slaps graffiti on a wall already covered with street art paint. One is a dog, standing on two feet and dressed in human clothes - or perhaps it is a man with a dogs head

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

paste up graffiti high on a wall, t-bonez, from urban ninja squadron is riding a large orange crayon with D 7606 (name of another artist) on it,

collection of stickers, graffiti alley,

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.

round paper paste up on a utility pole in Graffiti Alley,

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

pink background with drawing of a rat sitting on a bench, long tail, words: cryptid supremacy

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)

graffiti on a wall, a black rat with words the rat race is rigged, a yellow square with a drawing of a skull by broke canvas, and last a rainbow with two flowers that looks like a sad face, by rider waitress

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

a sticker on a wall in graffiti alley, mice fleeing from a trash can, squeee

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.

catchoo soya sauce bottle, sentient cookie paste up and a cartoon slaps slap, garffiti on a wall in graffiti alley

below: Juice box time. By Clem Crevetz

sticker on metal pipes in graffiti alley, man sitting, with juice box in his hands

small green fish sticker beside a lock on a door

small graffiti painting, black line drawing of a face, with very pointy chin, on white background

elicser elliott painting of a woman in rabbit ears, drinking a can of pop

graffiti where is my $$

alley graffiti stickers, blepser and nervo
pasteup little character in white suit, probably marcel morceau, the mime artist

elle was here, written on sidewalk in pink

Photos taken January 2026