This is a mural I painted the other week on College Street in Little Italy on the side of the Globally Local vegan restaurent. The mural is called “why did the chicken cross the road”.
Colin Tea chicken mural on the side of Globally Local in Toronto.
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Recent murals by Colin Tea in Cabbagetown.
Read MoreHad a lot of fun painting this bee wandering through some wild fields. Someone came up to me while I was painting and said it reminded them of a psychedelic experience they had in the 60’s.
Psycheldic Wandering Bee mural in Toronto Colin Tea
This is a timelapse showing the creation of the artwork.
This is a mural I did the in June 2020 in Toronto, Canada. The mural was inspired by Edward Hopper’s painting “Western Motel”. The mural is also inspired by Simulation Theory and Surrealism.
The Simulation Theory mural by Colin Tea.
This was a timelapse I filmed of painting the mural. The camera actually died just before I finished but I think it still turned out pretty well.
This was the original sketch which I did on my computer. Usually I don’t do a full colour sketch before a mural but I wanted to look good for the timelapse!
These are some paintings from around the house done during quarantine. Actually enjoying the quarantine quite a bit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is my living room mid afternoon when the light hits the plants.
These are the stairs up to the top floor of my half house.
I made prints of the painting of my living room. Hit me up for prints!
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These are some paintings from a few recent roadtrips. Definitely not regretting getting my license a year or two ago.
Driving out to the keys at dusk along Hwy 1 after spending the night in a trailer in homestead.
At the truck stop on the way up up to blue mountain. Shingi and Hayley got wraps at Tim Hortons.
This was walking back to the car after a trip to the zoo. We were the last people there and I think they forgot about us.
These are some watercolors I did over a few days in Tinos Greece. Tinos was a couple hours ferry ride from Athens. Lots of surfers and hippies out on this island living the van life in Volkwagen Westfalias and that type of thing.
Quick watercolour of shops in Tinos
Volkswagen Westfalias at Kolimvithra, supposed to be the best surfing spot in the area.
Another volkswagen on the south end of the island #vanlife
These are some sketches I did of “Legends of Queen West”.
The first sketch is of Igor Kenk. Igor Kent was a notorious bike thief with a shop on Queen street west until he was arrested with several thousand stolen bikes stashed across the city. The second sketch is of Handsome Ned playing quitar at the Cameron House.
Biking in the Don Valley today and noticed these cool petroglyphs painted on the rocks. Hmm….
Painted a new bell box at Simcoe and Queen’s Quay. This was part of the outside the box campaign with the city of Toronto. Good time!
Touching up and older mural of this golden lab from a few years ago. This mural is located in Toronto in the Annex neighbourhood.
Spent the last week driving around Arizona and Southern Utah. Was particularly interested to see the planes stored in the desert around Mesa Arizona called the Davis-Monthan yard. These are some sketches from the trip.
This was the trail head in Suguaro National Park. This park had giant cactus at least 20ft tall.
This was the view from outside our room at the motel in Wickenburg Arizona.
This was a lookout point off the highway on the way up to the Granite Mountain Hotshots memorial.
This is another sketch of some of the smaller cactus in Suguaro.
These are some progress photos from a mural I painted over the weekend near Dufferin Grove in Toronto. It is a mural based off an older painting I had done of the Croft Street laneway near where I went to school. I also learned about a secret lawn bowling club in the area which only has one member, very Field of Dreamsy.
Progress shot, I thought it looked pretty cool at this point.
Finished mural. A new intersection in Bill Cameron lane.
“I am just waiting for my friend, they said to meet on the corner”….
These are some watercolors I painted during a week in France a few years ago.
This was from my first night lost in paris, water color of the traffic circle
This is a water colour of the fountain and Ferris wheel in the part surrounding the Louvre in Paris.
Water colour of the picnickers on the lawn leading up to the Eiffel tower. Another beautiful day lost in Paris.
Water colour of the Arc-de-Triomphe
Water colour painting of the sunbathers gathering on the beach in Nice France. A beautiful day on the Mediterranean.
Water colour painting of the morning market in Nice France. This is where I bought a bag of apricots for lunch.
This was a secret sun bathing spot built into the seawall in Nice. Watercolour and pen sketch.
Watercolour of the winding road leading over the mountain to Sur Mer.
This was the canal in Milan. Watercolour and pen sketch.
Simple water colour sketch of window and a plant.