Finished Fish: Papier Mache

I gotta get some more paints. The ones I have are old and drying out, but they were salvaged from thrifts shops and garage sales so I didn't expect them to last forever. Still, having crappy paint makes a good excuse for how this project turned out.

Remember that little Aleve bottle from the previous post? This is what it looked like after I slathered my home made papier mache all over it. Of course it has some bumps and stuff, partly because the shreded paper I used had some plastic in it, from envelopes, I guess. But, it works.

Here's where the paints come into the picture. I don't have many colors anymore so I went with what I had and here's the (more or less) finished project.

Now, I'm not an artist and I don't expect this is going to win any prizes. But it's a good way to show how you can take salvage some things from the land fil and make something playful out of them. I was going to use a big shampoo bottle but luckily I started small. It gave me plenty of latitude for mistakes and saved me from messing up a better final product. I'll eventually get back to this kind of craft but right now I'm working on what to do with all the empty soda cans in my garage. I have a really clever idea but I think it's going to take a very long time to finish. 

(I gotta do something about that eye... it's kind of frightening.)