This Tarpon, brought down in January by a cold front too far south into Florida, was frozen and shipped north. His donor card allowed him to inspected, documented , Gyotaku-ed, sketched and immortalized.
The head study above was rendered with stippled pen and ink, then colorized in Photoshop.
His death was not in vain.
Ahhh...the perfect degree of restraint here, Stephen!
ReplyDeleteCynthia Padilla, Botanical Artist/Natural Science Illustrator