Suspended Crappies ~ Another Drawing by Special K

[INDyak]

How bout a hooked slab in a small group fighting the line? I'm not good putting thoughts into words so I hope that makes sense lol

[Bricks]

Those are very nice and I hate to be a picky person but to me when I look at the pictures I get no sense of depth to them. To me it looks like the fish are not in the picture but out in front of it.


Could be just me, my eye sight as my depth perception is not the best.

[Herewego]

Wayne
I'm no critic but my wife is as she has a good eye and has let me know it for decades. Lol
I showed my wife your painting and she said the water and fish detail were beautiful and excellent job on color but it is too perfect and needs some structure such as sticks, grass, floating muck or something else to make painting more interesting in background and foreground.
She said you may want to add feeling of movement or getting ready to feed with mouth open and possibly add bait fish.
I say you do excellent work!


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[Special K]

I have decided that I will do a painting incorporating Frank Cecil's and Barnettcrew's ideas, which for the most part are very similar except for whether the crappies depicted should be regular black crappie vs black nosed crappie hybrids. Well, I've decided I'm going to do a couple of both waiting in ambush for an approaching group of baitfish and I'm going to send prints to both whenever I'm finished.

I think what I'm going to do differently this time is: I am going to post all of the stages involved with the creating this painting when I'm finished... in chronological order of the creation... so everyone can see how one of these paintings progresses through each of its phases to completion.

Well, let me go and get started on the layout and sketch work phase of this project. Hopefully, I will be posting the entire process in the next couple of weeks depending on the volume of other distractions life brings my way.

Thanks again to all for the kind words and support for my drawings and paintings.

Tight Lines, Wayne

[Special K]

Wayne
I'm no critic but my wife is as she has a good eye and has let me know it for decades. Lol
I showed my wife your painting and she said the water and fish detail were beautiful and excellent job on color but it is too perfect and needs some structure such as sticks, grass, floating muck or something else to make painting more interesting in background and foreground.
She said you may want to add feeling of movement or getting ready to feed with mouth open and possibly add bait fish.
I say you do excellent work!


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I always welcome feedback and all types of constructive criticisms and I certainly appreciate your wife's artistic experience and her feedback too. With all due respect: I guess, my only logical response (even basis for this painting) would be that there is a method to my madness in that during certain times of the year it is well known that crappies "suspend" in the upper water column without any real relationship to any types of structure. This usually occurs during the summer months when the thermocline has set up causing the warmer, richest oxygenated water to rise by way of thermodynamics toward the surface, and the sinking of the sticks, leaves, muck and other deposits to the colder bottom which tend to decompose--the process of decomposition robbing the lower most layers of water of oxygen, which is the underlying cause of themocline phenomenon in the first place.

I guess my take on it (as a basis for artistic license) is that during this period of thermocline most brush, brush piles and other debris of the main lake are well below the levels of optimum oxygen levels, but for the shallows, hence the caused behavior of "Suspended Crappies" in the main lake. As for movement, I agree entirely, but for the fact that suspended crapppies are often described as lethargic and slow to any type of movement or action, which is what I also tried to depict.

Thank you so much for your comments and suggestions. I really do appreciate it.

[Herewego]

I always welcome feedback and all types of constructive criticisms and I certainly appreciate your wife's artistic experience and her feedback too. With all due respect: I guess, my only logical response (even basis for this painting) would be that there is a method to my madness in that during certain times of the year it is well known that crappies "suspend" in the upper water column without any real relationship to any types of structure. This usually occurs during the summer months when the thermocline has set up causing the warmer, richest oxygenated water to rise by way of thermodynamics toward the surface, and the sinking of the sticks, leaves, muck and other deposits to the colder bottom which tend to decompose--the process of decomposition robbing the lower most layers of water of oxygen, which is the underlying cause of themocline phenomenon in the first place.

I guess my take on it (as a basis for artistic license) is that during this period of thermocline most brush, brush piles and other debris of the main lake are well below the levels of optimum oxygen levels, but for the shallows, hence the caused behavior of "Suspended Crappies" in the main lake. As for movement, I agree entirely, but for the fact that suspended crapppies are often described as lethargic and slow to any type of movement or action, which is what I also tried to depict.

Thank you so much for your comments and suggestions. I really do appreciate it.

Yes, l told her the fish were suspended but she was just expressing her thoughts as l have seen her go way over and keep adding additional details when l thought the painting looked fine.
Again, looks great and keep up the excellent work!

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[skeetbum]

Very nice work. I can appreciate what you do, and the satisfaction you receive from it. While I can build buildings and tie jigs and such as that, I need a ruler to draw a crooked line. Keep it up, always good to see your work.

[Hudson57]

Wow. As always I enjoy seeing your drawings. You make it look easy.

Thanks For sharing them


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[LittleStick]

Very nice work there K. I really like the effects you used in it. The water surface and transition across it's distance. Also, how the crappie are pulled to the forefront. I feel like dropping a jig in there.

[Fastdrop]

I sell home decor to Hobby Lobby and my advise is to listen to his wife. I understand what you had in mind but she is correct in that the paintings you make need to have more effect to them. Beautiful crappie no doubt and very realistic but when she puts it on the wall she just doesn't want to see crappie. There needs to be some back other things going on in the painting. Shad etc.... not just crappie sitting in a painting. Just my opinion if you are looking to sell them.

I have thought about getting with an artist to do these type of paintings for the Man cave area for HL. For them I would need a cool painting with a saying on it... I have thought a father and a son in a old vintage boat with cane poles fishing ---- with a saying "memories of a life time" on it.