When her cake-making business didn’t quite pan out the way she'd hoped, one small-town Texas gal turned her sights toward tack welding enormous steel sculptures instead.
Swapping her icing pipe for a welder’s torch, 36-year-old metal artist Rae Ripple, from Big Springs, recently welded a work of vintage automobile art, revamping what once sat rusting in a farmer’s field into something hip again. Pictures of her masterpiece went viral on Instagram. With a plasma jet, she cut detailed lace designs into the four-door 1951 Chevrolet Deluxe’s steel body, from bumper to bumper, for an artsy hybrid landing somewhere in between steampunk and Mary Poppins.
