Recycled Metal Garden Decor – Eco-Art For Your Garden
Avid gardeners can be very green folk. They enjoy digging in the dirt, composting and recycling, and effortlessly incorporate other people’s discards into their outdoor decor. When shopping for attractive pieces to enhance their yards, recycled metal garden art can be a popular choice.
Recycled metal garden art is a reflection of the eco-artist’s ingenuity and talent. What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes impressive mechanical sculptures of elephants, giraffes and robots from recycled auto and plumbing parts. He gets discarded engine and transmission parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he creates fantastic, moving creatures.
Discarded oil tanks and drums are quite commonly used to make metal yard art. Coloured oil tanks that once provided fuel to cottagers are cut into brightly colored critters, including dogs with bones, dancing sheep or moose, lurking alligators and climbing frogs. For something a little different you can even add a diva or a devil!
In Haiti a growing crafts community is producing fantastic metal wall sculptures from flattened drums previously used to haul oil or other products. After removing the ends these drums are flattened then carved manually into exotic artwork. Using only simple tools like chisels and hammers, the artists create elaborate, creative designs out of the steel. Steel drum art from Haiti is very popular throughout the world, and increasing in popularity daily. It makes a striking piece of wall art for inside the house or in the garden.Saving bikes from untimely graves a new breed of eco-artists are utilizing recycled bikes parts to produce their art. Bike art has grown so trendy it is a genre of its own. With spokes and wheels, nuts and bolts and gears, a bicycle may be the ideal raw material for recycled metal art.
Some of the appeal of recycled metal garden art is the weathered and often rusted look of some of the pieces. Rather than making a loud statement, rusted metal has a natural, earthy feel to it and blends with the yard.. Hence a lot of gardeners try to get pre-rusted metal art.
The ingenuity of artists working with recycled metal never ceases to amaze me. For instant charm and character, add some recycled metal art to your yard.
Ann Wallis is a long-time gardener and lover of beautiful things for her garden. All year round she pores through gardening magazines and websites looking for colorful perennials to fill the holes in her garden and fun, whimsical metal yard art to add life and character to her yard. Ann’s favorite metal creations can be found at http://metal-garden-art.com
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