Golden Sacrifice close up

Here is a close up of the head of my fish. You can see the details, and might even notice that I did some painting inhis mouth and along the contours of his spine. Some of my friends think this is a girl fish, but I've thought of him as a boy fish right from the first work I did on him.

His eyes are made of hand appliqued, stuffed kid leather, such as you might find in ecclesiastical gold work. I had a tiny piece and it was just perfect for "fishy". I tried a lot of other ways of doing his eyes, including getting some fish eyes from a taxidermist, but nothing else worked.