wood carved muskie in progress

full sideview of finished carving

detail of the head

detail of tail fins.

Back yard young robin inspects the progress on my wood carved muskie in progress.
 (more progress photos to follow)

Progress on Muskie wood carving. The body has been shaped with a hand rasp and electric power grinder, The fins are added and final details on the mouth will be started now.

LARGE WOOD CARVED MUSKIE in PROGRESS

Finished sideview of wood carved muskie

Detail of head

Detail of tail fins

This is the plan drawing of a large wood carved muskie. Represents a 49.5 inch/ 124 cm long fish.
I will add up dates to this entry of wood carving and painting progress. #5 Mepps was the lure it was caught on. This past June the fish was released after being caught and is swimming in Lower Manitou Lake right now. Growing larger every day. No part of this carving is created from a mold dead fish. 100 PERCENT CONSERVATION REPLICA. MADE TO ORDER.

Large Dog Caricatures

Add This was a fun assignment for a rainy afternoon . These large dogs have a zany amount of character.
I really enjoyed the challenge to create their exaggerated likeness.

Musky pontoons on wood carved Bush Plane

 large musky floats on bush plane wood carving

Other species of fish as pontoons will be available in the near future, like lake trout northern pike and sturgeon.

Making FISH art that STOPS TRAFFIC

PLAN for the Fishy painting

Across the road from the beach my tree protected traffic control box on Lakeshore Road just south of Woodbine. cr

Painting with exterior latex using a wide bristle brush. Wearing my dashing safety vest.




The front side of the box facing the road is completed. Featuring a bronze Chinook Salmon, Yellow Walleye and mean green Northern Pike.
When I finished at 10  o'clock at night and crossed the street to get the bus home the driver wouldn't let me pay my fair and insisted that I ride free as a small compliment for the fish painting he watched progress as his route passed the box many times.

Yellow Perch on the right side.

Silver Salmon , Smallmouth Bass and Carp

Whitefish on the left side



Adding finishing Touches to the back side of Traffic Control Box

Exciting Nova Scotia June 2015 fishing

16 inches smallmouth bronze back bass and 18 inches of chainsaw pickerel finned fury!

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underwater fight!

skid stik on the jaw of the watery
beast!

close up chain markings!

Finally the fish is in hand!

Green hair adds to my luck when fishing!

16 inches of shore caught smallmouth bass, 4 inch skid stik was the surface lure it struck.

Diane with another shore caught smallie. High water in the Nova Scotia lake.
All the fish were near the edge of the shore .Sometimes a bass would leap after the surface lure, that was exciting.

The area where the fish were caught!

14 inch chain pickerel had a 7 inch long  in it's stomach.They were good eating, a few small "y" bones were in the meat.

Double Blade Muskie Freak Out acrylic painting progress

I start with a wash of watered down acrylic paint . Hue of blue at the top fading to three quarters of the canvas a orange.
 I then draw the shape of the leaping fish.



More details are painted of the fish and a double blade lure is added . Also more blue  and splash shapes are painted around the fish shape.

I add more water detail including a shape of a princecraft boat.

Splash  details are added to the fish. More accurate detail is added to the boat.  I've painted a distant shoreline in the background.

Finished detail of the completed painting.
I tried to express the dynamic action of the fish leaping and the moment in time when the water plashing forcefully