Onicrafts

Brook Trout

A leather brook trout with fins made from dried kombucha scoby, from the paper pattern to the painted fish rising to a fly.

Leather brook trout on a stand with water weeds
Leather brook trout's head, mouth open toward a fly
With a fly

The build

From the bench.

Dried kombucha scoby
Dried kombucha scoby
Kombucha scoby tacked for drying
Kombucha scoby tacked for drying
Brook trout drawn on tracing paper as a pattern
Pattern
Brook trout dried scoby tail
Dried scoby tail
Orange and black dyed scoby trout fins with veining
Fins
Brook trout skin and fins
Skin and fins
Undyed leather brook trout body with dyed fins attached
Body, undyed
Wet-formed leather trout head being shaped with a modeling tool
Head, shaping
Leather brook trout with a yellow-tan base coat and fins attached
Base coat
Brook trout on the bench
On the bench
Brook trout, painted
Painted

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