Drawing Fish 52 – 08_Brook Trout
Drawing Fish 52 Brook Trout. What a favorite of both my childhood an adult angling lives. From swampy Northwoods creeks, to icy alpine lakes, to Hudson Bay rivers, brookies have been there. This fish is one that I caught on Canada’s Sutton River many moons ago. It was one of, if not the biggest, brook trout I’ve had on a dry fly (well, actually a mouse fly). Just shy of two feet and absolutely slab-bodied.
Notes: This is a revisiting of a fish I drew (over many hours) for my father’s old Presentation book project. I’ve been wanting to revisit it for some time and this was a good excuse. Instead of a Rapidograph pen and 10,000 carefully applied dots, I did this in loose pencil and over-the-top watercolor. In some ways I like it better than the achingly precise illustration I did all those years ago. The color structure is meant to look like a topo map from above and to represent all of the types of waters where I have caught brook trout.
Tech Info: Pencil and watercolor on Moleskine watercolour paper (approx. 5″ x 7.5″ with one torn edge).
Available for Purchase? SOLD.
Jeff’s brookie is here. I really like what Jeff did with his painting this week. Figured I’d see something like this from Jeff at some point, and since the brookie was his choice, he seems to have had a certain approach in mind. Nice work, Jeff, and I’d be surprised if that original stays unsold for long.
Jason, like the kinda minimalist approach you used here. Salvelinus Fontinalis is my favorite fish. And hey, a mouse fly is still a dry fly, unless your’e fishing it as an “emerger” during the elusive mouse hatch!