Dreamyfish Art

Return of the Moorish idol

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:13:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:21:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:23:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:58:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:34:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:56:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:19:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:11:00 +0000

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

Artist interview: who~where~what~why?

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:03:00 +0000

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

Fishy Visitor from Carnac Island

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:48:00 +0000

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!

Agora Gallery website's cool Art display

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:44:00 +0000

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!

A view: Underneath the Pond!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:36:00 +0000

You don't need a snorkel to come adventuring Underneath the Pond with Pattillo Armadillo!

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My Art Storefront is available for Downloads of your choice for printing, desktopping, or screen-saving.

Sea sweep: a portrait

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Got any dusty corners? Then have I got a Sea sweep for you!

Drawing by Jude Cowell 2009+

The sad situation of the Longhorn cowfish

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:42:00 +0000

New Scientist is reporting that Longhorn cowfish are in serious trouble, and all the Dreamyfish I know are very sad about the situation.

These worsening conditions affect other species as well so check out the NS article if you will.

Stimulus Money to Fund Coral Reef Restoration!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:50:00 +0000

McClatchy News is reporting that $3.3 million from the president's stimulus package is to fund the restoration of coral reefs in Florida and the US Virgin Islands.

All the Dreamyfish here in the Dreamyfish Art collection are psyched to hear the good news and our little blue planet should be as well...

Save Our Oceans!

Clown surgeonfish says, Happy Birthday, America!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:13:00 +0000

Here's a lovely little Clown surgeonfish from Western Australia floating by to say Hello!

Having gotten word in the last 3 days of three friends having surgery (one of them shockingly unexpected), I thought perhaps a surgeonfish was the way to swim around here at Dreamyfish Art today.

But don't forget to mosey by my latest blog Two Hours You'll Never Get Back where you'll find more of my drawings on several themes (including fishies), a bunch of other stuff (such as America's Solar Return 2009 for July 4th!), and some very interesting links to other blogs and sites as well...

So Clown surgeonfish and I say, Happy 233rd birthday, America, you're still my only nag in the race!

Yellow-eyed surgeonfish: "check out my Slideshow!"

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:00 +0000

Yellow-eyed surgeonfish would be happy as the proverbial clam if you'd check him out in the Dreamyfish Art Slideshow now located in the sidebar to your right!

Drawing 2009+ by jude cowell

Portrait of a Magpie morwong

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:57:00 +0000

Magpie morwong is my name, West Australia knows my fame, brown and white stripes as you see, don't you wish you looked like me?

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Pencil portrait by jude cowell for Dreamyfish Art 2009+ of a Magpie morwong, Cheilodactylus nigripes (Richardson); fish in drawing based on a photo by Rudie Kuiter; background imaginary as in a dream...

Jude's Storefront now available.

False Senator Wrasse says Hello!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:01:00 +0000

A charming False Senator wrasse has floated by to say Hello and to give a tout-out to the political observations made through an astrological lens which occur regularly at Stars Over Washington if you're game.

Yes, it's true that irrascible false senators abound on Capitol Hill but not so many remain in the oceans of Western Australia, as this little fellow might attest. He's an Aussie native, you know.

And he'd like to take this opportunity to say: Save Our Oceans!

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Note: You are cordially invited to check out my new blog if you dare at Two Hours You'll Never Get Back, a tapestry blog woven of many subjects - and do send along your own blog or site link if you think we're a match! jc 5.5.09 2:14 pm edt

Cuddlefish: Chameleon of the Sea - video

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:39:00 +0000

Check out the amazing Cuddlefish!

Sargassum fish video + a Blue-spotted Trevally portrait

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:25:00 +0000

This National Geographic video shows Sargassum fish artfully camouflaging themselves to blend in with sargassum plants in order to ambush unsuspecting prey...kind of like Washington politicians who pretend to be caring human beings the better to pounce upon us, but never mind that.

And here's a pencil portrait of a little Blue-spotted Trevally from Western Australia - ready for his supper and wishing he could be as artful as a Sargassum fish!

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If you must, you'll find more Politics available at:

Stars Over Washington (since Oct 2005) and Jude's Threshold, a tapestry blog of Art, Astrology, and Politics...with a light sprinkling of Political Poetry upon occasion.

Plus, there are more botanical drawings and Children's and Cosmic Art to be viewed at Secret Moon Art for when you're in a most mysterious mood.

But there's one thing no longer a mystery: we must Save Our Oceans, people!

Pale sweetlips returns!

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:07:00 +0000

Look who's returned to Dreamyfish Art...it's Pale sweetlips of Western Australia!

drawing by jude cowell 2009+

Bridled weed whiting groks New Moon in Pisces 2.24.09

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:39:00 +0000

Oh look: Bridled weed whiting is peeking from the algae just in time for Feb 24's New Moon in Pisces, sign of the two fishes!

As you know, the mythology of Pisces relates to spirituality and mystery, and 'hiding in plain sight' is its talent through the sign's connection with nebulous Neptune.

Now astrologically, I use traditional rulers for signs which makes Jupiter ruler of Pisces, though I may refer to Neptune as co-ruler or a higher octave of Jupiter, aka the Hierophant in Tarot.

Idealistic, ideological Jupiter relates to traditional religion while Neptune is more of the 'spiritual' component in our psyches...Neptune is the divine source (and also ruler of the seas in which little fishies swim - it turns up in our dreams as the ocean = the unconscious.)

Astrologically, Neptune also stands in for the masses and represents the collective unconscious, although psychological Pluto has a say as well.

So with Tuesday's New Moon, we may expect a new phase of such spiritual, mysterious, or creative issues, if we so desire. But the weekend (this is being typed at 1:22 pm est on Friday 2.20.09) is the dark of the Moon, the Balsamic phase, 3 days during which the I Ching cautions us to lay low, dream, rest, and perhaps create...things which Pisces adores without any prompting at all!

You may wish to view the horoscope of Feb 24's New Moon 6Pis35 with details - including midpoint pictures from the chart which is set for the Capitol Building, Washington, DC (est.)

And the New Moon's Sabian Symbol for '7 Pisces' is to be found at Stars Over Washington for your evolutionary consideration.

So Happy New Moon, Everyone, and treat a fish to lunch!

Moonlighter hails weekend's Full Moon in Cancer

noreply@blogger.com (jude cowell) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:02:00 +0000

Moonlighter has dropped by to celebrate this weekend's Super Full Moon in Cancer, sign of the crab. 'Super' because Moon is at perigee, Luna's closest approach to earth for all of 2009.

As you know, Cancer is a Water sign which conjures up oceanic visions of primordial ooze, and this little Western Australian Moonlighter may have been hatched under Cancer's rays...who knows?

And you may wish to view the horoscope chart of the Full Moon (21Can02) with details.

There will be a Mystic Rectangle pattern overhead as well as a YOD, or Finger of God, pattern superimposed one over the other.

As usual, I've set the chart for Washington, DC with a squinty eye cast toward political thespians because that's how I roll - with Political Astrology, aka Mundane Astrology, when I'm not at my drafting table drawing little fishies.

Check it out if you get a mo!