A handful of artists are featured in this post as I try to get caught up. Fly fishing art has some great artists plying their skills. In addition, I find many of them keep some great blogs where you can get a behind-the-scenes look at an artist at work.

First up is Jared Miller from Streamside Illustrations. He has some fish illustrations that he says he was inspired to draw because of Joseph Tomelleri’s work. He uses the same colored pencil style as Tomelleri, and from what I can see from the web pictures, they’re pretty good quality too (he has close-ups of some of the fish, and you can really see some nice detail). You can view several of his illustrations at his website. I don’t think he has any prints for sale, but what he seems to specialize in is illustrating your fish. Send him a picture and he’ll illustrate it for you. Jared has a blog, but it doesn’t look like he’s updated it in some time. Too bad, because I enjoyed glancing through the posts he does have.

Scott Hale over at Art Creel sent me an email the other day letting me know of his new “90 Fly Fishing Paintings in 90 Seconds” video. This is a great way to see some of the excellent artwork of the nine artists showing and selling work at Art Creel. Once you’ve seen the video, get over to Art Creel and check out your favorites. I love art, but often find it too pricey. There are some very reasonably priced pieces available art Art Creel. (My New Year’s Resolution #27: buy at least one piece of art this year.) A little tucked away section at Art Creel is their blog. I love woodcuts (I’ve tinkered with making a couple myself), and there is an excellent three part post on John Koch’s woodcut “Four Seasons” that goes into some nice depth concerning that woodcut. You should really read it (scroll down a bit until you get to the November 19, post, that’s the first one). John runs his own blog called Trout Lily Studios that I quite admire. If you like reading more in-depth pieces about how an artist thinks and works, subscribe to his blog.

Many of you are probably familiar with Jason Borger’s work at Fish, Flies & Water (art and casting) and Jeff Kennedy of Drawing Flies 365 (painting a new fly every for one year – he does have his book available too). They are collaborating this year on a new project called Drawing Flies 52. Yep, they each draw/paint a new fly once a week for a year. It looks like a fun collaborative in which they each draw/paint the same fly pattern, without knowing what the other is doing. A great wrinkle to this is that they only give themselves 30 minutes to complete the art. (If I had half the talent in ten times the time, I’d be very pleased with myself). They both do a nice job of talking about the technical aspects of their work. Jason also puts up some nice pieces that aren’t art related.

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