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Once again, Monday’s are my Sunday’s so here is a VERY motivated Bluehead Chub for Bluehead Chubs are known as the “architects of the streams” due to their strong motivation to make nesting mounds pebble by pebble.

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2020-11-17

Extremely sloppy
Sword fish and relatives have brain endothermy. Warmer brain and optic nerve benefit these organs when fish encounter steep thermal changes (e.g. deep dives). More in the paper by Wainwright and Longo https://t.co/FSxvC7xRnz

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2020-10-05

Back to a watercolor attempt for this week’s Theme is fish. Though not truly endothermic, this Indo-pacific sailfish, have heat-producing tissue derived from the superior rectus eye muscle that warms their brain and eyes

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2020-10-04

My first ever Turning an inanimate object into a fish. Hammerhead upright vacuum.

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2020-09-28

An off-theme A series of Colored pencil on the sides of a cardboard box. 4 species, 4 river basins, 4 continents.

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2020-09-06

Not Sunday, not finished, but here a half way through two week old

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2020-08-24

A Rainbow Trout for this weeks It is actually non-native fish to the waters of Michigan, yet is stocked and sought after by anglers like me.

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2020-07-12

Another try at digital painting today for Mikrogeophagus ramirezi, a blue ram cichlid (electric blue ;) ).

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2020-06-08

"Colorful fish" is the theme of this week's Here are our attempts at two of our more colorful species: the canary rockfish and the rock greenling!

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2020-06-01

This week has been hyper stressful, but here I am trying to catch up with the The blobfish ,Psychrolutes marcidus, lives at depths from 600 to 1200 meters. They are extremely adapted to high pressures, having gelatinous flesh and neutral buoyancy.

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2020-04-22

Burbot (𝑳𝒐𝒕𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒂) for It is a large fish known to grow to as much as 1.5 m in length and 34 kg in mass. Sketch and colored on ook

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2020-03-15

It's a free for all for today's I wanted to play with so I messed around with some of my cleared and stained images and focused on fish jaws. Here are the jaws of three different fishes. The Caquetaia was from several weeks ago.

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2020-02-10

Our 15-month old makes She’s just getting into crayons, so I color with her.

I get about 25 seconds for each sketch before she takes over.

She also randomly swaps crayons with me every few seconds (so lots of colors each fish)🐟🖍

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2020-02-10

Yellowfin tuna! Thunnus albacares. Their range includes the Australian waters, so it fits the theme for this week's 🐟

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2020-01-13

Today marks the second day of the year that I have skipped While it is not a sketch, I have recently photographed the fish that I think is the theme (Labidesthes sicculus, brook silverside). Happy Holidays!

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2019-12-23

And a bonus I’ve been practicing my watercolors with some of my favorite stream fishes in Kansas. Here is a stippled darter. Found only in the extreme SE corner of the state.

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2019-12-08

I made another attempt to use today for I tried using colors this time. Not sure how I feel about it. Here is an Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus.

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2019-12-02

A crossed-fork back golden-line barbel (Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis) for this week’s “fish that live in caves” themed Liked the shape of this hypogean fish from a single subterranean stream in Guangxi Zhuang, China.

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2019-09-15

A very later addition for this week’s Today’s fish’s is the Rooster fish, a game fish which is found in warm waters such as the East Pacific.

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2019-08-05

Couldn’t resist drawing this weirdo for

This giant tadpole of a fish is the inflatable whiptail, Macrouroides inflaticeps, a rattail that can be found at depths of 4,000 metres!

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2019-04-14