Animals sculptures of hub caps by British artist Ptolemy Elrington
Thursday, July 29, 2010An British artist Ptolemy Elrington collected thousands of lost hub caps from roadsides across Britain and turned them into spectacular animal sculptures - worth up to L3,000.
Ptolemy Elrington, 43, works full-time in his studio crafting shiny dolphins, dogs and dragons from all grades of hub cap - from BMW and Mercedes to Ford and Volvo.
He fixes the caps together using.
Using free materials means the Brighton-based artist only charges customers for labour - at about L75 per day.
His most expensive creation was a dragon that used 200 hub caps, measured 10m long, and took over a month to build. It sold for L3,000.
Mr Elrington's other pieces, such as lizards, flies and toucans, are just as stunning but cost a few hundred pounds.
Ptolemy has about 500 hub caps in stock and uses between ten and 200 caps per model.
Mr Elrington has been crafting his hub cap creatures for seven years but his passion remains strong.
