YUHINA ILLUSTRATION

kunzha

2012-02-12T06:52:00.001-08:00

Steelhead

2012-02-11T12:04:00.000-08:00

A good friend Rick caught this magnificent steelhead several years ago, I had an idea about this painting when I first saw the photo... then after the quick sketch, the feeling went away and it just sit in the drawer for many years, until last week I decided to take it out and finish it...

Madison Brown Trout

2012-02-07T05:14:00.001-08:00

scissor tailed flycatcher

2012-02-05T10:59:00.001-08:00

official winning char - GO PATS!

2012-02-04T07:40:00.001-08:00

not finished yet, half way done...

Ivory-billed woodpecker (gone)

2011-07-12T13:01:00.000-07:00

painted bunting and scissor-tailed flycatcher (gone)

2011-07-02T02:48:00.001-07:00

painted a thank-you card for Dr. Baker.

okinawa rail (gone)

2011-06-07T05:58:00.000-07:00

Okinawa rail - one of the most beautiful rail in the world.Described in 1981, classified as "Natural Monument" in Japan. black face, white eye stripes and orange bill, what a elegant bird!

roadrunner (gone)

2011-06-06T07:57:00.000-07:00

a brown trout for a friend

2011-06-02T04:35:00.001-07:00

no music, no life

2011-06-02T04:33:00.000-07:00

paint a bird

2011-05-02T16:49:00.000-07:00

scoters

2011-04-28T02:40:00.001-07:00

having a lot of fun to illustrate them... hope I will see all of them this winter! : )

brook trout (gone)

2011-04-25T04:38:00.000-07:00

Schubert - trout

2011-04-24T16:09:00.000-07:00

after vacation

2011-04-22T07:41:00.000-07:00

tanned and fresh! : )

some weekend drawings

2011-04-11T09:20:00.000-07:00

drawings for kids (all gone)

2011-04-07T01:47:00.000-07:00

some random drawings for several kids... happy birthday!

Donation to Japan Red Cross

2011-03-15T18:50:00.001-07:00

(sold)

(sold)

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

Dear friends,

as you know Japan is suffering from the big earthquake disaster at this moment. Google.com has set up a donation pages for the Japan Red Cross. I am sure the little money we give have very little effect to the people in the deep trouble. However, as part of the international community, I sincerely believe those good will wishes (little donations) will act as a good will seed that encourage more people to stand up on their own feet from the trouble. If you can, check out this Google page.

Here I offer two of my current paintings for sale in 50% off price ($75 each, free shipping). All the sale money will donate to the Google pages. see photos. Email me if you are interested in buying them. markyuhina AT gmail Dot com. I am planning to paint more in the near future for the donation. Mark

spoon-billed sandpiper drawing

2011-03-14T08:39:00.000-07:00

drawing birds

2011-03-13T04:37:00.001-07:00

NZ sea run brown trout

2011-03-06T05:26:00.000-08:00

great-lake brown trout (sold)

2011-03-06T05:25:00.000-08:00

colorado cutthroat trout (sold)

2011-03-06T05:24:00.001-08:00

abstract rainbow trout

2011-03-02T19:56:00.000-08:00

abstract brown trout (gift)

2011-02-28T19:25:00.000-08:00

a bit experimental... when Picasso come to a dream...

Eastern Brown Trout (Gift)

2011-02-27T15:22:00.000-08:00

2011 brown trout opener (sold)

