Crafts from fish scales. Crafts from fish bones and scales. Fishbone necklace

On the table at Elena Zhuravskaya's fish is a daily guest. What is not cooked in her family - and carp, and herring, and pike, and many other types of fish. And it's not about a special love for fish by a woman's household. It's just that Elena creates amazing extraordinary pictures from fish scales, bones, and sometimes even eyes. Before creating the paintings, the artist polishes and varnishes the material.

The woman herself learned to make pictures and such unusual material, and every day her work becomes more and more perfect. Many people come to the exhibitions of these creations. It's incredible - such a charm, made of fish skeletons.

But there is nothing particularly unusual here, if you think about it. After all, ivory has been popular since ancient times, and our craftswoman decided to work with more affordable material that can be obtained personally.

Zhuravskaya's husband regularly goes fishing, Elena herself cooks it, then they eat fish with the whole family, watch the most cheerful Matchmakers 6. Cats eat up the leftovers, and then the bones are washed and varnished after polishing. To lay out a mosaic of ribbed eyes, first they need to be boiled down to the state of hard peas.

In her work, the artist uses scissors, toothpicks, a nail file, PVA varnish ... for a long time goes to fit parts of the picture. The artist made her last two paintings for about a year.

It happens that for the composition the bones need to be cut, bent or straightened, and it happens that there are real masterpieces - mainly in exotic fish, which we rarely find in stores.

Our country is washed by a large number of seas and oceans, has hundreds of lakes and rivers, and our fishing industry is developed everywhere. Therefore, we have the opportunity to use fish waste - its bones and scales for interesting work.

Fish scales are horny or bony formations. The largest scales are in carp, carp fish, perch, whitefish, etc. When cleaning fish for cooking, collect the scales, rinse them in warm water and several times in cold water, and place them on a board or newspaper.

The large, soft scales will curl up and look rather unsightly. Only the scales of perch and pike perch will remain dense and even. Therefore, it is especially good for work. With their strength and teeth on one side, like a scallop, these scales are suitable for volumetric layout of patterns.

Large scales of carp fish are used for flat inlaying and mosaic gluing, laying out decorative flowers, for pasting a snowy landscape in layouts.

Layout of patterns from hard scales is carried out according to a previously created pattern on plastic mass or mastic. The product is either covered with mastic or entirely made of plastic. There are many recipes for making plastics. The most accessible is the following.

Carpenter's glue boiled in oilcloth is mixed with sawdust to a very thick mass and thoroughly mixed. Then, 20 grams of paraffin or 15 grams of wax is added to this mass by 0.5 kg. A warm, still not cooled mass is rolled out with a bottle and any shapes and planes are formed from it. Dry the plastic for two days. After drying the product for only a day, proceed to pasting a pattern of fish scales on it.

Transparent fish scales are cast in mother-of-pearl and look good on white or black backgrounds.

The second recipe is as follows: soak and boil 100 grams of tile wood glue and the pulp of one Russian bun in 0.3 liters of water. Then add 25 grams of processed cheese and protein to it chicken eggs... Stir this mass well with your hands, like dough, and roll it into a cake - at least 3-4 millimeters thick. The shaped product is cut out of plastic with a wet mold. If you want to make a box out of a rolled cake, cut out rectangular or square shapes for the sides, bottom and lid. Place all cut-out forms on oiled paper, cover with oiled paper as well and place between the boards with a small weight. After letting the form settle for four to five hours, start laying out the pattern. The individual parts of the box are connected to each other, gluing together with an egg white and drying them out without load.

Do not dry plastic products near an oven or in a place where it is very warm.

In the pictures, we give options for laying out patterns, both hard scales, and in a combination of hard scales with soft ones, interspersed with fish bones.

On the box, casket, lay out the pattern from the scales only on the lids. The sides should remain smooth.

When this or that product is dry, cover it with a colorless zapon varnish.

Technique of laying out patterns

The pattern drawing is applied to the plastic surface through carbon paper with light pressure from a pencil. Those who know how to draw perform the drawing, looking at the drawing they have previously made on paper. Consider carefully one of the figures suggested here. Rosettes (A) are made by pressing hard scales, set on the edge and upwards with teeth.

