This week's Illustration Friday prompt is "power", so naturally, I drew this little fish.
With the end of summer upon us, our minds are (hopefully) turning to thoughts of school and learning. My tuting schedule is chock full as I want it to be with the test prep season in full swing, and the kids are getting their schedules and supplies in order. And oh yeah, I've got the student thing going on too.
Knowledge is power.
I've also been schooling myself in fish - ha... get it?? *sorry*. Recall that my little fish tank recently went all Armageddon on me. Since then, I've been trying to learn what went wrong. During this education, I've become bound and determined to foster an aquarium rebirth like no other.
So I've been google schooling and youtube schooling and turning into the resident fish geek. I explained to Magnum how, as our nest is becoming empty, I am satisfying my need to take care of SOMEthing. Fish it is.
Yesterday, Meego, Wolfgang, and I visited a local fish shop (I'm still keeping Fridays dumb) that I learned of. The building was just a hole in the wall, but we walked inside and it was like a Marine Dream. BEAU-tiful aquariums, a lovely assortment of fish and other reef dwellers...
I stood in front of the buncha-gallons tank as the fish swam around, giving me the eye.
"Think you could keep me alive and happy like this? Do you have the POWER??", they asked.
Yes?
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14 comments:
I LOVE that painting!! I can just imagine he's looking back at an even bigger fish gaining on him!
I love it too! (And the round about way you came up with him as your choice for 'power'.)
Every household needs a resident fish geek. Ok, not really, but since you all have a computer geek and a reptile geek, the next obvious choice would be to have a fish geek. You make a good one.
Were you able to find out what sparked the Armageddon?
He has a look like, "I hope you're not thinking of fish and chips." Great picture! I wish I could do art. I just have to admire other peoples'.
That is one worried looking fish!
Good luck with the aquarium - we had one when I was young - things ate each other, snails multiplied, it was quite fascinating in a "circle of life" kind of way :-)
Such a pretty fish! Makes me want to go watch Finding Nemo.
I completely understand your emptying-nest-need to take care of something. I'm pretty sure that's the same reason I went in search of Lucy Pie. And I'm a good dog caregiver. But fish? I'm not so sure I could deal with fish. There's a balancing act to keeping their habitat in just the right condition to keep them happy (and alive.)
Thanks, and you're probably right. Fish are pretty low on the food chain.
I think what happened was, the new terrorist fish I brought home had some disease in their pet store water (I've since learned to NEVER put pet store water in the home tank). The terrorists are tetras, the sole apocalypse survivors (the lesbians) are also tetras. All of the non-tetras are now in the big fish bowl in the sky. Bio terrorists!
He's a French Angel Fish. I wonder how to say "fish 'n' chips" in French.
At the end of second grade, I brought home two guppies from our classroom tank. My dad put them in a fishbowl and in no time, we had multiple tanks and my dad was the guppy supplier to the local pet store, even with all the baby snacking going on.
There really is quite a $$$cience behind a good healthy aquarium...
Slap some sparkles on him or her and you've got Rainbow Fish. (Maybe you didn't read Rainbow fish to your boys.)
Good luck with repopulating your tank.
I like how you derived "power" from the fish. :)
Rainbow Fish, of course! Seems like I was just reading that book *sniffles*.
Very cool illustration! I used to have a fish tank, and my favorite part was going to the fish store and imagining all the possibilities. Cleaning the tank, not so much.
Great illustration! Great representation of power (in the tank).
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