Copper Garden Sculpture

A well-placed copper sculpture can add a historic element to your garden or water feature that invites a contemplative mindset. Sculptures can be placed in water features to add a European touch to the otherwise bland or normal. A wide variety of small commercially made sculptures can be purchased for box retailers or more locally from small scale artisans. These sculptures take an undue amount of time to create because you can only work with the copper material when it is heated to a malleable temperature.

Another common place for a copper sculpture is the lawn or garden. These places provide a beautiful contrast for the polished copper golden hue. Common sculptures are in the form of flowers and not necessarily garden gnomes. Another common application are flowers. These create something of an artistic paradox, because the static inorganic element copper is molded to create lifelike features that resemble a living plant. The beauty is evident in the artist's attention to detail and the veins of the stalk that holds the flower and number of petals that bend as though pulled by gravity at the same rate as the less structurally sound flower. Also small bugs and other creatures are commonly fashioned with the color schemes capable of copper through the patina process.