“It was like a gift from the graffiti gods… A giant canvas in the middle of downtown ... inside — the artist posing with shots of his spray paint cans, poised above the cityscape.

leaving a trail of spray paint in his wake. But graffiti is nothing new here: The city has long acted as a blank canvas to artists, who have left their mark in a variety of formats, from bulky ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland police arrested a wanted graffiti vandal Thursday after seizing more than 1,500 cans of spray paint worth over $10,000 from his Southeast Portland home back in June.