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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
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
One mural was located on Elgin Street near Rogers Road, while another was spotted along William Street near Burnham Street.<\/p>\n
At the William Street location, a person was reportedly working on the mural, but had left before Today\u2019s Northumberland arrived.<\/p>\n
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
Unlike traditional graffiti, the technique can avoid putting spray paint directly onto brick, concrete or other permanent surfaces.<\/p>\n
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
The plastic also changes the way spray paint behaves.<\/p>\n
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
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
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
(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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-592702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}