Leaves (B) are made of two unfolded and slightly inclined halves of scales. Bells (D) are formed from scales matched in size from large to smaller, with a strong inclination of the rib to the right side.

Bindweed (B) consist of ribbed-set scales-circles and a flatly depressed base. The grapes are made either flat, or small soft scales are twisted over the steam into a ball.

Stems, twigs are laid out from the scales placed on the edge, pressing strongly and thereby forming a continuous line.

This work is small, painstaking, similar to jewelry. It requires taste and patience. But the results are so good that we strongly advise you to do it.

The pressing of the scales into the plastic is done by pressing the fingers, and the transfer of the scales, tilting and selecting them - with the help of small tweezers.

The following can be said about working with fish bone: well-washed bones from fish heads, ridge and fins of various fish have very diverse shapes. Bones from the head of pike perch and navaga are especially interesting. The upper fins of perches, pikes and many other fish also have interesting needle-shaped varieties. Spinal bones, navaga bones, for example, are good for laying out leaves, butterfly wings. In the head of the navaga, at the crown, there are two white oval bones, shaped like chamomile petals.

From the large scales of carp, mirror carp and colored scales of the Black Sea greenfish, you can cut squares and glue the planes in cardboard and plywood with them. A writing instrument made of cardboard glued with checkered scales turns out to be very beautiful. You can glue the scales using BF-2 glue and celluloid adhesives, firmly pressing each cut out square of the scales. Then they must be dried under a press.

For better preservation, the finished product is coated instead of varnish with a thin layer of BF-2 glue or filled with casein treated with boric acid.

In addition to the previously described plastics, a product cut from unusable gramophone records can serve as the basis for laying out various patterns from scales and bones. The property of gramophone records to soften in hot water and be easily cut with scissors has long been known. Having cut out the desired shape from the plate, the plate is taken out of the water and, putting it on the plate, the drawing is transferred onto it with a needle. Then, with a small electric soldering iron, lightly melt the plastic in the place of the drawing where it is needed, with the left hand, using tweezers, insert the flakes into the melted plastic.

This is how scales are interspersed throughout the drawing. The box can be made from pieces of a gramophone record. Parts of the box are also welded to each other with a soldering iron.

This work should be done by older children who know how to handle a soldering iron.

Necklace from fish bones

An original and beautiful necklace can be made of fish bones. Along the ridge of sturgeon, beluga and any other so-called "red" fish are hard, pointed, star-like bones. When you have red fish for lunch, don't throw away the bones. Rinse them in hot water, boil them so they don't smell like fish, and dry them. The bones will become clean, white and very beautiful. Cut small circles smaller than the pits out of white linen and use a coarse thread. Begin to glue the bones to the thread in the following order: take the first bone, smear it on the reverse side with BF-2 glue, and also glue a circle of material with glue. When the glue dries slightly (it will not stick to your hands), spread the bone and the circle again with glue, wait a little, put the thread on the bone, put a circle of material on top of it, firmly hold the bone and the circle between your fingers and hold it for several minutes. Then, in the same way, glue the second bone, etc., until a necklace of the required size is formed.

She would never have guessed what these lace fabrics are actually made of. The material is very specific, evoking not very pleasant emotions and associations for many. But, if you start to understand, then with your mind you can understand that there is nothing “like that” in the artistic use of the bones of dead organisms.

Do they make ivory figurines? They do. Why are fish bones worse?)) Probably, this is how the Kiev woman reasoned Elena Zhuravskayawhen I decided to try to create a mosaic picture of bones on black velvet.

Elena has been engaged in this unusual business for seven years. During this time, her family bought, caught and eaten a lot of different fish. Fish dishes are on their table every day, and from fish of different varieties (each variety has bones of different shapes and textures). I just thought about the benefits Elena's hobby brings to her family - the fish (a very valuable nutritious product) is eaten, the cats feast on waste, the bones are processed and used, Elena creates ... She has a very useful occupation in every sense!))

