Transforming

 

I'm on a mission to tidy my workshop after having been in it for 18 months. I want to use or give away or dispose of those bits of stuff that I have collected or been given. I had been gifted 3 metal watering cans - 2 still in good working order; but not loved or liked anymore. The photo below is of the cans before I started on them - the tallest is about 35-40cm high.

I had a yarn with Fiona about how I might transform them into interesting objects for a garden. We decided to give them a new life by adding rusted metal - primarily from a rusted fireplace flue guard. The opening photo is of the completed 3 objects. Photos below show some of the design similarities and differences. The spouts on two now have rusted hand made washers as a point of interest.

I drilled holes in the base of all the cans so that water can drain away; and, if in the garden, they will not become a mosquito breeding pots. Of course they could now have flowers, a bush or herbs planted in them.