Recycled Metal Garden Decor – Eco-Art For Your Garden
Passionate gardeners are generally very green people. They enjoy digging in the dirt, recycling and composting, and effectively integrate other people’s discards into their garden decor. When searching for attractive pieces to enhance their back yards, recycled metal garden art is a popular choice.
The eco-artists creating recycled metal garden are very creative and talented. What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes amazing mechanical sculptures of giraffes, elephants and robots from recycled automobile and plumbing parts. He gets junk transmission and engine parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he is able to create fantastic, moving creatures.
Old, worn out oil drums and tanks are quite commonly used to make metal yard decor. Coloured oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are reborn into brightly colored critters, including dancing sheep, climbing frogs, lurking alligators or Fido with his bone. For something a little different you can even add a devil or a diva!
In Haiti a thriving crafts community is creating beautiful metal wall sculptures from flattened drums which were used to transport oil or other products. After removing the ends these drums are flattened then carved by hand into exotic artwork. Using only simple tools like chisels and hammers, the artists carve decorative, elaborate designs out of the steel. Steel drum art from Haiti is renowned world-wide and increasing in popularity. Inside the house or in the garden, it makes a striking piece of wall art.Saving cycles from untimely graves a new breed of artists are using discarded bikes parts to create their art. Bike art has grown so popular it is a genre of its own. With gears and wheels, nuts and bolts, spokes and bars, a bike is the perfect raw material for recycled metal art.
Part of the appeal of recycled metal yard art is the weathered and often rusted look of the various pieces. Rather than making a loud statement, rusted metal has a natural, earthy feel to it and blends with the yard.. That is why many gardeners try to get pre-rusted metal art.
The creativity of artists working with recycled metal always amazes me. Add some recycled metal art to your yard and add instant character and charm.
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 garden decor 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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