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Had a great writeup at Steel Headquarters! Check it out here. View the full article

"Up Close" (and personal) Graphite pencil on Moleskine. View the full article

"Grizzly King" Graphite in Moleskine sketchbook. View the full article

"Blue Charm" Graphite and gouache on moleskine. We spent the Thanksgiving Holiday with my wife's family in Michigan. I brought my Moleskine sketchbook some assorted paints and an arsenal of graphite pencils. I drew this fly in graphite and added the blue bird as an accent. Something different for Friday's fly. View the full article

"Thanksgiving Fly" Sepia ink and watercolor. Happy Thanksgiving to all! View the full article

"Alewife Spey" Watercolor and gouache. This is a fantastic Midwest Steelhead pattern created by the talented tyer Jon U at Chicago Fly Fishing Outfitters. I am not exactly pleased with the way this one turned out. It was a bit of a struggle to get the look I was aiming for. I will have to try again. View the full article

Original and prints available for sale. Email me for details. "Pretty in Pink Dee" Watercolor and Gouache. This is a Marty Howard Pattern. Drop By The Spey Pages to check out more of his flies. View the full article

"Pretty in Pink Dee" A quick sketch for tomorrows painting. View the full article

I know this has nothing to do with drawing flies, but I am still going to announce it here anyways. I had three paintings published in the November/December issue of Ducks Unlimited Magazine. My good friend Bob White who has illustrations regularly published in this and many publications, called and asked if I would be interested in creating paintings for an article for the DU Magazine. This was a bit of a challenge for me due to the fact that I have never been duck hunting and the paintings involved some rather close ups of people. Well, I took the challenge and the following is the result. The paintings were developed around the well written story by Dave Books. View the full article

"Scarlet Ibis" Watercolor and gouache. This is for Kurt at the Connecticut Fly Fishermans Association. View the full article

"Leaf Hopper" Raked 35 bags of leaves this Saturday. This leaf bag has a hopper drawn on it with my trusty Sharpie. I wonder if the Sanitation Engineers will notice? View the full article

"Wreath Wet" Our family took on the task of managing our churches youth group wreath sales this year. As I was waiting for people to pick up their wreathes, I found a scrap piece of card board, drew this fly and adorned a wreath with it. Some individual walked off with a fly in their wreath! View the full article

"Fungi Fly" I found this big fungus growing off a dead tree stump. I decided to adorn it with a parachute dry. View the full article

Kellen is an extremely talented artist and welder. Stop by his blog and check out some of his work. Who knows what he will come up with next! View the full article

"Gold Fly" 3d Digital. I was working in my 3D SolidWorks program most of the week. During lunch I created this fly. View the full article

Guy over at Fly Fishing Yellowstone has a very nice post about Drawing Flies 365. Thanks Guy. View the full article

"Rusty Rat Sketch" Another get to know you sketch". View the full article

"Ibis Sketch" Felt tip pen, marker on sketch paper. A quick "get to know you" sketch for an upcoming painting. I do these sketches before creating a painting to get a feel for the proportions and shapes of the fly. View the full article

"Firestick Caddis" Burnt firewood on sketch paper. Another one drawn the next morning as I downed a cup of camp coffee on a 25 degree morning. This is a Goddard Caddis a I drew from memeory. Chuck B. from our tying club NIFT demonstrated it a week back. View the full article

"Firestick Dry" Burnt firewood on sketch paper. My youngest Son and I were on bay Scout camp out this weekend. While sitting by the fire, I found a piece of burnt wood on the ground. I thouoght that this would make some fine drawing charcoal. So I grabbed my sketch book and drew this in the light of the campfire. View the full article

I will be without internet access this weekend. I will have the weekend flies posted on Monday. On another note, The year end is closing fast. I have just enough days to get in all the requested flies. I will also have an announcement soon as to what the future will hold. Also stay tuned for a holiday sale on prints. View the full article

"Black and Orange" Gouache on Moleskine. View the full article

"Red Frances" Watercolor and Gouache. This suggestion comes from Ýmir from Iceland. According to Ýmir "This fly is one of the deadliest Icelandic fly of all times on a gold treble hook!" View the full article

"Dark Spruce" Gouache in my Moleskine sketch book. View the full article

"Palette Knife Salmon Fly" Watercolor and Gouache. This was a bit of an experiment. I sprayed the watercolor paper with some water. I then used a palette knife and spread paint on the paper straight from the tube. I moved it around and scraped at it with the palette knife. The colors blended with the water to create some interesting shapes. I added a touch of gouache to help define the fly. View the full article