Found Street Art Cleverly Using Its Surroundings (12 Photos)

Street art can surprise, amuse, and hold attention by turning everyday objects into visual ideas. This update brings together 12 pieces from different parts of the world where artists have worked directly with their surroundings to shape the final image.

From small drawings tucked into wall cracks to playful uses of poles, trees, and bushes, these works show how simple urban details become part of the artwork itself.

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Mural of a girl in traditional clothing realistically painted watering an actual tree positioned next to the mural on a building wall.

1. Natalia Rak’s mural in Białystok, Poland

This vibrant mural depicts a large-scale image of a girl carefully watering an actual tree growing next to the building, blending reality and art seamlessly.

More: 10 Breathtaking Murals by Natalia Rak That Turn City Walls Into Dreams


Street art featuring large black painted eyeglass frames on snowy ground, positioned so pedestrians appear as if walking through the glasses.

2. Pavel Puhov’s Street Art

Two large painted eyeglass frames drawn onto snow, humorously framing passersby as if they are wearing giant spectacles.

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Miniature camels painted along a long crack on a concrete wall, creatively suggesting a desert journey.

3. OakOak’s humorous wall art

A tiny caravan of camels painted on a cracked wall, cleverly using the crack to represent a desert landscape.

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Two street pipes painted and designed to look like legs with shoes and socks.

4. Playful Pipes in Leipzig, Germany

Street pipes creatively transformed into colorful legs wearing detailed socks and sneakers, adding playful character to ordinary fixtures.


Mural painting of a figure combing their hair, using real bushes as their hair on a street wall.

5. Green Hairstyle Mural by Nuxuno Xän in Fort De France, Martinique

A mural realistically depicting a person using actual foliage as hair, humorously combing it with a painted comb.


6. Affectionate Dog in Olsztyn, Poland

Using chipped wall paint to create the dog’s body, this charming artwork shows a simple drawn dog lovingly sniffing a bird.


Street art depicting two electrical boxes painted with expressive faces and arms, appearing to hug.

7.Loving Electrical Boxes in Olsztyn, Poland

Two electrical boxes humorously painted by Adam Okuciejewski and Szymon Czarnowski with eyes and arms, embracing each other warmly.


8. Le CyKlop Pillars in Paris

Street bollards colorfully painted to resemble animated cartoon characters, bringing lively cheerfulness to a street.

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A tilted street pole humorously painted to resemble the iconic Leaning Tower of Pisa.

9. Leaning Tower of Pisa in Philadelphia, USA

A slanted street pole cleverly painted to resemble the Leaning Tower of Pisa, creatively transforming an everyday object.


Pillar under a bridge painted as a giant hand, visually suggesting the hand is supporting the bridge.

10. Giant Hand by Dome in Karlsruhe, Germany

A large pillar under a bridge creatively painted by Dome as a giant hand, cleverly appearing to hold up the bridge.


Tree logs carved and painted at the tips to look like oversized colorful pencils lying in a grassy field.

11. Jonna Pohjalainen’s Colored Logs in Turku, Finland

Fallen tree logs artistically carved and painted by Jonna Pohjalainen to resemble giant colorful pencils, blending art and nature beautifully.


Street art showing a child playing an accordion, with a real wall vent used as the instrument. The child’s legs and head are painted on the wall, creating a playful 3D illusion.

12. Accordion Boy

A small stencil of a child holding an accordion is painted around a real wall vent, cleverly using the metal grate as the instrument.


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12 Comments

  1. That’s not an accordion boy — accordion pleats are vertical. This is newspaper-reading guy!

  2. All the art pieces are very clever, though the ‘Green Hairstyle Mural by Nuxuno Xän in Fort De France, Martinique’ caught my eye most, as it captures artificial negligence (the human face on a broken wall) and uniquely fuses it with natural beauty of the real tree.

  3. I like the little polish girl watering the tree, a really well painted piece, amongst what looks like a bit of urban decay, it would cheer me up if I lived there.

  4. I love all of your street are they make me always smile. Apreciating the work. So great ..keep them coming

  5. @streetartutopia they are awesome! My favorite is Affectionate Dog in Olsztyn, Poland as it plays with cracks and decay.

    • @simona

      Oui ! Je les aime beaucoup aussi ! Difficile de choisir. Mais je crois que j'ai un petit faible pour celui de Natalia Rak’s, à Białystok (Pologne).

      @streetartutopia

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