Some of my favorite original artwork and photography!

  • A painting of a smalleye Pacific Opah. It's a blueish fish with a spherical body from a side view, with bright red fins. The mouth is almost beak-like, and a large eye looks at the viewer.
  • This image is of a watercolor painting of a squid, created by LivInSeas! The squid has a slender body, and its arms and tentacles are splayed out and curled slightly. The squid is reddish. The base of its body is painted with a soft pink/grey color, with some darker red and gold highlights. The body is covered in a large amount of little, red spots, which give it a more reddish appearance and look almost freckle-like. Dotted across the entire body are larger spots that have a similar appearance to seeds on a strawberry. These spots appear to be shiny and silvery, with little blue dots/shading at the top and a pinkish hue in the middle. The squid has one deep, blue eye visible, which appears to look at the camera. At the top of the squid, two small, grey fins attach to the very top, which appear to be folded slightly. The grey fins have small dots of red in the middle close to the body.
  • A watercolor painting done by LivInSeas featuring a hummingbird bobtail squid. The squids body is a faint, dusky purple color, and its covered with large patches of whitish or fluorescent blue/green color. The eyes are horizontal slit shapes. Five tentacles are visible, each having a line of fluorescence running down the center of each arm. The squid is covered in black spots across the entire body. The black spots are larger on the arms and lower body of the squid, and much smaller on the upper body.
  • A watercolor painting of a yellowfin tuna by LivInSeas. The tuna has a torpedo shape, with a wide mid-body. It has a stripe of dark blue running down the top of its body. Below the distinct stripe is a gradient from teal to yellow, then a grey/silver lower body. The lower body also has many vertical stacks of white dots running up the belly. The fins are mostly yellow, with a long second dorsal fin and anal fin which extend far off the body, curving backwards. The pectoral fin running down the side of the body is dark blue.
  • A watercolor painting of a spotted ratfish. The ratfish's body is a brownish color, with white spots covering the body. It has a gold-brown line (lateral line) running down the side of its body, and several lines crisscrossing the face. The nose is sloped, almost like a ski jump shape. Its fins are a blueish grey in color, the pectoral (where an arm would be) fin noticeably large, with little gold reflective lines running down the fin. The fish's eye is brown, with orange and blue.
  • A watercolor painting of a louvar fish by LivInSeas. The louvar has a torpedo shape with a beluga-like rounded head. There's a shaded crease where this rounded head meets the face. The louvar is orange-silver, with the orange color reflecting more from the top of the fish, and the grey-silver color across the midbody/bottom of the fish. The pectoral and caudal (tail) fins are bright blood-orange/red. The dorsal and anal fins stretch from almost the tail of the fish to about 1/3 uup the body, and are much lighter in color, with only faint red fin rays and grey in between each ray. The pelvic fin is very small, and a similar faint reddish-grey to the dorsal and anal fins. The lips of the fish are reddish, and look a bit parrot-like. The eye is smaller, and surrounded by reddish coloration.
  • An illustration of an orca by LivInSeas, done with acrylic marker. The orca is leaping to the left, its body arcing and its tail pointed downwards. The orca's belly is visible, white running down the mid section. One fin is pointed downwards, the other is out to the side. The orca has glossy yellow highlights running down its back, along the front of its dorsal and pectoral fins, and along its belly
  • A painted image by LivInSeas of a school of sardines. The background is a blue-teal gradient, featuring blue squiggles, large white spots, and smaller, colored dots. The sardines have brown fins and greyish bodies. The tops of their bodies are blue, with white dots forming a shine effect. The mid-body is pink, which transitions to a grey belly. The sardines have black dots running down their body above the pink. The bottom of the fish have slightly darker stripes and dots, which resemble scales. The sardines have dark, shiny eyes.
  • This image was captured on a boat at sunset. The ocean is a dark blue, with a swath of reflected, orange light from the sun. On the horizon is a large mountain, rising from the water in the middle-left of the frame and running off to the right of the screen. The sun is close to skimming the mountains on the left side of the frame, turning the lower part of the sky orange. The upper portion of the sky is a soft, grey color. There is a lens flare in front of the mountain on the right side of the screen.
  • An image captured of mountains rising from the sea in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The sea in the foreground is a soft blue color. The mountains appear to be reflecting the sunset, with a faint pinkish tone. A wall of steep rock rises from the sea on the right side of the screen, covered in green trees on the top. Another mountain rises at a similar angle behind it, with patches of snow at the very top. The bottom is covered in trees, which fade with increased elevation. Behind these two mountains in the distance is a third mountain, broader and with larger patches of snow at the very top. The sky is clear, but is a soft blue/yellow color.
