This gorgeous boy is the son of French graffiti artist Akse. He plans to portray his son as he grows up – a mural a year, in different cities of the world.
Akse has been spray painting murals since 1992 and has been based in Manchester since 1997 – lucky Manchester! He specialises in freehand photo-realistic portraits – they are such accurate portrayals that it is impossible to comprehend that they are created in situ using spray paint. On the other side of this block is his Mandela portrait.







Such a sweet face. Amazing that it is from a spray can. Thanks for contributing to this week’s Monday Mural.
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Remarkable! You can see the love.
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Send him our way! Tom The Backroads Traveller
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It is Soo wonderful!
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Painted with love
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Thanks for the link to Akse’s site, love his style.. we have a guy here, Jerome Davenport who has a similar style, always love seeing his work.
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I’ll have to check him out. I find the realism quite staggering.
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That is stunning!
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Such skill
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Very impressive portrait you cannaot miss when passing by.
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We do have some great murals in Manchester don’t we? 😉
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Yes. And I love the fact that you just know there will be something great to see in the Northern Quarter.
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It is so beautiful!
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If you look on his Facebook page he has a great shot if his son standing in front of the mural.
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Imagine doing that with spray paint!
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