Just as it takes eons for nature to create a fossilized fish, this sandblasted, twice-fused piece of glass art took painstaking care and time. The first step Wendy took was to fuse multi-colored pieces of Bullseye fusible glass in a terra cotta pot to form a nearly perfect, 12" circle. Next, she fused pieces of dichroic glass and wire spirals to the cirle. Inspired by the dark, swirling colors of the circle, Wendy searched for the perfect fossil images, finding Australian Jurassic Fossil Fish Leptolepis talbragarensis. She drew the two circling images on paper then cut out the images on Contact paper for the sandblasting step. The final stage was to remove the paper and reveal the image.
This is truly a one-of-kind piece of art that can be displayed easily on a stand or mounted on the wall (ask for mounting info). Signed and dated by Wendy Clark for authenticity.
For you fossil fanatics, here's the lowdown on the Leptolepis: "This fossil fish comes the most famous mass kill site in Australia, the Talbragar Fish Beds. Like the much younger Green River Formation deposits, large numbers of specimens that evidently died contemporaneously have been found. The preservation in ironstone is remarkable. The genus Leptolepis already shows all the characteristics of the true bony fishes, and may represent the early stages of the developmental route towards herrings of Order Clupeiformes, the Order to which the Green River Formation genus Knightia belongs. Leptolepiformes is an extinct order of small, ray-finned teleost fishes characterized by a relatively strong, ossified axial skeleton, thin cycloid scales, and a preopercle with an elongated dorsal portion, and which are to the understanding of the early evolution of the Teleostei." From http://www.fossilmuseum.net/fishfossi... do our best to photograph our work and display it as accurately as possible, but because your computer monitor might be set differently from ours, the colors may not be exactly as they appear on your screen. We do describe the colors as best we can, but if you have a question, please drop us a line.
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PACKAGING AND SHIPPING:
• We will carefully wrap each piece in bubble wrap and ship in peanuts.
• Every package is insured for the price of purchase and tracked
• Shipping prices are for the U.S. only. We can ship outside the U.S.: contact us for pricing
• We will ship within 7 days of purchase
RETURNS:
If you are not 100% thrilled with your item, please contact us within 7 days to return it for a refund. Once we respond, please pack it as carefully as it was packed to you, ship it with insurance and tracking, and when we receive it, we will issue your full refund.
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Judy and Wendy
$120.00
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