Fish Wall Hanging

[C_R_DeJong]

Im still pretty new to creating metal art but I thought I'd share a piece I made for my office. I grew up in Alaska but now live in Arizona (hense the northwestern influence with the southwestern style). The wall mount is about 6 feet long and has both hot and cold patinas on it.

[metalart]

Looking good, keep up the good work!

[C_R_DeJong]

Thanks metalart. I appreciate the encouragement.

[SignTorch Vector Art]

I'm speechless, that's good art, well executed for sure...

[MadMonk]

Wow, thats very nice. The patinas really make the fish look great. Well done!

[parrotlady]

Wow! You mustn't be that new at it! Or you are just a natural. That is unbelievable! True artistic work!

What kind of metal did you use? I am curious as you had used hot patinas as well, and arent those usually for copper, brass and bronze?

Very very excellent work

April

[wickedinhere]

WOW

[C_R_DeJong]

the material used is merely 20g steel. I infused a tiffany green with paint containing copper to create the effect in the middle of the fish.

[SomethingMetal]

I think you definetly got the hang of it.

[C_R_DeJong]

Thank you. I never thought I'd enjoy this as much as I am. I have only had my table for 5 months so I am still learning many of the CADing short cuts and have found the discussions within this forum very helpful and engaging. I ended up buying a touchsmart computer that enables me to draw my images directly on the screen.

[wickedinhere]

How did you attach all of them together?

[C_R_DeJong]

I just used welding rod and tig welded them together in random, overlapping ways.

[stdave66]

Awesome job!

[Chopper John]

That is really nice!

[The Rusty Texan]

Wow, I am new to the whole thing myself, so new that I just ordered my machine today. Burntables.com, I bought a 4x8 table with a hypertherm 65. Can't wait to get started!