Small Towns Local Murals, Part5

[TerryPG]

It’s been quite a while since I posted one of my street Mural art posts.
A little history. I like to visit small towns in my home province of Ontario Canada. For years I drove or walked past these murals. Since I got into taking photos for local guides I really began to appreciate this art. You can click on my past submissions below.

Small town mural art part 1 from Jul/21
Smart town mural art part 2 From Jan/22
Small town mural art part3 from Feb/23
Small town mural art part 4 from July/23
Small town mural art part 5 from Aug/23

The Mural from above caught my eye from a few streets away while I was turning. I immediately back tracked to see it. I love it, so Canadian.

The 2nd artwork above is on the back of the same building as the first. they are located in Niagara Falls Ontario.

Such Intricate painting

Above mural part is from a very small town in Orono Ontario The local train station was usually the hub and lifeline for small towns.

Image 4 above is a fairly new mural painted on a 6 storey office/ apartment building in
Whitby Ontario

Above image is painted on a wall by the Chippewas of Rama first Nation near Orillia Ontario

Above image is from Orillia Ontario

Hope you enjoyed these as much as I did visiting, taking the photos and sharing.

[Rednewt74]

Fabulous collection and photos. I have photos of several murals around here, but I can’t seem to make the effort to write up a post.

[Shabuj_Ahmmed]

Thank you for sharing this. @TerryPG

[GasparKaren]

@TerryPG What beautiful murals, my friend. I love being able to see and record this art on the city walls.
Thank you for sharing these images with us.

[NareshDarji]

That was a delightful tour! The murals are so vibrant and truly capture the unique spirit of each town. @TerryPG
Thanks for sharing these beautiful discoveries!

[BudionoS]

wow cool mural. i really appreciate the ability of mural artists who can express their artistic soul in a very wide field and exposed to various weather. besides high artistic soul also need qualified knowledge about quality paint material that is weather resistant. thank you for sharing it here @TerryPG

[JustJake]

Oh man, @TerryPG, I’m so glad you fired this series back up. It’s such a treat to see these communities support and preserve their public art. The dog in the 4th image from Whitby is great. Thanks for hunting these down!

[TerryPG]

Thank you, I know exactly what you mean @Rednewt74 I have been sitting on these for far too long.
Maybe my post is a sign for you to post yours?

[TerryPG]

Thank you @Shabuj_Ahmmed

[TerryPG]

You are very welcome @GasparKaren I do remember your post a while ago on street murals,

[TerryPG]

Thank You @NareshDarji It is special to see this in smaller towns.

Thanks @BudionoS you are 100% right about paint, what types and how they will survive outside especially in Canada’s harsh winter and very hot summer.

Thank you @JustJake , I’m glad I got this series restarted as well.

[Rednewt74]

Yes, I was thinking that too. Love your Canadian LG icon. Inspired by @JustJake?

[WilfriedB]

Thanks a lot for your pictures and descriptions, @TerryPG!

I also often take photos of murals, but the title “Small towns” reminded me of Mugnano, Umbria, Italy a single small village which had 47 murals, when we last saw it. The paintings are part of a concept, to bring this medieval town back to life when it was in danger of extinction.

Following the idea of a local artist, the village invited a painter every year since 1983 to create a new mural. A tile next to each of those shows a description with the date and the name of the artist.

I did post some of my photos on Maps, but there is also a more complete album in Photos.

[TerryPG]

No @Rednewt74 Fellow guide and neighbour from Canada @GasparKaren created this wonderful badge for Canadian guides. I love it, Thanks.

[TerryPG]

Thank you @WilfriedB Glad you liked them. I did check your photo album. Magnificent.

Do you sort a lot of your photos into regions and save them? If you do it’s a great idea.

[WilfriedB]

@TerryPG

Do you sort a lot of your photos into regions and save them?

Vice versa, @TerryPG: I keep all my photos on my disks (now SSDs) and store as much additional information as possible about them in a Daminion database. The minimum is the date, country, region and city, but must carry many more tags, for example the link to an album on Google Photos. Those (768!) albums are mostly for a region or a city, but some by other topics.

[JustJake]

@WilfriedB

store as much additional information as possible about then in a Daminion database

You’ve got a serious system going on here! With so many posts about people wanting free Photos storage, you’re in a league of your own with this. Very interesting. You’ve shared some amazing photos of Mugnano. Thank you for those!

[WilfriedB]

Thank you for the compliments, @JustJake!
Regarding:

@JustJake

With so many posts about people wanting free Photos storage,

I still prefer to keep the originals on my local storage. In addition, I create albums in Google Photos for sharing and as a “worst case backup”. I believe, I created the first online album 19 years ago, after a colleague mentioned Picasa to me. After the sunset of Picasa, all albums were automatically moved to Google Photos.
For many years, I kept the photos in albums with their original size, but since Google changed its charging policies in 2020 (or 2021?), I only upload a reduced size. So in spite of the many photos, I pay less than 10$ for the cloud storage yearly.

[Annaelisa]

Diese Wandkunst ist wirkliche Kunst, wunderbar @TerryPG

[TerryPG]

Thank you @Annaelisa , I always love hearing from you.