Sweet innocence
Sometimes the most simple art enraptures me.
Frannie Potts’ style has a way of making me imagine I feel like a blooming flower, or a butterfly about to fly.
“Flowers in her hair”
Holly reminded me of this song, when she posted it a couple of times, and so did the fox with flowers.
Pics taken by Resa – April 16, 2026
Toronto, Canada
The Arist:
And Remember
April Showers paints her beauties in the worst spots.
This one was at a truck rental parking place. Yes, I almost got stuck squeezing through.
Of all the graf tagged onto the wall, all I wanted was the April Showers face. The best I could do in a 2 foot slot was some demented up angles and truck window reflections.
And now, I am squeezing through from here, until middle/late April. This is my last post until then.
But, I will be visiting when I can.
It’s because I got involved in an ART SHOW. YAY!
So, like April Showers, I’ll be sharing my beauties, but in a nice place.
But if I could, I would have a fashion show in an alley filled with graffiti.
There’s nothing like finding beauty in the roughest places; like Velvet Tango, the Art Gown I made for Holly House of Heart in a tagged up alley.
April Showers will bring art & flowers, and I’ll have lots to share with you!
Of the plethora, I’m mostly super excited to share the show of Paul McCartney’s amateur pics from 1963-64.
Our blog pal MATT is going to be on board for that!
There’s pics Paul took of the other Beatles, of America through the limo & train windows and some colour shots from Miami.
The show was SPLASHTACULAR!
There were also a few old professional promo shots.
So until then, like this art is tagged, I Wish You Roses!
Pics taken by Resa 2024 – 2026
Toronto, Canada
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.
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.
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:
“Reworking familiar imagery is just my way of giving history a second look.” – Jesse Mockrin
Based in Philadelphia, this artist examines Renaissance and Baroque artists’ art, with an eye on the survival of traditional narratives and beliefs in contemporary society. She then intervenes with her own modern canon.
Jesse Mockrin’s paintings “respond to histories of sexual violence and cruel treatment of women over millennia of myth and story, offering interventions and moments of resistance.”
Collectively, the paintings in ECHO highlight “an ongoing battle for bodily autonomy”.
The above painting is based on the Greek and Roman myth of Echo and Hera.
The biblical widow and heroine, Judith, beheads Assyrian General Holofernes and saves her people. This was a popular subject for artists in the 15 & 1600’s due to the “stark contrast between Judith’s femininity and the aggression of her violence.”
Mockrin builds up thin glazes of oil paint, a European Renaissance developed technique. “she crops her composition sharply, hiding critical elements of a story and leaving conflict unresolved.”
Unvarnished, her paintings have an eerie flatness.
“Grasping, pulling, lifting …. I am drawn to the ways that Baroque painters build drama and tension into their compositions.” Jesse Mockrin
Based on Ruben’s The Massacre of the Innocents, the woman in the right panel is based on one of the mothers protecting her children.
Painted circa 1610, The Massacre of the Innocents resides in the AGO’s collection. The photo on the left is an allowable share from the AGO. Click on the image to visit the page, and a larger version of the masterpiece..
In the Book of Genesis – Rachel and Leah were both married to Jacob.
Leah had many children. After many years of yearning to be a mother, Rachel had 2 sons. She died giving birth to the second child.
“It’s very emotional and very real, her longing for a child and then her tragic death as a result of it.”
“We think we’re not that similar to these characters, but they were just people, same as us.” – Jesse Mockrin
Pics taken by Resa – December 9, 2025
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
“Quotes in bold are by Jesse Mockrin”
“Quotes in italics are from the AGO”
All source is from the AGO
Robbie has featured this never before seen on GLAM mural, on her latest Street and Other Public Art posting.
Check it out!
Thanks for loving street art, Robbie!
Tonight, we’re serving up the popped corns of the cursed and the dead!
So hurry and grab these tasty concession stand treats before the movie starts!
Hi! My name is Horny Head, and as the director of this film, I assure you it is horrible, absolutely frightening!
What the hell! Let me out of this post! I’ve seen a Horny movie, and he wasn’t kidding. They’re horrible, just awful!
SIT DOWN! No one can ever leave the HELL SPIRIT THEATRE! Entry tickets are for life!
Thank you for that announcement Metal Man Ozzy! So, without further adieu – I now present:
That was bogus, bogusting!!!!
That’s not a shrinking head! You merely backed up the camera. I, on the other hand, shot a shrinking head movie. AND I shot it in Panoramascope!
AND using my new AS (Artificial Stupidity) tool, I have morphed the leading lady into a Day of the Dead Angel!
She’s hot! Gimme her name and number!
Okay, now that’s just more bogusosity! Using a pretty face to sell a film. On another handless, I have shot an ART FILM, on an iPhone!
Untitled iPhone Art Film
Notice how she transforms at the end of the film! I’m so inspired by me.
This post has left me blind in one eye, and I can’t see out of the other!
YAYAYAYAYAYAY
Pics taken by Resa – during the year 2025
Toronto, Canada
The Artists:
EN MASSE (a collection of artists)
THE HALF-DECENT
& a couple of unknown
Dedicated to my niece, Sherrie, the Halloween Queen!
A cool Collection of Blue Jays Street Art!
What a beautiful and hectic city Toronto is. You feel it in the slideshow!
And they picked the best bird to name their Baseball team after.
Hey, look! It’s a José Bautista mural!
2008 – 2017
Famous for “The Bat Flip” Bautista was a 6 time all-star, with 288 homers across 10 seasons with Toronto. Click on the pic below to read what the CBC has to say!
He rejoined the Blue Jays on August 11, 2023 for 1 day and retired a Blue Jay.
Commissioned by The Toronto Blue Jays, Bautista attended the unveiling of this massive mural with his family.
You can see its gargantuaness in the pic to the left, by comparing to the teeny people in the lower right corner.
He even signed it, in gold paint!
This was not an easy mural to capture. Still, after I found a way over the fence and into the construction site, I shot lots, and got some good ones. A few more are in the slideshow.
Bautista, one of the Blue Jay’s Gems!
“We must be painted on a time travel garage door.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because I see Cito Gaston!”
Gaston was the Blue Jays coach when Joe Carter hit the winning home run in the 1993 World Series. The Blue Jays won the title for 2 years in a row. (1992 & 1993) I always say they kept it for a 3rd year in 1994. That was the year of the big baseball strike, and there was no World Series.
My wings are waving the Jays on to victory, and my tail shows I’m a fan!
Pics taken by Resa – 2017 – 2025
Toronto, Canada
The Artists:
Daniel Mazzone
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BROOKLYN? or ???
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