New Street Art Worth Seeing! (12 Photos, Vol. 18)

August 1, 2026
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Twelve walls with something impossible to miss.

A hawk crosses a sports hall. A dragonfly waits inside a glass jar, flowers cover an entire building, and a bare wall becomes a creature. These twelve works use scale, color and illusion in very different ways.

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Haachtse Havik mural by DZIA in Haacht, Belgium, showing a huge grey hawk flying across a sports hall with bright orange talons extended.

🦅 “Haachtse Havik” — By DZIA in Haacht, Belgium 🇧🇪

A huge grey hawk sweeps across the sports hall with its wings spread and orange talons stretched toward the ground. DZIA keeps the bird almost monochrome, so its eye and claws carry the color.

The municipality of Haacht identifies the mural on Sporthal Den Box as part of the Animalinas walking and cycling route. In his finished-work post, DZIA says it took three days and was created to bring local wildlife into public space.

💡 What We Could Verify: The Dutch word havik refers to the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis). According to Vogelbescherming Nederland, one bird may use a feeding range covering hundreds of hectares.

More: See Birds Take Over the Walls (14 Photos).

🔗 Follow DZIA on Instagram.


In The Golden Afternoon mural by Ouizi in Ticonderoga, New York, covering a brick building with large pink dahlias, sunflowers and blue wildflowers.

🌸 “In The Golden Afternoon” — By Ouizi in Ticonderoga, New York, USA 🇺🇸

Dahlias, sunflowers and small blue flowers spread across the entire brick wall, turning doors and windows into gaps inside a giant garden. An eastern tiger swallowtail appears among the blooms.

Ouizi’s finished-work post confirms that the title comes from Lewis Carroll’s prefatory poem and places the mural at 116 Montcalm Street. It was painted for Walls Between Waters, a public-art partnership documented by the Essex County Land Bank.

💡 What We Could Verify: Carroll’s “golden afternoon” was 4 July 1862, when he told the first version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to the three Liddell sisters during an Oxford boat trip, as documented by the Bodleian Libraries.

More: See Streets Turn Into Gardens (14 Photos).

🔗 Follow Ouizi on Instagram.


Street art mural by YBR and SHC in Třebíč, Czech Republic, showing a mechanical dragonfly inside a transparent glass jar on a bright blue wall.

🫙 Dragonfly in a Jar — By YBR / SHC in Třebíč, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

A mechanical dragonfly rests inside a glass jar painted onto a bright blue wall. The small figure beside it makes the transparent container feel enormous.

YBR / SHC shared the finished work from Graffiti Rock Jam Vol. 18 in an original post, thanking Nowe J Dworek Crew and Marshall Nowe J DworekArtMag’s festival report documents the event across Třebíč from July 17–19, 2026. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive.

💡 What We Could Verify: Dragonflies spend most of their lives underwater as larvae. The U.S. National Park Service also samples those larvae as bioindicators of mercury contamination in wetlands.

More: See 12 Walls That Make the City Look Impossible.

🔗 Follow YBR / SHC on Instagram.


Mural by Jonatan Carranza Sojo in Montehermoso, Spain, showing great-grandmother Julia teaching her great-granddaughter Julia how to wear the town’s traditional yellow scarf.

🧣 Julia and Julia — By Jonatan Carranza Sojo in Montehermoso, Spain 🇪🇸

Great-grandmother Julia leans toward her great-granddaughter, also named Julia, and shows her how to wear Montehermoso’s traditional yellow scarf. Their hands meet at the center of the wall, making the act of passing on a local custom the entire composition.

Sojo’s original post identifies both sitters and the traditional scarf. Local reporting places the mural on Montehermoso’s Centro de Mayores. It was painted for Vientos del Pueblo with the municipality. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading uses the sitters’ names.

💡 What We Could Verify: Historical research on Montehermoso’s traditional dress distinguishes everyday clothing from gala attire: women in gala or festival dress wore a colored headscarf rather than the town’s better-known decorated bonnet, according to the Fundación Joaquín Díaz.

More: See Art About Mothers and Grandmothers (15 Photos).

🔗 Follow Jonatan Carranza Sojo on Instagram.


Before-and-after street art collage by SCAF Oner showing a bare concrete retaining wall transformed into a pink creature crawling from the ruins toward a worker.

👾 Before and After — By SCAF Oner

The first view is only cracked concrete, weeds and rubble. In the finished scene, a pink creature appears to crawl out of the broken wall while a worker bends over beside it.

SCAF Oner’s original Facebook upload keeps the untouched wall and finished illusion together, so the before-and-after comparison remains part of the visual joke. The location was not provided, so none has been guessed.

More: See 26 3D Paintings by SCAF.

🔗 Follow SCAF Oner on Instagram.


Tall mural by Asem Navarro in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, showing a woman in profile surrounded by orange flowers and white ribbon-like shapes.

🌺 Woman and Flowers — By Asem Navarro in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦

A woman’s profile rises through orange flowers, dark leaves and sharp white ribbons that fold around the edge of the building. The narrow wall makes the portrait feel even taller.

Asem Navarro completed the mural over five days as the first finished work of the 2026 Meraki Mural Fest. The festival’s finished-work post places it at Jove Jovanovića Zmaja 9, while local reporting from Bijeljina documents the festival’s international 2026 program. No formal title has been confirmed.

More: See Walls Bloom With Flowers (12 Photos).

