New Street Art! (16 Photos) — Vol. 112
By Vidar
Two Seabirds, a Golden Boot and a Paisley Parade in the Rain
A cormorant opens its wings in Valence and another stands on a rock in Plymouth, while a giant hand lifts a toy-sized locomotive under a Polish road bridge. Three portraits come from Meeting of Styles in Mexico.
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🐦 A Cormorant Opens Its Wings Through Swirling Color — By Séma Lao in Valence, France 🇫🇷
A cormorant spreads blue, rust-red and orange wings across a tall panel on a residential building, set against swirling turquoise, amber and green. Two round wall openings sit inside the painting, one above the bird's head and one in its breast.
Séma Lao signed and dated the panel in 2026. It was painted for the Walls&Love festival, which ran across Valence from August 22 to September 13, 2026, at 1 Rue Victor Jacquet.
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☔ A Rainy Sma' Shot Day Parade Fills a Tenement Gable — By Shaun Devenney in Paisley, UK 🇬🇧
The whole gable of a stone tenement becomes a parade in the rain, painted in blues and violets. A tall effigy with flaming orange hair rises over flags, umbrellas, a purple Sma' Shot banner and a big drum, while children walk below.
Shaun Devenney signed the wall Devenney. It stands at 19 Neilston Road in Paisley, the town that holds Sma' Shot Day on the first Saturday in July.
💡 Nerd Fact: The painted effigy and drum echo the festival itself. Sma' Shot Day marks the Paisley weavers' victory over employers who would not pay for the sma' shot, a hidden cotton thread in their shawls; it opens with a parade led by a replica of the Charleston Drum and includes the Burning of the Cork, an effigy of one of the manufacturers.
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🌉 A Man in an Orange Headband Leans Before a Lit Suspension Bridge — By Peakturedeco in Rennes, France 🇫🇷
A man in an orange headband and a white chain leans on crossed, tattooed forearms, one lettered PEAK, against a deep blue wall. To the right, a stone-towered suspension bridge strung with golden lights crosses before a glowing skyline.
Painted for Jam New York, organized by Naple, at 24 Avenue Jules Maniez.
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👟 A Giant Golden Football Boot Sits in a Painted Glass Case — By Dadospuntocero
A shipping container on a patch of dirt and grass is painted as a glass display case. Inside, a giant golden football boot gleams with reflections on its laces, stitching and studs, and DADOSPUNTOCERO runs along the top edge.
The boot is a tribute to the Bulgarian striker Hristo Stoichkov.
💡 Nerd Fact: Stoichkov joined Barcelona in July 1990 after sharing the Golden Boot with Hugo Sánchez, thanks to his 38 goals for CSKA Sofia.
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🧺 A Woman Picks Cotton in a Lilac Field — By Zane Prater in Cotonou, Benin 🇧🇯
A woman in a wide straw hat and a striped blue, pink and turquoise wrap picks white cotton bolls from a lilac field. Behind her, more pickers carry a full basket, and giant cotton bolls frame both ends of the long roadside wall.
The photo pairs a wide view with a closer look at the same wall in Cotonou.
💡 Nerd Fact: The subject is close to home. Cotton is Benin's top cash crop and main export, and the country is Africa's top cotton producer, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data cited by the Associated Press.
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😈 A Grinning Hooded Goblin Grips a Spray Can — By Ismael Jimenez
On a lime-yellow wall, a hooded goblin with pink hair, pointed ears and glowing blue eyes grins through rows of fangs, a tiny smiley glowing on its tongue. Long pink nails grip a spray can marked BMT FW.
A spotted toadstool and letter pieces fill the edges of the wall, and the goblin points straight at whoever is looking.
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🚂 A Giant Hand Lifts a Small Steam Locomotive — By mgrmors in Nowy Sącz, Poland 🇵🇱
Under a road bridge, a giant pale hand of soft white spray lifts a small olive-green steam locomotive with red wheels as if it were a toy. Small circles speckle the dark background, and a boy in a gray jacket watches from the right edge.
The wall stands under the bridge on Węgierska Street in Nowy Sącz.
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🔴 An Elderly Couple Considers a Single Red Dot — By neal_hamburg in Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪
A stencil on a pink painted brick background shows a small boy in a flat cap holding a spray can beside the single red dot he has just sprayed. An elderly man with a cane and a woman with a handbag stop to look.
The woman points at the dot, and the speech bubble above the couple says: “I mean, he's got a point.”
