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Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 48

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Mixed Up Blues: Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 48, 2008 plywood, primer, blue bottle caps, becks bottle caps, recycled roofing copper 13" H x 48" W x 2.5" D

This fish is made from a mixed palette of blue bottle caps with a white face of Becks caps. The plywood is primed with two layers of Kilz primer and can be hung outdoors (but the caps may fade if you hang it in direct sunlight). The fins and tale are cut from recycled roofing copper. Click here to view a video tutorial of how I create my mosaic bottle cap sculptures.

Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 48: SOLD

Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish No. 47

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Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 47, 2008 plywood, primer, Bud Light, Heineken and Becks bottle caps, recycled car body metal 17" H x 49" W x 2.5" D
This fish is made from Bud Light, Heineken and Becks bottle caps. The plywood is primed with two layers of Kilz primer and can be hung outdoors (but the caps may fade if you hang it in direct sunlight). The fins and tale are cut from an old car, circa 1950s I think… I don't know what kind of car it was. Click here to view a video tutorial of how I create my mosaic bottle cap sculptures.
	Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 48: SOLD. Commission a similar fish for $500 Including UPS Ground shipping*
	*Shipping: Price includes shipping for US orders and Canada, excluding Alaska and Hawaii (please call or email for rates to AK and HI). For International Orders please see FAQ here.

Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish No. 46

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Silvertone: Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 46, 2008 plywood, primer, Bud Light bottle caps, recycled car body metal 13" H x 44" W x 2.5" D
This fish is made from Bud Light blue and silver bottle caps. The plywood is primed with two layers of Kilz primer and can be hung outdoors (but the caps may fade if you hang it in direct sunlight). The fins and tale are cut from an old car, circa 1960s I think… I don't know what kind of car it was. Click here to view a video tutorial of how I create my mosaic bottle cap sculptures.
	Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 46: $500 Including UPS Ground shipping*
	*Shipping: Price includes shipping for US orders and Canada, excluding Alaska and Hawaii (please call or email for rates to AK and HI). For International Orders please see FAQ here.

Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 45

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Mixed Up Blues: Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 45, 2008 plywood, primer, Labatt Blue and Michelob Ultra bottle caps, recycled roofing copper 19" H x 49" W x 2.5" D
This fish is made from Labatt Blue and Michelob Ultra bottle caps. The plywood is primed with two layers of Kilz primer and can be hung outdoors (but the caps may fade if you hang it in direct sunlight). The fins and tale are cut from recycled roofing copper. Click here to view a video tutorial of how I create my mosaic bottle cap sculptures.
	Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 45: $500 Including UPS Ground shipping*
	*Shipping: Price includes shipping for US orders and Canada, excluding Alaska and Hawaii (please call or email for rates to AK and HI). For International Orders please see FAQ here.

Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish No. 44

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Mixed Up Blues: Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 44, 2008 plywood, primer, Coca Cola, Becks and Harpoon bottle caps, recycled car body metal 12.5 " H x 44" W x 2.5" D
This fish is made from Coca Cola, Becks and Harpoon bottle caps. The plywood is primed with two layers of Kilz primer and can be hung outdoors (but the caps may fade if you hang it in direct sunlight). The fins and tale are cut from an old car, circa 1950s I think… I don't know what kind of car it was. Click here to view a video tutorial of how I create my mosaic bottle cap sculptures.
	Bottle Cap Fish Mosaic No. 48: $500 Including UPS Ground shipping*
	*Shipping: Price includes shipping for US orders and Canada, excluding Alaska and Hawaii (please call or email for rates to AK and HI). For International Orders please see FAQ here.

Heinekin & Budweiser Select Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish

 

I drank a lot of Budweiser Select last summer because I liked the caps so much… that stylized crown on a black background looked to me like it was just made to represent fish scales (if tipped on its side). And here I used to be such a beer snob too. Sigh. Just goes to show what an artist will do to get the desired effect.

I also love the copper colored dust pan for the tail fin. I'll definitely do that again! The way the metal is corrugated nicely suggests the lines in the fin.

Heinekin & Budweiser Select Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish
medium	Bottle caps (Heinkin, Budweiser Select and unidentified), tin can, dust pan, bronze nails on wood.
size	approximately 18" x 55.5" x 1.5" (consult gallery to be sure)
availability	SOLD . Email me if you are interested in commissioning a fish in this style. Reproductions will vary, but will be as close as possible. Made to order in 2-4 weeks.

Amstel Light & Bass Ale Bottle Cap Fish

Before Budweiser came out with the red colored cap they use now, I was saving Amstel Light Caps as the only real source of red other than Coke… It's pretty hard to come by Coca Cola caps where I am, since everything comes in plastic these days. Anyway, I finally used them on this fish and was totally blown away by how gorgeous they turned out. The red and gold with black lettering just gleams when the sun hits it and has a totally different effect than I could have guessed just by looking at the caps jumbled up in a bin.

