12/11/2009

'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.

12/07/2009

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

12/01/2009

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.

10/14/2009

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.

10/08/2009

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.

9/27/2009

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

9/25/2009

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+.

9/18/2009

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

9/12/2009

Artist interview: who~where~what~why?

Have you ever seen my artwork online and wondered, Who is this artist and what shenanigans is she up to and why?

And where does she park her drafting table?

Then you may enjoy reading an interview with me at Wandering Educators, published in honor of my being named their September 2008 Artist of the Month.

You'll see a variety of my images there including Dreamyfish Art portraits, so do check it out, if you've managed to missed it so far, and most of all...

Save Our Oceans!


Jude 9.12.09 12:09 pm edt

8/12/2009

Fishy Visitor from Carnac Island



You have a visitor from Carnac Island, one you've met before. It's Mr. Slender weed whiting enquiring, "How cool are the waters off Western Australia?"

For as you may know, Carnac Island is home of the Tiger Snakes, eek!

7/27/2009

Agora Gallery website's cool Art display

My favorite feature on NYC's Agora Gallery website (besides Dreamyfish Art being a proud link partner!) is their Art Slideshow set up as if various paintings are hanging behind the desk in their reception area.

And since you never know what genre of work will be displaying there, you may wish to check out their cool Art Exhibition from the comfort of your secure location, if you haven't done so!