2011-02-21T18:12:00.000-08:00

season 2010-2011

2010-12-19T10:40:00.000-08:00

As the snow approaching New England, it is about time to organize the fly tying material and have the painting gear ready. I am excited, just like before any fishing trip, some Jazz, some red wine or even whiskey to light up the artsy atmosphere : )

submissions for kid's coloring book 2010

2010-06-08T08:05:00.001-07:00

hi friends and families... here is the recent works for FISHY KID coloring book. It's a brand new season...so here is some of my recent works for you to take a quick look... I have a lot of fun doing it and it's a great honor to me to be invited to do it again. One of the special feeling about fishing with kids, for me, was coming from my Uncle. My dear uncle L was the one brought me fishing when I was a kid and he did it many many times, even I felt he would rather spend more time with his gang...he probably feel annoyed to have me buzz around every afternoon. Every summer in my childhood was spent in the mountains, our families are all very "aquatic like", me and my brother was taught how to swim in the type 3 white water in a mountain creek (ok. not type 3, but at least type 2 @@). Even though, there is a rule about fishing and swim in the creek. The rule is we have to get a adult companion to be able to fish or swim. For some reason, uncle L is the only option, he is my only chance to fish the creek... although he is the one willing to bring me fishing, but, he has a RULE for it too... if we heard thunder, then NO FISHING... as you can tell, there is very high chance to have quick summer storm in the mountain area... I still remember the scene and scenario clearly, every morning it would start with a beautiful bluebird sky, then around 10 am you start to see some clouds emerged from the edge of the mountain ring... by noon (at the time I gather all the gears and dig all the worms out...)... a "KON", a angry voice from the thunder will just crash my day dream of fishing... although I did not get as much fishing as I was hoping, I did get to fish and learn a lot from my uncle...there is more stories to come...
By the way, feel free to download those pages and color it with your kids. Visit the FISHYKID website. LINK

Taiwan masu (gift)

2010-03-12T03:31:00.001-08:00

Fall Brown (sold)

2009-11-28T05:00:00.000-08:00

First fish of the season! : ) It's fall spawning coloration of a brown trout...

A letter from Alexandra Morton (gone)

2009-05-27T11:00:00.000-07:00

I have been in Norway for 10 days because 92% of fish farming in British Columbia is Norwegian owned. I have met with many Norwegian scientists, members of the Mainstream and Marine Harvest boards, been to their AGMs, toured the area with fishermen, examined a closed-containment facility, met the Norwegians fighting for their fish and joined a scientific cruise.

I thought Norway had this industry handled and I expected to learn how marine salmon farming could work, but this has not been the case. My eyes have really been opened. This industry still has major issues that are growing and has no business expanding throughout the temperate coastlines of the world. The way they have been treating sea lice in Norway has caused high drug resistance. The only solution in sight is increasingly toxic chemicals. In the past two years (2007, 8) sea lice levels have actually increased on both the farm and wild fish. The scientists I met with are holding their breath to see if drug-resistant sea lice populations will explode and attack the last wild salmon and sea trout. The same treatment methods have been used in BC and we can expect this to occur as well.

I am not hearing how the industry can possibly safeguard British Columbia from contamination with their ISA virus. Infectious Salmon Anemia is a salmon virus that is spreading worldwide, wherever there are salmon farms. In Chile, the Norwegian strain of ISA has destroyed 60% of the industry, 17,000 jobs and unmeasured environmental damage. The industry is pushing into new territory. If this gets to BC no one can predict what it will do to the Pacific salmon and steelhead, it will be unleashed into new habitat and we know this is a very serious threat to life.

Professor Are Nylund head of the Fish Diseases Group at the University of Bergen, Norway, reports that, “based on 20 years of experience, I can guarantee that if British Columbia continues to import salmon eggs from the eastern Atlantic infectious salmon diseases, such as ISA, will arrive in Western Canada. Here in Hardangerfjord we have sacrificed our wild salmon stocks in exchange for farm salmon. With all your 5 species of wild salmon, BC is the last place you should have salmon farms.”

New diseases and parasites are being identified. The most serious is a sea lice parasite that attacks the salmon immune system. There is concern that this new parasite is responsible for accelerating wild salmon declines. The Norwegian scientists agree with many of us in BC. If you want wild salmon you must reduce the number of farm salmon. There are three options.

The future for salmon farming will have to include:

permanently reduction of not just the number of sea lice, but also the number of farm salmon per fjord,
removing farm salmon for periods of time to delouse the fjords and not restocking until after the out-migration of the wild salmon and sea trout.
But where wild salmon are considered essential they say the only certain measure is to remove the farms completely.

