The Art! Salmon! This is a watercolor illustration/painting of the chinook, or king salmon. The scales and details are made up of many, many watercolor dots painted with several teeny brushes. 🐟 🎨 The Salmon! Many populations of wild salmon around the world are endangered due to human interference. Salmon are the lifeblood of coastal Pacific Northwest ecosystem. They are greatly threatened by diseases spread by farmed salmon in ocean pens. It's best not to buy farmed salmon

A victory this week in the fight to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise - the gillnet ban in the vaquita's range has been made permanent! The fight for survival is not over, strict enforcement of this law is required to give the remaining 60 vaquitas a fighting chance. Recovery could take decades. It's all up to us humans. Let's keep raising awareness and keep the story of the little vaquita marina in the spotlight! 💙 You can learn more about the vaquita (and ado

She's finished! The 12th and final piece in my year-long endangered species art project: The endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. “The Matriarch” - Painted in watercolor using rain water, on vintage watercolor paper. July 2016 The subject of the painting is a very famous lady – she is the elder matriarch of the J-Pod: J2 “Granny.” Granny is thought to be over a hundred years old, estimated to have been born in 1911. She was a youngster the year the Titanic sank. The so