Hidden at Tucson Self Storage (Start of BG Boyd series)

BG Boyd Photography is building a searchable database of Tucson murals at TucsonAZMurals.com. I realized that there's no reason for me to take photos of a mural if he already has some. He agreed that I could share his photos to this blog when I don't have a photo of my own. That'll usualy happen on Fridays. In this series of posts, I'll add clickable links below the photos so you can find the original in his mural database at https://tucsonazmurals.com/murals/. Thanks as always, BG, for helping people find Tucson art!

Today's murals are on the end of storage buildings at Tucson Self Storage on Golf Links Road. Unless you rent a unit there, though, you can't get close to the murals… you can only see some from the fence outside. But BG did it! He also caught an aerial view from his drone:

thank_you_for_your_service
(2nd photo on that database page)

thank_you_for_your_service
(1st photo on that database page)

oregon_trail

the_grand_canyon_state

greetings_from_tucson_self_storage

Click on any photo for a slideshow of larger views. Click on the link underneath a photo to open it in BG Boyd's mural database.

Aliens Attack!

West wall of EverChange (video games and more).  Next door to Cathy's Sewing and Vacuum.

By Katherine Joyce

Click for a larger image.

A new long mural along Prince (Murals being made, part 68)

For years, a long mural east of Amphi Middle School has been fading in the strong southern sun. Joe Pagac started painting a new mural in late 2021 and finished it in 2022:

The mural used to look like this (the photo is from our December 21, 2009 post, A long mural along Prince, which also has closer shots):

I found out that the mural was being repainted in Joe's Facebook post on November 9, 2021:



I stopped by on December 18, 2021, hoping to catch the mural in progress. I did:

I snapped close-up photos of the mural from left (west) to right (east). Those pictures are below, the first of each pair of photos. I came back on February 21, 2022 to snap pictures of the completed mural. Those are the second of each pair below:

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(In case you haven't figured it out by now, the school's mascot is a pirate.)

Desert Scene

I found this mural as I was driving on E. Sierra St.  It's on the north wall of a residence at 972 N. Gadsden Pl.

By Katherine Joyce

Click on the photo for a larger image.

Murals being made, part 64: Sahara Apartments

The mural is in a narrow space between buildings at the Sahara Apartments. David Aber took multiple photos on June 13, 2021, and stitched them together into the spectacular result above. It's on his Flickr account at https://www.flickr.com/photos/26438012@N08/51250402031/in/album-72157655537201051/. I've split it into the three clips below:

Joe Pagac wrote on Facebook November 15, 2020: "Katherine Joyce Lester and I just finished up this mural at Sahara Apartments on Stone just south of Speedway! A little African Peyote Oasis. Dung/Scarab beetle bringing up the rear courtesy of my nephew." I caught them painting on November 12:

On Facebook, you can find Katherine at katherine.lester.14019 and Joe at joepagac.

Tribute To The Medical Profession

The mural is on a free-standing wall on the TMC campus.  It is across from the Catalina Garage on a street named E. New Hospital.

Painted by Joe Pagac with assistance from Katherine Joyce and Arielle Alelunas.

The mural is too long to fit this Blog.  I have therefore broken it into the five photos you see below.

Click on any photo for a slideshow of larger and sharper images.

Murals being made, part 62: More animals on bicycles

Joe Pagac is at it again!

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He posted that photo to Instagram on March 10th as he and co-muralists were starting to paint animals on bicycles over a rainbow-covered background along Court Avenue, just north of Alameda.

BG Boyd Photography sent the spectacular panorama below of the finished mural. As always, you can click on the photo for a larger version. You can also see all of BG's photos of the mural at https://bgboydphoto.com/murals/el_tour_de_tucson.

I stopped by the mural site on March 14th to see what was new:

He's painted other murals with animals on bikes. The best-known is his Epic Rides mural (from the blog entry Murals being made, part 46c: Tucson's biggest):

Let's look at the whole mural in progress on March 14th from left (north end) to right (south end). As always, you can click on a photo for a slideshow of larger views:

A week later, on March 21, I read that the mural was finished. Here are views from the north end looking south, then the south end looking north:

Finally, the finished mural from left (north) to right (south):