Category: Faces

Gal-lery I

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Thank you Lauren for thinking of me and taking these fab shots of beauty for me!

It’s a wonderful feeling to be thought of!

This gorgeous wall painting was taken by Lauren at Baydreamer Writes in late October, when out at a Mexican restaurant. I love it!

I also love Cora’s Quest (her first children’s book) and King Copper, Ever So Gently and More Than Coffee (fine poetry collections). Head to her site for the links to grab one of these gift-able books!

I’ve done reviews of all of her books. Just put the title into the “Search” engine not too far down the sidebar, and go to it.

MONA OF KENSINGTON

“This iconic Kensington Market mural is finally complete — 43 years after it was painted on a dare.”

She’s miserably hard to shoot up high and through wires, but she’s always been there. With her wonky eyes, she was there on my first shopping trip to Kensington.

When I started collecting street art, I did take pics of her. However, she was crumbling & in b&w. This summer the original artist returned and finished her. Here’s an article about it!

Faces in Waiting

The first stunning multi-colour face was on a Magic Mushrooms shop.

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This second face is on a shipping container used as a shop. A row of these container businesses line the Dundas West Skateboard Park “DUNBAT”

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The third face was on a restaurant in Yorkville in 2020. It’s gone now.

THE VIOLINIST

I’d love to learn to paint white on black!

WOW! Watch Lindsey dress during the performance. Stunning!

Pics take by Resa 2020-2025

Toronto, Canada

The artists: in order of appearance

Machy Art

Unknown -on a Magic Mushrooms shop

Mathieu Bories

Tattoo Artist Art

On By ResaIn Faces, Garage Doors153 Comments

Le Gasp when I found this garage door.

The colours pierced my side vision from a half block away.

I should have known, even before I got to the door that it was painted by…

…tattoo artist extraordinaire, The Half Decent.

Just another piece of alley art I had to TEAR myself away from.

In real life, it appears black, white, red and silver. The pics weren’t capturing this, so I tried a slower shutter speed, which made the rest too, dark. Below is the comparison.

Normal shutter speed on the left. Slowest I can get on iPhone on the right.

Pano setting created a bluish overtone.

Pics taken by Resa – September 21, 2025

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

The above fab song, Tattoo, was exhilaratingly performed by Loreen at 2023’s GNTM (Germany’s Next Top Model). Of the 5 finalists presented here, who do you think won?

Cameo Blue

On By ResaIn Faces, Garage Doors156 Comments

This reminds me of an antique coral & white cameo ring I have.

I like it in blue, too.

The profile is characteristic of a cameo carving.

The face, set in a circle, is cameo-like.

They were wildly popular with the Victorians, a renaissance from the Renaissance,

… in a Victorian garden.

Pics taken by Resa – June 27, 2025

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

So, you might ask outside of the fact that the band’s name is Cameo and that there is a blue hue to much of the video, what it has to do with Victorian or Renaissance cameos?

Nothing, but it’s got a great beat you can dance to and Larry Blackmon’s red cod piece is outstandingly hilarious!

Funky Town

On By ResaIn Faces, Graffiti Alley, Street Art137 Comments

feat. Lipps

It took several trips to get this piece.

The first time it was like- YAY fresh graf! Then it was what the….?

There were 2 separate metal grill works, no idea what they are for, covering the art. You can see in the pic, I tried to slide one over. It was dead heavy, and the bit you see took me about 5 minutes of grunt work to slide.

I couldn’t just plop it to the ground, as there was a car parked.

Obsessed, I returned every several days, until there were no parked cars. The grills were still there, so I plopped them to the ground.

Jailed – Free

The art had been freed from its jail!

I returned the grills to the upright position prior to departing.

Jailed Reflection

Pics taken by Resa – October 15 & 28, 2024

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

Graffiti Alley is my Funky Town.

Beauty of Imperfection

On By ResaIn Faces, Murals145 Comments

Not sure how old this mural is. The colours are still quite bright, but it is chipped and peeling like crazy. It’s fab.

“Woman can have mustache”. That’s what it appears to say over the top lip.

“Love is Us” over one of the eyes.

“blow it” is between the eyes and over the nose.

It took a bit of time and scrutiny to figure out “Beauty of Imperfection”

Of course there was some wood trash in the way when I found it.

So I moved it, then replaced it when finished. The text over the trash was a tad challenging to figure.

“Sometimes you have to Be a Lion So you Can Be The Lamb you are “

Pics taken by Resa – March 4, 2024

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

The lettering Artist:

Not sure if it’s “Love” over the other eye?

Art for Liz

On By ResaIn Faces, Graffiti Alley135 Comments

I was chatting in comments with Liz Gauffreau recently.

It got to a point where someone else might have said: I need a drink now, I’m going for a smoke, time for a coffee & some chocolate or think I’ll go for a walk.

.. but Liz, what does she say?

“I think I need some art now.”

How cool is that? Well I have art and told Liz, I have some art for you!

Then, while picking out some art, it was like ..well what does Liz like?

After sweating it out in photo files for a week, the choices were narrowed down to two.

There is this piece, which is avant garde, open to interpretations and I’m sure not everyone’s cuppa tea.

OR a HOT PINK GOD!

HOT PINK GOD is magnificent, classic, sculpture like although flat and accessible in meaning.

Of course there are other art forms, such as music.

I could sing a song for Liz, but I’m sure that would just drive her to needing more art.

It was hard for me to leave this location. I wanted to stay.

After much reflecting on the choice, it was evident that art love is subjective. Therefore it’s difficult to select for anyone other than self.

Pics taken by Resa – October 25, 2024

Toronto, Canada

The artist:

The pristine window across the street added 1 more opportunity to admire.

“Eyes Without a Face”

On By ResaIn Faces, Garage Doors131 Comments

It’s an old Billy Idol song.

His message is clear, yet living in an bohemian arts community at the time,

I thought “face without eyes” was more it.

 Some died. Some just faded away.

Pics taken by Resa – March 23, 2023

Toronto, Canada

TheArtist:

Most is behind garbage can, but it is LUVSUMONE aka Moises Frank

Yes, I actually just went into someone’s yard and took these. I saw it from the street and couldn’t control myself.