My Recent Brush With Colour

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“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this?”
- Pablo Picasso

There are many places where I don't want to see graffiti. While most agree defacing buildings and fences with scribbles is unacceptable, such public displays are welcome in some corners and can appear more like art exhibits than vandalism. All the way down the 1001 Steps in Ocean Park, along a dusty pathway and through a tiny tunnel for walkers under a railway there's a pebbly beach where people spray paint for fun.

I've yet to catch a graffiti artist in the act but their colourful boxy designs on the grim gray cement transforms the spot into a happy place ... made especially happy recently because I didn't fall off the log when my daughter took pictures. (The bay was likely a key area for bringing supplies into the community by sea over a century ago.)

Later in Crescent Beach bright sunflowers stood straight as soldiers at attention.

Sea-hued creatures were on display tacked to a wooden gate.

Colour brushed against a plainly painted fence showing Mother Nature was artsy too.

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Comments

  1. eileeninmdMay 27, 2019 at 9:07 AM

    Hello, I agree with you about the graffiti, it should not be in some places. I like the artist drawings or art than the names and letters? The flowers on the fence are pretty and the sea critters are cute. The Poppies are pretty too. Wonderful colorful post and images. Enjoy your day, wishing you a happy new week!

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  2. Fun60May 27, 2019 at 2:59 PM

    You just can't beat Mother Nature.

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  3. stardustMay 27, 2019 at 11:13 PM

    You look like a tour guide who takes people beyond the painted concrete, Penelope. What attracts me more is playfulness than creativity of the people who pained sunflowers and lavenders on the fence and the sea critters on the gate. The last photo may be inspiring and encouraging someone to paint poppies on the white fence.

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  4. David M. Gascoigne,May 28, 2019 at 4:41 AM

    You winder whether at some time in a far off future people will uncover graffiti and ascribe to it the kind if significance we now confer on cave art and other pictographic representations.

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  5. AlMay 28, 2019 at 5:09 PM

    That looks like a wonderful place.

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  6. GattinaMay 29, 2019 at 12:20 AM

    Graffitis can be very nice and usually are done by real talented painters. What is awful are the taggers !

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  7. MarjaMay 29, 2019 at 1:28 AM

    Here graffiti is very popular as well You can see some amazing artworks Great photo of you Maria :) and I love the sunflowers on the fence. I agree nature is an amazing artist

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  8. CarverMay 31, 2019 at 2:42 AM

    I enjoyed this post and totally agree about graffiti. It is a welcome sight some places where other places should be left alone.

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  9. DeniseinVAMay 31, 2019 at 1:30 PM

    Very enjoyable and I agree what you say about graffiti. The sunflowers on the wall and the tacked-on sea creatures, lovely! Pretty picture of the poppies too. Thank your daughter for taking your photo as it is always so nice to see blogging hosts in their posts.

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