Brown trout

Plate 31, the fish that took longest.

Field guides

Client
Vltava, a field guide
Use
Plate 31
Medium
Ink and watercolour on cotton paper
Size
A3
Year
2024

Fish are hard to draw dead and impossible to draw alive, so this one is a composite: proportions from a fresh fish at the market, spots from photographs, colour from the memory of a cold morning at Karlštejn.

The fins were redrawn twice before the publisher's fish expert let them through.