Large Fish

This watercolor fish on Arches paper is a combination of several techniques. The fish was in a large still life and I decided to just focus on him.  After doing a radial gradated wash in the background, I used stencil to create patterns over the background and on the fish using watercolor pencil shavings on wet paper to color in the stencil areas. I used salt on the wet background to get more pattern as well, then highlighted the fish with the darker edging around him and darkened his eye to get a good focal point.