Course work: Fish are sluggish this time of year, but occasionally one finds a hungry one. A catfish having thus inadvertently volunteered to serve as my model, I started with four pencil sketches to familiarize myself with morphology and to provisionally select a pose. I followed this up with a color study done in water-soluble crayon, and was able to identify some problem areas, notably getting the reflection on the back to look right. (Catfish lack scales, so that they appear very smooth and shiny. Color varies widely, but is typically a slightly greenish black to black with a dirty grey-green to grey underside. Fins are usually dark, occasionally brownish, and the rays are not particularly prominent. The dorsal and pectoral fins each contain a sharp spine, as many a fisherman has learned to his sorrow.) Not having a source for the Bockingford paper suggested in the text, I substituted a quarter-sheet of Arches 300gsm cold-pressed paper, which is approximately A3 in size, did my light pencil sketch, and applied the first layer of Caran D’Ache Neocolor water-soluble crayon.
Reading:
Gemma Guasch and Josep Asunción Form
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc, Hauppage, New York, USA, 2004
Pp 7-39
Personal Sketchbook work: A sketch of my heavy work coat, really needed this afternoon as we had our first measurable snow of this century, about 10 cm.
Total time: 2 hours 20 min
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