Drawing Fish & Flies 52 Lake Trout. This is based a fish that GB caught during a fishing trip in Canada last year. Had it ready earlier, but got interrupted and had to come back to get it up on the blog this morning. Notes: This is one of my straightforward pencil outlines filled with watercolor. I [...]

Update: Next Saturday’s DF52 combo is lake trout and bunny leech (artist’s choice on leech color/style). As usual it is either or both. Join in if you like (leave Jeff and me a link if you do). Remember that it is 30 minutes maximum start-to-finish (that includes scan time if your image requires scanning for [...]

Be thinking (and painting) a striped bass and/or a Deceiver. Artist’s choice. Recently came across a pen-and-ink Deceiver that I did when I was 19. I’ll post that one along with my 30-minute version come Saturday.

Drawing Fish & Flies 52 Bonefish (Hawaiian). This is an image based on a photo sent to me by my friend and Hawaiian bonefishing guide Coach Duff. Coach has access to some of the consistently biggest bones on the planet, and he sent me a few dozen megabytes worth of fish pix last year for the [...]

If you’re following along with the DF&F 52 project this year, next up is a bonefish/Crazy Charlie combo. Actually, it’s an artist’s choice this week: Do one or the other or both. Haven’t made my own mind up just yet, but I may do one or the other this time, and not push it quite [...]

Drawing Fish & Flies 52 Driftless Brookie & X-Caddis. This is the fourth in a series of four fish and flies in the same style (and may end up on a set of greeting cards). Next week, I’ll be moving on to another approach to drawing/painting. The brookie that I used here is from Canada’s Sutton [...]

Apologies for the lateness. More later, but for now this is the third in a series of four fish and flies in the same style. Got “peeling paint” this time, as well as eroded plaster (frustratingly, the third rinse I did to get that peeled paint cost me too much time elsewhere). May not look [...]

Running down to Eugene, Oregon to give a talk tonight, but wanted to get this up before I left. (And seeing that is about to snow for real here, who knows what time I’ll be back?) As discussed previously, Jeff and I are pre-announcing each week’s DF&F 52 fish and/or fly ahead of time. We [...]

Drawing Fish & Flies 52 brown trout & stonefly nymph (two-tone, rubber legs). Like last week’s two-for-one, a brown-and-stonefly combo is a classic one in fishing (at least to me—and to Jeff, since this was his pick). The first truly big brown I ever caught, I did *not* catch on a stonefly nymph, but black [...]

A few more notes about the DF&F 52 project: Update: Check out the interview with Jeff over at The Fiberglass Manifesto. There’s a nice slideshow of all of Jeff’s work from the 2011 project year there, too. As discussed previously, Jeff and I are pre-announcing each week’s fish and/or fly ahead of time. We are [...]

Drawing Fish & Flies 52 rainbow trout & Royal Wulff. It’s late…more later. For now, think tattoos and corroded plaster. Hardly the stuff of trout streams, but this is DF& 52 and anything goes! Well, now it’s early, but I’m up, so I might as well flesh this out. The ‘bow and RW combo is a [...]

Whether abbreviated as “DF&F 52″ or just “DFF 52,” the 2012 art project that I’ll be working on with Jeff Kennedy will encompass the subject of our two previous years. Yes, 2012 is the year of Drawing Fish & Flies 52. In other words, we’ll be doing both fish and flies this year, alternating between [...]