sunfish – Jean Krueger Fine Art

Blue Gill

I love casein, it’s a wonderful water medium. It’s far more permanent than watercolor and gouache and it avoids the frequent plastic and/or garish look of acrylic. It’s made from milk and has existed as a painting medium for centuries. It has a ‘graphic’ look unique unto itself, flatter than oils, yet as colorful.

Sun Fish

It’s summer and the Sun Fish dart about the warm shallows just off shore. There are several varieties.This one is a ‘Pumpkin Seed”, named so because of the distinctive red/orange ‘ear’ on its gill. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1075486

Pumpkinseed

Pumpkinseed, watercolor, 2018, 6×8″, copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger These North American natives are commonly called Pumpkinseeds because of the black flap at the edge of their gills.Lepomis gibbosus is included in the common sunfish family (Centrarchidae). They can grow quite large for a smallish fish (i.e. over 9″) but most that I’ve seenContinue reading “Pumpkinseed”