Monday, March 03, 2008

Lobster's are red ?


lobster
Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.
Everyone knows what colour a lobster is - red. The same colour as a British tourist on day 3 of a Spanish holiday !

Except that according to the book of nature I looked at they aren't. Lobsters only go red when you cook them. Since I wasn't planning on having cooked lobster on the trawler it was going to have to be brown.

But brown lobster isn't were appealing. And this is a cartoon boat so I decided to go for stereotype over accuracy. My lobster (a Playmobile accessory) is painted red and then dry-brushed with rust. That gave me a red-ish lobster that isn't totally stupid. Honour is satisfied, even if David Attenborough wouldn't be.

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