Each of our Yard Art sculptures is hand poured and finished, allowing every statue to be a unique and beautiful addition to your home or garden. The Yard Art ornaments are cast in concrete and made in high quality latex, silicon and fibreglass moulds giving a highly detailed finish to the ornaments.

The garden ornaments can be decorated in a variety of ways, including coloured oxides in the mix, concrete stains, patinas, paints, or can be left natural. Please discuss this with a Yard Art representative when ordering.

Finishes

Coloured Oxides
The coloured oxide is added to the concrete mix colouring all of the statue. Each piece is unique. Colours include red, green, tan, brown, marigold, sand, black, and terracotta. Other colours are available but this will need to be discussed with a Yard Art representative when ordering.

Stain
A chemical stain is applied to the concrete ornament after it has cured. The stain reacts with the concrete giving a unique and sometimes marbled finish, and sometimes a stone or a wood finish. Choose from Ebony, Mahogany or Caramel.

Patina's
Your Yard Art statue can be painted in a special Liquid Copper or Liquid Iron paint. The Liquid copper contains copper particles which turns the concrete surface into copper. Similarly the Liquid Iron contains iron particles which turns the concrete surface to iron. The copper finish can then be given the green patination of age and the iron finish can be given an instant aged, rusted look. More suited to the smaller ornaments because of the cost, but can be applied to any size statue.

Paints
Several paint finishes are available. Quality concrete paint is used from Porters Paints. This is a hard wearing and long lasting paint which comes in 2 textures - fine and coarse. Fine contains marble dust and gives a stone-like matt, non reflective texture. Coarse contains size-graded quartz giving a rougher texture. Both are natural to touch and look at. If a more glossy finish is required then quality Resene paints can be used to give a vibrant colour finish. Many colours are available in both ranges, so please discuss this with a Yard Art representative when ordering. The base of each ornament is normally left unpainted so that the concrete can continue to breathe and cure as concrete does for many years.

Hypertufa
Many of our ornaments can be made with a hypertufa mix giving the ornament an eye catching and interesting finish. Coloured oxides can be added to the hypertufa mix to make an even more spectacular statue for your garden. Please discuss with your Yard Art representative, as not all ornaments are suitable for use with this finish.

Glazed
All of the finishes can be over coated with a concrete varnish giving your garden ornament a beautiful shine. Particularly used over the oxide or stain finishes.