There are many people here like me. I met a man who has devoted his life to the science of restoring the Voss River, where the largest Atlantic salmon in the world, a national treasure, have vanished due to sea lice from salmon farms. Interestingly he is using the method I was not allowed to use last spring... Towing the fish past the farms out to sea. Another man is working with scientists and communities to keep the sea trout of the Hardangerfjord alive. There are so many tragic stories familiar to British Columbia.

The corporate fish farmers are unrelenting in their push to expand. With Chile so highly contaminated with the Norwegian strain of ISA all fish farmed coasts including Norway are threatened with expansion. I made the best case I could to Mainstream and Marine Harvest for removing the salmon feedlots from our wild salmon migration routes, but they will not accept that they are harming wild salmon. They say they want to improve, but they don’t say how. Norway has different social policies which include encouraging people to populate the remote areas and so fish farming seemed a good opportunity to these people. BC has the opposite policy, but the line that fish farms are good for small coastal communities has been used in BC anyway. I have not seen any evidence that it has even replaced the jobs it has impacted in wild fisheries and tourism.

It is becoming increasingly clear to protect wild Pacific salmon from the virus ISA the BC border absolutely has to be closed to importation of salmon eggs immediately and salmon farms MUST be removed from the Fraser River migration routes and any other narrow waterways where wild salmon are considered valuable.

Our letter asking government that the Fisheries Act, which is the law in Canada be applied to protect our salmon from fish farms has been signed by 14,000 people to date at www.adopt-a-fry.org has still not been answered.

Please forward this letter and encourage more people to sign our letter to government as it is building a community of concerned people word wide and we will prevail as there is really no rock for this industry to hide under and longer.

Alexandra Morton

char sketch

2009-05-09T20:26:00.001-07:00

Amago Trout (gone)

2009-03-28T10:08:00.001-07:00

bull trout

2009-03-26T20:28:00.000-07:00

Spring Brown (gone)

2009-03-26T08:12:00.000-07:00

gangster - half way...

2009-03-22T07:01:00.000-07:00

half way done... so here it is...I probably never will get it finished due to the current status... @@

Beer & Paint (gone)

2009-03-21T09:58:00.000-07:00

Rooster Sketching

2009-03-16T07:53:00.001-07:00

I am going back to the drawing board... SKETCHING! I love sketching a lot, repeated draw, erase and see the image gradually forms... it is always in a very relaxing mood, joyful! I will start to sketch more, some drawings are for kids' colorbook project.

Browns Donation

2009-03-16T07:47:00.000-07:00

Those paintings are heading Utah, some of them for art display, some of them for charity auction for the stonefly society in Utah. The money goes for trout habitat conservation. It's a great honor to me to get invited! : )

Steelhead Sorrow

2009-03-16T07:45:00.001-07:00

Dolly Varden

2009-03-08T08:46:00.001-07:00

I overdo the color... maybe next time will be better... @@

Chris' Brown (gone)

2009-03-01T18:22:00.000-08:00

BC Steelhead (gone)

2009-03-01T12:27:00.001-08:00

Redfish and Permit (gone)

2009-02-22T09:28:00.000-08:00

V_day King Salmon

2009-02-14T20:58:00.001-08:00

swim like a King...and Queen... original watercolor 9x12 $100

Rooster Fish (gone)

2009-02-11T09:24:00.001-08:00

painting for a friend...

