After I did the last Drawing Flies 52 image, I thought that I’d re-imagine it as a quick pencil sketch. Just a number two pencil on recycled office paper. Used fingertip smudging to get the shading effects. Didn’t take too long, but I liked it enough to scan it and get it up here. Hope [...]

Working out some further approaches to book illustrations, and got slightly off-track (but liked the results) A little late-night mental meandering… I know that at least one FF&W reader wants the instructions for tying a loop-wing dun. Looks like I’ll probably have those up on the FlyTalk blog this coming week (and later in the [...]

Drawing Flies 52 No-Hackle Dun. Pen-and-ink on paper, scanned, and then manipulated via the scan itself and in Adobe Photoshop. Jeff started the whole “digital” aspect of this DF 52 series, but since I am going to be doing a lot more digitally manipulated images for the upcoming book series, I figured I’d do another [...]

Book one of the (planned) 20-book GB/JB fly-fishing series is inching closer to reality. Fishing the Film is totally written, and almost through the final edit. I have begun to plan out what I need to do with the required illustrations over the next few weeks. I’ve decided to go in a direction that takes [...]

Just a quick shout out to say “thanks” to Will at the Ashland Fly Shop (as in Ashland, Oregon). When I was in Medford this last week to do a casting clinic and an evening talk, I discovered that I had left my Mini-DVI to VGA video link in Los Angeles somewhere the weekend before. [...]

Starting this week, MidCurrent.com is collaborating with Jeff Kennedy and me to provide the Drawing Flies 52 fly art (sometimes with additional text) to MC e-newsletter subscribers. MidCurrent began the collaboration with the Flashback PT from January 28th, and will be going week-to-week from there. If you want some more info on the flies, and [...]

Drawing Flies 52 Bomber (Horned Bomber, to be precise). Pen-and-ink on craft paper, scanned, and then manipulated in Adobe Illustrator. Tech info: To come! But for now…I did use all 30 minutes, with nothing to spare (didn’t get to actually make a physical print in the 30 minutes, but the file exists as you see [...]

GB has been a writing, tying machine lately. He’s on to book three in our new (yet to be published) series, but has also been putting in some serious time at the vise. Recently, he posted a series of flies on his blog that are simple, but effective (in various colors and sizes, they have [...]

Had a great time in the LA area these last few days. A “thank you” to everyone who came to the Fly Fishing Show, and a “thank you” to those of you who were so generous to me during my stay. And to my longtime friends in LA—from the the way-back movie days—it was so [...]

After heading over to Van Nuys Blvd. to order up a #2 at my old favorite In-N-Out Burger (I ate there more than I should have when I lived in LA), I’m now in Pasadena getting ready for tomorrow’s show. Hope to see a few FF&W readers over the weekend (I’m doing casting clinics and [...]

Drawing Flies 52 Connemara. Number 2 pencil (everyone’s fave from grade school!) with a dash of white-out pen, all served on a torn piece of craft paper, fresh from the roll. Tech info: Went for more of a “sitting by the lough” feel with this one. Got the sense I wanted overall, maybe a bit [...]

Well, jasonborger.com is still jasonborger.com, but fishfliesandwater.com has taken over from jasonborger.com and turned jasonborger.com into fishfliesandwater.com. Confused yet? ;-) Actually what I’ve done is transfer the blog URL (a/k/a the Web address) from jasonborger to fishfliesandwater. The change should be essentially invisible, since both domain names point to the same set of files. BUT, [...]

With the recent Drawing Flies 52 emphasis on wet flies (another to come this week) I though that I’d post a bit on “adding a swing.” This really is an “add-on” tactic, not a full blown wet-fly approach, but it can still give your presentations an extra, and sometimes effective, element. August of 2005 saw [...]

Drawing Flies 52 McGinty. Charcoal sketch with watercolor. Available for purchase? No. Tech info: 6″ x 9″ Strathmore paper, medium-soft charcoal with watercolor. I like charcoal in that it is so immediate and so spontaneous. With a toothy paper like I used here, the look and feel almost charts its own path as you go. Of [...]