Apart from a name (and I'll probably do the latin one as well), and a signature, 'tis done!
Now, on to the next one: First I did a pencil sketch outline to get the proportions and shapes looking ok...A propelling pencil conveniently shows up as silver on the black paper.
Then I made a little start on a fin as a small child had been watching me very patiently and had asked when I was going to 'use colours'.
This is a cichlid called Electric Yellow Lab or Labidochromis caeruleus; an aggressive little meat-eating fish from Lake Malawi in Africa. It's that one that I have watched raising its top fin and revealing the black stripe as a warning to other fish.
Magnificent!
ReplyDeleteYou are my new favorite nature artist.
P.S. - I didn't have a previous favorite nature artist.
Giggle. You are a dag Robert.
ReplyDeleteSo go rattle him!
DeleteSorry but fishes swim left to right. I can't cope with right to left!
ReplyDeletePS I'm sure if you put the first one in an aquarium and photographed it I wouldn't know that it wasn't real.
ReplyDeleteHa. But his paper would get all soggy and give him away.
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