Tag: Garage Door Art

Cats – The Big Ones

On By ResaIn Cats, Murals141 Comments

For Cat Lovers (& all animal lovers).

I was in a area by the tracks, and not expecting to find anything.

There was an alley across from the front of the building with the word GEARY.

One garage was painted, with big cats.

  • Too cute for just 1 pic!

Talk about a thrilling find!

Yet another mural I was loathe to leave.

It looked new. A passerby told me it was a year old.

  • Hard to pick just 1 shot!

This lion breaks my heart.

What a sweet old soul the artist captured. Humans are not nice enough to animals.

Hmm, I think these may all be endangered cats?

I searched endangered cats and cats on the edge of extinction.

Seems almost every cat, except house cats, are on the list.

Pics taken by Resa – November 18, 2025

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

A Work of Art & Thank You!

On By ResaIn Reblogs, Thank You's250 Comments

For Yvette

It was a lovely honour to be the focus of a Mini-Interview on Yvette’s Priorhouse blog.

I sent this to Yvette, so she could see the image I was using to say Thank You to her.

Resa @ Graffiti Lux & Murals PRIORHOUSE INTERVIEW 26 January2026

Resa – That image is like me & many …blogging, trying to keep up.

Yvette – That really could apply to blogging, and keeping up during a busy season.

Yvette – I also think it could apply to life – and just enduring a challenging season. There is a certain contentment I feel in that art – with a certain suffering or enduring and I think in another way there might be a hint of performance burnout – ?

Resa – I also think it can apply to life.

Yvette – Especially when you see the full photo – or is that part of the contentment feel- the balancing on one arm and the placement of that other arm is a bit athletic, sure, strong, poised, and in motion – and that adds to it. 

Yvette – Oh and the other elements/principles in that photo street art – we have the soft blue going across the body into the green – giving us this horizontal split that syncs with the body – other line designs stand out – like the hair being in sync with the background and other line design.

Yvette – And you know, the legs stood out on the third look – that is a strong pose – to be sideways – are those “eagle” legs? either way – that is why this feels strong and poised and enduring – 

Resa – Thank you, Yvette! What a wonderful interpretation of this piece of art.

Pics taken by Resa – June 27, 2025

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

Karen Roberts

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!

A Cat for Gigi

On By ResaIn Cats, Kensington Market2 Comments

Years ago, I was looking for cat street art for Gigi – Rethinking Life.

Someone told me about this new garage door with a tiger on it, in an alley near Kensington Market.

It took about 3 hours of alley grid walking, but I found it!

Unfortunately, it had already been severely defaced with tags. No cat for Gigi!

A few days ago, I was in the area, and went through the alley as a long cut to the streetcar stop.

OMG! The Tiger had been restored!

Pics taken by Resa – June 13, 2025

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

Butterfly Poetess

On By ResaIn Garage Doors, Tributes215 Comments

I find poetry in art, and poetry finds art in me.

Poets paint pictures with their words.

Emotions are drawn.

There’s art in the alleys. Sometimes paintings that remind me of my muse, a poetess, are found.

… and then I’m “Laughing to the sky, up to the sky”

Flirting around, one view than another

Holly, poetess muse, thank you for letting me use your poem!

Pics taken by Resa – April 9, 2025

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

Abstract Feelings

On By ResaIn Abstracts, Graffiti Alley141 Comments

Abstract is the best word I can come up with to describe how I feel these days.

Graffiti Alley

Might as well show off some of the abstract art I’ve collected. A definition is as follows:

For some reason, this piece called out.

I think it has something to do with the centre sort of 3D geometric breast/shield shape.

As you can see it was painted over other art. The abstract artist allowed some of the previous art to remain.

Chuckling about the teeth (old art) chewing on. the new art.

Alley Gallery

Graffiti Alley isn’t the only alley with art in Toronto. These are from alleys near my home.

Since first sighting of the wedge below, Graham at Mandala Vihara came to mind.

So, using the rotation feature, I made 4 sides to form a mandala. Only perfect is perfect. This is the best I could do with imperfect.

BY THE WAY: Tiffany Arpdaleo Is an abstract artist I follow on WP. Her art is fabulous.

Below – A car reflects wall art.

This alley fence I pass at least once a week was painted 2 years ago. I took the pic back then. The colours are still holding out.

Garage Doors

A bit further away, but within a 3 hour there and back walk:

This garage door in 3, parts, makes a cool triptych. A resident came home & parked her car. It was cool how the doors opened. The 3 pieces are featured individually in the slideshow below.

Same artist as the fence at the end of Alley Gallery. There were 4 in 1 alley – in the slideshow.

The below artist’s work is popular in the alleys.

This is an old rotting wood garage door. Yay for art!

On the Street

Not swung out at first sight, but it’s grown on me.

Boxes

I’ve been somewhat neglectful of taking pics of power boxes and Bell boxes. Most are abstract. Pulling my socks up as of NOW!

Below- Tags piled on tags. I’m quite fond of the accidental abstract this non art, art form randomly creates. Still, it defies the definition, which makes me like it even better. Think I’ll call it Rebel Art.

Pics taken by Resa – 2022 – 2025

Toronto, Canada

Some of the Artists: