Animal sculpture from metal and scrap materials

I visited Art in Action ( 2 days ago ) and saw some really interesting sculptures made from scrap  materials.


They are life-size creatures made from all sorts of metal scrap.

This horse is made from cut up beer cans as you can see from the close up below.

I like the feature of the car headlights on this one, and the transparency of the whole creature against the sunshine.

 This one is like a small dragon like horse. At least you could put out a fire with part of this one!

I have featured other scrap metal animals on previous blogs. I think the ones at Chelsea flower show were better than these. To see this post click here        The Chelsea ones used a wider range of materials, and were much more solid.

I did quite a lot of sculpture work, using metals, when I was teaching Art. I know how difficult and time consuming this work is...so I am always impressed by it.

Is this ART ?????

I have found a few interesting and amusing things that are artistic. 


Pictures speak louder than words...so see what you think!!!

Painting your coffee!

At last,  a use for a toilet roll!!

 They say don't play with your food!  This banana and apple prove otherwise!

A strange place to do a painting!

This is just so clever!!! A portrait made from black thread.

Strange automobile art!!!

And finally, you can ask of this building....is it architecture?? !

Maine Coon cat paintings. ACEO size.

I have completed some more ACEO paintings of cats.These are the tiny 2 and a half by 3 and a half inch paintings that people seem to love collecting.

 This is a painting of my beautiful silver tabby Maine Coon called Pepper. I think I have caught his likeness in this one, perhaps more than previous ones I have done of him.

This one has sold. but will be available as a print, and probably a greetings card soon.

Here is a tabby cat. It is mainly based on Brandy, but does not look enough like her to call this a portrait of her.  So just a Maine coon tabby, I guess.

This one has also sold. It will also be available as a print, and probably a greetings card soon.

Here it is my long awaited painting of Cocoa. I thought painting a black and white ( tuxedo) cat would be difficult, so kind of put it off for ages. I actually really enjoyed doing this....so there will be more!!  I am quite pleased with the likeness to Cocoa.

And finally a Maine Coon kitten!!  I don't own this one, although almost did. we were looking for male kittens and were told this one was male, so agreed to buy "him". However, the breeder took " him" to the vets for a final check only to discover he was actually a she!  It turned out ok though, because we went on to buy two male kittens, Cocoa and Pepper ( brothers ) instead.

This painting is based on some photos I took when we went to see the kitten.




All of these will also be available as prints when I have sold the originals. I shall also enlarge some of them to greetings card size too.

Animals made from plants

I visited the Hampton Court flower show on Tuesday. I mainly went to take some photos of plants for reference,  for my floral paintings.  I took masses of pictures, despite it being a grey and rainy day.

I was very impressed by a series of floral sculptures. These are all of animals. They are wire frames filled with plants, and all totally realistically  life size! 

Here is a selection of them....

A simple idea, but really effective. I am not sure  if I would want one in my back garden though!  I would have liked to have seen some of cats. I suppose the lion is as close as I could get!