Then, at work, we were cleaning out our lost and found and my staff gave me this little purse with the challenge, "I bet you could do something with this!"
I decided in order to teach my brother-in-law a valuable lesson, I needed a Steve Austin action figure to go with it, sans his head.
Here is how Steve feels about it.
I can tell that I am becoming an experienced assemblage artist because the idea of sticking a little girl's purse onto the neck of Steve Austin no longer seems daunting. A little bit of rebar wire and a lot of Apoxie Clay later and there you have it. As for poor Steve's decapitated head, it was attached to some more wire and some aluminum foil in order to create the fish's tongue.
Painting is always the best part and takes the most time. For Donny's head (the former Steve Austin head--not to confuse you), I painted using the Kroma Crackle technique taught by my hero, Michael de Meng. This stuff is great for giving an alien, fish scale, creepy look to anything.
As often happens in my art, I had a feeling this piece was not done. I realized that it could not really stand on its own. No, literally, it could not stand on its own. So, I had to nail some barn nails into the front of the wood in order to keep Donny upright. Of course, because I act before I think, that split part of the wood base but thanks to the miracle of Apoxie Clay, all was well again.
Then I decided that I had a foreground but the whole thing need a background. So I found this wire basket thingee I had from some rummage sale (10c) and painted it up. After adding in more fishing line weights and some fish net from Jo-Ann's, I decided I was done.
Confession: I eat more sushi than Donny. But what is the fun of picking on yourself? Just remember, the next time someone says, "You are eating too much of that--you are going to turn into it," you have seen how it is done right here.
