Recycled art is an environmentally friendly, or green, way to showcase your creativity and artistic skills. While most metals are recyclable, it is even more responsible to find other uses for items, rather than placing them in the recycling bin. This is because even the process of recycling costs energy. You can use several types of found metal in interesting ways to create a decorative home art collection.
Instructions
1. Apply paint to the surface of a canvas. Use a thick brush to cover the entire canvas with one color or use thinner brushes to paint a scene or image onto the canvas. Allow it to dry.
2. Clean pieces of metal junk with a clean cloth to remove any loose rust, grease or dirt. Use old saw blades, pieces of scrap metal, pipes, license plates, old keys and metal wire.
3. Apply rubber cement to on of the flat sides of each piece of metal and press them onto the canvas. Arrange them in a shape, image or random collage.
