Flora, The Flowering Cod (Sketch as of April 18, 2026)

Every year I decorate a wooden cod for the Marblehead Cod Auction, to benefit the Marblehead Festival of Arts.  I had been thinking of what to do this year.  I started looking though pictures of different kinds of codfish.  I found one called "the flowering cod."  Although the name sounded promising, the photos of the actual fish were not.  The fish has brown markings which vaguely resemble flowers, against a lighter background of stipled skin.  That didn't sound appealing. But I kept thinking about it. What if the markings actually looked like flowers? What if I substituted a pink-tinted gold for brown? What if the stippled skin became polka-dots? So I drew this sketch of a codfish decorated with flowers and polkadots. . I traced my wooden cod cut-out onto a big piece of paper and drew this sketch.  I would call her Flora.