Street Art

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Another prolific animal drawer who is easy to recognise is Portuguese artist Roa, he has a lot of work in Hackney. Only the head remains of his beaver in Hackney road....

...which is the complete opposite of his rabbit, a bit further along Hackney road, whose head is being obscured by Ivy

Hanbury St

Here's a pig, appropriately placed on Bacon St

New Goulston St has a rat

Hedgehog in Shoreditch

This is the remains of something, in Well St, Hackney

This last one of a dog taking a dump is in Brockley south London, and is part of a brilliant idea where Dulwich Picture Gallery commissioned graffiti artists to do their own versions of famous paintings owned and displayed in the gallery, out and about on the streets of Dulwich

The plaque on the wall above my bike gives the details

 

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Here's some more dogs, this in Croydon

Croydon also has a Mutley and Dick Dastardly

Hackney Wick

Just behind Latimer Road, west London

This is in Kinsale Rd, East Dulwich/Peckham Rye

 

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The wily fox seems very popular in street art world, maybe the artists associate with the cunning and having to have your wits about you.
Mile End

Croydon

Spitalfields

This excellent collaboration between Mexican artists Libre HEM and Acaro, on the Chalk Farm Estate

These are tiles put onto the wall, by artist called China Girl, this fox is in Turnpike Lane

This Warhol reference is on the other side of London, in Penge

And she also did this gun toting squirrel in Croydon

Invader is another who works with tiles, doing Space Invader icons, he has loads of works in London, there a handy map of them here:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Uw0xhaq3qr31Eoa7NpfTsCmPQYA&hl=en&ll=51.51480572667766,-0.14072150000004058&z=13
In fact Invader has pieces all over the world
http://www.space-invaders.com/world/
The only ones I have so far are this one in Brixton

And this Luke v Darth one on a multi-storey car park in Shoreditch

 

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Personally, out of all the animals my favourites are probably these by Irony and Boe, the animals have facial expressions that really brings them to life, magic.
Turnpike Lane

Walthamstow

Off West Green Rd, Tottenham

This spaghetti scene from Disney's Lady and the Tramp, in Croydon

And the sheer scale of this made me WOW when I saw it, in Poplar.

 

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OK onto the humans, but first another cat, Felix.
I've only found a few stars of the big screen. These by Turnpike Lane bus depot
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Marilyn Monroe in Brick Lane
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Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy, by Lora Zombie on Hanbury St
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Astro Boy in Croydon
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And if like me you grew up watching endless repeats of 'The Goonies', this is for you. This is a JXC piece of Chunk from that film, doing the 'truffle shuffle', if you don't remember here's the clip

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5whaRkuipU
And the piece on Miller St, Camden
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If the measure of a stars fame is the largest number of street art pics (of those I've found so far), the biggest star in London, surprisingly, is Mr Potato Head, seen here in Chalk Farm Estate
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and here in Latimer Rd, alongside a Banksy
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Here's a Banksy in Ladbroke Grove, 'preserved' in perspex.
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There's tribute walls, this Artful Dodger tribute to Carrie Fisher in Peckham
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Brixton boy David Bowie in, appropriately, Brixton
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This is a tribute to Bernie Wrightson, Ghost Rider creator and co-creator of Swamp Thing in the world of comics. On the side of Hackney Community College on Falkirk St
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And here's a moving tribute wall to Charlie Burns, not famous but to a local East End character who, if he'd have written an autobiography I'd have read it, this is worth a read:
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/03/27/so-long-charlie-burns/
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There's some other good musician ones, Lewisham boy Maxi Priest in Lewisham
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Brockley has Roy Ayers, best known for his 'everybody loves the sunshine' .....
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....and this brilliant Bob Marley one by Dale Grimshaw
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Dale Grimshaw also did this excellent one on the Chalk Farm Estate, the lions paw guarding the beer barrels so perfectly adds extra points
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I love this Salvador Dali one, complete with floppy clock oozing onto the pavement (I hope you read that correctly). Located on shutters in Commercial Road, by artist Zabou

Zabou also did this just off Essex Road

This on Ada St Hackney

And this on Hackney Rd

Edit and I've since found another Zabou one, of Sid Vicious on Wheeler St, see page 4.

