🧡 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟✨ // for day 3 of folktale week 2023: sea! // gouache on paper
a little study of scales, texture, and light for a larger project I’m working on! also made this one into wrapping paper because I CAN’T be the only one who wants to wrap fish presents for people????
It’s still so vast, and having that statistic that we basically don’t know shit about it… it gives you hope. And I mean I think that’s what the unknown does, it allows for things like hope.
aesthetic tumblr bloggers, with winsome tone and poetic lilt: the ocean is my beautiful girlfriend. the ocean is sapphic. the ocean is a benevolent force washing this planet in its love. the ocean loves you, personally. it told me so.
literally every single captain I’ve worked under, hoisting me by the metaphorical lapels: listen to me. the ocean can and will kill you, at literally any moment. it’s not personal. it’s not like it’s trying to kill you. but it will. could be today. could be tomorrow. could be in the middle of the night. if it doesn’t get you, the ship will. here are three terrifying stories of people I know personally who have been killed by the uncaring seas and/or a very old boat with poor funding. sleep with one eye open. sleep in your foulies. stay vigilant. no one is safe.
