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BrianMcLachlan
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Gag 210: Art joke
Two anthro dog people. One comforts the other, who is sad. Their word balloon is in the negative space made by their arm via their hand resting on their hip. The balloon reads "I've been in a real negative space"
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Rest of the wall, Skam, Hemps and I think Rinse.
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
Scarlet slither of wilstyle with pale yellow depth on teal spots. Ochre wide stroke wildstyle with teal depth and whtie outline. A cartoon bust of a b-boy with backwards cap and white gloves poses to the side chocolate ice cream brown, dark chocolate and black fade on snarled wildstyle with light blue outline on big red dots.
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Gag 209: Are you toying with me?
Beside an overturned tub with toys sprawled all over the floor, an anthro cat mom looks angrily at her cat kid who is painting with watercolours. The mom has a word balloon with several tails pointing to her with the words "How many times do I have to tell you to clean up your toys before playing with something else."
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Some of the cards on my threadless site:
A snowman with stick arms, the right arm branching out to form a menorah With full packs, Santa and a viking meet in the snow. Santa's leaving a cabin with smoke from its chimney. The viking is leaving a hut ablaze. The viking says "You break into people's homes and GIVE them stuff? You must be new to this." A little kid in bright red parka and toque rolls a tiny snowball with three huge word balloons stacked in a snowman-shape with the words "It'll be the biggest one ever." A family of rabbit cozy up in their home, two kids playing cards, a mother knitting, getting a kiss from a father with a mug of cocoa. There's a fireplace with a roaring orange fire flanked by tall stacks of chopped wood. A kitchen with kettle can be seen in the background and a snowglobe with castle rests on the inside window ledge. In fact the whole piece is seen through a window with snow on the ledges where two cardinals hang out. There is also a snow covered evergreen coming into frame and snow gently falls. The inside scene is all warm orange yellow and browns, the framing outside elements are cold purples.
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Gag 208: Sometimes words don't mean what they mean.
A cheerful anthro bear man in a shirt with the Earth on it and a folder with a tree on it, where the leaves are the shapes of the continents, talks to an annoyed crocodile in a business suit. The bear has a pine tree shape word balloon and the croc has a saw shaped word balloon, mirroring half the tree shape, but lying down. The bear asks "Do you believe in conserving the environment?" and the croc responds "No. I'm a conservative."
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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They are very stylish!
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Pizza wizard Dragon that is also a dungeon
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Gag 207: More meta anthro exploration
A nervous anthro bear man tugs at his necklace while an anthro bear woman looks at him, puzzling him out. The bear man has a word balloon that looks like a game of hangman with the words you wanna, and then four blanks and three blanks and a question mark. The first two of blanks are filled in with h and a. The woman has 3 though balloons as she tries to figure out what this guys is trying to ask her. Hang out? Have sex? Hams pie?
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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62/Some of the people I've seen around Toronto, sketching from memory to train my visual storage.
#Art #Sketch
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Bunso and Qwest (I believe)
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
One a light grey wall, a high contrast dramatically lit green snake hissing venom with an extended swirl of forked tongue. Signed bunso Beside it, a scarlet and pink outlined black, purple and dark cerulean swirling twist of letters over olive green shiny bubbles.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Gag 206: The balloons tell the story
Two young adult cat people are having a pint in a booth. A female cat has a word balloon coming from her mouth but we can't read what it says as 90% of it is covered over with a thought balloon from the male cat that reads "I'll really impress her with my motorcycle story."
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Four more from the wall update. By Steam, Monte, Wysper and Ware.
#Toronto #Graffiti #StreetArt
Cyan and green with pink outline swirl of letters on black on reddy brown wall. Reads steam Green with white outline tapered angular wildstyle on black on reddy brown wall. Reads monte A tangle of zig zagging brown, yellow and peach letters with white ourline and a mix if dark blue and black depth. Lots of shines added. Nigh unreadable, says Wysper blocky and curvy, slippery celery and scarley letters spell Ware.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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61/Some of the people I've seen around Toronto, sketching from memory to train my visual storage.
#Art #Sketch
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Gag 205: More meta animal exploration.
A cat hipster man with buckling knees with a beer looks off panel while he leans on a dog man with a beer who frowns. The cat man has a word balloon, and then the words I think I'm ready to ask her to dance start in the word balloon but become messy, with some backwards letters, spilling out of the balloon, mostly on the blank space beside it, to suggest how drunk he is.
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The sky this morning on the bike ride into work.
From a bridge, a dark grey lake below a dark grey cloud covered sky, with a slim tear of yellow and orange on the bottom right, above the horizon, where the sunrise can be seen without cloud cover. A slim promise of a new day.
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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More from the same area. My name reading has been off lately. Is this Gums?
#Toronto #Graffiti #StreetArt
On a six footish brick wall, a brown background with red/pink/brown and dark ultramarine depth wild style that might read gums but who knows?
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Gag 204: A lot of the animal ones also played with the meta format. Here's freelancers meeting corporations...
A cartoon mouse in s suit and mouse in a polo shirt eye each other from across a table, each with a tail leading to the same word balloon around which is written in a circle, How much do you charge? What is your budget?
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Gag 203: For a while I was trying to use animal characters
In a mattress shop, a man wolf speaks to the sheep clerk in a Zzzzz adorned polo. The wolf says "I can only sleep at night on a repressed memory foam mattress."
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Using the white board a lot in class this week. 1. Getting the students to visually brainstorm via Little Red Riding Hood 2. Demonstrating live thumbnailing of the concept that Barbie is Batmanish. 3. Thumbnails of Star Wars is a western/samurai film. 4. Location design, buildings with character etc
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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This mural had been covered by a food truck for years, but it's gone now. By Bleam?
#Toronto #Graffiti #StreetArt
On a black wall, a brown, orange outlined interlocking wild style of Bleam surrounded by a stream of blue energy coming from big head style Daft Punk.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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From the snowfall we had on Tuesday.
A snow dusted landscape of Lakeshore rock walls with autumnal trees and a distant Toronto skyline with a cold grey sky Looking a bit to the right of the last photo, two red adarondak chairs out at the end of an extended shore. No city skyline in the distance from this angle looking further out to lake
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Gag 202: Also, a picture of a Hollywood producer looking at a script
A psychologist in his office looks at an artist at an easel who is painting a butterfly. The doc says "Can you add some more self loathing and father issues?"
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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More from a recent big patch of repaints. By Adore.
#Toronto #Graffiti #StreetArt
Abstract wild style on a pink wall, moving from white to cyan to pink outline around black, dark teal and dark crimson.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Gag 201: Inkblot again
A woman sits in an eye doctor's chair, with a black spoon like object over her eye, looking at where an eye chart would be, but it's an inkblot mounted on the wall. The woman says to the optometrist, "I can't make out the part under the disappointed face of my father."
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Working on my holiday card today...
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM