I was asked to make more art for the beach house.

Somehow "I'll just make a simple test sketch before trying out these watercolors" became an entire undersea scenelet. Then I realized I hadn't used watercolors since I was about SEVEN, and put the inked piece aside so that I could "freehand some fishies" to test the watercolors and how they meshed with the paper I was using.

Naturally, this ALSO became a fully-rendered picture. So I guess I won't be finishing the *original* project from tonight, but at least I still have a new piece of beach art for tomorrow. (I'll just bring the paints w/me and try to finish the other one over the weekend...)

...Anyways. The odd green things are part of the sea anemone they live in; I was working off a reference photo and these are mostly the tops of the anemone's feelers, with the exception of the one side view feeler overlapping the bigger fish.


Vintage 1980s Crayola 8-Color Watercolors on heavy sketch paper. (The paper didn't curl up except for a half inch on two corners. I was impressed.)

...My brother's scanner and I do not get along, in case anyone is wondering.