I know folk out there have to be making flowers out of Aluminum or tin cans. It is fun.

This Iris is from drinking cans, and a little help from me!

Awesome David!

Aluminum flowers rising to a new pinnacle right here folks
Can't wait to see your orchid

Oh my goodness! Those are stunning! I love 'em all! You're soooo talented in seeing " something wonderful in what others see as nothing!"

David love your can flowers

Awesome David, totally awesome.

Sorry, DirtD, just had to borrow your word. Nothing else fit.

wowzers! I'm totally impressed!

VERY nice and you don't have to water and feed them

Thanks everybody! I appreciated the nice words a lot.

I got up really early as usual, and the Iris didn't seem fantasy enough so I turned into this...




It reminded me of a Phoenix somehow.

Too pretty to be out in the elements.

Yeah. The Irises are really an indoor thing as they are a tad more delicate but durable. Here is that one with another I'm calling "Ham n' Eggs Sunset"...

Gorgeous!

C'mon, David. You ARE going to give us a tutorial on those irises, now aren't you?

I am soooo impressed. What a wonderful talent you have David !!

David, will kitchen shears work for cutting the cans?
And what kind of enamel are you using? Not sure acrylic would adhere to the aluminum surface.

So beautiful.

I'd think you'd want to spray the cans with some sort of primer before doing the fancy stuff?

Could be, but then the colored paints would have to be based on the chemistry of the spray primer. As in the difference between oil and water based. I think Kilz might make both types of primer, and maybe one that would hold either type of paint, latex or oil based.

Well, that's probably clear as mud. It's been a vacuum day and I just finished, so what do I know? Not much.

possibly some type of auto paints or oil at least to hold up in weather. Could be sprayed with a clear coating of some kind?
It looks like David has an etsy store...

Well, according to my dubious memory of a conversation with the folk in the Sherwin Williams store back in SoCal many, many, many years ago: It's ok to put water based paint over oil based primer, but not vice versa. The rationale as explained at the time was that oil based paints dry to a very hard surface over which you can pretty much paint anything. But water based paints stay somewhat soft and if you put oil based paint over it, it tends to pull and cause the paint underneath to peel. Sounded good at the time; but I have no idea if that was accurate, or, if it was then, is it still accurate now.
Heh, I'll be putting this to the test in a bit, as I have a pot I used oil-base primer on and I plan to put an acrylic design over it. If I ever get to it, that is.