found art

this will go into a frame tomorrow

and given to a friend

I'm also working on a series of trout portraits as well

so far I'm rather pleased with them

fishing related art project

coming soon

just an idea I'm bashing around

pics to certainly follow

I drew a fish

doodling while dipping

I drew my very first ever picture of a trout

I'd kinda like to add a little color to it

I've got a 60 pc prismacolor pencil dealio laying around here somewhere...

I'd also kinda like reduce it to just lines

reel pouches

after suffering through hated neoprene reel pouches for countless years

I made these

my first effort was hasty

done at night using a sketched pattern

 resulting 

 in a slight "tit" if you will

so for the next one I broke out a compass

to do it right

I'm still working on refining the design

I'm not really happy w/ the flap design on either one

but they are bulletproof (intentionally dropped one from about five feet onto a tile floor)
and will last forever

next up one to replace the cloth drawstring bag for my hardy

and another for a buddy's 8wt  reel

leatherworks

this weekend I delved into leatherwork again for the first time in a hundred years

made those yesterday

today I designed a leather reel pouch

built it too

it works just fine but the pattern I made was a mite sloppy because of haste

(I was in a hurry)

will try again tomorrow and get it right

another sketch

there is something about this drawing that bugs the hell out of me

it's like every component is on a slightly different axis

giving it a sloppy look

this morning I added to it...

all components in alignment

only to lose it all again in the cut threads

of the mesquite reelseat

another sloppy result

those threads have got me baffled as to how to represent them

I know - I could play around in photoshop and get some ideas...

that's a waste of time and I've already wasted enough time on this

though I did enjoy the process 

all day music

finalized?

wherein we offer a huge shout out and sincere thanks to bill pridgen

of electric bill communications, inc

for the great job refining my crude idea

a shout out and thank you to jim lees of palewatery as well

for the original artwork

you guys are great

perusing the archives

I've got lotsa possibilities for posting

old shots from the old daze

back when ye olde rod shoppe that wrock 

wasn't but a glint on daddy's dick

interesting stuff 

to me at least and one day soon you'll see some here

today I've settled on this...

a preliminary design sketch for the afa logo

back in the day yo

fortunately I secured a professional(?) to finish the job

flies art and visecraft

fly stuck in weed  (dr. ej on the crayons)

it's tough getting a good picture of a fly.  it's tough tying a fly worthy of being photographed.  sometimes things come together.  I still struggle getting pics of flies...