Heavy Metal

I've got a long way to go on this painting, but I thought about posting it so you can check out the progress.
I'm going to drop a big heavy streamer in front of his face, hence the title "Heavy Metal". The streamer won't be stripped, but instead it will be on the fall head down like it just hit into the water.

Another Trout Stamp Entry

I've got to add the line to the fly, rework some bubbles, and add a few glazes to the background, but this is close enough to done for a posting. I'm going to submit this one and the brown trout to Delaware for their trout stamp competition.  OK- I finished everything on this one and and replaced the picture with the final.

Trout Stamp

I've been thinking about entering a state trout stamp competition coming up real soon and here is one that I finally got finished and might submit.

I've got to finish the one below, but I'm still thinking the one above will be what I submit.

 

Striper

This will eventually be a striper trust me. I know it kind of looks like some trash fish from your nearby power plant intake, but give it time. I'm going to try and put a silhouette of a boat above him and maybe drop a lure or something in the water.

I told you it would look like a striper. I was going for a 20 lb fish but it ended up looking like a schooly with out the school. Maybe I'll add 4 or 5 more of them? I've still got alot to do to it but at least it's started. I'm trying to get about 4 or 5 going at one time b/c if you don't you get bored with just one and end up rushing to get it done. A.D.D. doesn't help either.

Davidson River Brown

Walker and I started off to a bad start but we ended up catching some fish later on and I lucked into this one. I forgot my camera but ended up having this little pocket video camera made by Vado. It is the size of a cell phone and this was the first time I had used it on the river. I tell you what, I just might leave the camera at home from here on out b/c this thing does the trick. I highly recommend this gadget and it will be very useful for me getting good reference material. Oh yeah.... I don't want to get any e-mails from "that crowd" so let me state that I was not holding the weight of this fish by it's jaw. It was very well taken care of and took less time to reel it in than it took for me to get the fly out.

I was watching Jersey Shore last night and was inspired to do this. Your right...that doesn't make any sense and neither does the show. I wasted about 30 minutes of my life...actually an hour because I watched the next episode too. Are there not any fish somewhere near that boardwalk???

Musky

I had to take a break from the smallmouth and decided to get a start on the musky I've been wanting to do. I think I'm going to have him busting up a pod of bluegills or maybe ramsacking a school of suckers. Just depends on what mood I'm in when I get there.  This is a close up of the head, but the whole board is 16x20.

Below is an update on the musky. He is starting to take shape. What is interesting about this one is the fact that I'm pretty much using one tool which I hate with a passion....and it's what we call a fiberglass brush. I hate using them, but it seems to represent the texture of a musky's head pretty well. Sorry for those who wanted to see that smallie get finished. I'm actually waiting for some tools to come in the mail before I get back on it.

Dude looked bad hungry so I had to give him something to eat. I'm thinking about adding some more bluegill and maybe some background...but it might look better just blacked out.

I've still got along way to go now that I've decided to do this one in color.