I’ve been sketching Coho today, thinking about the design for the Coho Cafe’s t-shirt and coffee cup design for 2006. These initial drawings were done with ink and a small brush, then filled in with watercolor. I’ve got a better idea now of what I want the final design to look like.
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What happens to get that hooked nose?
What happens to get that hooked nose?
I’m not an expert on them, but in researching them for the drawings, I can tell you that the bluish ones are the ocean phase, and the red/hooked nose ones are the mature, spawning, river phase. I’m not sure if this happens to both males and females, or how they feel about the changes in their bodies. I just know that when I returned to Romeo Michigan, and later wrote about it, the image of a salmon returning to the place he came from came to mind. It is an image that I really like. It’s bittersweet. For the salmon, it marks the end of life. That is sad in a way, but it’s a part of life. Everything is impermanent.
I’m not an expert on them, but in researching them for the drawings, I can tell you that the bluish ones are the ocean phase, and the red/hooked nose ones are the mature, spawning, river phase. I’m not sure if this happens to both males and females, or how they feel about the changes in their bodies. I just know that when I returned to Romeo Michigan, and later wrote about it, the image of a salmon returning to the place he came from came to mind. It is an image that I really like. It’s bittersweet. For the salmon, it marks the end of life. That is sad in a way, but it’s a part of life. Everything is impermanent.