{"product_id":"blue-hanging-whale-cast-resin-sculpture-28cm","title":"Blue Hanging Whale Cast Resin Sculpture - 28cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis cast resin sculpture is a humpback whale in a translucent blue that deepens along the back and clears almost to nothing under the belly. The flippers are long and swept back, the tail flukes turn up at the tips, and the body is smooth with no surface detail at all. Two small fixed eyes are set into the back, one forward and one aft, so the animal hangs from a pair of lines rather than standing on a surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTwo Eyes That Decide How It Hangs\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the two eyes go decides everything about how the animal hangs, and there is no adjusting them afterwards. They are set by hanging the finished whale on a temporary pair of lines and moving the points until it sits level and slightly nose-down, which is how the animal reads as swimming rather than as an object on a string. The colour is the other half of the job. It runs from a deep blue along the spine to almost nothing at the belly, and the change has to happen inside a body that is only a few centimetres deep, so the grade is laid in as the piece is built up rather than applied to the surface. A whale of this size hung against a window is mostly read as colour and outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is made to hang, and it wants air around it: over a stair well, in a window, above a cot or a desk, or as two and three hung at staggered heights. Hang it where light comes through rather than onto it, because the blue is in the material and a lit background turns the whole animal into a lantern. It is light enough to hang from a single picture hook. Keep it out of a doorway where a head can meet it, and leave enough line for it to turn slowly in a draught.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eColour, Fixing and What Arrives\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuild times separate standard from bespoke: 3–4 weeks against 5–6. Colour is settled at order in this blue, in a green, in an amber or in a colourless body, or as a solid opaque animal where it should read as an outline. The fixings are made as these two eyes, as a single point for a nose-down hang, or left off entirely for a piece that sits on a surface. Three or five can be hung together as a pod, each cut to its own size. It arrives boxed with the flippers and flukes supported, the lines coiled separately, and nothing to assemble; handle it by the body and never by a flipper. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA humpback hung level from two lines belongs with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e; flippers swept long and back lead to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/contemporary-modern-sculptures\"\u003econtemporary and modern sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and blue clearing to nothing at the belly joins our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/resin-sculptures\"\u003eresin sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.3cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27.5cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTranslucent Blue Cast Resin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020753686875,"sku":"R255","price":1417.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/R255.jpg?v=1791313456","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/blue-hanging-whale-cast-resin-sculpture-28cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}