  • The red cliffs of Helgoland. The image features tall red cliffs in the foreground, the image captured from atop the cliffs nearby. One large rock pillar looms next to the cliffs, reaching a similar height. The sky is clear and blue, with clouds on the horizon, and the sea behind is greyish blue.
  • Phytoplankton imaged under a microscope. The background is a deep, rich blue color. The phytoplankton are somewhat of an elongated oval in shape, with a bright, fluorescing sphere in the center. The phytoplankton seem to be see-through, their shape made visible by a faint outline around the edges. Surrounding the phytoplankton are a bunch of small, fluorescent rod-shaped bacteria. They look like sprinkles. A few are clinging to the edges of the phytoplankton cells.
  • Snow-covered mountains looming over a dark grey ocean at sunset. The mountains are in the distance and swathed by pinkish light from the sunset, with pink-grey clouds drifting above them. The sky transitions from yellow to blue. Image was taken from a boat (not visible) on the sea in Nuup Kangerlua Fjord, Greenland.
  • This image features a medium-sized lake. The suface is almost completely covered with large, felled logs. Two men are balancing on the floating logs in the front right of the frame, showing the massive scale of the logs. Behind the lake is a thick forest, covered in fog with a hill rising dramatically through the foggy clouds in the distance. The sky is dark and overcast.
  • This image was taken near where a lake flows into a river. It was captured on Sitka Island, Alaska, and the lake is surrounded by bright green, evergreen trees representative of the boreal forest in the region. The water is dark blue-green, reflecting the nearby trees. The sky is very overcast. In the foreground of the photo is a bright green tree, and trees of a similar color line the other bank of the river.
  • An image taken from the water in Alaska. The sea in the foreground of the image is almost greenish, and a kayaker is visible on the left side of the photo in a red kayak, her paddle tilted up into the air as she moves closer to shore. The trees on shore are dense, green firs, characteristic of coastal British Columbia, Canada.
  • This image shows a person wearing fishing gear holding a sunflower sea star. The image is captured from over the person's shoulder, so only their arms and hands and torso are visible. The sunflower sea star is bright orange, with a dark center, and it has many legs. 17 of its legs are visible in the photo. One leg is turned slightly, so its sucker cups are visible.
  • The image features a country lane along the seaside, with a cottage in the background. Soft, green grass lines the lane, with a little wood barrier running through the grass. The grassy roadside runs down to a warm, sandy beach, which is covered in large, tan rocks. The sea is visible at the very side of the image, reflecting a teal blue. The sky is a deep blue, with fluffy clouds streaking the sky.
  • This image is a landscape photo of the seaside. The shoreline is very rocky, zigzagging in and out of frame and cradling the teal ocean, which extends out to the left of the frame. The rocks are a brownish color. It's a sunny day, and the sky is blue with some noticeable fluffy clouds. This image was taken in Brittany, France, on the Atlantic coast.
  • A photograph of water reflecting the sunset sky. The rippling sea surface is the focus of the photo, but hills rise from the sea in the background. The water is a purpleish blue in some parts, but reflects the black of the hills in some parts and the white/orange/pink of the sunset sky in other parts.
  • This image was captured from a pier (not visible in the shot) looking down on the ocean. The water is teal and milky, the visibility would be low for a scuba diver in those conditions. At the surface float big patches of giant kelp, swirling up and towards the top right of the frame, indicating a current. This image was captured in Avila Beach, California, which is along the central coast, an area famous for kelp forests.
  • The image shows a few seals laying on a haul out dock which borders a small harbor. The seal in the middle of the frame, the focus of the shot, stares off into the middle distance in a pondersome fashion. The seals behind it look relaxed, one with its head down and one with its head up, also staring off into space.
  • An image taken of the sea at sunset. The ocean is dark blue in the very foreground, but reflects the orange and dark grey of the sky and clouds from the foreground to the midground. At the middle of the photo, the sea ends and cloudy sky begins, switching from grey to puffy, tall formations of orange and yellow clouds. The sky behind the clouds is blue.
  • A landscape photo of snowy mountains next to the ocean. This photo was captured by LivInSeas in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland. It's sunset, and the sky is hazy with soft blue and fuzzy pink clouds. The mountains and snow are reflecting a slight pinkish hue as well. There are two main mountains visible, one on the left and one on the right side of the screen. The ocean sits in the foreground.
  • An image of light blue ocean water captured from a boat (not visible). The water fills the frame entirely. The water was so light in color due to silt from the glacier. This image was captured in a fjord near Nuuk, Greenland, where a land-terminating glacier carried high amounts of sediment into the water.