DIY ART-Driftwood Fish Creation!
by
Sarina Correa
(IC: homeowner)
2 Materials
$5
1 Hour
Easy
During a recent garage clean out I "found" a bag of driftwood from our summer trip back home to the Pacific Northwest. When I collected all this wood I had visions of making, mirrors, frames, and all all sorts of cool things. Then reality sets in post vacation and the bag of sticks gets "lost" in the black hole...aka "The garage". Then one day I sent my Mom a picture of a driftwood fish and by the time I got home from the office she had made this amazing masterpiece! Here is a little tutorial about how you too can go on a nature walk and find some sticks and create! The kids would love doing this too!
Gather all your supplies! Mom used UnicornSPiT to add color to the sticks and she used Pixiedust liquid chalk mineral additive to make chalk like paint out of a small sample jar of paint (I love the look of a chalky paint wash). Here is a little project list....
Assemble your boards and paint them. To assemble them we screwed a scrap piece of the pallet to the back of it. Once your boards are together and dry, take your driftwood (or sticks) and arrange them to make your fish. Because our boards were long we made a long skinny fish. But if you had shorter boards you could make your fish a little more fluffy!
Then display your fish and hope he makes you smile every time you walk past it! Or in our case it was sold the next day at Mom's store! :)
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Suggested materials:
- Unicorn Spit (https://www.facebook.com/UnicornSpit)
- Pixie Dust Liquid Chalk Additive (https://pixiedustpaintcompany.com)
Published September 21st, 2016 2:55 PM
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Bex on Nov 21, 2016You inspired me to make one, thank you! I used driftwood from the Ohio River though!
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Sarina Correa on Dec 13, 2018
Love it!
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