100 Palettes Challenge // Palette #16 // Scenic Lake Champlain by @3ofpents

Today's palette is from a magazine illustration published in 1915.

Welcome to my impromptu series of vaguely threatening travel posters!

I had so much fun with the pine barrens poster that I decided to keep playing around with it, this time in my current home state.

Welcome to Burlington, Vermont, bordering Lake Champlain, home of Champ the lake monster!

I don't actually know that much about Champ, except that I think the theories around what Champ is and how they ended up in a lake are roughly similar to the theories around Nessie. I did have to double-check about giving them ears. I second-guessed myself because I'm more familiar with photos of Nessie, and later on I did find a photo of Champ that also didn't have ears. But there are a couple of sculptures of Champ that I saw have ears so I kept them.

The thing that really differentiates Champ from Nessie, though, I believe, is the double-hump. All of the sculptures have a really pronounced double-hump. Though of course now that I'm double-checking that I see it actually goes the other way, with the smaller hump in the front.

Ah well. I at least learned from the pine barrens poster and designed it from the start in a high resolution, then shrunk it down for posting. So I'll flip it on the big one.

Do you have a local cryptid, urban legend, or mystery spot? I love learning about new cryptids, especially the ones few people know about.