Spin Art

(ARA) - Those who aspire to recreate the feeling when a Spin Art creation was complete can return to the euphoria of their childhood today through living art. This form of artistic expression gives adults the opportunity to create visual masterpieces to express their individual sense of style and flair.

In recent years, interior designers have discovered the color and luster that can add living art to any room. Consequently, they began working aquariums, the name most traditional art alive in the houses of their customers.

Often designers custom aquarium expensive shells are actually available in all price ranges. The fun is in the design and organization of colorful corals, which can be changed according to season or even a mood!

Coral comes in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. For example, it is green octopus coral, pink bird's nest coral staghorn coral and purple. More contemporary artists may be more inclined to work with brain corals, in a half-moon with complex grooves and indentations, or coral clubfoot, which includes a long flat pieces of doping from a narrow base .

When designing a reef, many approach the task as an artist. They integrate a variety of shapes and colors, which makes the design really a coral piece of living art with their personal signature.

This approach Noreen Zamora, Palm Beach, Florida, has taken in building his living work of art. "I wanted my tank to be a focal point of my family room, which would give me a soothing diversion to help me forget the stress of the day. So, I opted for colors that remind me of summer - pink, orange, yellow and green. "

These colors are predominant in the reefs of the Caribbean, seen off the coast of Barbados, Jamaica and St. Lucia.

More exotic are the reefs in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific. The corals seen in the Red Sea are often various shades of blue striped with red streaks, and corals in the Indo-Pacific are multicolored, with purples, greens and pinks are just some of the nuances more predominant.

"A coral shape and size depends largely on its location and species," says Charles Delbeek, a biologist from the Aquarium Waikiki Aquarium in Hawaii. "Where there are large waves, corals tend to grow mounds in solid or highly branched forms. In the more sheltered or more, the same species may grow in more complex shapes such as flat plates.

Marine biologists and artisans in Living Color, based in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, have been making coral for aquariums since 1988. Living Color constructed with pieces urethane resins and other property, so they are realistic in form, shape and movement.

Living Color's Coral Collection features Plug & Play, which is as easy as it seems. The first step is to select a base, from some height, incorporated in the structure called Dominica to the shorter, wider structures called Barbados and Aruba. The base is provided with holes pre-drilled and each piece of coral is made with pre-threaded, which makes it easy to fix.

There are over 400 different varieties of coral in the collection offered so many budding artists will build a reef suited to their taste. What to call about the collection is that the pieces can be added or made any time to change the appearance of living art.

Prices of manufactured pieces of coral range from $ 15 to $ 100 and through the website Living Color, people can search for pieces of coral in color or appearance of geography.