ART Gallery of Ontario has a couple of Zany shows for the culture vulture

COPYRIGHT OF Charles Weiss ART 2015
Caricature of Emily CARR
 ART SHOW WAS GREAT WITH HER USUAL GREENY LANDSCAPES AND TREE PORTRAITS
A real revealing sight was her sketch book from her first visit to the NORTH COAST OF BRITISH Columbia IN 1912!

Caricature of
The AMAZING artist Basquait
This artist was skilled and confident enough to present a "primitive" gritty style  of his world view.

Thundering Hooves painting

My acrylic painting in progress titled; Thundering Hooves. celebrating the Queens Plate horse race at Woodbine racetrack in Toronto, Ontario

new zany drawing and crappie wood carvings

 COPYRIGHT CHARLES WEISS 2015

 My zany drawing of a creature of "the Black Lagoon" realeasing a large muskie fish it just caught.
 From my sketchbook created with pen and ink and coloured pencil crayon.

Wood carvings of black crappie . The body is carved seperately and the fins are added. Painted with a acrylic. Lake of the Woods black crappie is the reference for the colouration pattern.

Painting a leaping muskie

Begins with a black pen and ink sketch.
This work is a variation of one of my earlier paintings  titled "LUNGE ON THE WING".

The large canvas has the main colours and shapes roughly brushed in.

More re shaping and adding of details including a boat in the distance.

The shoreline marsh and redwing blackbird and water splash details.

The finished art " Leaping Muskie of Pigeon Lake" and  me standing beside it.

Walking a muskie like a "dog"

Artwork copyright Charles Weiss 2015

The moment you consider what a muskie is really wanting to biting in the middle of a the season you immediately think of a lure that creates a lot of surface splash appearing to be vulnerable. A "walk the dog" style retrieve is exactly what is needed. Repeated quick taps on the rod tip of a heavy action fishing rod. the lure to consider is a "Skid Stik" or a Zara Spook style top water design. The first hook
should be back toward the middle of the lure and the lure floating in the water should be tilted with front line connection poking out of the water. the lure should twitch quickly from left to right and cause a repeated series of splashes. Watch behind the lure for a possible rising wake of a following muskie or northern pike. Striking fish will sometimes be quick and startling at other times the fish will follow right to the boat side, keep the lure moving and consider a large figure "eight" or oval maneuver with the lure. Sometimes the the following fish will bite, sometimes it will just continue to swim around and around and eventually swim away. It will probably continue to be in the area. keep trying with repeated casting or move away from the spot and try again later in the day.
Striking fish will create a sudden startling hit with a splash , raise the rod tip to set the hook when you feel the weight of the fish!

Caricature of a DOG by Charles Weiss

Exciting moment of creating a caricature of a DOG for Pet Central / Pet Network Toronto Ontario Canada. The fun part was drawing and keeping a continuous stream of comments in the lively interview.

St. Lawrence River Fishing with Fishing Fanatics

Trolling with a very Heavy Duty rod holder system.

Fall November coloured shoreline and sky.

Scratched and scarred favourite lure that catches Big Muskie for Dave Curtis and Friends.

Sonar shows depth and numbers of red fish spots on screen.

Diane the Fishing Fanatic with her large Northern pike she caught and released.

Chuck steering the boat like a "captain of the river" or as they say "Jesus" take the wheel.
Also, showing the big lure Diane caught her big pike with, A NIL MASTER "INVINCIBLE"!
 

Fishing Fanatci Dave Curtis and Charles Weiss holding a giant wood carved muskie 
PERFECT MOMENTO TO REMEMBER THEIR TIME ON THE WATER.

North wind blowing . Looks perfect for fall pike fishing!
 

 

November Light on the last few boats in the marina.