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Homemade driftwood creations Each fish materializes out of some shape in each of those unique pieces of wood.
What began as a simple project to decorate a wall in our lake house has turned into what looks like a stick explosion on our back porch. We stumbled across areas all along Rock Creek, the center most feeder creek for Smith Lake in northern Alabama, where huge collections of driftwood get caught on their way through the Sipsey Wilderness. They are glued and stapled together using multiple sizes of staples from pnuematic air guns. They are then cleaned, cured and clear coated with multiple layers of matte polyurethane. Each fish takes about two weeks to complete. Each is hand engraved and comes with a label with their name as well as the number in the order they were created.
09/18/2014
Babe is the first in our newest series of whimsical fish created with a minimal driftwood structure wrapped with rusted chicken wire as scales. The fins are cut from rusted corrugated tin.
09/18/2014
Sophia is one of the first of our Saltwater series fish. Constructed of large curved oak and maple driftwood pieces and then wrapped with rusted metal mesh "scales"
04/06/2014
And hot off the table, Lacey, a rusted-mesh-scales-over-sticks brown trout.
04/06/2014
Another metal mesh "scales" fish Gilbert.
03/16/2014
Another new rusted "scales" fish—Daisy
03/13/2014
Charlie. He looked a little like that fish from the tuna commercials (if you are under 50 you probably have no idea what I'm referring to).
03/13/2014
Here is Chuck, created for my cousin Charlotte who (for some reason) I call Chuck.
Composed of driftwood sticks covered with a rusted metal mesh.
03/13/2014
Meet Mr. Bubbles; driftwood sticks overlying a rusted metal mesh.
02/24/2014
Nigel is our first attempt at adding some dimension to the fish. By using arced sticks and attaching a rusted metal mesh "skin" over the top, we can add rounding to the sculpture.
02/24/2014
The driftwood finally thawed out enough to continue doing some fish. here is Bonnie...
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