New Street Art That Pulls You Into the Scene (16 Photos, Vol. 43)

Sixteen walls that invite you into another scene

A real dog meets its painted double, a building disappears beneath yarn, and an armored swordsman stares through the wall. Elsewhere, glowing portraits, hidden creatures and giant flowers take over. Tap Love beneath your favorites.

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🎨 Jacques Cousteau Surrounded by Voices — By Élise Poinsenot and Mista Nove in Campagne-lès-Hesdin, France 🇫🇷

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Commandant Jacques Cousteau is transformed into one of the duo’s “Têtôpèdes”, with his realistic portrait set above a tiny painted body. Three girls from the MECS Foyer Les Peupliers imagined and painted the body with the artists.

Created during Festival Graffiti Mur Vivant, held August 7–9, 2026, at MECS Foyer Les Peupliers. Photo by Paris Tonkar.

💡 Nerd Fact: A French MECS is a child-protection residence for children and adolescents whose families are unable to provide their care and education. The three young collaborators were from the MECS that hosted the festival.

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🔥 A Face Glows Across the Building — By Lacey Jane Wilburn of LALA in Squamish, Canada 🇨🇦

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Warm red and orange light moves across a calm portrait on the dark facade. Her eyes cut through the broken blocks of color.

Painted in 2025 by Lacey Jane Wilburn of LALA, the portrait forms part of the Squamish Mural Walk’s permanent five-artist gallery on Cleveland Avenue.

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🤠 A Modern Portrait Meets the Old West — By Joshua Noah in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸

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A woman in a wide hat looks across a painted landscape of open sky, dry grass and distant cattle. Contemporary portraiture meets western imagery.

Joshua Noah completed the mural for The Yard by Elmo Arts in August 2026 at 400 East St. Elmo Road.

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🦜 Birds Take Over the Wall — By Jerome Davenport in Wilyabrup, Australia 🇦🇺

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Colorful birds move through a dense wall of leaves and flowers, towering over the people below.

This is Davenport’s second tank mural in Wilyabrup, completed in July 2026.

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🌻 “Sunflower Quintet” — By Louise Jones in Oak Park, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

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Sunflowers anchor a bouquet of crown vetch, trumpet vine, violet and cosmos across the building. Jones chose the flowers to tell a local story: sunflowers are Oak Park’s emblematic bloom, while the trumpet vine and violet represent instruments that might be heard at the nearby bandshell.

The mural covers two exterior walls of the Oak Park Event Hub. It was created through a partnership between the City of Oak Park, the Detroit Institute of Arts and Louise Jones.

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🦊 A Whole World Hides in the Wall — By ABYS in Chilliwack, Canada 🇨🇦

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ABYS’s finished mural brings together a charging moose, a squirrel, masked woodland animals, a tiny worm fishing and a trio of mushroom characters. There is something tucked into almost every corner.

Created for the 2026 Chilliwack Mural Festival at Nowell Street and Empress Lane.

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👁️ “The Gaze of History – Marion Greenwood” — By DEBER in Wichita, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

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This memorial mural portrays American Social Realist painter and muralist Marion Greenwood (1909–1970). DEBER identifies the work as “The Gaze of History – Marion Greenwood” and describes its subject as overlooked by history.

DEBER’s project list places the work at 350 South Ida Street in Wichita.

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🏘️ “View of the Pecherskaya Sloboda by the Volga” — By Mansur Ziyaev (Ziya Mansur) in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 🇷🇺

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In “View of the Pecherskaya Sloboda by the Volga”, blue and ochre lines reconstruct a historical riverbank scene of wooden houses, boats and figures like an old engraving.

Created for MESTO’s “Water as Origin” section on the Rowing Canal embankment, near Pecherskaya Sloboda. Photo by Otdel Kadrov.

💡 Nerd Fact: The artist drew on historical photographs from 1897 and 1917. He describes the site as a place where different eras overlap and coexist in a single space.

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🧶 “A Nossa Casa” — A Community Art Project in Covilhã, Portugal 🇵🇹

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More than 7,000 crocheted and knitted pieces form a giant blanket over a house in Covilhã’s historic center. Organized by WOOL with contributions from across the community, “A Nossa Casa” uses repurposed local materials to open a conversation about care, housing and the planet we share.

