Last week Captain Keith was away in St Petersburg for a radar class to add to his Coast Guard Captain's License, which gave me some time to work on my shell art projects.
I have been experimenting with decorating some of the Atlantic clam shells and pieces of sun bleached whelks that I find on the beach. This whole experiment started when I took that craft class on decorating shells. It got my mind to turning and off I went. I thought I would post pictures of some of the shells that I have done. This may not be of interest to everyone, so feel free to skip this post if you are not interested.
To give you some kind of idea of the sizes of the shells I am using, I took a picture of some next to our small table lamp in the galley. Below is an example. This picture has three pieces of large whelks and one Atlantic clam shell with fabric appliqued pictures that I put on them.
In this next picture there are two large clams on the left, a piece of a whelk back right, a scallop up against the whelk, and two other clams. I have been using scraps from my quilting fabric to make scenes and other decorations on the shells. Some I also embellish with extra beads or crochet that I have available in may craft stash.
Now I will get closer with the camera.
Here is another close-up of multiple shells
And even closer. This is a mermaid's tail as she dives deeper into the ocean.
Pirate treasure chest and rum barrel under the sea.
Crashing wave
Sea monster
Sea turtle
Fancy fish
Lighthouse
Finally this was a large whelk I found on the beach that was not broken. I decoupaged some ferns and trailing greens onto it.
So these have been some of my shell creations. It has been a load of fun to try different things on them. A bit tedious at times; sitting with a tweezers and toothpick trying to get the tiny pieces on the shells. Still a good project to use some of my fabric scraps.
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