Genova's acquarium

During christmas holiday I've been in genova. In genova there is a big acquarium. Fish dolphin turtles pinguins....My children were so interested and happy that I could have done these sketches

Silvery Gray Day at the Lake

It was beautiful at the lake the other day--lots of scaups and coots, distant geese and ducks, a big bird too high to tell if it was the eagle I suspected...but looking at my feet, I found this perfect gar skull (what a LOT of needle-sharp teeth!) and a butter-yellow dandelion.

I don't know who made a meal of the gar--one of the herons, an eagle? But I found bits of it scattered halfway across the road.

There are a lot of types of gar, the largest reaching 300 lbs!  This little guy was either a smaller species or a baby...the skull was only 4 1/2" long by 1" wide.  You can read more on wikipedia
or for more than you EVER wanted to know about one our Missouri gar, the longnose, you can read HERE.

The monster fish have beautiful scales that some people dye and use to make jewelry.

una trota per amico...a fish for a friend

con il mio amico andrea stiamo preparando la copertina per il nuovo libro di ricette della lega pesca...io ho disegnato la trota
i'm working with my friend andrea to edit a cooking book. a fish cooking book. i draw and paint the trota fario...
rome\oriolo romano

We Went Fishing.....

DH and I went fishing off the pier again and he was nice enough to catch two fish for me to sketch and study.


The one above is a catfish which we always give to his friend cuz I don't like them. His friend is from St. Louis and thinks they are the greatest fish in the world. I think they are terrible tasting but that's just me.

It was a great fish to do a study on.

Right beneath the fish is the view as we see it going across the lake. It was partly cloudy and warm.

I did all these sketches with a ball point pen. Any mistakes remain where they are and it is very freeing to do a sketch this way





The next fish was a bass. This one goes from the bucket to the cleaning table and then to the frying pan. I do have my likes and dislikes.

A fun evening.



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