Field and Stream

Back when I was living in the Honky-Tonk of the Wildwoods, in New Jersey, during thesummer of 2005, I was contacted to produce illustrations for the cover of Field and Streammagazine's 110th anniversary edition. I'm not a hunter, and have very little luck catching fish (so far), but I thought this was a really cool assignment. So I took it on.The mag's writers put together 110 hunting/fishing tips, and hired me to create a couple of dozenspot illustrations for some of them.Here's the lead page of the cover article:So, one by one, in this feature, the tips are listed. And are pretty interesting. Here are a few examples...Producing this collection of spot illustrations, I had to limit the detail level ofeach sample of the original art, in order to have them print well.This example reveals the rather low-detail treatment I brought to the assignment:Stay tuned for the next installment--- why I am not fighting Plaque.