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Now..... THIS is on of my MASTERPIECES! This beauty won first place and Best-in-show at the Mastodon Regional Art\Science fair of 2008, out of 1,800+ entrants. (It's in Missouri, look it up)

The sculpture is about 7in. tall and is made of polymer clay with a metal armature and is painted with acrylic paints. The base is made of leopard wood and a rock. I ended up having to repaint this thing due to a chemistry issue. I sprayed it with a clear gloss enamel and it reacted with the acrylic paint; it never completely dried, remained sticky for weeks. Then I sprayed it with an acrylic clear gloss but the enamel stuff kept leaking through and then it looked like I dipped it in molten plastic. So I peeled it all off, like white glue off your finger tips or rubber cement, and repainted and glossed it with a brush on acrylic gloss.

WARNING!: SCIENCE ALERT!
The real thing (it is a real creature) is less than an inch and a half long. The flamboyant cuttlefish is one of only two known cuttlefish that are toxic. And it's not just the skin or secretions from the skin that's toxic, it's the whole thing! Muscles and all! They don't even know what kind of poison it is. And it really does come in those colors. The yellow and fuchsia on the tentacles flare up and brighten when it feels threatened, and the black and white stripes on the sides ripple down its back. It's SO cool, you gotta see it for your self.

One other weird fact: it doesn't hover around like other cuttlefish. It "walks" along the bottom of the sea floor with its tentacles.

Description
Now..... THIS is on of my MASTERPIECES! This beauty won first place and Best-in-show at the Mastodon Regional Art\Science fair of 2008, out of 1,800+ entrants. (It's in Missouri, look it up)

The sculpture is about 7in. tall and is made of polymer clay with a metal armature and is painted with acrylic paints. The base is made of leopard wood and a rock. I ended up having to repaint this thing due to a chemistry issue. I sprayed it with a clear gloss enamel and it reacted with the acrylic paint; it never completely dried, remained sticky for weeks. Then I sprayed it with an acrylic clear gloss but the enamel stuff kept leaking through and then it looked like I dipped it in molten plastic. So I peeled it all off, like white glue off your finger tips or rubber cement, and repainted and glossed it with a brush on acrylic gloss.

WARNING!: SCIENCE ALERT!
The real thing (it is a real creature) is less than an inch and a half long. The flamboyant cuttlefish is one of only two known cuttlefish that are toxic. And it's not just the skin or secretions from the skin that's toxic, it's the whole thing! Muscles and all! They don't even know what kind of poison it is. And it really does come in those colors. The yellow and fuchsia on the tentacles flare up and brighten when it feels threatened, and the black and white stripes on the sides ripple down its back. It's SO cool, you gotta see it for your self.

One other weird fact: it doesn't hover around like other cuttlefish. It "walks" along the bottom of the sea floor with its tentacles.