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Amazing Metal Art
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New Month – Different Mailbox Decoration
It was my husband’s turn to choose the mailbox decoration. He chose Fritz the Cat.
Fritz the Cat is a comic strip created by Robert Crumb. Set in a “supercity” of anthropomorphic animals, the strip focused on Fritz, a feline con artist who frequently went on wild adventures that sometimes involved sexual escapades. Crumb began drawing this character in homemade comic books when he was a child. Fritz became one of his best known characters, thanks largely to the motion picture adaptation by Ralph Bakshi. ~ Wikipedia
Since it is harder for us to get the decorations down from their hangars in the shop these days, we are changing the decorations less frequently. We are focusing on cartoon characters in the hope that they will make kids on the bus smile and maybe bring some nice memories as drivers pass our driveway.
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Matt Wilson Metal Art 3
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More Corrugated Metal Art
Corrugated Iron Art – ArtBytheSea.co.nz
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Corrugated Iron Art
Corrugated Iron Art – artbythesea.co.nz
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Dragons
Art from Found Things
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Art from Cutlery – Matt Wilson
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Mailbox Decoration
We haven’t bothered to change our mailbox decoration for several months due to several factors. We had put up my husband’s favorite of the decorations we have made –
Yesterday we were getting the mail really late in the afternoon. I asked if my husband minded changing the mailbox decoration. He agreed, so we put up MY favorite, Calvin & Hobbes. This one makes me smile, and I think that with all we are all going through these days, it’s good to get even a virtual hug.
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Mailbox Decoration
We usually change the decoration twice each month, putting up something special for each holiday. Since the pandemic began, we’ve just had the Tasmanian Devil up. (below)
Since the schools are open now, the bus comes by at the bottom of our driveway again. We finally decided it was worth the trouble to put something different up.
We probably will only put up things not tied to any particular holiday until things get back to what passes for normal, but it’s nice to change the look of things. The decoration we have up now was the first one with more than one image, plus the first one with 3-D ‘legs’ attached.
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Spooning? 3
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Spooning? 1
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More Art from Found Things
I love it when people can paw through a box of ‘stuff’ and create things that make us smile. It’s the old cliche’ ‘one man’s trash…’ but some folks are adept at bringing it to an art form.
I want ALL of these.
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Metal Art
BOSSJUNKART-Etsy
Mari9art Metal Art – Artmajeur
Olsen Metal Art- Facebook
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Art from Found Things 2
Fiver – Imgur
Gadgetsin
Michael de Meng-Missoulian
Ritch Branstrom-Michigan Artists Gallery
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The Art of Sue Beatrice – Part 2
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Arts – via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Arts – via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Arts – via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Arts – via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
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The Art of Sue Beatrice
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Art, via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Art, via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Art, via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
Sue Beatrice, All Natural Art, via Pinar Noorata, MyModernMet
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Easter Mailbox Decoration
I’m of two minds about putting up decorations on our mailbox these days.
One of the school buses comes right by our house, and used to stop at our driveway years ago when our son was attending school here. I think about the kids seeing what we have put up twice each month, hoping they get a kick out of the decorations.
Since the schools are closed, maybe through the end of the school year due to the threat of COVID-19, it may be like throwing a bottle in the ocean. Maybe no one sees our decorations but us and our good mailman.
Now we put them up in a spirit of hope that the world will soon get through this awful time.
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Snow Goon Mailbox Decoration
One of the many Snow-Goons created in Calvin & Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson
Even though we are having mostly spring-like weather here in Arkansas this year, we wanted to be sure to honor one of our favorite cartoonists, Bill Watterson. I’m really hoping that we can get through this month and half way through March without more ice or sleet or snow, but I AM smarter than my daffodils – already blooming and probably soon to have their beauty cut off by Mother Nature…
We had fun with this one, particularly because of the 3-D nature of the piece. We had to make his arms and hands, welding them carefully to the two pieces without blowing holes through the sheet metal. This is one of our larger, more bulky mailbox decorations and we smile each time we put it up.
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Valentine’s Day Mailbox Decoration
We put up our Valentine’s Day mailbox decoration yesterday on the way to do our other errands.
This cupid is about 2-1/2 feet tall by almost 3 feet wide. It is made of heavy sheet metal, cut out by my husband using our CNC set up. We found the design on the net. He uses a program to convert the picture we have found to what is called “G-Code” a language the computer can understand. We save this on a thumb drive and take it out to the shop. We put the thumb drive into the computer and decide speed of cutting and a few other things. After set up, we start the program which guides the torch to cut the design out of an 8 foot x 4 foot sheet of metal.
Once the design is cut out, we add the piece that will attach the design to the mailbox, welding it on. We use an overhead projector and a transparency we have made to mark the salient points of the design onto the metal – both sides.
I then paint both side of the metal and the attachment piece with paint made for outside. When the painting is finished, I spray the piece with polyurethane spray to protect the piece as much as possible from sun, wind, and rain.
We change our decoration twice a month.
If you look carefully in the background of this picture, you can see our 100 pound robot made from scrap metal who welcomes people who want to come up our driveway. You can also see two metals owls – each about 2-1/2 feet tall, perched on top of poles that hold a gate we can close.
We really enjoy making decorations and yard ‘critters’ together.
My husband is trying to find a good design now for “Wonder Warthog.”
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