As many of you know, I love learning new things!  🙂
My recent art challenge of creating 50 fish on Instagram has left me fishing for information about this subject.
We can learn a ton on the internet but I also LOVE books!! So I purchased this book recently from Amazon:

This is a great book for “kids of all ages!” Â I love all the amazing photos and also the basic information such as how fish swim.
I drew this one-liner fish, “John Dory” also known as St. Peter’s Fish from this book:

Do you see the false eye on the side of the fish?
According to legend, over 2000 years ago, St. Peter dropped a coin in the Sea of Galilee and the fish caught it. Â St. Peter picked the fish up and took the coin back, leaving his fingerprints on the skin of the fish…
This is an odd-looking fish found in European waters. Â It is oval with a flat body and a large spiny head. Â The white boneless, meaty flesh is firm and flavorsome if cooked properly. Â It is condsidered a culinary delicacy.
I hope you found it as interesting to learn about as I did.
Cheers to learning new things!  🙂