I happened to watch a program last week about the Great Barrier Reef and it got me to thinkin' that I ought to do an illustration featuring one of the beautiful tropical fish that inhabit that place, so I did a a photo search for some reference material. The more that I looked at them, the more I thought about it...the more I was turning against the idea.
Yes, they were beautiful, but hey, they weren't gamefish. Then it occurred to me that the Peacock Bass is just as pretty...its a gamefish, and it is indeed "tropical." So here is a rather quickly done portrait of one...
