Here'e the full image of one of the pieces for the "One Hour of TV a Week" Show coming down this week. I've wanted to have an excuse to do a big trout for a long time. I'm one of those kids who wanted to be a marine biologist, and did a fish dissection for my second grade science project. I remember catching trout with my father and thinking the outside of trout was beautiful, and then (because I had to after I was 6 or 7) cleaning them and finding all this great stuff inside. It was a little gross and lest I sound like a serial killer, I want to convey the tragic aspect I felt for the fish. But - the mechanisms of what fuels this beautiful little animal machine were astounding from the tiny heart, to the contents of it's stomach, to the bladder it uses to regulate buoyancy.
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| "Magic 2", 22" x 22", Gouache and pencil on BFK |
If you've never been trout fishing, get a liscence, go find a small, cold, spring fed stream after it rains, wear a heavy pair of jeans and long sleeves, a pair of old sneakers you don't mind getting soaked in the stream, lots of bug spray, a creel with a frozen bottle of water in it, a three dollar pack of 18 trout worms, extra hooks, and an old rod and reel. The worst that will happen is that you spend a nice summer afternoon walking a pretty stream. The best case is you walk a pretty stream, fool a few wily trout, and have a nice breakfast/lunch/dinner. They are damn good eating - especially after working up an appetite crashing through underbrush to get to a steam and back:).
