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Summary: Make the head using black so that the eyes will really stand out. Learn how to make pipe cleaner fish from a professional art instructor in this free crafts video.
Kira Morrell, Owner of Create Art Studio located in Easthampton, MA has been teaching children and adults for nine years. She earned her degree in Fine Arts and Art Management from...read more
"So we have our tail and our fins on our body. And it's time to add the head. I'm going to add it in black, so that the eyes eventually stand out against it. We're just going to attach the pipe cleaners at about this point in the body. And what we want to do, we want to make sure that we leave a little excess to create that round effect of the fish. So that when we come back to the other side we're wrapping, leaving the excess and doing the same thing, so its a rounded shape for the fishes body. We're going to wrap that around. And since we have a lot of extra here, we're just going to cut that off. And make sure that the ends are all the way tucked in. We're going to continue to do that all the way up to the very tip of the face. And we want to do these pretty close together so that we have a good surface for adding tissue paper, eyes, things like that. Any kind of embellishments. We want to make sure that these are staying close together and allowing the same amount of give getting closer and closer as we get closer to the nose."
eHow Article: Pipe Cleaner Fish: Adding Head