Nice work, Rachel!

Rachel Thomas sent me the following email a while back:

I'm an art student at William Jewell College in K.C., MO and I really admire your work. I've been attempting a bottle cap sculpture for my sculpture class. If you don't mind me asking, I was wondering how you attach your bottle caps to the plywood. Do you use just nails or some sort of superglue as well?

I replied with some quick, basic advice about the sort of nails I use for my bottle cap mosaics, but I think she had finished the piece before I got back to her. Rachel used hot glue and Super Glue for her mermaid.

I asked if she would send me a photo of her finished piece and here it is. Pretty cool! I especially like the way she did the tail fin… the multiple colors work really well.

If you haven't seen my bottle cap mermaids that inspired Rachel you can check them out at the new portfolio blog here and here. Or go to the bottle cap mosaic index to see all the work I've done with caps.

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