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Fun New Rusty Mermaids

2/22/2014

A larger 26" collection of fun rusty mermaids as a new product line were solidified this week. They are a bigger version of my rusty mermaid stakes and have fun blue or silver starfish in their hands. Great alone or even better in a grouping!
Also did several mid sized metal mermaids and hundreds of ornaments this week, the latter which are headed to Butchart Gardens soon to open artists Garden Gift Gallery.

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Camosun volunteer student week

2/16/2014

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Fine art student, we'll call her 'Z', from Camosun College was in the shop with me this week for volunteer work experience. What a great experience it was for me to learn from her and to share what I know and do with such a talented young person! We did everything from plasma cutting, pattern making, welding, and the really fun part, shopping at the metal scrap yard on a nice sunny day.
Z made a really interesting metal wall mask that was reminiscent of a sketch in one of her sketchbooks to take home as a keepsake. Well done and come back to the shop any time Z!!!

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Copper Mermaid

2/9/2014

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I now have a whole new respect for construction workers working outside in cold winter weather. But to have cold winter weather here in Victoria, really?! Wool socks and 6 layers later, barely able to move, I made may way to the shop and pulled up the garage door, opened the back door, and turned my ventilation fan on. It is either a curse or a blessing that I am recently home from sunny Florida. As I work and slowly freeze I remember how amazing my holiday was, and it is either helping me forget the fact that I cannot feel my feet, or it is pissing me off that if I was in fact in Florida I would be able to feel my feet, embedded in the sand, while warm breezes gently blow the palm trees!
Life size metal mermaid done last week with highlights of copper scales and even pennies. Also finished the big 3 foot fish started the previous week. Looking forward to warmer weather next week, a metal delivery, and Camosun College fine art student helping out in the shop. Last pic is the lagoon at Royal Roads, frozen, unbelievable!

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Metal fish sculptures

2/1/2014

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Stores:
Metal Mermaid Welding Gallery studio 574 Kenneth st. call for appointment
Butchart Gardens
Knickerbockers Sidney
Sea Cider
Sooke Harbour House
The Gallery at Matticks Farm
Blue Poppy (Nanaimo)

From scrap metal to art, before to after. Sample photos of metal used this week for my art and photos of the almost completed fish sculptures, to be finished this weekend. Found some copper for small mermaids and accessories for next week which I will work on, and more metal mermaids are on the agenda, plus I have been asked to do my large 3D metal garden herons and buzzards so if I have time I will do those too.

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Fun New Rusty Mermaids

Camosun volunteer student week

Copper Mermaid

Metal fish sculptures

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