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Original status: Available - See below for purchase links. Swing by Jason's blog to check out his Payara! Tech Info - Sharpie, watercolor and gouache and pastel on oatmeal paper. 10" x 12" This is one toothy fish! I really dig the way the two lower teeth slide into the pockets in the roof of the fishes mouth when it's lower jaw closes. One of nature's cool designs! To Purchase the original, click below: To Purchase prints, click below: Prints are 8" x 10" reproduced on digital watercolor stock, signed and number. Each print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity. View the full article

Sockeye Salmon as inspired by my recent Artist In Residence trip to Bristol Bay Lodge in Alaska. 12" x 18" Watercolor, Gouache and pastel on 140# watercolor paper. SOLD View the full article

Original status: Available - See below for purchase links. Swing by Jason's blog to check out his Greenland Char! Tech Info - Sharpie, watercolor and gouache and pastel on oatmeal paper. 10" x 12" Another crazy week, but it is always great to come to the studio to paint! Jason and I have been discussing what next year may bring. Stay tuned for an announcement. To Purchase the original, click below: To purchase prints, click below: Prints are 8" x 10" reproduced on digital watercolor stock, signed and number. Each print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity. View the full article

Original status: Donated to EDTU Chicago Chapter. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Fish of the week! Tech Info - Sharpie, watercolor and gouache on oatmeal paper. 10" x 12" All work and no play makes my paintings way too tight! This week was artist choice for fish. So I went with a brookie in hand. Similar to the brown in hand DF 52_35. View the full article

Original status: Available, Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Marble Trout! Tech Info - Sharpie, watercolor and gouache on oatmeal paper. 10" x 12" Sorry for the late post. The day job has been extremely demanding of my time along with being out of town for Thanksgiving! Hope I am forgiven! To Purchase Original, click below: To Purchase Prints, click below: Prints are 8" x 10" reproduced on digital watercolor stock, signed and number. Each print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity. View the full article

Original status: Available, Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Barracuda! Tech Info - Sharpie, watercolor, gouache and pastel on oatmeal paper. 10" x 12" I dig the car, the song by Heart and the fish! Went safe with this one. A very long and tiring week at the day job has really drained the creativity out of me. To purchase original:To purchase prints: Prints are 8" x 10" reproduced on digital watercolor stock, signed and number. Each print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Dolphin Fish! Tech Info - Sharpie, watercolor, gouache and pastel on watercolor paper. Struggled a bit with this one. Went right to the 30 minute mark. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Snook! A great simple and expressive linework snook. Tech Info - Sharpie, gray marker and white charcoal pencil on oatmeal paper. Went with some simple line work for this snook with a bit of attitude. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Albie! Tech Info - Watercolor, and gouache on oatmeal paper. Jason decided to continue with the East coast theme for this week. Tons of colors and very cool markings on this tuna! View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Blue Fish! Tech Info - Sharpie, Pastel, Gray markers on oatmeal paper Tried something a bit different tonight. Put down the brushes and paint and used markers and pastel. I was real tempted to draw Dr. Seuss's little blue fish from One fish two fish red fish blue fish! Maybe later. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Chromer! Tech Info: Watercolor, Gouache on Oatmeal paper One of my all time favorite fish! If I could wade in a river and fish these incredible fish everyday and never get board. I have swung flies for chromers on my home waters in the Mid West and on the West Coast. I have many many more rivers to explore out west and look forward to that journey! View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Gar! wide format watercolor paper. Continued with the toothy theme this week. I had a different image in my mind that I wanted to create for this week. A bit more dynamic image. Alas, I did not really have it in me tonight. I decided to showcase the long and sleek body of the gar by using my wide format watercolor paper. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Lamprey! Tech Info- Watercolor, Gouache and Sharpie on oatmeal paper. Jason suggested something a bit different this week! I really like his choice! He also forwarded an interesting article on the Pacific lamprey and how they are becoming threatened. Did you know that the lamprey dates back 450 million years! The lamprey is considered part of the First Foods with the Northwest Native Americans. The lamprey is native to both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Niagara Falls was a natural barrier until the Welland Canal was built in the early 1919 which allowed passage of the lamprey all the way to Lake Michigan. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Atlantic Salmon! Tech Info- Watercolor, Gouache on oatmeal paper. My tribute to Winslow Homers Leaping Atlantic Salmon. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Tiger Fish! Tech Info- Watercolor, Gouache on oatmeal paper. This past weekend my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We spent a long weekend in Santa Fe New Mexico and had a wonderful time ( I will post pictures on my Facebook page). I had so much fun that I sent an email to Jason inquiring which fish we would be doing this week. In his reply he stated it was my pick. I have been so busy between the Artist in residence program in Alaska and our anniversary trip that my weeks were all mixed up. Jason suggested we go with a Tiger Fish, so I obliged, so thanks to Jason for keeping me in line and coming up with this weeks suggestion. As for this fish, it called for bright withe teeth and blood red paint! View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Brown Trout! Tech Info- Watercolor, Gouache on oatmeal paper. So we decided this week to do a generic brown trout. Sometimes some real gems come in small packages! This image is a drift less area Wisconsin brown held by my best fishing buddy Corey. I am actually working on a full color painting of this sketch. Beauty can sometimes serve in the smallest of packages and experiences. Fishing the drift less area with Corey is someting that I will carry with me forever. View the full article

