Portfolio - John Schwarz

Turning Trash into Treasure

A quail constructed with a coffee pot and garden clippers

Strut

120" x 70" x 41" A moose constructed downhill skis and machine parts

Rocky

An elephant made of a retro toaster and soap dish ears.

Tusker

A nautilus constructed of lamp parts, a fan, wire and garden tools

Nautilus

A sea turtle with ceramic fins, bicycle seat for a head, and a shell covered with cement solo cups.

Delilah

A salmon made of ceramic fins, wooden slats, a rake, and welded steel

Coho

A dog constructed of bicycle parts, garden spades, and an air tank.

Mc Ruff

An elephant made of a retro toaster, door stops, and shoe horns.

Babar

A grasshopper robot constructed of various machine parts.

Hopper

A pelican constructed of a coffee pot, hockey sticks and hand rakes.

Howard

A dog constructed of an antique mail box, golf clubs, a bicycle seat, trowels, and various machine parts.

Sparkie

Made with antique irons and machine parts.

Iron Man

A flying fish constructed of golf clubs, wood, welded steel and ceramic fins

Finnegan

She is constructed of a fire extinguisher, cross country skis and various hydraulic parts.

Medusa

Constructed of more parts than any piece in the portfolio.

Johnnie Quest

A bird made of a coffee pot, hand trowels and an oil can head.

Peep

A turtle constructed of wooden water skis and lamp parts

Sonic

A fish made of ceramic fins, a boat propeller a rake, bicycle seat, and welded steel

Taco

A tiger fish with golf clubs, a post hole digger mouth, hockey sticks, a boat propeller and formica chips with various machine parts. It can be freestanding.

Tiger Fish

Lulu's wings are glass wing windows from a 1961 cadillac. The rest of her is all machine parts.

Lulu

A tree frog made with formica chips, spoons, trampoline springs and motorcycle head lights.

Froggie

Flipper is a plesiosaur with ceramic flippers and metal welded body frame with a bicycle seat for a head.

Flipper

Is a snapping turtle with hockey sticks for legs and corrugated construction material for the shell, and formica chips for the side and bottom.

Snappy Attitude

This mosquito is constructed with airplane parts, an airplane engine and wing parts.

Mosquito

A boat made of a terracotta hull, plexiglass sails, and miscellaneous parts.

Seaworthy

A crocodile constructed of golf clubs, hockey sticks, ceramic fins, a hedge trimmer and various other machine parts.

Crocodile

This fossil is made with lamp parts, 2 stove burners, and a fan housing unit.

Fossil

A female princess robot made with an air tank, lamp parts, skis, vacuum cleaner, plexiglass and miscellaneous machine parts.

Tinkerbell

A race horse made of a mailbox, aluminum baseball bats, dock augers, golf clubs and various machine parts.

Reno

A seahorse constructed of cross country skis, a clarinet, formica chips, and various machine parts.

Seahorse

An alligator constructed of bicycle parts, ceramic fins, a bicycle seat, beach umbrella parts and various other machine parts.

Gator

Bullfrog made of garden tools, baking pan, track lights and bicycle parts.

Bull

This shell fish is constructed of a fan housing, lamp parts, and various machine parts.

Ammonite

A wall piece constructed of a boat gas tank, aircraft gauges for eyes, vacuum cleaner parts, and a wood chipper part.

Wizard

A fish made of ceramic fins, a plexiglass tail, kitchen utensils, a bicycle fender and various machine parts.

Speed Racer

A sawfish made of a hedge trimmer, ceiling fan fins, wood slats over a metal frame and various machine parts.

Scoutmaster

A frog constructed of a basting pan and bicycle parts with a crown made of door stops.

Prince

A goldfish with golf clubs, formica chips, diving fins, copper and wood.

Goldie

A great white shark jaw with farm tines for teeth, and bicycle rims for the jaw.

Jaws

A fish constructed of golf clubs, formica chips, hockey sticks, and various machine parts.

Sport Fish

Robbie is made of lamp and fence post parts, a file alarm box and various machine parts.

Robbie

Dog made with fence parts, pressure tank, hocky pucks and various machine parts.

Scrappy

A peacock with cross country ski feathers, garden claws, and bicycle seat for a head.

Roxie

Robot made with potter's wheel parts, baseball bats. a motorcycle helmit and plexiglass

Johnnie Rocket

A dinosaur made with ceramic fins, golf clubs, a hedge trimmer, cement scales, and a bicycle seat.

Crocker-fella

A robot made with an air tank, a coffee pot, boat propeller, and various machine parts.

Fender

This elephant is made out of a vintage toaster, an oil spout, and iron gate parts.

Trunks

A penguin made of a compressor air tank with trampoline parts and various machine parts

Chilly Willy

A crocodile made of rakes, bicycle and lamp parts and other miscellaneous steel pats.

Tock

Owl made of space heater, a car spring, garden trowels and miscellaneous parts.

Hoot

Guru made with hockey sticks, a big metal blade, automotive pistons, and the cylinder head of an engine.

Gear Head

This fish is constructed of hockey sticks, garden tools, golf clubs, ceramic fins and various machine parts

Swordfish

A bee made with pots and pans, tennis rackets, hockey pucks and various machine parts

Spirit Bee

Shore bird built with coffee pot, hockey sticks, and garden rakes.

Shore bird

A turtle constructed of a wok, cement, ceramic fins and bicycle parts.

Samson

Shark jaws constructed of steel chair parts, farm tines, and various machine parts.

Crunch