Beau Stanton is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose work takes the form of paintings, murals, large scale installations, stained glass, and multimedia animations. Focusing on meticulous technique and craft, Stanton's work is heavily informed by historic ornamentation, religious iconography, and classical painting. A keen interest in iconic visual symbols and Jungian archetypes often provides the foundation for his images.

Mare Island is embracing the arts with large sculpture installations and murals on display for the public to experience.[from mare island art]

Created in 2006 by the Precita Eyes Muralists, and the Community Mural Workshopof San Francisco, California

Welcome to drop shadow signs. providing hand painted signs, murals, and gold leaf on almost any surface; glass, concrete, brick, wood - on location or commissioned and constructed in shop.[from her website]

A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography.[from wikipedia]

The wall outside Dear Mom Restaurant at 2700 16th Street was decorated with a modest mural.

The wall outside the Rolling Stock tire dealer and auto repair shop in San Francisco.

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.[from wikipedia]

Sponsered by Precita Eyes Murals Project.Murals being painted on a fence alongside 17th Street between Alabama and Florida Streets.

A mural was in the process of being painted on the front of a buildingat 18th Street and Valencia Street in San Francisco. It was incompleteso the artist was unknown.

A 2011 mural at the corner of Harrison and 23rd Streets.

A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment, and often employed for rituals and rites.[from wikipedia]

A long mural on the side of Golden Market at the corner of 25th Street and Mission Street in San Francisco.

Eagle is the common name for the golden eagle, bald eagle, and other birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.[from wikipedia]

The 300 Club is a small number of individuals who have endured a temperature difference of 300 F (167 C) within minutes. The group originated at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica and has since been established in North America.[from wikipedia]

A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky.[from wikipedia]

Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.[[from wikipedia]

A series of individual paintings abutted each other to form a muralpainted on an abandoned factory on Florida Street between 18th and 19th Streets,San Francisco, California

A mural that graced the top of the building at 826 Valencia in San Francisco, California.826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

A variety of murals painted on a fence across from the Z-space performance venue.

Afternoon is the time between noon and evening. It is the time when the sun is descending from its peak in the sky to somewhat before its terminus at the horizon in the west.[from wikipedia]

Downtown San Francisco is not exactly a bucolic place. But for Peruvian artist Claudio Talavera-Ballón, who is painting San Francisco's first on-street mural for its newest pedestrian plaza, bringing the beauty of the Point Reyes National Seashore to the heart of The City has felt obvious, even necessary.[from the examiner]

Bill & Tim's Barbecue & Tap House (20 taps) is a fast casual restaurant that specializes in authentic wood smoked meats and traditional American side dishes paired with beer, cider, wine, cocktails and kombucha. Pulled pork, shredded brisket, chicken, tri-tip, baby back ribs, turkey, ham, links and tofu are available as sandwiches and plates. More than just a "smoke-centric" barbecue joint, Bill & Tim's also features a variety of salads, rice bowls, burgers and Mexican specialty dishes served with or without smoky proteins. [from their website]

Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father. However, these were not martial arts films. His early martial arts experience included Wing Chun (trained under Yip Man), tai chi, boxing (winning a Hong Kong boxing tournament), and apparently frequent street fighting (neighbourhood and rooftop fights).[from wikipedia]

According to Twitter, David "MEGGS" Hooke is an Australian artist associated with the @houseofmegs account. Hooke has an Instagram account where they posted a paint session in Denver in 2017.[from pinterest]

Brails is an American diner-style restaurant serving breakfast and lunch. Enjoy classic diner fare such as bacon and eggs, burgers, and Reuben sandwiches. Our legendary breakfast menu (featuring the best hashbrowns around) is served from open to close, while our lunch menu offers a more eclectic selection that is sure to please everyone.[from brails' website]

We are BVHM, the Mission District's K-8 dual-language Spanish Immersion Community School, and as such we strive to develop strong bilingual and multicultural agents of change that can thrive academically, socially and artistically.[from bvhm website]

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications. This includes the sources of valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest and cultural value. On Earth, it includes sunlight, atmosphere, water, land, all minerals along with all vegetation, and wildlife.[From wikipedia

A mural was found at the corner of Grant Avenue and California Street in San Francisco. Becauseit was signed in Chinese, we were unable to identify the artist.

