May 6, 2023

NEIL MEDAKA

"But even if you can draw an insect ABOVE the water, or others ON ITS SURFACE, then...would you try drawing something UNDERwater?" Way down there in the inky shadows, something was moving. "People who come to the park see carp and big fish that breach, but most don't notice us little guys, I was almost sure I heard murmured from Neil the Medaka.

I've been drawing seriously for only 2 years, but I can at least try to make a drawing of the minnow-like killifish. It would be so easy for our Infinite Creator to trace its teensy weeny fins weaving its way between the seaweeds, but it was terribly difficult for me, and this is the best I could do. Sorry, Neil.

I gave him his name because he claims to be a musician from twanging on strings of seaweed and composing lyrics like the following:

* In the water, the murky water/the spider creeps tonight (he was thinking of the water spider that captures medakas who dare swim shallow waters--Mar.30 post)

* Breaching up is hard to do.(the big fish, of course)

Okay. To be totally honest, it was super hot today, so I didn't even go to the park. This is a drawing from last year, when Neil was swimming at Step Creek, on the other side of the park.

There. Got that off my conscience.