Twinkling Sea Monsters
I have been painting with Twinkling H2Os, a mica infused watercolor paint, and am trying it out on pages in my journal. The original pages of this journal were for a project for the Sketchbook Challenge. See that post HERE. I drew one critter, then shut the journal and transferred the wet markings to the other side to start up the other critter. They both have fish tales. They are Sea Monsters, both of them with pumped up arms. It was almost a year ago I did this, but today I had to add some bling to these babies. Here is how I did up Oceana. Then I had to fancy up Terra, to balance out the...
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I have a penchant for sea monsters. They are often the most amusing part of a map, and I love how Miles Harvey describes them in his book, Island of Lost Maps (which I loved) “Some of them appear to have the torso of a unicorn, the paws of a weasel, the tail of an anchovy. Some look like Borneo-sized snapping turtles. Some resemble parrotÂ-shark hybrids: the hellish spawn of Big Bird’s one-night stand with Jaws. Some look like an amphibious Lucifer, an evil one with webbed armpits. Some are huge and menacing aqua-dogs, ready to go fetch Madagascar. Some have fur, some have...
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