Welcome back to Barcelona’s street art scene!
If there’s one thing you can say about Barcelonans, they certainly prefer their street art colorful!
One of my absolute favorite artists does, I think, nothing but stencils. SM172, you do great work!

I’ve really grown to love this stencil style of work. Here it looks so wonderful against the red graffiti! And I did a little research to learn that the guy’s gas mask is for protection while working with spray paint – making this less dark and apocalyptic than I first imagined.

Another fine stenciled design by SM172. A lot of his work includes an image of the Earth in some form. Also, I didn’t realize it until later, but much of his work also includes text. I think the writing in pink on the right is actually part of this piece, though I’m not 100% sure – wish I’d gotten that in the photo…
Though it wasn’t really my style, I’d be remiss if I didn’t also include the work of El Xupet Negre – The Black Pacifier. He’s another with work throughout the city and he, along with Bombzone (whose work you can see on my previous Barcelona street art post), have actually been working in the city for over 20 years!! Folks tend to not paint over his work as he’s so respected.
Those are some of the big highlights, but that’s not to say there weren’t PLENTY of other artists out there I enjoyed. Let the photos commence!
There was one artist whose only work I saw was making a variety of tiles with his name on them in different ways:
Not quite sure if it’s an homage or not, but we also have:

SRAM23! Yep, SRAM, like MARS backwards. Not sure which might have come first…or even if they ar the same artist with a name change!

Here’s the one old Invader piece we came across.

Never did get the name of the top artist, though we saw a few of his in different colors. Below is another piece by SRAM23.
And I’ll leave you with a piece by Chef Love. He’s an actual chef who works using painted cans he posts with positive messages around the city. Love, indeed!
If these have inspired you and you’d like to see more, here are links to all my previous posts on street art and graffiti we’ve found around the world!