An old mural in a mixture of styles.

This place is somehow interesting. They play classic Mexican music and the menu is pretty basic. [from a yelp review]

A child may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, in this case as a person younger than the local age of majority (there are exceptions like, for example, the consume and purchase of alcoholic beverage even after said age of majority), regardless of their physical, mental and sexual development as biological adults.[from wikipedia]

A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.[from wikipedia]

In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. [from wikipedia]

Murals found painted on alley side of buildlings. Clarion Alley lay between Mission and Valencia and parallels, and is just sourh of 17th Street.

From his website: Amos Goldbaum is "a line-drawer, muralist, and street peddler based in San Francisco. You can find me selling almost every weekend in SF. I vend at various fairs and festivals as well as on the corner of Valencia St. and 23rd some Saturday and Sunday afternoons."

Community Thrift Store, founded in 1982, is a non-profit organization that works with over 200 Bay Area charities. We accept donations on behalf of our charity partners, sell the items in our store, and then disburse the proceeds.[from store website]

Wolves have a long history of interactions with humans, having been despised and hunted in most pastoral communities because of their attacks on livestock, while conversely being respected in some agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies.[from wikipedia]

If you're looking for a pleasant place to peruse a lot of books, seek no further! Since 1992, Dog Eared Books has been supplying a book-hungry San Francisco with new, used, and remaindered books as well as cards, magazines, calendars, and blank notebooks. We're a general interest store, so we have a little of everything, but we do specialize in off-beat, small press, and local literature. Our staff of is happy to help you locate specific titles or you can roam around discovering wondrous obscurities you never knew you couldn't live without.[from dog eared books website]

El restaurante mexicano Doña Mago es un restaurante familiar en el distrito de la Missión en San Francisco. Servimos auténtica comida mexicana inspirada en la ciudad de México.Doña Mago Mexican Restaurant is a family owned restaurant in the Mission District in San Francisco. We serve authentic Mexican Food inspired by Mexico City. [from the restaurant website]

A fence was set up surrounding the construction at the corner of Shattuck and University Streets in Berkeley, California. The fence was covered in art depicting oddly headed people riding bicycles.

Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father.[from wikipedia]

A person whose occupation or current activity is driving, or who is licensed to drive.[from wikipedia]

Murals were painted on the sides of the building in the park.

A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about.[from wikipedia]

Located at 844 Olive Street, Eugene, Oregon, this mural was painted by Jim Evangelista.Jim also runs a cafe and retail bakery that is is open 8 am to 6 pm Tuesday through Saturday.

Welcome to drop shadow signs. providing hand painted signs, murals, and gold leaf on almost any surface; glass, concrete, brick, wood - on location or commissioned and constructed in shop.[from her website]

Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.[from wikipedia]

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs.[from wikipedia]

A people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation.[from wikipedia]

Murals decorated the front of a school.

The northern part of Iran is covered by the lush lowland Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests, located near the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. The eastern part consists mostly of desert basins, such as the Kavir Desert, which is the country's largest desert, and the Lut Desert, as well as some salt lakes. Iran had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 7.67/10, ranking it 34th out of 172 countries.[from wikipedia]

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The term "freedom of expression" is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.[from wikipedia]

Invited murals decorated a wall in the Funk Zone. Here one was commissioned to repairanother earlier one partly damaged by graffiti.

A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.[from wikipedia]

Found in Europe, South America, and the U.S.

A girl is a young female human, usually a child or an adolescent. When a girl becomes an adult, she is generally referred to as a woman. However, the term girl is also used for other meanings, including young woman.[from wikipedia]

Healthy Spirits began making its mark on San Francisco when it opened its doors in the Castro District in 1998. The young owner and former stock broker, Rami Barqawi, wanted to service the community he fell in love with and had an eye for quality food and drink. He also believed strongly in outstanding customer service, putting the business on a path to affectionately become known as the "corner store with personality". Wanting to get his family involved Rami brought his wife on to help run the day to day operations of the business and even included his parents who were particularly skilled at making Middle Eastern fare.[from healthy spirits website]

The mural is titled "Honey Forever" in honor of the artists stepmother who passed away from cancer during the project's final stages (her nickname was Honey).[from wjneugene.org]

The face is the front of an animal's head that features the eyes, nose and mouth, and through which animals express many of their emotions.[from wikipedia]

