Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Brown trout

Brown trout © Peter Gander
It always comes back to fishing and I’ve had woeful absence of that lately, so if you can’t fish for them, catch them on paper instead, I say. The wonderfully textured surface of The Langton Prestige Mould Made paper (300gsm) is used to good effect on the lower parts of the fish’s body with a dryish brush. Drawn with a 5B pencil.
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