Upcycled sculpture ideas

For Earth Day, the Kodiak High School Students created a massive Octopus work of art all created from marine debris. Image Credit unknown. via Pinterest

A beautifully decorated dress form that looks like mannequin art.

These Upcycle Toy Sculptures are a fabulous way to take care of broken toys. Take a look at this tutorial from our children's art studio in Charlotte, NC.

Artist Stéphanie Kilgast (previously) envisions a vibrant, post-apocalyptic world overgrown with coral, fungi, and lush moss. Using cheap devices and disposable containers that tend to outlast their original function as her base, Kilgast creates painted-clay assemblages that are teeming with fantastical colors and texture: mushrooms sprout from an empty paint tube, sea creatures envelop a crushed can, and plant life cloaks a pair of headphones with whimsical botanicals. Each of the works…

Don't throw away your plastic bottles! Try some of these DIY upcycling projects instead to help organize and spruce up your home décor.

A broken CD isn't much good to anyone. Unless you're Sean Avery that is. Because while most of us would just throw them in the trash, the South Africa-born, Australia-based artist turns them into various dazzling animal sculptures. He makes them by gluing CD shards to wire mesh frames shaped like different animals, and as you can see from his iridescent animal kingdom, there seems to be no limit to the types of creatures he can create.

Large sculpture of a redshank made by Michelle Reader from reclaimed materials, for the Love London Sculpture Show at London Wetland Centre.