Happy Holidays 2005
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senoritafishEven if you were expecting it, you probably haven't gotten it in the mail yet, so...
Happy Holidays and Best of New Years!
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Christmas Wrasses – Theme and Variations
The wrasse at the upper left is a male Christmas wrasse (Thalassoma trilobatum),`awela in Hawaiian, in mating colors. The female has roughly the same pattern on her body, but is silvery green with copper to black lines and many spots on her head (so really I chose the simpler one to draw).
The lower right is an ornate wrasse, (Halichoeres ornatissimus);in Hawaiian, ohua, la'o, or pa'awe'la. Fairly common as a saltwater aquarium species, since they only reach six inches in length. They are often called Christmas wrasses because of their coloration, but since it's not their proper name, I'll think of this one as a Yule wrasse.
Both species live in Hawaii and other Pacific islands and are members of a family of fishes where many species are all born as females and change to males later in life. Wrasses swim with their pectoral fins, so they often look as if they are "flying" underwater like a bird. I tried to show this by the different positions of their fins.
Hanukkah and Kwanzaa wrasses live only in my head, but I wanted to pay homage to other colors prominent at this time of year.
Wouldn't they be pretty if they were real?
Sketched in pencil (pencil version here: [link] ), scanned and colored in Photoshop, about half the original size.
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senoritafish has an affinity for wrasses, because after all, she is a wrasse,too.
Happy Holidays and Best of New Years!
(click and click again for largest size)
Christmas Wrasses – Theme and Variations
The wrasse at the upper left is a male Christmas wrasse (Thalassoma trilobatum),`awela in Hawaiian, in mating colors. The female has roughly the same pattern on her body, but is silvery green with copper to black lines and many spots on her head (so really I chose the simpler one to draw).
The lower right is an ornate wrasse, (Halichoeres ornatissimus);in Hawaiian, ohua, la'o, or pa'awe'la. Fairly common as a saltwater aquarium species, since they only reach six inches in length. They are often called Christmas wrasses because of their coloration, but since it's not their proper name, I'll think of this one as a Yule wrasse.
Both species live in Hawaii and other Pacific islands and are members of a family of fishes where many species are all born as females and change to males later in life. Wrasses swim with their pectoral fins, so they often look as if they are "flying" underwater like a bird. I tried to show this by the different positions of their fins.
Hanukkah and Kwanzaa wrasses live only in my head, but I wanted to pay homage to other colors prominent at this time of year.
Wouldn't they be pretty if they were real?Sketched in pencil (pencil version here: [link] ), scanned and colored in Photoshop, about half the original size.
senoritafish has an affinity for wrasses, because after all, she is a wrasse,too.
