PUNKINSEED in BLUEGILL

This one has a great candy look to it too John, a real eye catcher for sure. I can see the black base and gold scales but what did you shoot the colors with?

Nice work.

I used pearls mainly for the body background coloring over a white base, pearl:green,purple,teal,and blue.. The belly is 2 flourescents: yellow,pink, & pearl orange with some basic chevy red for throat.. What I do is put all the colors on, lay down the black bars, do the gold scale overlay, then I lightly go over each & every color a second time, including the black bars,spraying over the scales lightly.. All the paints are semi-transparent so they do little harm to the scales but the method enriches the background colors greatly.... The candy effect comes natural from spraying semi-transparent pearls over the gold scales, makes a nice reflective quality to the paints..The paints are all enamels, Boyds hobby paints..I use an Aztek 7778A airbrush, nothing fancy but it works great.. and Nu-Lustre55 epoxy to finish..I have a Paasche & Badger too but they're dust collectors in my shop!..

Thanks~