| Author | Message | ||
  Joanna Advanced Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 186 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well please show us when you have finished your work--it will be interesting to see how you chose to get the effect you were looking for. | ||
Ahughes798 New member Username: Ahughes798 Post Number: 8 Registered: 8-2008 |
Thanks so much, Dave and all. You have helped me. I saw a watercolour of a fish in Woodstock, IL, in an art gallery...and it gave me an idea of how to proceed, along with the things you guys told me! | ||
Dave New member Username: Dave Post Number: 3 Registered: 6-2008 |
If you get the chance try to view a live walleye at about the same distance from you as the walleye in the painting is "visualized as being" from the viewer. This should give you an idea of how much detail of scales etc shows at that distance. And what the scales look like. At some distances scales are not visible at all, just patterns of colour and shape. The other suggestion I have is to harmonize the style and level of detail in the fish with that of the background. The fish can be more highly detailed than the fish, but should not be less detailed than the background. | ||
Joanna Advanced Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 183 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thank you, Ahughes, The blue I used on my snapper or mullet (think it is a mullet) is Daniel Smith irridescent Electric Blue. I think Joes American Journey (repackaged Davinci paint) Joe's Irridescent Blue is similar and it's going for $5 a tube, very price worthy for an accent paint. There is also a delightful green. | ||
Ahughes798 New member Username: Ahughes798 Post Number: 7 Registered: 8-2008 |
Joanna, LOVE your fish painting, BTW. | ||
Joanna Advanced Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 182 Registered: 10-2006 |
By the way, I logged onto Cheap Joes, and one of the as sociate's pictures says he's a Glabrescent Ichthyophile or something. I don't know about you, but I think there's something fishy going on there. | ||
Jcator Junior Member Username: Jcator Post Number: 25 Registered: 3-2007 |
Here's an example (not a fish, but there are indications of scales along the neck) that uses both dabs of paints and lifting of color: Kate Johnson's Dragon. | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 29 Registered: 4-2008 |
Just paint a few of the scales here and there...the viewers mind will fill in the rest, the same way that some paint blades of grass, bricks on a wall, tiles on a roof...etc. | ||
Joanna Advanced Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 180 Registered: 10-2006 |
I don't do ultra realism so personally I would suggest scales with dabs of paint, but it depends on your style. Some people would indeed draw in and paint every scale. This is a painting I did with a bit of irridescent paint (on the eye)--no scales.  | ||
Ahughes798 New member Username: Ahughes798 Post Number: 4 Registered: 8-2008 |
I'm doing a large(for me)painting of a Walleye for my dad. I've painted the background...but how in the heck do I paint the fish? How do I suggest scales without painting each and every one of them? Because my first instinct is to paint each and every one of them! GAK! |
