Recycled Metal Yard Decor – Fun, Playful And Eco-Friendly
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 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 oil tanks and drums are quite commonly used to make metal garden art. Coloured oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are cut into brightly colored critters, such as dancing moose, climbing frogs and dogs with bones. For something a little different you can even add a diva or a devil!
In Haiti an expanding crafts community is creating delightful metal wall sculptures from flattened drums which had been used to haul oil or other products. After removing the ends these drums are flattened and then carved manually into exotic art pieces. Using only simple tools like hammers and chisels, the artists carve decorative, elaborate designs out of the steel. Haitian drum art is renowned world-wide and increasing in popularity. They look stunning in the garden, or hung on a wall inside.Saving cycles from untimely graves a new breed of eco-artists are using recycled bikes parts to produce their art. Bike art is becoming so trendy it is a genre of its own. Providing nuts and bolts, spokes and wheels, and even gears, a bike is the ideal raw material for recycled metal art.
Some of the appeal of recycled metal garden art may be the weathered and sometimes 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 many gardeners try to get pre-rusted metal art.
The talent of artists working with recycled metal never ceases to amaze me. Recycled metal garden art will add instant charm 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 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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