Happy Solstice! I wanted to finish off the ocean theme and celebrate the longest day of the year by coloring one of my large flounder drawings (which I originally designed to be in a huge strange flatfish coloring book). Unfortunately, coloring the image took sooo long that the longest day of the year is now over! (and I am still not happy with the coloring–which turns out to be just as hard as I recall from childhood)
Anyway, here is a sky flounder with a Dutch still life on his/her body swimming over the flat sea by the low countries. Little Flemish details dot the composition (like the clay pipe at the bottom, the bagpiper by the beach, and Audrey Hepburn in a 17th century dress) however the endearing minutiae can not forever distract the viewer from larger themes of sacrifice and the ineluctable passage of time (both of which are fine ideas to contemplate on this druidic holiday).
As always, we will return to these ideas, but for now, happy summer!
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June 22, 2021 at 8:21 AM
K Hindall
I thought June 22 was now the longest day of the year.
(I vaguely remember the “Summer is one day shorter!” nonsense when the change happened. That’s silly: the procession of equinoxes means that solstices and equinoxes both move over long periods of time, so everything stays pretty much as it was.)
June 22, 2021 at 10:23 AM
Linda Ellis Peck
This is a gorgeous flounder drawing and coloring artwork, Wayne!