Artist Ryan McCallister does amazing things with metal and river rock
Artist Ryan McCallister has been creating some amazing sculptures with metal and river rock. The self-described ‘ceramicist, sculptor, welder, and all around lover of arts’ makes handmade home decor, fine art sculptures, and as of most recently, metalwork and outdoor sculptures.
Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Ryan received his BFA in Sculpture from the University of Tampa and currently operates out of Paradise Valley, Arizona. Below you will find three of his incredible outdoor sculptures. For more, be sure to check out his work at the links below!
Iconic supercars recreated from found parts at a local scrapyard in Pruszków, Poland
Over the last 5 years, the Gallery of Steel Figures in Pruszków, Poland has invited artists from around the world to participate in collaborative project to turn scrap metal into art.
Using found materials from a local scrapyard, these artists have recreated a Mercedes 300 SL, Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghini Aventador, Maserati GranTurismo and Ferrari 250 GTO.
The attention to detail and commitment to accurately replicating the original is most impressive and can be seen in the interior photos, the curves of the car and even the exposed engine of the Bugatti.
In addition to the scrap metal supercars the gallery also features a wide variety of scrap metal replicas of famous pop culture characters and figures. Check out their official website and Facebook page for more.
In this unbelievable photo we see the colossal base of an oil platform being towed out to sea. Made from steel, the frame or base is known as a ‘jacket’ and the oil platform is affixed to the top. According to 2b1st Consulting, 95% of the offshore platforms in the world are jacket designed. In these situations water depth does not exceed 500 m (1,640 ft) and the platforms are anchored directly to the seabed.
This particular jacket was installed in 1988 by Shell in the Gulf of Mexico and was regarded as one of the most extraordinary engineering feats of the 20th century. The platform was nicknamed ‘Bullwinkle’ and was the world’s tallest oil rig at the time of construction. It is 150 ft taller than the Willis (Sears) Tower in Chicago and was built entirely in Texas before being towed, in one piece, 332 nautical miles to its final location.
Bullwinkle used 10 times the amount of steel as the Eiffel Tower and weighed over 50,000 tonnes. Construction of the jacket alone took 2.5 years and to tow it out to sea, an 853 ft long barge—also world’s largest at the time—was constructed. The entire project took over 5 years and cost over $500 million in the 1980s. Check out the fascinating video embedded below which provides a great overview of this remarkable engineering project.
David Madero is an artist and sculptor that does incredible things with metal. The welding artist uses various techniques and tools to manipulate metal, from plasma cutters to spot welding steel rods.
To promote his work David established MADERO / CO. and he has completed a number of works for clients like Jack Daniel’s as well as public sculptures and private commissions.
Below you will find a small gallery of his incredible artwork along with some embedded videos of his process. To see more from Madero check out the links below.
Reddit user sgnihtdrawkcabevoli (read backwards) says he has walked by this sign hundreds of times but just recently noticed that the sign is made of compressed metal bars.
Located in Hertfordshire, England, Elstree Studios actually refers to several film and television studios in and around the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree. The area has been home to film and television studios since 1914.
You can find a large list of films and TV productions made in whole or in part at Elstree Studios on Wikipedia. Some notable highlights include:
– Star Wars III to VI
– Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade and Temple of Doom
– Moby Dick
– Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
– Who Framed Roger Rabbit
– The King’s Speech
– Willow
– The Shining
It started with a love for cars and motorcycles. Tomas Vitanovsky started as a stunt driver before an injury ended his promising career.
It all started with a love for cars and motorcycles. Born in 1970 in the Czech Republic, Tomas Vitanovsky started his career as a motorcycle stunt driver before an injury ended his promising career.
He then shifted gears, tuning and fixing bikes to earn a living. While throwing out some used engine parts from a motorbike he had finished, Tomas got the idea of welding them together. Soon he was turning discarded bearings, gears and chains into amazing metal sculptures.
The stunt driver, turned mechanic, turned artist has now completed over 30 sculptures and he continues to improve his craft as his sculptures become more complex and intricate. Vitanovsky is currently represented by the First Art Gallery in the United Kingdom where you can find his works available for purchase.
Texas-based welder Scott Raabe takes pride in his work and it shows.
Scott Raabe is a Texas-based welder with nearly a decade of professional welding experience since graduating from Texas State Technical College with a degree in—welding.
On reddit, where Scott shared an album of his recent welds last week, he explains that he started as a small parts/custom welder for a production company before switching to pipe fitting/welding. He then got into structural welding but now works as a pipe welder.
Scott also creates custom metal designs and artworks. He is available for commissions and you can contact him through his website. You can also follow him on Instagram to see more sweet welds 🙂
Michael, aka Moerkey, is an artist from Horsham, Victoria, Australia. The talented craftsman creates unique handmade balls, bowls and sculptures from discarded keys and coins; as well as reclaimed copper pipe and wire.
In the series below, Michael bends and solders individual keys and coins into beautiful objects. Each item is made to order through his Etsy shop. For custom and wholesale inquiries, you can reach Michael via Facebook.
Edoardo Tresoldi is an artist and sculptor from Rome, Italy. The artist’s medium of choice is wire mesh which he molds into figurative sculptures of humans and animals. You can find many of Tresoldi’s artworks on his Behance page with additional views and close-ups of his fascinating work.
Artist Hasan Novrozi welded this incredible pegasus sculpture from various pieces of scrap metal. The pegasus is a creature from Greek mythology, a winged stallion sired by Poseidon in his role horse-god and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. Novrozi’s amazing sculpture reminds us of other sculptors who reuse discarded metal in creative ways such as John Lopez and Edouard Martinet.
To see more amazing sculptures by Novrozi, be sure to check out his photo albums on Facebook.
