Landlocked Atlantic Salmon Head Study 1

Pen and Ink and Wash head study emphasizing iridescence of this male Landlocked Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar sebago) the lake form of the freshwater strain of the Atlantic Salmon.
this variant is named for Lake Sebago in Maine, where they were first discovered in 1860.Research suggests that these fish found their way into large, deep freshwater lakes near the end of the last ice age when the glaciers started to retreat . As waters receded, the salmon became trapped and inevitably adapted to fresh water existence.

This Illustration was first drawn with rapidograph pens, fully stippled, with different values being achieved through different density of dots. Stippling is a greyscale version of pointilism, or divisionism, where colors are applied in dots but to the eye, blend together when observed from a distance. Color is added here with thin transparent washes of ink or resin based colors, applied in layers