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🌊 “The Sea Raven” Stands on a Rock Above the Tide — By Spray Saint in Plymouth, UK 🇬🇧
Above the waterline, a dark seabird with bronze-edged feathers stands on a rock against a sunset sky and a distant headland. Below the surface, fish pass a rock dotted with a crab, a starfish and red anemones, and a man at the wall's foot shows its scale.
Painted on a tall wall at Colin Campbell Court in Plymouth.
💡 Nerd Fact: The title is where the cormorant got its name: the word comes through Old French cormarenc from Late Latin corvus marinus, “sea raven”.
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💜 A Pierced Woman Flips Off the Viewer Between Two Wildstyle Pieces — By bigmora + badseeds_zekone in Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪
Two blue, green and yellow wildstyle pieces flank a black-and-white portrait on a long magenta wall. The woman in the center, with face piercings, a patterned bandana and pink smoke curling through her hair, bares her teeth and raises her middle finger.
Painted on Tallinn's legal wall at Sääse 16. The photo pairs a wide view with a close-up of the portrait.
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🐐 A Horned, Red-Bearded Faun Fronts a Stained-Glass Wall — By Deseck One in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico 🇲🇽
A faun-like man with curling ram's horns, pointed ears and a thick red beard looks out from a long low wall. Behind him, stained-glass panes hold bees, leaves and two bottles, and the letters DESECK ONE curve through green arches.
Painted for Meeting of Styles Mexico 2026, held October 16–18, on Avenida Bordo de Xochiaca. Photo by mx_soda_.
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🧡 A Young Woman Under a Lace Veil Catches Warm Light — By Salte in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico 🇲🇽
A close-up portrait of a young woman with dark eyes and red lips fills the wall, green ribbon braided into her hair under a pale lace veil. Warm orange light falls across her face through a web of lace-patterned shadow.
Salte signed it in the lower corner. It belongs to the same Meeting of Styles edition on Avenida Bordo de Xochiaca.
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🦖 A T. Rex Skull and a Magnolia Share a Long Blue Wall — By Sophy Tuttle + Ernesto Maranje in Flint, Michigan 🇺🇸
A long wall above a parking lot is painted deep blue with pale fronds. A huge sandy-brown T. rex skull bares orange-tipped teeth at one end, a white magnolia blooms in the middle, and a smaller skull appears at the far left.
Painted for the Free City Mural Festival with Flint Public Art Project at 932 Beach Street. Photo by Wayne Wodtke.
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🐝 A Bumblebee Loops Gold Across a Weathered Face — By Pavel Jones in Tocancipá, Colombia 🇨🇴
An extreme close-up of a deeply lined face, its nose and eye rendered in orange, cream and teal, fills a long street wall, with what looks like a curled hand at the left end. A bumblebee flies in from the right on looping gold lines.
Signed Pavel and dated 2026. Painted for the 26th Festival de la Colombianidad, which marked Tocancipá's 433rd anniversary in September 2026.
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💀 A Rose-Crowned Woman Wears Silver Skull Makeup — By Roxor Vazquez in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico 🇲🇽
Below a chain-link fence, a woman's face is painted in silver skull makeup on a black wall, her eye sockets rimmed in glowing orange and her amber eyes looking up. Red roses crown her hair, and thin orange tendrils curl through the dark.
A third wall from Meeting of Styles Mexico 2026 on Avenida Bordo de Xochiaca.
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🦜 A Woman With a Macaw Meets a Figure Among Red Birds — By Vladrealart + Doppel in London, UK 🇬🇧
On a sage-green brick wall, a young woman with short dark hair and a white lace collar looks out beside a blue-and-yellow macaw. On the right, a figure in a rust-colored cap is seen from behind among dark red birds in flight.
The two halves are signed VLADREALART and DOPPEL. The wall stands at 320 Old Street, with the Old Street sign on its corner.
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14 works in 9 countries, from Valence, France to London, UK. Pick a photo to see the work.
- 1 Valence, France
- 2 Paisley, UK
- 3 Rennes, France
- 4 Cotonou, Benin
- 5 Nowy Sącz, Poland
- 6 Hamburg, Germany
- 7 Plymouth, UK
- 8 Tallinn, Estonia
- 9 Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico
- 10 Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico
- 11 Flint, Michigan
- 12 Tocancipá, Colombia
- 13 Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico
- 14 London, UK
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