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Recreating the wild wild west out of discarded farm equipment, South Dakota-based artist John Lopez �s amazing metal sculptures will blow your mind! Check them out below: Source: John Lopez Studio Sculptor John Lopez is a product of a place. His people�s ranches are scattered along the Grand River in northwestern South Dakota�not far from where Sitting Bull was born and died. Not far from where thousands of buffalo were killed during the westward expansion of settlers and gold miners. In the bone yards of Tyrannosaurus rex and grizzly bears. Since farmers and ranchers populated this chunk of reservation land, real cowboys have been roping and branding and sheering and haying and harvesting. Source: John Lopez Studio  John�s own forte lies in gentling colts and perfecting their bloodlines�and he started his celebration of them by sculpting in clay. Capturing every nuance, every muscle, in this land where business is still conducted over a cup of coffee and �neighboring� is a

This video features Bernie Mitchell from www.drywallnation.com Bernie is an artist who takes a very unique approach towards his work using only drywall compounds to create wonderful works of art. Bernie started a simple form of relief in the early 1990s. In his profession as a drywall finisher, he was experimenting with raised panels on wall surfaces where natural light had a positive effect as a relief form. Then he began using items such as wheat and barley stalks to leave impressions in the wet joint compound, and his experience with large pictorial carvings in leather led him to applying the same ideas as wall relief. Today, Bernie is a drywall contractor and he puts his creativity to work designing, constructing, sculpting and finishing specialty features in shoreline homes and cottages. He prefers to use birds as his main subjects � blue heron, osprey and loons � but he also enjoys sculpting horses, wolves and dogs. This website was established so Bernie could teach