Using abandoned and depleted buildings as his canvas, Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto creates fascinating large scale portraits by carefully scratching and chipping plasters out of walls.

We had a lot of street art here on BoredPanda (OakoAk, Banksy, Julian Beever, Slinkachu) but somehow we’ve missed one incredibly talented street artist Robin Rhode. Well, it’s better late than never, so we are more than happy to share his ingenious street ideas with you.

French blog OaKoAk has a very cool collection of creative street art examples, and we want to share our 15 best picks with you. Our Facebook fan Mike described it thus: “This is today’s art, not the phony abstract ugly pieces they gather in modern art museums. This is alive…”