 

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Mr Cenz has a distinctive style painting women's faces with explosions of colour, this in Star Yard off brick Lane

2 in Hoxton

Amy Winehouse in Camden

off Brick Lane

Brockley

Brixton Hill

 

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Here's a brilliant Conor Harrington piece in Spurling Road, Dulwich called Baroque the Streets. Part of Dulwich festival's street art programme which was curated and organised by Dulwich Picture Gallery and Street Art London

 

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Jimmy C also has a distinctive style I see often
These 2 on Whitby St, E1

Brixton

And this on street off Brick Lane

And this on Brick Lane itself

Notice above this one someone has scrawled 'Nat has Herpes'. Funnily enough immediately next to the Zabou picture on Ada St in Hackney shown above, is this with the same scrawl that I've posted recently and chuckled about.

So I thought this person is really hacked off with Nat, and they seem on a crusade to rubbish Nat's name across the whole city, a bit harsh when they could probably just get a pill for that or something. Anyway then I came across this which sheds some light on, and deepens the mystery simultaneously. Apologies for link to such a hideous rag: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-Twitter-users-send-bizarre-slur-viral.html

 

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Here's a Malcolm X in Star Yard off Brick Lane. Both these have already been painted over.

The one on the right is by Dreph, who has recently been involved in painting images of women of African and Caribbean origin who are not given the visibility they deserve, and is paying tribute to ordinary women who do extraordinary work for the betterment of their communities and society. More info here:https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...e-to-the-streets-in-pictures-street-art-dreph
I'd stumbled across this one a while ago in Penge and was wowed at the size, detail and bright colours, the necklace is amazing, and the colours match my bike brilliantly

And in the corner next to that, is this

I've since found the others from the above article, this on Fashion St off Brick Lane

This is in Star Yard, painted over the Malcolm X above

And the shutters were'nt properly open on this one on Commerical St.

I've also found these ones by Dreph, this in Croydon

And this on Hackney Rd

 

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Otto Schade who did the ribbon rhino above, has also done some humanoid figures
Hoxton St

And this off Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

Otto also does a series of sunset silhouette scenes I really like, these two on different side streets off Brick Lane

And here's Snoopy and Woodstock, in Ladbroke Grove

This is on the Regents Canal Camden

I think he also did this ET one on Great Eastern St

 

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Here's some other good portraits I've come across, this is Camden

I loved this food filled beard one, sadly already painted over

These all look like they were done by the same person, first two in Brockley, other one in Shoreditch

This in Shoreditch

Great Eastern St

Clapham

Brixton

A dead end alley out the back of Bethnal Green. I like this as I feel like the Beavis and Butthead character on the left, photographing all the street art

Zina's blue ladies remind me of the green lady pictures in my late Gran's living room, these in Latimer Rd

Hackney Wick

This by Boe, great at animals and people.

A tattoo shop in Croydon

Another in Croydon

 

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Wood St Walthamstow, by Loretta Lizzio

Another piece on Wood St, this on the side of the Flower Pot pub by Static

Wheler St, Shoreditch

Don't do drugs kids, Aytoun Rd, painted over already

This in Star Yard off Brick Lane by Carleen de Sozer....

..who also did this in Croydon

Also in Star Yard is this rather good jazz ensemble

I especially like the super committed colour matching on the two posts on this

This on the junction of Elgin Av and Shirland Rd, Maida Vale

Portrait of Neon artist Chris Bracey the figure behind the famous God’s Own Junkyard. Junction of Vallentin road and Wood Street, Walthamstow

St John's Rd, Penge

off Hackney Road

 

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Croydon

These also in Croydon

Brick Lane

Shoreditch

Acton

Northcote Rd, Battersea

Maple Rd, Penge

This is next to the Job Centre Plus on Camden High St, by Lora Zombie who did the I am Groot from earlier.

Hanbury St

Crofton Park

This on St Norbert's Rd, Brockley

Vallance Road, Hackney

And this 3D one is in Croydon

 

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And this is by Woskerski whose work I really like, he has a signature punk Teddy Bear image, seen here in Maple Rd Penge

His people all also pretty amazing, this also in Maple Rd

And this in Croydon

I don't know who did this but its very good. Round the corner from Miller St, Camden

This is on Miller st, Camden and like the cheetah and scuba diver pic I listed earlier, is subtle and easy to miss, but then you see it and are...woah

Chalk Farm Estate, by artist Sokar Uno

This puppet figure in Walthamstow is by Eelus

My jaw hit the floor when I saw this in Hackney Wick

And this one out the back of Iceland in Tooting is amazing