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.

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

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.

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

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.

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]

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]

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]

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."

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.

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.

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]

Murals decorated the front of a school.

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.

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

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]

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]

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]

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.

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.

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]

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

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

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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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.