Huckleberry Bicycles is a full-service shop specializing in urban, commuter, road, touring, randonneuring and cyclocross bikes. We carry a handpicked selection of apparel, accessories and parts for lifestyle & performance cycling.[from huckleberry website]

HUF-founder Keith Hufnagel grew up skateboarding in the gritty streets of 1980s New York City. He was part of an early street skating generation that came up amongst a melting pot of city countercultures --hip hop, punk, graffiti, streetwear, and other underground movements.[from huf's website]

Every day, tens of thousands of motorists drive on and off the Central Freeway at Market Street and Octavia Boulevard. Paused in traffic, perhaps they've had a moment to take in Chris Gazaleh's "Humanity Is Key" mural that sprawls across an Elgin Park apartment building overlooking the on-ramp.[from thefrisco.com]

Improvisation, in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply to many different faculties, across all artistic, scientific, physical, cognitive, academic, and non-academic disciplines.[from wikipedia]

Modern forms of stripping minimize the interaction of strippers with customers, reducing the importance of the tease in the performance in favor of speed of undress (the strip).[from wikipedia]

King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen[from wikipedia]

A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.[from wikipedia]

The word wharf comes from the Old English is done, like a shipyard. [from wikipedia]

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.[from wikipedia]

A mural found on the side of a building along Howard Street behind the new Transbay Transit Center.

Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception. The name "Upper Haight" is also used by locals in contrast to the Haight-Fillmore or Lower Haight.[from wikipedia]

Jenny Sharaf is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in San Francisco, CA. Her paintings, installations, videos, and happenings celebrate process, while reflecting on art history, feminism and abstraction.

Located behind parked cars, this mural depicted a person climbing a cliff face.

We set the stage for innovation, education, and commerce by leveraging the skills and experience of San Francisco's best to ensure our partners' success.[from moscone website]

A fence is a structure that encloses an area, typically outdoors, and is usually constructed from posts that are connected by boards, wire, rails or netting.[from wikipedia]

A musician is an artist who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate a person who follows music as a profession.[from wikipedia]

Nike, Inc. (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, United States.[from wikipedia]

Many small murals decorated a construction fence located along Broadwayand 2nd Streets in Oakland, California.

We are the oldest organization in the City of Davis, having been chartered on April 12, 1870. On April 12, 2020, our Davis Lodge will be 150 years old.[from odd fellows]

Bringing specialty-roasted coffee and delicious food made from scratch to downtown Springfield Oregon. We're real people enjoying what life has to offer and we want to help you do the same. Come have a drink, eat something tasty and just hang out for a while![from Washburne cafe website]

We are a non-profit theatre company creating shows for and with young people of ALL ages in our theater in downtown Springfield. Focusing on the individual artist inside each person. Creating new works, while celebrating the classics of musical theater, our motto is "Empathy, excellence, and a little insanity".[from Pegasus website]

Just above Bridgeway, in downtown Sausalito. Part of thepast and future home of heartfulart.com.

At Psychedelic SF Art Gallery, our mission is to inspire and awaken creativity, imagination, and consciousness through the transformative power of visionary art. We strive to showcase the most captivating and thought-provoking works of visionary artists from around the world, with a focus on psychedelic and otherworldly themes.[from their website]

Murals today are painted in a variety of ways, using oil or water-based media. Initiated by the works of mural artists like Graham Rust or Rainer Maria Latzke in the 1980s, trompe-l'oeil painting has experienced a renaissance in private and public buildings in Europe. Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to poster paper or canvas which is then pasted to a wall surface (see wallpaper, Frescography) to give the effect of either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.[from wikipedia]

Just off Calle Central between Anedida 2 and Anedida 1 in downtown Puntarenas.

The back of the CAT Rental building was painted in a seemingly random manner to create thesuggestion of a mural.

A shape is a graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface; it is distinct from other object properties, such as color, texture, or material type.[from wikipedia]

A mural found against the back wall of an outdoor performance area of Rivas, Nicaragua next to Central Park.

