Going Fishing

Hi everyone!!! Here is a biiiiiig weird size I finished a while ago! I seriouslyseriously thought I uploaded on here already but I can't find it. huh. SO if I am reuploading again sorry!!

This piece was just inspired by my cutting down some paper and I was left with this really narrow but long piece and I was trying to think of what would be fun to do on it! So this is what I came up with, the depths of the ocean! I was excited to depict the changes of the environment and fish as it transitions from the surface all the way down to the Abyssal Zone. I also has a lot of fun researching all the different fishies and trying to get what depths they would live at correct. I want to do another one because I didn't even get to fit all the fish I wanted!!! Like some jelly fish! Maybe a mermaid!  

For any of you who want to know, from roughly the bottom up the fish are tripod fish, hatchet fish, viper fish, angler fish, gigantactis, blue whale, great white shark, sea turtles, clown fish, blue tang, ornate wrasse, butterfly fish, angel fish, and flying fish!

I also filmed part of the process of painting some of the coral reef fish and turtles and that video is up on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dNxzr…  


"Going Fishing" 6.5 x 24 inches. watercolor.