This fish is one of my most fun pieces. Made out of brown paper bags, cardboard,  wire, glue, and beads with egg carton scales,  painted with acrylics.        The piece was experimental, not meant  to be archival. So if I made another one  (the design always being different---see  the catfish), I would use better materials.  But it's so coated with many layers of  acrylic paint it's almost waterproof, and  he just bounces if dropped. Very resilient.        I made a cardboard form, then added  things to the form. The wings are wire glued  between layers of brown paper. The wire  lets you bend them to any position you want.  Same goes for the fins. What looks like  little rivets are drops of glue.