Golden Koi

I Just finished this picture last night. It's done on 19in x 25in black paper using soft pastels. It has similar coleration to the koi fish I created for the Skate Deck Art Show. This one is more smoothly done, with softer colors as opposed to bold due to the smudging technique I used to color in the koi. There are a few marks from the pencil outline that showed up; however it doesn't bother me. The paper ended up having kind of a stressed look.

The lighting and the camera have discolored the photo a bit. I am not able to do and color correction on it at the moment, but I figured that's not a huge deal. However, I may replace it with a better photo later.

I have been a kind of obsessed with koi fish for about 3 years now. They are beautiful and the meanings behind them are inspiring.

FYI: I'm going to start tagging the picture differently and more evasively. I don't like the way the water mark changes the look of the picture. So starting today, you'll have to deal with my logo in the corner of every picture in a way that would be difficult to edit out (i.e. partially covering the picture).