The key here is aligning the caps precisely. You can get a sense of how good they look in the second photo, but this one really just has to be seen in person to get the full effect. I'm definitely going to do more using these. The different tone of red and gold from the Bass Ale caps plays off the Amstel caps very nicely too. I also really like the bronze sheet on the fins.

Amstel Light & Bass Ale Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish
medium	Bottle caps (Bass Ale and Amstel Light), bronze sheet, rake, brass plated nails on wood.
size	approximately 18" x 55.5" x 1.5" (consult gallery to be sure)
availability	SOLD . Email me if you are interested in commissioning a fish in this style. Reproductions will vary, but will be as close as possible. Made to order in 2-4 weeks.

Heinekin Pike Beer Cap Mosaic

 

This was a lot of fun to make… I got to use all my favorite beer caps, the ones with stars in the design, and that rake makes such a fantastic tail. Is it a pike, a muskie or a sea serpent? I'm not quite sure, actually. I just know I like it. It's definitely my favorite of the bottle cap fish mosaics so far. Scroll down for a detail image of the fish.

 

Heinekin Pike Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish
medium	bottle caps (Heinekin, S. Pelligrino, & Newcastle), , antique rake, tin cans, bronze shipwright's nails and brass plated nails on wood substrate
size	18" x 55.5" x 1.5"
	SOLD . Email me if you are interested in commissioning a fish in this style. Reproductions will vary, but will be as close as possible. Made to order in 2-4 weeks.

 

Corona Coho Salmon Bottle Cap Mosaic

 

This little fish makes you want to sing the 70's dance hit Copa Cabana… Well, it makes me sing, anyway "Corona, Corona Salmon, Corona Coho Salmon." Yeah, the scansion's a little off, but the brand does tend to make me think of resorts and beachs, so maybe it's not such a stretch.

Now that I've put that song in your head, I suppose a you might be thinking that for the price of this bottle cap fish, you could maybe pick up a discount ticket to a Mexican beach in the winter. Too true, you probably can. But wait, before you click away to travelocity, think about this: I spent a week on one of those beachs once and I can't remember much of it at all. If you go with the salmon, you'll have something tangible to hang on to, that will always inspire perfect sunny dreams… no passport hassle, no sunburn, no risk of salmonella.

 

Corona Coho Salmon Bottle Cap Mosaic
medium	beer caps (Corona and Corona Light), tin cans, brass plated nails on particleboard substrate
size	12" x 35.5" x 1.5"
	SOLD . Email me if you are interested in commissioning a fish in this style. Reproductions will vary, but will be as close as possible. Made to order in 2-4 weeks.

Tin Trout Bottle Cap Sculpture

 

"We all know it is a theoretical impossibility to catch fish without beer," says John "JB" Shireman of the New Belgium Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, CO. "At the very least," Shireman continues, "it's poor form. Fishing and beer drinking are two endeavors in any sporting gent's life that evolve over time. While a cooler of cheap domestics and a worm tub once sufficed, no one worthy of the title, Fly Fisherman, would defile a Mackenzie [drift] boat with anything less than a hand-crafted ale in one hand and a nice fly rod in the other."

A Beer Lover's Guide to Fly Fishing, By Terry L. Hackett

It seems safe to guess you're not reading this on a laptop by the side of your favored trout stream. Most people go fishing to get away from the office, the computer, heck, the whole world. And when they get back, well, sometimes, a part of them stays at the river and calls across time and distance asking, "what are you doing in that office? Why isn't the rest of me here, riverside?" It's probably happening to you right now. You were thinking about beer or fishing or fishing and beer and instead of throwing your gear in the car and heading out, you wound up reading this because it was as close as you could get without leaving the office.

Let me suggest the following: If there's some compelling reason you can't just quit the job, pack up, and spend the rest of your days in waders with a rod and a bottle at the ready, perhaps a compromise is in order. Maybe if you were to hang one of these bottle cap fish on the wall behind your desk you'd feel better. When the river calls silently out to you, cast your eyes across the office to this ultimate trophy fish and remember the things that matter.

 

Tin Trout Bottle Cap Fish, 2005
medium	Bottle caps (Sierra Nevada, Stewarts Ginger Beer, Dos Equis & Becks), tin cans, copper rose head nails on particle board substrate
size	12" x 35.5" x 1.5"
	SOLD. Email me if you are interested in commissioning a similar fish in this style. Reproductions will vary, but will be as close as possible. Made to order in 2-4 weeks.