The Fish Door

[Robson Valley]

As usual, working a logging debris pile. Split out a 9" x 9" x 18" piece of western red cedar from a really big stump-looking chunk. Split that with my froe (see new in Tools forum) into three nested slabs. Dramatic pink colored wood (goes yellow in 3 weeks). Lipstick pink. Amazing.
Picking up the pieces, I see and feel the tail half of a fish in the middle piece. Nothing in the other two, not even now, 6-8 months later. Not three fish. Nothing. Just pieces of WRC. I looked for them the other day ?
Driving home, I could see the fish swimming away from me, into the ocean. No special kind of fish, just a fish.
So, I cloned one of my kitchen cupboard doors, knob, hinges and all, 15.5" x 30.5" and did a submarine painting for my fish.
BTW, the door is primed with Home Hardware deep blue acrylic indoor house paint. The ocean painting is Grumbacher & Stevenson Artists acrylics. . . mix & match, they are compatible.
This was an entry into a critiqued show for Rivers Day 2011. The judge is a big-shot art gallery owner whom I don't know from a bar of soap. Words like: "Unique" and "Poses lots of questions." I think I got his gum stuck up his nose.

So, for your amusement,

"The Fish Door" (the tail fin is almost 8" from tip-to-tip.)

[idigjars]

That's a pretty cute idea. Paul

[Robson Valley]

I planned to enter something in the critiqued artisans' exhibition. As I worked on the fish tail and pondered the cupboard door painted mount, the less I could take the exhibition too seriously.
Some of the entrants, you could see the blood in their eyes and foam on their lips.
I wanted to be the Bugs Bunny with all the Elmer Fudds. Can't put down the work they submitted, I can't seem to achieve that degree of spit-and-polish in anything I do.