As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I am going to be offering more art and illustration for sale here on FF&W (“more” meaning beyond the weekly DF52 work). The piece for this week is an older oil that I did called “Gibraltar Sockeye.” Some FF&W readers may have already seen this piece here [...]
A gold star to anyone who can ID that piece of water on the cover. So, I’m through the big edit of Reading Waters, and thought that I’d toss the chapter list out here on the blog. It should give an idea of the scope of the text. In that vein, some people have asked [...]
Drawing Fish 52 Arctic char. A beautiful fish that really deserves to be focused on for more than 30 minutes. When in full spawning dress, this fish can sometimes seem almost unreal—like a big trout dipped in koi colors. In preparation for this drawing, I came across a map that showed coastal distribution of Arctic [...]
Small streams usually don’t force much in terms of wading, aren’t typically the realm of long casts and, with their shallower waters, can be dry-fly heaven. However, just because a stream is small doesn’t mean that it can’t also have secrets. Perhaps the biggest small-stream secrets are undercuts, those dark places where water carves at [...]