| Category | Wall Art |
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| Created | 11-04-2009 | |||||||||||||
| Status | Inactive | |||||||||||||
| Owner | robert lawrence | |||||||||||||
| Title | Bob's Fresh Fish | |||||||||||||
| Description | Hurricane Fran's devastation left me with huge stacks of wood from downed trees. Thinking I would use this wood some how, some way I stacked the huge slabs in my woodwork shop. All fish are sculpted from a solid slab of wood. Poplar or tupelo works the best. Fins are made from spruce. Paint is a combination of acrylics and faux paints. These paints are applied like finger painting. Scales , on some fish, are cut from soda cans. They are shaped, and then applied (push nailed) to the fish. I recycle 25 to 40 soda cans, making 450 to 700 scales per fish. My soda can color palette is constantly changing due to the discontinuing and introduction of can designs. Total time invested ranges from 8 hours on "just painted" models and up to 20 hours or more for compelling designs with scales. They are then finished with a couple of coats of polyurethane to give it that "wet look"; also it pulls the color brilliance up. Prices for purchasing fish vary depending on order. If you have a photo of a fish and/or a request for a custom fish, Bob would be willing to work with you. | |||||||||||||
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