It was funded through Illuminate, a donor-funded effort to revitalize San Francisco using large-scale art. It took Novy and his team three days to paint the whale-sized koi fish in Fulton Plaza.

Typically, making one koi fish takes six to eight layers of painted resin. The first layer indicates the fins and the body. Then comes the tail and the eyes. The scales and body patterns are also ...

The fish, he explained, was a hybrid of a leather carp and a koi carp and after a 25-minute ... quickly followed by whether there were scales large enough to weigh scaly Carrot.