AK Rainbow Trout (gone)

2009-02-08T20:28:00.000-08:00

Patagonia Brown Trout (gone)

2009-01-24T18:16:00.000-08:00

PAINTING SALE $50 - FOR BRISTOL BAY ALASKA

2009-01-12T18:28:00.000-08:00

Hi Friends,
As you might already aware of that a mining company - Northern Dynasty- is proposing to excavate a largest copper mine in the world - Pebble Mine in Alaska. Briefly, this pebble mine will produce a highly toxic waste water and pump them into this amazing ecosystem, this huge impact will change this pristine ecosystem permanently. There are more information in this website,http://www.savebristolbay.org/site/c.gqLTI4OzGlF/b.2000555/k.BE39/Home.htm there are also a award winning documentary film - Red Gold have more stories about the people there. See website for more detail : http://feltsoulmedia.wordpress.com/. I think this is an extraordinary good film in a long time. I highly recommend you take a chance to watch it. Finally, I have few paintings left from last year, I will willing to sale them in 50% off price. All the money will donate to this anti-pebble mine project of Trout Unlimited Alaska.www.savebristolbay.org $50 each, canvas size around 8x10 inches. Email me if you are interested in any of those paintings. Sincerely, Mark.
markyuhina AT gmail.com

savebristolbay
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Mojo Brown (gone)

2009-01-07T07:25:00.001-08:00

Although busy schedule make me just slightly out of reach of my paintbrushes... I managed to get some new stuff out. I am using some new method in this painting. Quick and spontaneously brush touch to build up the painting. Minimize the layer and no corrections. It seems the high key effect turns out good, do capture some clearness.

great site for illustration books!

2008-12-09T18:17:00.000-08:00

A great way for searching children's book! Thank you Peige!

behind the scene

2008-12-09T17:47:00.001-08:00

as you can tell, my studio "table" is pretty "big" I usually put a carpet on top of my table and I usually lay on top of the table when I paint, sometimes... : P The roomy work space will alway allow me to spread all the material around me, when I get tired, I just close my eyes and take a nap! I am currently working on those two pieces of trout. They still waiting for spots and need more detail work on it. OK, why post those half-done work? well... because sometime the ongoing work will end those pieces into trash can. And I would like to have some records for future reference. All the steps are good for learning. Also I would like to show friends how the work get progresses, those behind the scene photos are really attractive to me!

Kid Zone

2008-12-08T15:01:00.000-08:00

You probably can tell that I am promoting "kids fishing" from my kid policy. The reason is very simple - all my childhood is full of those wonderful fishing experience. I just wish other kids can have chance to go out and enjoy the beauty of the nature. Sadly, I have not been able to illustrate the kid's art in those days... It's hard! Actually. I feel it is much difficult to see things like kids again. But I will try to do it more in the future... The art designated for kids. This logo is just a start, inspired by my friend, he actually done this with his 3 years old kid - Hadley. The one in the movie below... : )

Chum Salmon

2008-12-08T06:45:00.000-08:00

Some quick wash to capture "the moldiness" of the chum salmon. Because of the intense decaying skin combine with some beautiful coloration, it all make chum project more challenging and more fun.

Madison Ghost

2008-12-06T11:32:00.000-08:00

The madison brown trout have been sit like this on my floor for almost 1 month. I feel it is good for now... maybe I should just leave it like this as a ghost... as most trophies does to fisherman. Now... presents.

AK CHAR

2008-12-03T23:33:00.001-08:00

cutthroat trout pattern study

2008-11-28T16:40:00.001-08:00

brook trout pattern study

2008-11-21T06:46:00.000-08:00

oily brown

2008-11-14T21:55:00.000-08:00

steelhead new wash

2008-11-12T07:00:00.001-08:00

one more brownie

2008-11-08T16:26:00.001-08:00

then I will go back to work on some native fish...

fall browns open this season!

2008-11-05T16:37:00.000-08:00

Winter is here...

2008-10-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

Winter is here... it's about time to dust off my paintbrush...I did some quick watercolor wash on my sketch pad... I love the pigments roam free on the skinny paper... :o)

Last Post - Chum Bye

2008-05-25T06:02:00.000-07:00

This is my last post of this year 2008. I have decided not to paint in the rest of the year. I will concentrate on another thing - writing. Thank you for the visit! See you next year! (For those people that I owe you paintings, I will finished them! : )) By the way, feel free to download any of paintings here, use them whatever you want... if you like it, it's yours! (Just noted the illustration is from this website)

Graphic design- unfinished

2008-05-25T06:01:00.000-07:00

Sketching...tail (sumile's tail)

2008-05-17T17:41:00.000-07:00

Sketching...Ivory-billed woodpecker

2008-05-17T17:40:00.001-07:00

Sketching...tarpon

2008-05-17T17:39:00.002-07:00

Sketching...char

2008-05-17T17:39:00.001-07:00

Sketching...yamame

2008-05-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

Brook Trout 6

2008-04-25T19:41:00.001-07:00

Bluegill Sunfish Wash

2008-04-25T19:36:00.001-07:00

enjoy the artic sky!

