Host Kathi Cardinalli shows how to create a unique piece of folk art in the form of a fish-shaped wall clock.
Materials:
a piece of wood cut out in a fish shape*
chalk
acrylic paints in a variety of colors (your choice)
paintbrushes
paint-pen markers
battery-powered clockworks (available in craft supply stores)
batteries
drill and bit
screw in picture eye hooks and wire to hang your clock
wood burner to create scale effect
* Note: Plywood works well, and older wood looks even better. Cut with a jigsaw if you're comfortable doing it, or have a woodworker friend do it for you. Any size will work. Rough wood is more rustic.
Steps:
- Draw a fish on the board. If you don't feel confident drawing the fish freehand, look for a picture that can be blown up, photocopied and transferred to the board. Trace the outline of the fish body onto the wood.
- Trace outlines of fins and a tail on a thinner piece of wood.
- Cut out body, fins and tail with jigsaw or coping saw.
- Attach fins and tail with small nails. Make sure they don't go all the way through the fish body.
- Drill a hole through the center of the body for the clockworks.
- Wipe the cut wooden fish shape clean with damp cloth.
- Use woodburner to put scales on the fish body.
- Insert clockworks through the back of the fish body, following the instructions that came with the clockworks. (Using different clockworks will enable you to create a rustic pendulum clock.)
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