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.
The eco-artists creating recycled metal garden are very creative and ingenious What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes remarkable mechanical sculptures of elephants, giraffes and robots from recycled auto and plumbing parts. He gets discarded transmission and engine parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he is able to create wonderful, moving creatures.
Discarded oil tanks and drums are quite frequently used to make metal yard decor. Coloured oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are cut down 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 thriving crafts community is designing wonderful metal wall art from flattened drums which had been used to transport oil or other products. After removing the ends these drums are flattened and next carved manually into exotic art work. Using only chisels, hammers and other simple tools, the artists carve decorative, elaborate designs out of the steel. Haitian drum art is world renowned and spreading in popularity. It makes a striking piece of wall art for inside the house or in the garden.Saving bicycles from early graves a new breed of artists are choosing recycled bikes parts to create their art. Bike art has grown so popular it is a genre of its own. With spokes and wheels, nuts and bolts and gears, a bicycle may be the perfect raw material for recycled metal art.
Some of the appeal of recycled metal garden decor may be the weathered and often rusted look of some of the pieces. Rusted metal has a earthy, natural look and blends with the garden rather than making a loud statement. For this reason a lot of gardeners try to find pre-rusted metal art.
The imagination of artists working with recycled metal never ceases to amaze 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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