Jerkbait Painting
I had painted this angling lure a while back and decided to try it again merely from a completely different angle… upside downward in fact! This is one of those pretty lures that seemed to sit in the lesser of all my childhood fishing tackle but never got used.
Every bit a kid I fished exclusively in saltwater mostly for snappers and bluefish "snapper-blues" as we chosen them when we were immature! Metallic lures that shined stiff and popping plugs really seemed to be the best course of not-living allurement were I fished on the northern shores of Long Island. So this funny lure just nerveless dust. Either it was right for the waters or I merely didn't know how to use it.
Recently I came to find out that this lure is of the "jerkbait" variety and hence my title for this artwork. Apparently this lure is supposed to creep through the water in a not-linear path making it seem like this lure is an injured fish. Looking weak and injure makes it easy prey for the larger fish ane would hope to take hold of using this lure.
This painting was one of those classic examples of making things darker to correctly pigment the "smoothen". While information technology's true that the bluish color on this lure is radiant, I had to be careful non to paint it likewise low-cal in value. Otherwise I would non be able to show that cogitating highlight along the correct side of the lure's spine.
I doubtable I'k not the only painter that intuitively wants to paint colors (especially saturated ones) lighter than they actually are. Looking at the bluish on the actual lure my gut tells me to paint it with a loftier chroma, light blue, nearly direct from the tube with mayhap a wee scrap of white paint to open up the color! Just my feel reminds me to keep the blue darker than I retrieve. Some ares I even darken information technology slightly with the smallest percentage of blackness, peculiarly moving away from the light and into the shadows. This allows me to make that highlight popular and really read as an incredibly shiny object.
I also used this strategy with the yellow heart. Although it reads as a yellow heart, information technology was darkened appropriately so that it looks like yellow in the shadow. In my younger days I would accept painted pure xanthous hither. I would have been fooled by the subtle contrast. When looking at the shadow side of an object and encountering a spot of color that is dissimilar from the surrounding color it'southward easy to exist fooled and overdo that colorful focal point. But I know amend at present. The xanthous of the fish eye needs to be darkened to autumn into the shadow just like all the surrounding colors.
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