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Who doesn’t want an adorable penguin to celebrate the holidays with!! (I also have an option minus the Santa hat for people who don’t celebrate Christmas but still want a cute penguin buddy!!)

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Emperor-Penguin-Baby-with-Santa-Hat-by-Squiddllr/60596483.7H7A9

This October I have been working on a series of marine skeletons! Here are the ones I’ve done so far:

A Harbour Seal:

A Stingray:

And a Seahorse:

Stickers are coming to my Etsy shop soon!

This month is inktober!! A marine biologist I follow on IG (@marinemumbles) is holding a series of art prompts called #rockpoolaroid with a list of ocean themed prompts that I am very excited to work on! October is a month for celebrating creativity (no matter skill level) - feel free to join along on IG!

Enjoy my first messy watercolour of the month - a crab!

An hour and a half in - love how these tentacles are turning out (only on the second layer!!!) but definitely sad to see the bright colours go

I’m starting to work on a sea anemone and I’m loving how hectic and colourful my base layer looks each colour is a different layer - so many tentacles to draw and add details to!!

Egg-yolk jellyfish are a beautiful jellyfish found in the waters along the West Coast. Hitchhikers like crabs have been found catching a ride inside their bell (the umbrella shaped top)- which is something I REALLY want to see!

Happy pride month everyone! I am so excited to be spending this month talking about how diverse sex, mating, and gender are in the ocean (or water)!

Blood star… why are you such a simple but complex being??? After hours of drawing and redrawing I think I’ve reached a star that I like and that represents the many blood stars I’ve seen hidden in between rocks. Next up I will spend days agonizing over the leather star

Did you know that sea urchins in the wild wear shells, rocks, leaves, and algae as hats? It’s theorized that they use the hats to help weigh them down and to protect them from predators. They might even help protect the urchins from UV rays and help camouflage them.

In aquariums apparently urchins kept taking parts of the exhibit to use as hats - including items like baby corals. To help keep the exhibits intact, staff started printing small 3D hats for urchins. These hats were not only functional - but made aquarium urchins so much more fashionable than their wild friends.

Look at the spikes on this one! This Frosted Nudibranch (dirona albolineata) was super intimidating at first - but I actually loved playing with the many layering “spikes”. Crazy to see all the forms these creatures come in

My hands have decided to cooperate today so I’m taking some time to work on more Salish sea Nudibranchs while I listen to crooked kingdom! Did anyone else binge Shadow and Bone on Netflix?

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