Truncate coralfish weighs in

This little Truncate coralfish has floated by to say, Hello! He hasn't been here in a while, 'tis true, for he tends to hang out near the coastline of Australia searching for breakfast, lunch, and dinner within coral colonies and other marine nooks and crannies.

Here are a couple of lovely photos of his nibs, yet his personal Wiki bio is mighty thin, so if you'd care to add to his legend with Truncate coralfish facts and figures, this little member of the butterflyfish family would be most pleased with you and in your debt forever.

Salmon Aquaculture now improved!

Perhaps you heard Living On Earth today and the interview concerning Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Food Watch giving its first-ever seal of approval to AquaSeed Corporation of Rochester, Washington, for coming up with a better, safer way to feed farmed salmon.

Salmon is my very favorite fish-for-dinner yet I know that for years now consumers have been warned off farmed salmon because it contains high levels of contaminants. Yet often here in Georgia, farmed salmon is all that's available for purchase.

Well, I hope these innovations in fish farming 'catch' on with salmon farmers across the land!

Now I have no drawings of salmon but here's a small Bengal sergeant who wishes to salute the AquaSeed Corporation - good job!



All Art images copyrighted by the artist; permission for use required:

judecowell at gmail dot com

And please drop by Jude Cowell Art Shop for your tropical fish Art Poster and Greeting Card needs. Why, even fish art Mousepads are still available, relics of a bygone pc age though they may be!

New fish portrait for you: Black striped butterfish!

Say, have you seen my Black striped butterfish? I know I left him around here somewhere!

This noble little Black striped butterfish goes by the alias, Pentapodus vitta (Quoy and Gaimard) and was last seen around Cockburn Sound, Australia which is bordered on one side by Carnac Island where the Slender weed whiting plays.

'Scorpio Girl's new party frock' now a cool Beach Tote!

Know what? It pleases me to announce that one of my drawings Scorpio Girl's new party frock makes a smashing design for a Beach Tote...check out her sepia portrait trimmed coolly in brown, if you wish!

Perhaps if we move to Save Our Oceans before any more dilly-dawdling, we may keep a beach or two...bikinis optional.

Then snagging yourself a whimsical Beach Tote would make a lot more sense for carrying all your stuff (any time of year actually.)

Don't go! but if you must, please drop by a new Art Gallery at Sepia Art Theater where make-believe is behind the curtain and thespians may take their gracious bows & accept fragrant bouquets from ardent fans with much Leonine pride...it's Art, Drama, & Chocolates at Sepia Art Theater, and even Julia Child stops by for a small visit.

Here's icon and avatar of the Sepia Art Theater, Cosmea Collyns...that's Cos may' uh...click above and check out her portrait done in sepia as part of an Art Slideshow...

'Sand Fantasy Art' is smashing! view the video

The Art of Sand Fantasy is demonstrated in 3 intriguing music-coordinated videos that are with lovely New Age music (if there indeed be such an animal) and French cafe music and I think you'll find the artist's website full of amazing features!

Why, this caliber of showing borders on Performance Art of a kind I relish...don't you?

My promise to you: watching premiere sand animation artist Ilana Yahav on video will astound, enthrall, and change you forever!

As Vast as the Desert Sands

Massive planets Jupiter and Neptune meet once more in 2009 on Dec 21. Be there.

see Silhouette of missing Mystery Fish

This tropical fish portrait is incomplete for the star of this underwater scene is unnamed, undrawn, and, therefore...unseen.

Well, if the creek doesn't overrun its banks, this busy pencil artist promises to complete the ____ fish's portrait and post it on items for sale @ my Jude Cowell Art Shop @ Zazzle....please do drop in for a browse whenever you may for T-Shirts, Hoodies, Art Posters, Greeting Cards, and more!

You may also wish to check out illustrations in my Children's, Fairies, Botanicals, Moon, and Cosmic themed images at Secret Moon Art if you prefer more whimsical content.

Of course, here you are, spying on unsuspecting fish while they're ensnared within their favorite dreams which is a bit on the whimsical side, too, now isn't it? Wink!

Jude 12.7.09 6:39 pm est ;p

Red fairy basslet spies Pattillo Armadillo!

You know my children's book character Pattillo is an armadillo and some armadillos can walk under water when necessary. Well, in this drawing you see Pattillo Armadillo trundling along through Red fairy basslet's marine neighborhood.

Wonder if they spoke any friendly hellos?! I feel as if they did. Well, a nod at least.

But you? You'll discover Dreamyfish Art wall posters, a 2010 Calendar, greeting cards, and more at Jude Cowell Art and in my Zazzle Art Shop, too, so do trundle in when you can especially if Holiday Gifts are in your future.

And there's no underwater walking required, just a little surfing - promise!

Return of the Moorish idol

This image of a Moorish idol - kind of cute, isn't he? - is a clickable thumbnail so try it and see where you land!

Hint: your mystery destination is not my Zazzle Art Shop or Cafe Press Art Store, but it is art-related...and a very happy art community at that, so join us if you like, we'd be glad to have you for publishing your own art or just for browsing purposes. You may find something you like...

Dreamyfish Art Shop shapes up, Blue Tiger Art debuts

This particular rainy day in Georgia is being spent sprucing up my new Jude Cowell Art Shop featuring Dreamyfish Art portraits of tropical fish at Cafe Press...please browse, snorkel, or float by when you get a breather.

