Recycled Metal Yard Decor – Fun, Playful And Eco-Friendly
Avid gardeners usually are very earth-friendly people. They enjoy digging in the dirt, recycling and composting, and successfully incorporate other people’s discards into their garden decor. When shopping for attractive pieces to spruce up their back yards, recycled metal garden art is often 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 eco-artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes magnificent mechanical sculptures of giraffes, elephants and robots from recycled plumbing and auto parts. He gets discarded transmission and engine parts from his auto repair shop, and by combining these with plumbing pipes and fixtures he creates fantastic, moving creatures.
Old oil tanks and drums are quite frequently used to make metal yard decor. Coloured oil tanks that once provided fuel to cottagers are cut into brightly colored critters, including dancing sheep, climbing frogs, lurking alligators or Fido with his bone. For a change of pace you can even add a diva or a devil!
In Haiti a thriving crafts community is making spectacular metal wall sculptures from flattened drums which had been used to carry oil or other products. After taking off the end these drums are flattened and then carved by hand into exotic art work. Using only simple tools like hammers and chisels, the artists carve decorative, elaborate designs out of the steel. Steel drum art from Haiti is renowned world-wide and increasing in popularity. It makes a striking piece of wall art for inside the house or in the garden.Saving bicycles 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 perfect 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. 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 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 garden 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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