WOOL installed the work at Rua Comendador Marcelino 8–10 / Largo do Olvideiro. J. Gomes donated recycled yarn. Photo by Mariana Vasconcelos.

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🪨 Stones Float Across the Wall — By Simo in Trenčín, Slovakia 🇸🇰

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A cluster of carefully rendered stones appears to float across an orange facade, somewhere between geology and abstraction. Careful shading pushes the forms beyond the flat surface.

Created for Fest Art Trenčín 2026 in the Halalovka courtyard, Východná 7581. Photo by V okamihu.

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🐕 The Real Dog Meets Its Painted Double — By Jakub Tsau in Třebíč, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

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A huge bull terrier looks out from the wall while a real dog and its owner stand below in almost the same pose. The photo completes the joke.

Tsau shared the finished work from Třebíč 2026, created during Graffiti Rock Jam 18, held July 17–19, 2026.

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🟢 A Green Figure Emerges From the Dark — By MAD in Chossewitz, Germany 🇩🇪

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A futuristic face rises through green light, smoke and floating organic forms. The dark background makes the highlights appear to glow across the wall.

Created during MIT DIR Festival 2026, held July 23–26 at Klingemühle in Friedland-Chossewitz.

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🌳 Two Landscapes Share One Tree — By María Ortega Estepa in Casariche, Spain 🇪🇸

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A leafy tree is divided into two views, one airy and blue, the other warm and dense. Painted guide lines and small coordinates give the structure the look of a field study. Ortega Estepa identifies it as a mural intervention on Casariche’s music kiosk.

Created for the first ARCAS Urban Art and Territory Meeting, held May 28–June 6, 2026, in Casariche.

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🧵 “Gomitoli e Pupi” — By Zed1 in Villafrati, Italy 🇮🇹

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In “Gomitoli e Pupi”, a marionette made from intertwined balls of yarn cradles the Sicilian puppet Orlando. Zed1 says the yarn represents invisible bonds to homeland, collective memory and traditions passed from generation to generation.

Created during Urban Stage – Mural Art Fest, held in Villafrati from May 20–30, 2026.

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⚔️ An Armored Swordsman Looks Straight Through the Wall — By Intro_1er in Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪

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An armored swordsman grips a blade as fire and dark metal frame the face. The direct gaze and polished armor make it look like a film still.

Painted at Hall of Fame Kalkberg on Karlsruher Straße. Photo by Moter.one.

💡 Nerd Fact: Kalkberg is one of three city-provided surfaces in Cologne where graffiti may be painted legally. The hill served as a settling basin for lime slurry until World War II and then, until the early 1970s, as a dump for industrial residues and demolition rubble.

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🖤 Five Artists Build One Black-and-White World — By Paulo Mucca, Alessandro Bellisario, LOST, TANTI and Eight in Lecce, Italy 🇮🇹

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This collaborative wall brings together portraits, vehicles, creatures and sharp letterforms in a dense black-and-white composition. Each artist keeps a distinct style, unified by the limited palette.

Painted at Manifatture Knos, Via Vecchia Frigole 36, during the Paulo Mucca Birthday Graffiti Jam on June 28, 2026.

🔗 Follow Paulo Mucca, Alessandro Bellisario, LOST, TANTI and Eight on Instagram.

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These walls on the map

16 works in 11 countries, from Campagne-lès-Hesdin, France to Lecce, Italy. Pick a photo to see the work.

1. 1 Campagne-lès-Hesdin, France
2. 2 Squamish, Canada
3. 3 Austin, Texas, United States
4. 4 Wilyabrup, Australia
5. 5 Oak Park, Michigan, United States
6. 6 Chilliwack, Canada
7. 7 Wichita, Kansas, United States
8. 8 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
9. 9 Covilhã, Portugal
10. 10 Trenčín, Slovakia
11. 11 Třebíč, Czech Republic
12. 12 Chossewitz, Germany
13. 13 Casariche, Spain
14. 14 Villafrati, Italy
15. 15 Cologne, Germany
16. 16 Lecce, Italy

Loved on Street Art Utopia, from these places

• Nizhny NovgorodGiant Cat · LexusOne
• CologneDer Wanderer 4.0 · Innerfields
• ChilliwackA Whole World Hides in the Wall · ABYS
• AustinA Modern Portrait Meets the Old West · Joshua Noah

Which one is your favorite?