new brown trout and black crappie wood carvings of fish of progress

These are my new wood fish carvings in progress. The top carving is a black crappie 13 inches/ 35 cm and the bottom carving design is a trout 19 .25 inches/ 46 cm .

Primed with gesso and the cross-hatching of drawn scales.

First washes of acrylic paint, yellow ochre and burnt umber.

This is the finished painting of the two fish wood carvings. A variety of acrylic paint including a wash of iridescent silver.