🔗 Follow Asem Navarro on Instagram.


Wellspring mural by Shauna Anseo in London, showing a large woman touching a pool of glowing blue water as ripples spread around a real window.

💧 “Wellspring” — By Shauna Anseo in London, UK 🇬🇧

A woman lowers one finger toward a glowing pool, sending pale blue rings across the brick wall. A real window sits inside the painted water and makes the surface feel deeper.

Anseo’s finished-work post places “Wellspring” at 144 Coldharbour Lane, on the corner of Eastlake Road. The Camberwell Society reports that the design grew from the area’s historic healing springs and workshops with Year 11 pupils at Sacred Heart Catholic School.

💡 What We Could Verify: The original Camber Well was identified in a private Grove Park garden. A report on the discovery records that a Southwark archaeologist confirmed the site and that historical photographs show a donkey-driven pump at the well.

More: See 12 Murals That Make Flat Surfaces Feel Real.

🔗 Follow Shauna Anseo on Instagram.

📷 Photo by Street Art Atlas.


Coming Home mural by Dave Young Kim in Los Angeles, showing Korean pungmulnori drummers moving beneath colorful ribbons, plum blossoms and outlines of traditional architecture.

🥁 “Coming Home” — By Dave Young Kim in Los Angeles, California, USA 🇺🇸

Korean pungmulnori drummers move beneath green, yellow, purple and red ribbons. Plum blossoms gather below them, while faint outlines of traditional architecture appear in the background. The figures turn the wall into a procession.

Kim’s original post calls “Coming Home” his first mural in the Koreatown neighborhood where he grew up. LA Local reports that the work was informed by oral histories gathered by young people from elders at Durae Crenshaw House, and that its architecture reflects ideas of home from those interviews. It was created for the Korean Resource Center at 900 Crenshaw Boulevard.

💡 What We Could Verify: Pungmulnori belongs to the Korean nongak tradition, which combines percussion, parading, dance, drama and acrobatics. UNESCO inscribed nongak on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014.

More: See Street Art With Its Own Soundtrack (10 Photos).

🔗 Follow Dave Young Kim on Instagram.

📷 Photo by Impermanent Art.


Jeff Hardy tribute mural by HE8CK and Fliser Macias in Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico, showing the wrestler’s blue face and red eyes behind one of the artists.

🤼 Jeff Hardy Tribute — By HE8CK and Fliser Macias in Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico 🇲🇽

Jeff Hardy’s blue face fills the wall with red eyes, dark mesh and streaks of electric color. One of the artists stands in front of the finished portrait, surrounded by used spray cans.

In his original mural post, HE8CK calls the portrait a tribute to a childhood hero. A separate work-in-progress post places it in Cuautitlán Izcalli; no street address was provided.

💡 What We Could Verify: Jeff Hardy’s face paint became a regular part of his look in 2008 and 2009, the period in which he became a multiple-time world champion, according to WWE.

More: See Street Art Americans Recognize in One Second (14 Photos).

🔗 Follow HE8CK and Fliser Macias on Instagram.


Niña de Humboldt mural by Adrián Graffiti in Chillán, Chile, showing a smiling girl in red glasses and a hood inspired by a Humboldt penguin.

🐧 “Niña de Humboldt” — By Adrián Graffiti in Chillán, Chile 🇨🇱

A smiling girl looks out through red glasses while a hood inspired by a Humboldt penguin frames her face. Even the real parking sign becomes an accidental layer over the portrait.

Adrián Graffiti’s original post confirms the title and says the mural was painted on the gate of Laboratorio Someruno. The work can be found at Isabel Riquelme 446 in Chillán.

💡 What We Could Verify: The Humboldt penguin takes its common name from its native habitat, the Humboldt Current, which runs along the Pacific coast from Chile to Peru, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.

More: See Art About Growing Up (9 Photos).

🔗 Follow Adrián Graffiti on Instagram.


Mural by Bakr in Vejle, Denmark, showing a woman reclining in a striped chair beside green water painted across the facade.

🪑 Woman by the Water — By Bakr in Vejle, Denmark 🇩🇰

A woman leans back in a striped chair while a line of green water crosses the facade behind her. Real windows interrupt the quiet pose without breaking it.

In his finished-work post, Bakr says the mural was inspired by the Skagen painters and their treatment of light, nature and quiet everyday life. It was created at Danmarksgade 4 for Vejle Street Art 2026, and Vejle’s official gallery page confirms Bakr as an international artist working in the Havnegade and Danmarksgade area. No formal title has been confirmed.

💡 What We Could Verify: The Skagen painters eventually created their own institution: P.S. Krøyer, Michael Ancher and Laurits Tuxen were among the founders of Skagens Museum in 1908, according to VisitDenmark.

More: See Quiet Art (18 Photos).

🔗 Follow Bakr on Instagram.


Ghost House mural by Blatta HTB showing three cartoon ghosts in hats crowding around a frightened figure on a concrete wall.

👻 “Ghost House” — By Blatta HTB

Three long-faced ghosts lean into a chaotic little room while a frightened figure is squeezed between them. The flat concrete wall suddenly feels crowded with characters.

Blatta HTB shared the work under the title “Ghost house”. The location was not provided, so none has been guessed.

More: See 10 Streets That Feel Like a Monster Movie.

🔗 Follow Blatta HTB on Instagram.


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