So far the Shop's variety of Cafe Press offerings include: Wall Art Posters, Greeting Cards, a Messenger Bag, T-Shirts, Hoodies, Pet Food Bowls, and a precious doggie sweater for Fido with a Dreamyfish image upon it, but not to fret for Fido probably won't notice there's a fish on his back...but a marine lover like you will.

Plus, there's a new Blue Tiger Art Shop now debuting so get in on the ground floor for tigery wild animal designs.

And you may wish to check out my new Zazzle Store, of Cosmic, Fish, and Tiger images galore. At Zazzle you'll discover designer Keds shoes, neckties, and more, all designed with Jude Cowell Art images - yet each product is customizable by you!

Also at Zazzle: you may wish to investigate a new design 'Pink Tiger Pink Moon' just for fun...

Why, lookee here, it's a Blue Tiger Art image now...

Plight of the Jellyfish

Visually, most Jellyfish have an angelic quality to me, an otherworldly style that I love. Of course, never having been stung by one helps continue the illusion within my idealistic adoration of their lovely forms.

Yet these days, as with all marine creatures, Jellyfish are having troubles galore as reported by X-RAY MAG so check out the plight of the Jellyfish, why don't you?



Jelly's Leavin' drawing by Jude Cowell; not a botanical illustration of any species, merely an idealistic illusion brought on by adoration and respect of the beautiful Jellyfish.

Polka dot boxfish, a portrait

Polka dot boxfish floated into Dreamyfish Art long enough to have his portrait drawn for you!



Polka dot boxfish, Ostracion cubicus (Linnaeus), hails from Rosemary Island, Dampier, Western Australia.

Dreamyfish Art wall posters, greeting cards, men's neckties, and more now available in my Zazzle Store and at Jude Cowell Art at Cafe Press!

View a 'Dreamyfish Art' Slide Show Panel!

make custom gifts at Zazzle

Okay, now I'm totally cookin' with a cool Zazzle Panel slide show of Dreamyfish Art images now offered as Wall Art Posters in my Jude Cowell Art Shop!

And if that's not enough selection (I'm working on it), you may wish to check out more drawings in my new Cafe Press Art Store, if you're game for browsing.

Yes. I have been busy with Art and stuff. And you? What have you been up to?

Western blue devil drawing now a Wall Art Poster!

This small image of my botanical rendering of a Western blue devil of Western Australia may now be ordered as a larger Wall Art Poster, or you may splash the little fellow on various other items in my Zazzle Shop with the Customize It! button - grab a snorkel and swim over the 'net to peek at the blue devil and other Dreamyfish Art images in my new Zazzle Shop...

click the post title for a Zazzle Art browse!

Dreamyfish Art now available as Wall Art Posters!

Tonight I am happily announcing a new Zazzle Shop has opened which means that Western Australia's Yellow eye surgeonfish, Ctenochaetus strigosus of Christmas Island waters, is all set up to be ordered as a Wall Art Poster with *Zazzle's marvelous Customize It! button nearby so you can splash Dreamyfish Art images on anything you like: mugs, notecards, greeting cards, T-shirts, mousepads, and more!

Then we'll be design partners, so how about checking out my new Zazzle Shop where you'll discover that Breaksea cod is now available, too.

As you may imagine, more Dreamyfish Art images will be added as time goes by... perhaps some of my Secret Moon Art illustrations as well, so leave a comment here or convo me if you have a favorite drawing you'd like to snag for your wall decorating purposes, okay?

contact: judecowell at gmail dot com

*Above link may take a few hours to go Live so please check again soon if it doesn't yet take you to my Zazzle Shop. jude

Palau bans shark hunting: UN General Assembly Sept 2009

From the General Assembly at the United Nations this week, some good news is announced for marine and fish conservation as a promise is made by Palau that it will ban shark hunting from its waters and become a Shark Sanctuary.

Fish of all stripes could use such support as this, and Palau plans to ask the world to join in such banning (good luck with that.)

Click the article link to read more and view a disturbing photo of sharks in a row - with fins that have been callously removed. It's a very sad sight.


Moonlighter's Cave, drawing by Jude Cowell 2009+.

Marine debris can turn on your lights, says Red fairy basslet

September 18, 2009 Marine News:

Reuters reports that it's time for the 24th annual International Coastal Cleanup when thousands of volunteers worldwide participate in collecting marine debris from ocean coasts and waterways after which each piece is catalogued, indexed, and turned into clean, renewable energy to power our homes.

As you know, ocean debris is one of the biggest problems faced by marine life. Debris ruins water quality yet its ill effects are completely preventable.

But given humankind's sloppy ways, the next best thing to stopping the littering and dumping is this massive global movement to clean up waterways and coasts that deserve more care from their visitors and neighbors...that'd be us.

And you don't have to be a New-Age-y sort of Gaia fan to know that our Mother Earth mourns constantly on behalf of her watery creatures of the deep, the ones we treat so cavalierly at their, and at our own, peril.

If ever I've heard of a 'make lemonade out of lemons' solution for pollution, it would be the annual International Coastal Cleanup project, for we must have decent water in order to make the best lemonade.

Why its health and environmental benefits are too numerous to mention!



Red Fairy Basslet joins me in saying, Save Our Oceans!


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A Coming Soon Alert: my Dreamyfish Art portraits will soon be appearing in a new Cafe Press shop called Jude Cowell Art which is now under construction and will be offering Wall Posters of fishy denizens from the get-go, plus other Art images and products will be added as time goes on.

Do drop by and bookmark for future reference when you can spare a mo! Jude