I have recently been commissioned by an interior design consultancy from Great Britain (Avid Design) to make a series of wildlife drawings. I was to create five pencil drawings featuring a trout, a stag, a horse, a wild goose and a pheasant. Avid Design needed high resolution images of the animals to reproduce them on a glass film for a window at Exmoor White Horse Inn – a hotel situated in a picturesque area of South West England offering some wildlife-related activities such as safari, horse riding and the deer rutting season.

I will dedicate a blog post to each particular drawing created within this Avid Design project. This post features a trout which is a fish taking a special place in every fisherman’s heart.

Trout drawing for Exmoor White Horse Inn

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Trout is the common name for a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, and all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae.But you may be more familiar with such names as Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Golden Trout. Another familiar member of this fish family is the palomino trout, a mix of the golden and common rainbow trout.

Though commonly considered a trout, the brook trout is actually one of the chars, which in North America also include the lake trout, bull trout, Dolly Varden, and the Arctic char. Nonetheless, like allk “trouts,” the brook trout is good eating. But, of course, it is the Rainbow trout that appears to be most popular in Western cuisine including both the wild-caught and farmed fish.

Trout are an important food source for humans and wildlife including brown bears, and birds of prey such as eagles, and other animals. As a group, trout are somewhat bony with small flexible bones, but the flesh is tasty.

Young trout are referred to as troutlet, troutling or fry and sometimes are called sac fry or alevin. And because of their popularity, trout are often raised on fish farms and planted into heavily fished waters, to offset the effects of over fishing.

Golden rainbow trout are predominantly yellowish, lacking the typical green field and black spots but retaining the diffuse red stripe.

Rainbow trout are predators with a varied diet and will eat nearly anything they can capture.ON the other side of the rod, rainbows are a popular game fish for fly fishers. Silver spinner blades are also known to excite rainbows, lake trout, cutthroats and brookies while brown, golden and bull trout often favor gold blades.

Cutthroat trout are native to western North America and have evolved through geographic isolation into 14 subspecies, each native to a different major drainage basin.

Brown trout have been widely introduced into suitable environments around the world, including North and South America, Australia, Asia, and South and East Africa. They have established self-sustaining, wild populations in many of the introduced countries. Brown trout have had serious negative impacts on upland native fish species in some of the countries where they have been introduced, this is particularly true in Australia.

Brook trout have a diverse diet that includes larval, pupal, and adult forms of aquatic insects (typically caddisflies, stoneflies, mayflies and aquatic dipterans), and adult forms of terrestrial insects (typically ants, beetles, grasshoppers and crickets) that fall into the water, crustaceans, frogs and other amphibians, molluscs, smaller fish, invertebrates, and even small aquatic mammals such as voles.

Trout have fins entirely without spines, and all of them have a small adipose fin along the back, near the tail. And trout have a well-developed sense of smell.

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Pheasant Drawing by Igor Lukyanov

The whirring Pheasant springs,

And mounts, exulting on triumphant wings:

Ah! What avails his glossy, varying dyes,

His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes,

The vivid green his shining plumes unfold,

His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold.

Alexander Pope – Windsor Forest, 1713.

The extract of the above Pope’s poem describes the pheasant as an extremely beautiful bird. And it’s true. Unfortunately, I cannot see a lot of pheasants in my country but when I see a picture of a pheasant I imagine the royal hunting and all those noblemen riding horses in the pursue of this marvelous game bird. Pheasant hunting is one of the British Royal Family’s traditions. However pheasants are so beautiful that some members of the Royal Family want to forgo this custom although the birds are specially bred for this hunting event.

Drawing of a pheasant for the Exmoor White Horse Inn

Anyway, a pheasant has always being a symbol of nobility and royalty. For the apparent reason I associate royalty with the United Kingdom. That is why Avid Design made a right choice by including a drawing of a pheasant into the series of animal drawings they commissioned me for the Exmoor White Horse Inn. As you remember the series includes five pencil drawings of a trout, a wild goose, a pheasant, a deer and a horse. The pheasant drawing is probably the best one for a hotel in Great Britain to reflect the famous aristocratic spirit of the United Kingdom.

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