REPRODUCTIONS

Reproduction Fish Blanks
Scale Texturing and Prep-Work
by Dan Rinehart

If you can paint a good natural fish, you can paint a good reproduction fish. The only difference in painting the two is the prep-work required on a reproduction prior to coloring.

A skin-dried fish ready for painting has a natural tone that combines varying intensities of gray, brown, and black (undertone coloration). Even though all the color of a fish disappears during the drying, this natural undertone coloration remains and provides a textured background over which transparent colors are applied. This undertone is known as the vermiculation-patterning and provides the patterning that makes a...

...Continued in the Spring 2001 Issue of Breakthrough.

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