I tried my hand at carving a blue gill

[Smallpatch]

I had a tank full of fish way back yonder and was a full days work just attending to those little critters. So this time why not make a display of some fish only larger and make them not like any thing in the fish books but do my own thing and see how they would turn out

 

My neighbor saw my three fish and wanted me to make him 3 blue gill about the same size as the ones I had. Sure, no problem and he wanted me to just make him the fish and leave the coloring of the blue gill up to him.

  Any way when I made the first three I only used an outline of three different fish but added my own paint scheme so they would be my fish.

   Well. I found a picture of a blue gill and enlarged it to about the size of the others ...And as I got into the exact things about a blue gill that needs to be exact, wow, that's asking myself to use my little brain for a change to concentrate more than usual.

  I did add one for my group while I was playing.

    |Each one is somewhat different for I always experiment on different ways to do things but actually I forget what I did the last time even though it is in my little brain somewhere. 

   I have a shop full of those little 2 oz. bottles of paint from Hobby Lobby so it should take me and my little air brush two or three weeks or that could be months trying to get a blue gill to show up

 

[lew]

Awesome!!!

[Grandpadave52]

As always, excellent detail work Patch. Clever solution for the eyes and darn near perfect depiction.

 

Good to have you posting again.

[Smallpatch]

So I finished the blue gil but didn't post the end results.

[Smallpatch]

[lew]

Very realistic, Jess!!

[Danl]

Really neat!  Looks like Nemo or one of is friends.   Thanks Jess.   Danl