Archive for July 2011

Bighorn Brown (from “Reading Waters”)

With the new Reading Waters book now shipping, I thought that I’d toss up a bit of art from the book. This image has actually been up here on the blog before, but only in black and white. I like the colored version better myself. If you have a copy of Reading Waters, you should [...]

DF52 (2010) – Week 26

For those following the weekly Drawing Fish 52 (DF52) project this year, a sockeye salmon is up next (tomorrow). For those readers who started following the project after 2010, I thought that I’d do a little look back this week at what was happening last year at this same time. The DF52 project in 2010 [...]

Speaking of Shadow Casting, There’s This Contest…

Speaking of Shadow Casting (see the previous post), my friends over at Jazz & Fly Fishing have a little competition they are running through the summer. It involves Shadow Casting, videotaping, and a lot of tongue-in-cheek. Although Shadow Casting can be sometimes be *very serious* business, this contest is not. Of course, if you can [...]

Best Casting Tattoo Ever

I’ve seen a few fly-casting tattoos over the years, but this one is the best (at least to me). Saw it in Portland when I was down in the Mississippi district. Not every day that one sees a shadow casting tattoo fromĀ ARRTI walking past. I stopped the guy (Bob Stenson) and asked to him about [...]

Drawing Fish 52 – 26_Smallmouth Bass

Began with a train wreck of a drawing, but managed to save something for this week by doing a quick conversion to vector art and making a mock-up tee out of it. Felt that the outlines of the bronze-colored tee (for the alternate “bronzeback” name for this fish) looked a lot like the bluelines of [...]