Showing posts with label dugongs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dugongs. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Return of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 33


Week 33: Mythology

"Icarus flies too high..." Drawing of Icarus with finepoint black Sharpie. Highlights in watercolour on white Quill linenbond paper, collaged onto a yellow paper Origami circle and blue felt background. Cloud formations created with cotton wool unwound from a cotton bud. Several photos of Pygar the angel from Barbarella used as reference.

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Week 33: Mythology II

"Behind every successful Minotaur is a clever publicist." Drawing of Mr Minotaur and his aide, Mini Taur, in finepoint black Sharpie. Highlights in watercolour on Quill papers: white linenbond collaged onto cream "marbletone".


Week 33: Mythology III

The dugong, origin of the mythological mermaids. Charcoal sketch on blue card with metallic silver Sharpie and opaque white Signo highlights. Based on my own photograph of Wuru, the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium's female dugong.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Communing with the merpeople

#75

Dugongs munching cos lettuce - 90kg per day! - at Sydney Aquarium, Darling Harbour.

If you have some time to kill in Sydney's Darling Harbour, you can't go wrong visiting Wuru and Pig the young dugongs in Mermaid Lagoon at Sydney Aquarium.
My slideshow of ten pics

Mermaid and dugong