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Recycled Metal Garden Art – Fun, Eco-Friendly Art For Your Backyard

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Enthusiastic gardeners are likely to be very earth-friendly people. They like digging in the dirt, recycling and composting, and effortlessly incorporate other people’s discards into their backyard decor. When hunting for attractive pieces to beautify 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 frequently used to make metal garden art. Painted 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 a change of pace you can even add a diva or a devil!