{"id":857472,"date":"2026-08-14T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:06:13","slug":"video-plastic-wrap-graffiti-appears-across-cobourg-todays-northumberland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857472\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Plastic-Wrap Graffiti Appears Across Cobourg &#8211; Today&#8217;s Northumberland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alswitzer.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Al-switzer-New-Business-Card-Aug-2023.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new form of street art appears to be making its way into Cobourg and surrounding communities \u2014 and it\u2019s turning ordinary plastic wrap into a temporary canvas.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, August 12, 2026, two examples of what is commonly known as plastic-wrap graffiti or \u201cCelloGraff\u201d were spotted in the west end of Cobourg.<\/p>\n<p>One mural was located on Elgin Street near Rogers Road, while another was spotted along William Street near Burnham Street.<\/p>\n<p>At the William Street location, a person was reportedly working on the mural, but had left before Today\u2019s Northumberland arrived.<\/p>\n<p>CelloGraff is a technique in which artists stretch clear plastic wrap or cellophane between existing structures such as trees, poles, posts or columns. The plastic becomes a temporary canvas for murals, graffiti or other artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional graffiti, the technique can avoid putting spray paint directly onto brick, concrete or other permanent surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>The portability of the material is another attraction. Artists can carry rolls of plastic wrap with them and quickly create a temporary surface capable of holding relatively large pieces of artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The plastic also changes the way spray paint behaves.<\/p>\n<p>Because paint reacts differently on plastic than it does on brick, concrete or other traditional surfaces, artists can achieve different shading, blending and colour effects.<\/p>\n<p>While the artwork itself may be temporary, the appearance of multiple installations in Cobourg raises questions about whether this is an emerging trend or simply isolated examples of street art.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the two murals spotted Tuesday suggest plastic-wrap graffiti has arrived in Cobourg \u2014 creating an unusual new canvas in the community\u2019s west end.<\/p>\n<p>(If anyone knows the artist \u2013 Today\u2019s Northumberland would be interested in interviewing the person)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new form of street art appears to be making its way into Cobourg and surrounding communities \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-857472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}