Living the Art Life: Creating,Selling,and enjoying Art in My Everyday Life!: How to make Garden-Yard Art from old tires!

Living the art life not only involves painting and marketing your art work.

It also involves creating in everything you do.

I know when you love art , we find it popping up in every part of our lives that we touch.

So as a true artist and I know you are the same ,

I just had to do the creative thing in my garden/yard.

So this is one of my hobbies besides painting and my true artist colors ,LOL, came out in this yard art creation.

I decided to share it with ya'll , sorry for sharing my heritage as a true southerner, and I am going to let you know what it cost me and how I did it for free.

So here goes, I had some old tires laying around our farm and instead of getting rid of them

I decided to recycle them in the form of my yard art. LOL!

Finding your tires are the first step to creating this Bird feeder, old tire flower bed!

It takes four 15 inch tires.

If you do not have these at home call your local county recycle resource or the county dump and ask if they have any tires in their resource facilities.

I don't know if they will donate them to you or you can buy them ,but its worth a try.

Especially if you tell them you are recycling for a garden yard art projects.

So this is the free step.

Next, after you obtain your tires you will need a big drill bit.

Take your drill with bit and drill holes on the top side of the tires. All around the circumference or circle of the tire.

Gather your paint, four quarts of desired colors at Walmart.

These costs me about 8.00 to 10.00 dollars a piece.

I used a coral red, a yellow orange, and a green mint color to paint my tires.

You will also need:

8 bags of 2.00 dollar top soil.

Two bags for each tire.

And 8 of the 8 container impatient flowers.

Two containers for each tire.

These cost about 1.84 and total of 16.00 dollars with tax.

Get a landscape timber, or two by four.

These usally cost about 2.00 to 3.00 each . you will only need one.

Make sure it is treated for the outdoors.

A sack of bird seed about 3.00.

I began by drilling the holes in the tires.

I then ,cleaned them with dish washing detergent and a scrub brush.

This is easy if you place the tires on a wood palette.

The wood palette helps you to let them dry and then paint them.

After they dried I painted each one their different colors three coats.

I let them dry and I just painted them on one side all the way down to the ground.

I left the bottom unpainted where they would sit on the ground.

I placed three on the ground where I wanted them .
Then I stacked one tire on top of the other in the middle.

Look at pick.

The tire that is not stacked and lays flat on the bottom of the ground doess not have a bottom.

The tire on top of the other has a bottom.

I placed a 5 gallon bucket lid in the bottom to keep the dirt in the tire.

You could use an old piece of wood inside the tire or other.

Next, I poured the bags of top soil and planted the flowers inside the tires.

After I planted the flowers I dug a whole behind the middle of the tires and packed my two by four or landscape timber in the ground.

This Bird feeder I found at a yard sell for 3.00.

YOU can use all kinds of items to nail to your two by four: A water pitcher, A large painted tin can, an old wooden box.

Be creative and just paint what ever you find the color you desire of the four colors.

So, That's it on the Yard -Art project .

This was very economical and only took one day to make, after I got my supplies.
Now sometimes I can sit in the yard during our Bar-B -Ques and Enjoy mu creation .

Until it needs to be painted again in another 30 years. LOL.

Thanks for reading and good luck arting!

P.S. This is one of my paintings!
You can go to my websites above and look at my art.

I also have another project I would like to do !

Its the chair picture below!