Convenience Mural

 

This mural on the back of a convenience store includes some odd icons. I guess the yellow roses (of Texas?) and the Armadillo could denote local icons but the snake and tiger? No clue. Love walking along and discovering something like this. Near North Loop and 51st Street.

Mr. Smoke

 

I suppose that's a dragon on the side of the Mr. Smoke shop. Quite the elaborate mural.

I Wish

This mural at a bar on West Sixth Street is apropos.

Origins of Medicine mural

This mural in the Medical Park Tower and its companion piece across the hall, are slated to be hidden in a remodeling effort by the building management. Strange!

Another mural

We saw this mural at a South Austin church the other day. Lots of bright colors.

Ramblin' Cowboy

Part of a mural in the Crestview neighborhood.

You Decide

I see a mural like this (in West Austin around Fifth and Sixth) and think: "are these characters from a story I'm not hip enough to have heard about?"

Delivery

This mural on the side of a building on West Fifth puzzles me a bit.

Austin and Texas Murals

When our dear friends from the Northwest were visiting we walked up Guadalupe ("The Drag") one day. The Artist's Market was devoid of booths this day and I shot a picture of FFP and our friend Tina surrounded by the murals.

Downtown Mural

This mural is near Congress Avenue on East 8th Street. That's my better half walking by on a warm January day.

Symbols

 

This mural (in the garden area of the old house that is home to the Rosewood restaurant) is probably packed with meaning. The house on the right appears to be the old house.

Caution!

This large reproduction from a Medieval Manuscript invites visitors into the Medieval Monsters show at the Blanton Museum. It's pretty amazing the depictions of monsters as cautionary tales or critters to be slain.

A Work of Art

Here is FFP posing in this stunning work by artist Josef Kristofoletti. According the Austin's Art in Public Places: "Topping ten stories tall, Tau Ceti creates a stunning optic experience as sunlight from surrounding buildings refract and correspond with the painted gradient color spectrum throughout the day. Tau Ceti references a single star in the constellation Cetus (pronounced: see tus) that is spectrally similar to our own sun." This is at the corner of Brazos and East Second.

Another wall painting.

Here you see Linda checking out a futuristic wall painting on The Drag.

Good Thoughts

Graffiti or mural? Still. Good Thoughts.

More Movie Mural

This is another part of the Alamo Drafthouse South Mural. Movie references?

Movie Mural

This is part of a mural on the Alamo Drafthouse South. We speculate there are movie references??

Caught in the Act

This one in the shopping center with the Alamo is kind of meta if you imagine the artist painting the spray painter painting the Austin....

Spray Painters Saga

I guess this mural has been on Seventh for a while, but we don't usually walk along there.

Froggy Goes to Sixth Street

 

Just off East Sixth these frogs looked ready to engage with the revelers.