"Snoopy Without Balloon" is one of the newest street art murals by Otto Schade in east London. This piece was painted on a wall near the post office on Brick Lane, a spot that is tricky to get a photograph of during hours of operation due to the card stands placed in front of it. I was lucky to have gotten a photograph after hours. It features the two popular "Peanuts" characters, Snoopy the beagle and Woodstock the yellow bird. Otto Schade has painted across London for many years now, at least eleven! His main styles are the ribbon style of artwork in which the subjects are formed of bands or ribbons. The other style is the silhouette style featuring a political or social pun inside of a round silhouette with an orange or purple gradient behind. Earlier work also included stencils, which the artist seems to be re-visiting recently.
The "Snoopy Without Balloon" artwork is shown in its full glory below.
The next piece is a stencil. This piece, "Cop A Load" was a stencil that the artist used several years ago now but that I had not seen for awhile. (It's tagged as not Banksy since a lot of people not too familiar with street art think Banksy is the only artist who creates stencil street art.)
On the same Brick Lane post office wall was another mural painted previously, and I actually saw this one in progress. The work is titled "Mascariposa". It is a ribbon-style artwork with a side profile of a face using a butterfly as a mask.
"The Cash Machine" features a royal guard using his rifle as a flute to bring a snake to life. Painted near the ATM cash machine, several money-shaped pieces of paper appear to be be floating around the "box". The placement of the piece and the way it fits in with the oddly-shaped walls makes it a unique work.
Next up is a stencil piece with birds flying around a bird cage, and a drone is located inside the bird cage: "Artificial Intelligence". Like the previous artwork, this piece also uses the building and surroundings. One of the birds is placed on an exterior pipe of the building, and the cage itself is suspended from the brickwork.
The final piece was actually painted late summer in 2020, and it was part of London Mural Festival. "Never Give Up" shows a salamander licking a butterfly. When looked at a distance, it appears to be a side profile of an elephant's face. This piece is located in Hackney, and it's looking a little worse for wear the last time I visited that area, which was actually sometime last summer.
I've previously posted about Otto Schade's street art in the following posts:
Otto Schade Paints Donna Summer on "Bull In A China Shop" in Shoreditch and Others
Otto Schade Murals on Kingsland Road
Long Street - Otto Schade, CodeFC, The Krah
Street Art by Otto Schade
Otto Schade Paints "The Lady Don't Protest Enough" Mural on Bateman's Row
Otto Schade "Jack the Ripper 2040" Street Art
Otto Schade 'The Believers' and 'WTF'
'Bull in a China Shop', 'Osch-car' and 'Flies Around Sh*t'
Otto Schade 'Peace and Love on the Streets'
Street Artist Otto Schade Paints Southampton 'Zany Zebra' for Charity (and other work)
Street Art Round-up: Spring & Summer 2015
Otto Schade's New Street Art (Meerkats, Portraits, & More) in East London
New Street Art from Horror Crew, Swoon, Otto Schade, HIN, and others
Street Art: Otto Schade
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