Before using the material (bones), Elena thoroughly digests, then disassembles, sorts, examines, applies. From fish eyes, she produces real pearls, and ageless (unlike real pearls). Over the years of practice, Elena has developed her secrets, learned to align the bones, bend, even curl (as in the picture with peas). The tools he uses are very simple - a nail file, a hammer, scissors, a brush (to remove dust particles from velvet), PVA glue and pearlescent nail polish.

In her native Kiev, exhibitions of her works are periodically arranged. I would like her work to be seen in other cities and countries. I wish her continued success and a lot of inspiration!

In the family of a Ukrainian artist Elena Zhuravskaya every day, fish dishes are served to the table: bream, carp, silver carp, herring, pike ... And the point is not at all that fish is preferred over other products. Elena Zhuravskaya is the author of unique paintings that consist of fish bones, scales and even fish eyes, carefully processed, polished and coated with pearlescent varnish. She learned this art on her own, and now she is improving her unusual hobby every day, and exhibitions of her paintings are extremely popular and invariably crowded. No joke, such beauty, but just fish bones.

However, what is strange here? For a long time, amazing things have been made of ivory, which can also be called works of art, so the craftswoman decided to use the most accessible bones, especially since you can get them yourself. Talking about her work, Elena Zhuravskaya laughs, which attracts the whole family to work: the husband brings the catch from fishing, she cleans and cooks it, the household eats with pleasure, and the cats help to cope with what remains uneaten. Having received a mountain of bones, the artist washes them thoroughly, cleans them of meat residues, polishes and varnishes them, and boils the fish eyes to such an extent that they finally harden, turning into peas, and begins to lay out a mosaic on black velvet.

Using toothpicks, nail scissors and a nail file, a brush and PVA varnish, Elena Zhuravskaya first adjusts the pieces of the mosaic to each other, rearranging and rearranging the composition indefinitely until it becomes perfect. Sometimes it takes one night, sometimes a week, and the last two paintings, large and complex, the artist laid out for about a year. She has to cut and file some bones, and sometimes it is necessary to bend, twist or straighten them, if the compositional idea requires it. But sometimes you come across ready-made "jewelry" - so you can call the bones of an interesting, unusual shape, which are found in exotic sea and ocean fish, which rarely find their way to the shelves of our stores.

Elena Zhuravskaya began working with bones and scales more than seven years ago. She did everything herself, on a whim, because textbooks and master classes on this art form had not yet been invented. Today she already conducts master classes herself, talks about the peculiarities and intricacies of working with such an unusual and in her own way capricious material like bones and scales of various fish. Exhibitions of paintings by Elena Zhuravskaya are held both in her native Kiev and in other cities of Russia and Ukraine.

It is not fashionable to paint on canvas now, so the place of watercolors and gouaches is now occupied by much more creative materials for creating paintings. An important place in this direction belongs to the creation of canvases from waste.

It is not fashionable to paint on canvas now, so the place of watercolors and gouaches is now occupied by much more creative materials for creating paintings. An important place in this direction belongs to the creation of canvases from waste. And from what the masters just do not create their masterpieces: from sand, and from metal and plastic waste, and even from bottle caps. But Ukrainian Elena Zhuravskaya makes her paintings using bones and fish scales.

Having looked at the wonderful flowers that are depicted on the black noble velvet, you will never guess that these are fish remains. The craftswoman does absolutely every work from the very beginning to the end: she catches fish, cooks, eats, and then chooses bones, from which incredibly beautiful applications are later created.

Fishing is one of the artist's favorite activities since her youth, her father taught her this interesting hobby. Since then, fish for Elena is a matter of life.

Despite all the jewelery in her work, Elena does not use a microscope or magnifying glasses. In the arsenal of her tools there are items that are in every home: PVA glue, a brush, toothpicks, scissors, nail files and transparent nail polish.

Moreover, this most interesting type of application is not a novelty, and Elena Zhuravskaya personally knows some representatives of the fish art, but each artist has his own technique for creating paintings and his own theme. Elena imagines how once one common exhibition will be able to unite their efforts.