San Jose is named after el Pueblo de San José Guadalupe (Spanish for 'the Town of Saint Joseph of Guadalupe'), the city's predecessor, which was eventually located in the area of what is now the Plaza de Ceasar Chavez.[from wikipedia]

In the interest of providing you with the best possible service, we have included information on how to contact us, locate the Library, get a library card, check an account, visit the bookstore, view our policies and more.[from library website]

Solidarity: it's a loaded term. Convoluted and nuanced, very important in concept, definitely overused as an expression, and not always highlighted when practiced. But the practice of solidarity is a normal part of co-existing with each other. Right?[from kqed]

Spray paint art is usually street art, in large cities. Themes may include surreal landscapes of planets, comets, pyramids, cities, and nature scenes. The pieces can have a simple one-colored background or a multi-colored backgrounds in which the paint swirls together or fades from one color to the other through a series of differing values of each color. It is said to have originated in Mexico City in the early 1980s.[from wikipedia]

A garage door is a large door to allow egress for a garage that opens either manually or by an electric motor (a garage door opener). Garage doors are frequently large enough to accommodate automobiles and other vehicles. The operating mechanism is usually spring-loaded or counterbalanced to offset the door's weight and reduce the human or motor effort required to operate the door.[from wikipedia]

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.[from wikipedia]

A mural, still in good shape, graced the walls ofSt. Peter's Church located at 24th Street at Florida Street, San Francisco, California.

Most large submarines consist of a cylindrical body with hemispherical (or conical) ends and a vertical structure, usually located amidships, which houses communications and sensing devices as well as periscopes.[from wikipedia]

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. They are an informal grouping within the infraorder Cetacea, usually excluding dolphins and porpoises. Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla, which consists of even-toed ungulates.[from wikipedia]

Sunglasses or sun glasses (informally called shades or sunnies; more names below) are a form of protective eyewear designed primarily to prevent bright sunlight and high-energy visible light from damaging or discomforting the eyes.[from wikipedia]

The largest mural in San Francisco: 40 feet high, 600 feet long.

A Project Gettysburg mural across the street from the Taller Artistico Xuchialt Crear Crecer, Xuchtaltart school/store in León, Nicaragua.

A full service studio salon in downtown Davis, CA. Stylist Jill Pauline Specializing in men's and women's cut, color, perms, & styling for formal events. Glamour Nails by Ruby, specializing in Acrylics, hard gel, dip powder, gel/polish manicures, Pedicures.[from tangles website]

Painted in 1992 by Patrick Curtis on the west wall of Erica's Meat Market.[from eugenecascadescoast]

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and porpoises.[from wikipedia]

The title "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a literal translation of the Chinese idiom which describes a place or situation that is full of unnoticed masters. It is from a poem of the ancient Chinese poet Yu Xin that reads, "behind the rock in the dark probably hides a tiger, and the coiling giant root resembles a crouching dragon".[from wikipedia]

Whisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Various grains (which may be malted) are used for different varieties, including barley, corn, rye, and wheat. Whisky is typically aged in wooden casks, generally made of charred white oak.[from wikipedia]

The hump in a railroad Hump yard, to classify railcars by gravity[from wikipedia]

The ocean moderates Earth's climate and has important roles in the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. The surface of water interacts with the atmosphere, exchanging properties such as particles and temperature, as well as currents.[from wikipedia]

Building Stories is a 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware. The unconventional work is made up of fourteen printed works --cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets and flip books-- packaged in a boxed set.[from wikipedia]

A 2007 mural showing scenes of the Mission District, San Francisco,ranging from anger at the coming evictions, to the Carnival Parade.

A mural covered the side of a home along W. 2nd Alley in Eugene, Oregon.It appeared to be a mixture of two styles: one more graffiti-like and theother more of a mural.

Washington Jefferson Park is an urban setting in the heart of a multicultural neighborhood close to the bike path system and bus routes. A portion of the park, including the stage, 23,000 sq. ft. skatepark, basketball court and horseshoe pits is covered by the I-105 bridge, creating a dry and lit place for recreation year round.[from the eugene government website]

A 2011 mural located in the 2000 Block of Broadway, Oakland, California, showedthe politial and social battles brewing over Water.

The District establishes a welcoming, inclusive, and affirming place for LGBTQ+ people and families in the South Bay[from Qmunity website]

A mural that showed snakes, fish and other creatures underwater.

"Magical" is a song written by American musician Meat Loaf and British musician John Parr, and it was released as a 1985 single by Parr as a part of his self-titled debut album.[from wikipedia]