reef fish

[aandfsoccr04]

Might want to think about doing a lineatus wrasse.

 

[somosomo]

I have a frag swap and two small art shows coming up over the next three weekends so I have been trying to get some new stuff painted ..heres the last few weeks.. after a month or so off it has taken me a few paintings to get back into the swing of things

smaller stuff first
these are approx 6-7 by 9"
trimma goby
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=trimma.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/trimma.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
goby
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=goby.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/goby.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
cenderawasih wrasse
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=CenWrasse.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/CenWrasse.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
6 line
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=6line.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/6line.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
detail
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=6linedetail.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/6linedetail.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
lineatus wrasse
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=Lineatus.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/Lineatus.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

 

[somosomo]

12 x 18"

square block anthias
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blue ribbon eels
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=eels.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/eels.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
triggerfish medley
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=triggers.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/triggers.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

 

[Yurivd]

The lineatus looks realy nice!

 

[SushiGirl]

You should have been at MACNA!

 

[HSR]

I just cant get over this artwork! I would kill to have some of my own. The fish on the plain white backgrounds just speak to me. I would do anything to see a Conspic Angelfish on a plain background like the butterflyfish a few pages back. Just stunning, truly stunning. Can I ask what you get for a piece of work?

 

[somosomo]

thanks guys

Sushigirl- I thought about MACNA ..maybe next year. I think I am getting to the point that I could manage it. I am at a big fragswap this weekend ..so we will see how that goes.

 

[united417]

incredible work somosomo!truly awesome stuff, thanks for sharing!

 

[somosomo]

I dont think I realized just how amazing these fish look until I sat down to paint one..

Sohal Tang

<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=sohal.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/sohal.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

 

[namxas]

I just cant get over this artwork! I would kill to have some of my own. The fish on the plain white backgrounds just speak to me. I would do anything to see a Conspic Angelfish on a plain background like the butterflyfish a few pages back. Just stunning, truly stunning. Can I ask what you get for a piece of work?

Nate has done several pix for us, and every one of them has been really awesome. We have even used a couple of line drawings we commissioned in our lionfish article.

 

[somosomo]

thanks greg

 

[somosomo]

Thanks Ike,

Hawkfish
<a href="http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/?action=view&current=Hawkfish.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/Hawkfish.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Detail
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got a show tomorrow at an LFS in Duncansville

 

[Bernie21]

Awesome thread... you have some serious talent!

 

[somosomo]

Thanks ..

I have been busy with work but I have been getting some paintings done..
maori wrasse sketch
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in progress
<a href="http://s972.beta.photobucket.com/user/etan714/library/fish%20art" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/maoriwrasse1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
in progress 2
<a href="http://s972.beta.photobucket.com/user/etan714/library/fish%20art" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/maoriwrasseface.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
banggai group
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banggai
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[somosomo]

big brownie
<a href="http://s972.beta.photobucket.com/user/etan714/library/fish%20art" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/browntrout.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
bass
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[Allmost]

simply amazing ! my GF is a good "drawer" too, but not an artist, she can draw a fish, but cant give it life and character your pics have.

this is what I said to her after showing her ure art work last night, and that is why I spent the night on the couch lol

thanks for sharing

 

[somosomo]

thanks allmost...
be nice to your GF ..artists can be sensitive

 

[SDguy]

Really great stuff!!

 

[somosomo]

Thanks SD guy
heres another update of the Napoleon Wrasse
<a href="http://s972.beta.photobucket.com/user/etan714/library/fish%20art" target="_blank"><img src="http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/etan714/fish%20art/maoriprogress.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

Really awesome stuff, But the big brownie looks like a brook trout.