2008-04-25T05:17:00.000-07:00

Grayling sketch

2008-04-24T20:32:00.000-07:00

Taimen

2008-04-24T05:30:00.001-07:00

Iwana

2008-04-23T18:29:00.001-07:00

Ryan's NZ Brown Trout

2008-04-23T15:43:00.000-07:00

Yamame

2008-04-23T04:45:00.001-07:00

TIGER TROUT

2008-04-22T15:58:00.001-07:00

Fly tying material...

2008-04-21T19:20:00.000-07:00

I love them too... the flight, the feather, the meat, and the spirit... all of them!

Sketch BT 102

2008-04-21T05:53:00.001-07:00

processing some work (unfinished)

2008-04-20T06:12:00.001-07:00

I start to illustrate native trout speices that I experienced in the past. either from a real catch or from a story telling from friends. Before I get into the deatil illustration process, I alway like to do some quick sketch. This give me some idea what is the special personality I am illustrating... try to capture "the feel"... here is some quick sketch of iwana (a native Japanese trout). I may finish them up later... : )

Pastel Fish - Cutthroat Trout 6x8 (Gone)

2008-04-17T06:20:00.000-07:00

I like to try Pastel is because people say they are somehow similar to the oil painting... you can add a lot of layers on top of each other...maybe... I never done the oil, so I really don't know... So far it looks good in the realistic approach... I am thinking to use pastel do some more "wild" impressionism stuff... will see how things turn out... : )

feel the tiger trout

2008-04-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

ATA- Coastal Cutthroat Trout

2008-04-15T20:06:00.001-07:00

Bone Bone Fish Sketch

2008-04-15T07:58:00.001-07:00

Grayling sketch

2008-04-14T22:45:00.001-07:00

a bit sloppy work...but I kind of start to feel grayling : ) will do a more detailed work later...

striper season is open! (Gone)

2008-04-14T14:21:00.000-07:00

ATA - Brook Trout 2

2008-04-12T13:45:00.000-07:00

ATA - Brook Trout Sketch

2008-04-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

Grasshopper Sparrow

2008-04-12T07:53:00.000-07:00

Sketch Steelhead

2008-04-12T05:34:00.000-07:00

ATA - Brown Trout

2008-04-11T08:52:00.000-07:00

ATA stand for "A Trout A day"? maybe... : P maybe "A week"...Anyway, I was testing drive this new paper while I was doing bird feeder watching this morning... The texture is a little bit "slippery" than the regular Canson drawing paper. But the 140 lb 's rigid watercolor really have it value, especially if I decide to wash in some color later... I would say... the test PASSED! I love it! : )

A Trout A Day, Healthy Stay!

2008-04-10T18:01:00.000-07:00

Eurika! I have a new idea "A Trout A Day, Healthy Stay!" I am going to sketch a lot... of little trout...use the Arches Hot Press Watercolor paper. This will allow me to wash in some colors later if the feel is right. Or I can just leave it as pencil version... I am very excited about this new plan now :O)

Barn Owl Sketch

2008-04-10T17:15:00.000-07:00

A very interesting and elegant bird that I really enjoy watching them. I am really surprise how little lines are enough to indicate the flight...

Steelhead Sketch

2008-04-10T17:14:00.001-07:00

more sketch is needed...indeed

Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout

2008-04-08T19:29:00.001-07:00

Barracuda and a Little Girl (unfinished)

2008-04-06T21:03:00.000-07:00

will wash in some colors...