Rideau's Small Mouth

This Artistic Cartography piece called "Rideau's Small Mouth" has been done on a nautical chart of a section of the Rideau Canal between Newboro and Chaffeys Lock.

It features, arguably the most popular fish that is caught on the Rideau System, the Small mouth Bass.

I've added a couple of antique lures; which i also enjoy drawing and using to fish with, that are popular bass lures. The top left lure is a Heddon River Runt - there were several variations of this lure created by Heddon. The lure in the bottom right is also Heddon, but was called the Crazy Crawler which gives you some idea of how it moves across the top of the water driving the bass "crazy". 

The other additions are prime bass food as well, the Northern Leopard frog in the bottom left and the Bullfrog in the top right. 

This piece was essentially drawn with graphite and Staedtler marker and then completed with a water colour wash to bring the colours of the bass out. I've tried to keep the wash a bit transparent at least in some spots so that the nautical chart can still be seen through the fish.

The Original is for sale for $ 2000.00 and measures 14.5"H X 23"W

Please note: The pictures here are iphone quality and once the original is scanned and photographed professionally that image will be added as well.

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