Manatees and Mermaids

Where you'll find that MMW. Manatees, Mermaids, and Woody from Toy Story.

[manateese]

My boyfriend made this poster and he was really proud of it. His company made him go to a Hillary rally because that's who they've chosen to support. They told him that the poster went against their message and he needed to keep it in his car. Since, you know, Hillary isn't really against fracking. He was very disappointed he never got to use it, so it's getting put up on my tumblr <3 Worst of all they told him he couldn't be on the stage with the rest of his coworkers because he didn't fit the demographic that Hillary was trying to appeal to at that time. Fuck. That. Shit.

[manateese]

So I guess national unicorn day was yesterday, or maybe April 9th. Idk bro. But in honor of national unicorn day I wanted to draw the unicorn of the sea: the Narwhal!! So I drew a manatee trying to blend in with a group of them. To bad it's too cold for this to be a real thing.

[manateese]

I'm actually doing pretty good so far I think. This is a colored version of an older drawing I did. I like that pink hair <3

[manateese]

My earth day hippie with native florida flowers. They're called a florida Indian blanket, so cute. I may paint this later.

[manateese]

So in honor of earth day I wanted to make a post about a very important part of our ecosystem: indicator species. Like frogs! Indicator species are so important because they let you know how healthy the water is. If the frogs are all getting sick and dying it's one of the first signs that there is something seriously wrong with the local ecosystem! So the happier a frog is, the happier manatees are <3

[manateese]

I got a zoo pass for Christmas and decided to make a zoo sketchbook of the awesome animals I see. The zoo I go to has one of the highest ratings for how they treat their animals

[manateese]

This was a part of my thesis project, I just love the thick and thinness of the lines!

[manateese]

One of my favorite things about manatees are how derpy they look. This is especially the case when I draw them with out trying to look directly at a picture of a manatee.  I actually really like this one, it’s not meant to be too detailed, the most detail is meant to be kept in the water, and the purple flowers are Florida water lily’s. 

[manateese]

Just a silly sketch of a Manatee playing her harp <3

[manateese]

So this is the first in a long project I plan on taking on, of filling this blog with mermaids and manatees. Where I’ll be looking at the inner beauty of both, and what it takes for a manatee to pass for a mermaid. 

Since you know, Sailors used to mistake them for mermaids. 

[manateese]

So this is just painted on cardboard, but I'm thinking about painting it on a 24*18 size canvas and maybe selling it on etsy. This is super hypothetical and I'm just asking so I can figure it out, but I wonder how much people would be willing to pay for something like this?

[manateese]

Heeeeeeey guuuuuuuuurl. 

Hey gurl. 

[manateese]

I  moved into an apartment recently. And I decided that my Bathroom was too plain. The Queen of hearts is my favorite character to dress up as, so I found a bunch of beautiful red and gold bathroom stuff, and then decided the walls looked way too plain, so then came the Queen herself. Letting me know the moment that I walk into the bathroom, that I look fabulous.

[manateese]

I was Lumpy Space Princess for this years Tampa Bay Comic Con. I'm pretty happy with my outfit considering I decided I wanted to go like 3 days before the con actually happened. I got to Lump it up with the best of them!!! 

[manateese]

Woody's Travels; Day 1 part 2

At the bottom of that hill with the big smiling fat man, we finally found that flower garden Christina had been looking for. It was nice; it felt like everything we were seeing was just getting more and more beautiful. This time she had a friend walking with her, she sounded pretty smart. They talked about art and music, and something about ‘the other’ whatever that is. But she was enjoying herself and not out of breath anymore, and that’s what was most important to me.

 It seemed like we walked forever that first day and apparently it wasn’t even half way done. After the hill with the big smiling fat man, we ate lunch, and from there we went to a Museum. Christina was ecstatic. She’s an artist and this was probably the most exciting thing we could have gone to. When we first got in there she asked if she could go off and look at things on her own, and so we did. There was so much there, I don’t think Christina even knew where to start. When she finally figured it out, she picked a good spot to do it at. It was a bunch of statues of these beautiful women. It was hard not to look out of that bag and stare. Some of them even looked back at me, well… I don’t know if that was really true, but I’d like to believe it was.

Mulan would have this part.

From there we went to a room filled with the kind of paintings Christina has been doin’ lately. It looked a lot better than what she’s doin’, but still like what shes been doin’. I think it might have been a bit of ah… pep talk for her.

We spent what felt like forever in that place, and when we had to leave I could tell that even that much time wasn’t enough. I bet she would have stayed there all day if she could. But, the group was leaving, so she had to go too. That seemed to be it for the day. As the group made its way back to the hotel, I could tell that this was going to be a good thing for my Christina.

[manateese]

Forget shots, today calls for GRENADES!!! 

[iwanttomeetdavidbowie]

Found a letter that I wrote to Santa on Christmas eve. Ah memories, how innocent I was at 20.