Graffiti often vandalises, scars or degrades the look of the area it is painted on as well as its surroundings. Street art on the other hand embraces these and even incorporates parts of them into the artwork itself making it into something to look at and admire. Below are some images of well known street artists that added another dimension to their work by combining them with the surrounding vegetation.
Purple Haired Girl
Brazilian street artist Fábio Gomes Trindade combines painting and nature to create works of Art. He uses tree branches that are located around his vibrant murals that are only complete when viewed together. He paints the face and portion of the hair while the branches complete the mural with the aid of their leaves or flowers.
Sleeping Boy
El Decertor (Daniel Cortez) is a painter from Lima, Peru. As a street painter, he believes that street art is an effective tool to bring social and global issues to the fore. The Sleeping boy was created for the Numu Festival in Imbabura, Ecuador.
Hair Cut
Italian Street artist Mister Thoms here incorporated a wall and the bush above it to make a unique artwork.
Sneak Peek
Ernest “ZACH” Zacharevic is a Lithuanian-born artist combining fine art techniques with a passion for creating art outdoors. Zach’s primary interest is in the relationship between art and the urban landscape, with concepts often evolving as part of a spontaneous response to the immediate environment. Sneak Peek is a spontaneous Street Art created in Kuala Lumpur.
Bird
Wild Drawing (WD) is a Balinese painter/muralist currently based in Athens Greece where the Bird was created. He always tries to interact with the surroundings where he is working, by using various elements that already exist around, to create harmony between the work and the location like in his street art “the Bird” where he uses the vegetation.
Afro Girl
The French Street Artist Vinie used the ivy covering a wall as the afro hair to the doe-eyed cute girl that features in many of her works.
Green Smile
Hair – Spike Lee
Nuxuno Xän is a French Street Artist that lives and works in Fort-de-France Martinique. He is also known as Nüx or Xanoy. His Street Art portrayal of Spike Lee gave him international recognition.
Lemon Tree Girl
Paul Deej is a mural artist and illustrator from Perth Australia. His work is inspired by the popular cultures of movies, comics and Hip Hop. The Lemon Tree Girl was created in Grosvenor Lane, Mt Lawley Australia
Professor Mustache
Street art doesn’t always have to be big or permanent. David Zinn is a Street artist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan specialises in small-scale, improvised and (mostly) light-hearted chalk art. His artwork makes use of overgrown grass, manhole covers, cracks and other such features found on sidewalks to place his cute characters. Zinn has a mission to show people that you don’t need fancy equipment to draw. You too can learn how to create street art with his book The Chalk Art Handbook available on Amazon
Mother Nature
French street artist Oakoak is known for his clever and humorous street interventionists. He turns everyday objects and details on the sidewalks into comic-like stories. He turns manhole covers, zebra crossings, simple cracks or imperfections into a work of art that will surely give you a smile when you least expect it.
Bush
Graffiti Artist Being Sick
Banksy is the pseudonym of an England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unknown. His works are mostly multi-layered stencils combined with other media sources to pass on usually an anti-war, anti-capitalist, or anti-establishment message. He sometimes includes objects that already exist in his chosen work area such as street signs, fire hydrants or even plants to turn his work into striking street art installations.
Popeye and Swee’Pea
Kilinc Semiok Olcay is a Turkish Street artist known as Semiok. He lives in Istanbul where he creates most of his artwork.
Ostrich
Pao is a street artist from Milan, where he lives and works. He is known for populating the streets of Milan with happy cartoon penguins. In 2005 he founded Studio Paopao, as a natural consequence of his artistic activity and soon launched numerous collaborations with different teams.
The Legend of Giants
Natalia Rak also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist. Her works have been focusing on female-centric imagery while using brightly coloured paint to create big multistory murals on the sides of buildings, giving a breath of fresh air to the street art scene. The Legend of Giants doesn’t use plants to complete the artwork instead it interacts with it. The Legend of Giants was created for the Folk Festival in Białystok Poland
Sleeping Beauty
Johann Grenier Known as Made in graffiti created the sleeping beauty on the hills of Picardy, a small village in France