Editor's note: This unique and beautiful hybrid trout is a cross between a brook trout and brown trout. This paint schedule is the one used by Colorado taxidermist Jeff Mourning to paint this award-winning fish, entered at the 2003 NTA competition. His tiger trout won the Breakthrough Award for Judges' Choice Best of Show. This schedule has many more steps than usual in order to capture the many color tones and patterns exhibited by this hybridized trout. Extreme care should be taken not to over-paint. Use very light tints of each color, as each are layered on the fish to develop color tone and depth.

FISH PAINTING

Painting a Tiger Trout
BROOK TROUT/BROWN TROUT HYBRID
by Jeff Mourning

Step 1. Clear fiberglass primer. Mix 50:50 with lacquer thinner to quicken drying time, then spray a light coat on the head.

Step 2, Fungicide. Spray the entire fish with fungicidal sealer.

Step 3, Bright Silver (water-based). Apply with a finger to the bone below the eye and upper parts of the gill plates.

Step 4, Gold (water based). Apply with a finger to the lower gill plates, blending into silver. Apply with a finger to the mandible and maxillary bone.

Step 5, Dark Gold or ...
 

...Continued in the Fall 2003 Issue of Breakthrough.

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