Original status: Available, email me for details. Swing by Jason's blog to see his see his Silver Salmon! Tech Info- Watercolor, Gouache and Pastel on 140 LBS watercolor paper. Continuing with my Alaska theme, I decided to go with the fresh from the ocean version instead of the spawned up color version. We were fortunate enough during our trip to use the spey rods and swing for these on fire fish fresh in from the Bering Sea. The fish were so fresh and full of fight that they even still had sea lice on them. View the full article

Drawing Fish 52_33 Rio Grande Cutthroat Original status: Available, email me for details.. Swing by Jason's blog to see his Rio Cutt rendition! Tech Info- Watercolor, Gouache and Pastel on 140 LBS watercolor paper. Went a bit looser with one. I will post some of progression pictures over the weekend. More later. View the full article

Drawing Fish 52_32 Dolly Varden Original status: Available, email me for details.. Swing by Jason's blog to see his Golden Trout rendition! Tech Info- Sharpie, watercolor and gouache and pastel on oatmeal paper. I do not know where to start. I just returned from one of the most memorable fishing trips to date. I was privileged to spend a week as an artist in residence at Bristol Bay Lodge in Alaska. None of this would have been possible without the extreme generosity of the lodge and Bob White for making it happen. I will save the details of this trip for a different post. This image is a portrait of a beautiful male Dolly that I caught while swinging a Morrish mouse pattern on my trip. Nothing like seeing a nice fish take a skating mouse! The colors of these fish are incredible. I exaggerated the colors a bit to drive this point home. The river that I caught this fish in was also filled with a turquoise-green rock that nearly matched the color of the fish. I will have more images to post this weekend from this amazing trip! (you can see a few of the photos of the trip in my previous post). View the full article

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I just returned from the Artist-In-Residence week at Bristol bay Lodge. What an incredible experience! There will be a separate post on this in the upcoming week. Special thanks go out to Bob White for putting together this great event and to Steve Laurent and the entire staff at Bristol Bay Lodge. I will be re adjusting to everyday life this week, and will start posting pictures, once I have had a chance to go through them. Drawing Fish 52, will resume this Thursday so stay tuned! View the full article

Drawing Fish 52_31 Chum Salmon Original status: Available, email me for details.. Swing by Jason's blog to see his Chum Salmon rendition! Tech Info- Sharpie, watercolor and gouache on oatmeal paper. The Chum "aka Dog" Salmon has one set of teeth and spawning colors that deserve to be painted. Drawing Fish 52 will be on hold for next week and will resume the following week with a bunch of great images. View the full article

Drawing Fish 52_30 Golden Trout Original status: Available, email me for details.. Swing by Jason's blog to see his Golden Trout rendition! Tech Info- Sharpie, watercolor and gouache on oatmeal paper. More info later! Stay tuned. View the full article

Drawing Fish 52_29 Muskie Original status: Available, email me for details.. Swing by Jason's blog to see his Muskie rendition! Tech Info- Sharpie, white pastel pencil and gray marker on oatmeal paper. I had a number of concepts on how to approach an image of the big bad north woods muskie! I settled on this foreshortened image and added the extra teeth hanging out for impact! View the full article

Drawing Fish 52_28 Stripped Bass Original status: Available, email me for details.. Swing by Jason's blog to see his rendition of the Stripped Bass! Tech Info- Sharpie, watercolor, gouache and pastel Back home now and back to painting in the studio. Sketched this one out in Sharpie on 140 lbs watercolor paper. Quick washes with watercolor for value and tone, then details with gouache and pastel. I started mess with it too much at the end. I know I should leave well enough alone! View the full article