Pink Salmon Mugs
Description: This work in about the cycle of life that occurs after the salmon spawn each year. The reference image I used was taken by myself in Squamish BC at the Stawamis River that flows at the foot of the Stawamis Chief Mountain. Although beautiful and tragic, salmon returning to the river beds of their birth to leave their own off spring which is followed by their own deaths, it is a symbol of the sacrifice they make to health of the forest and its other creatures. Their long journey home that is rife with struggle and dangerous difficulties, yet, as they exit the world they give their nutrients to the forest floor and to the river itself, as well as bears, carrion birds and other scavengers that feed off of their carcasses. Nothing embodies th
Description: Just what I feel like doing. Although possibly in a huge, soft, four poster bed with fluffy pillows and soft blankets, rather than a pile of books. Isn't it wonderful how cats can sleep in the strangest places? Nobody relaxes quite the way a cat does, all those liquid, floppy, warm and purry muscles... Just chilling. : ) Hand drawn with graphite pencil and coloured in photoshop with a few of my own textures thrown in for good measure. PS All titles and authors names are fully imaginary. ; )
