Stimulator, watercolor, 9×12″, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved, 2018
‘Stimulator’ is a classic trout fly pattern. It uses elk hair, wire and colored fiber.I’ve painted this example at a scale of 7 to1.Orivis describes is as an ‘attractor dry fly’ which sits up high on the surface of the water when it’s cast. It can be used in both slow and fast waters.
Exuberant Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″, wattercolor on board, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved.
This pine cone is happy to be alive. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779940
Inverted Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″ on paper, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved
Ponderosa pine cone standing on its head. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585
Dangled Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″ on board, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved
Dangled, unwound, spiraled top to botton, the cone of the pinus family is scratchy hard, buoyantly poetic. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585
Ponderosa Cone, Watercolor, 6×6″, Jean Krueger, 2017, with all rights reserved
Pine cones are tactile as well as visual delights. The spiraling scales of this female cone hide the seeds close to the core. Female cones and male cones grow an the same tree, convenient for them, eh?
Red Green Ponderosa Cone, Watercolor, 6×6″, Jean Krueger, 2017, with all rights reserved
Here shapes are distilled to flat outlines, depending on color changes to define the pine cones surface.
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