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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Iridescent Silver Fish

These fish are made of glass bead acrylic gel colored with prussian blue gouache and iridescent silver acrylic. The background is done in watercolor with gouache for the foreground algae and accents.
Iridescent Silver Fish - Mixed media on watercolor board
Many fish species have iridescent fish scales. If you are curious to know how fish have developed that iridescence, you can read more about it here.
Iridescent silver fish among algae - Mixed media painting
Because I liked the colors in my acrylic algae painting, I used the same phthalo blue and green for the watercolor background with a bit of new gamboge at the top. Winsor Newton calls their phthalos Winsor Blue and Winsor Green.

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