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[audrabalion]

It’s Patron Suggestion Week! Andrew asked for “A tiny whaling ship sailing through a pot of macaroni and cheese, harvesting the hot dog pieces..” Thank you, and I hope you enjoy it! . ————————————————————— If you want to join in on the patreon fun: www.patreon.com/audrabalionart ————————————————————— . #dailydrawing #traditionaldrawing #macandcheese #whalingship #hotdogharvest #hotdog #inkdrawing https://www.instagram.com/p/CNEeWiFnHGu/?igshid=10pycseobhw93

[thecanvasmenagerie]

Happy 197th birthday to Hermann Melville (1819 – 1891), born on 1st August 1819. I didn’t read “Moby Dick” for years and years, don’t know why, just didn’t. But, I read it last year and what a magnificent story it is. I think it’s such a strange and powerful mystical, musical book that has stayed in my mind and memory all year. Spurred on by it, last year I made this painting which I called “Inspecting The Pequod”. I’m not sure if it’s a very accurate depiction of a 19th century whaling ship since, like Ishmael, I'm a 'green hand at whaling' (not even a green hand, if truth be told), but it will have to do. The ‘Pequod’, if you’ve not read “Moby Dick,” is the ship skippered by Captain Ahab, the mythically-endowed whaler whose leg was taken by a white whale, leaving him with a prosthesis made of whalebone, and thus the motivation for his obsession for revenge upon the whale. In the painting, I posit that Ahab – in a moment of calm reflection – inspects a scale model of his beloved ship. The original painting is now in Massachusetts which, I believe, is in the far northeast of America where my mind imagines a coastline of abandoned paraphernalia of whaling: wrecks, scrimshaw, clapboard inns, windy nights and salty dreams. It’s probably nothing like that, but I hope it is. Anyway, Happy Birthday Hermann Melville, many happy returns. #mobydick #melville #hermannmelville #pequod #modelship #maritime #whalingship

[megameags-blog]

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