The big question is... What Happened to the Bird? What are the Lady Bugs role in the birds disappearance? Was there ever a bird at all? What's your answer?

The forest is a very old, very wise and very surprising place. Who knows what paths it will take you down if you choose to walk in it and learn from it's ancient spirits. Who knows what unknown creatures you may find there...

Betta Fish, also know as Siamese Fighters are very territorial and live in murky tiny little mud holes in Thailand and India. Thus the murky water in my drawing. Although it is a common miss conception that Betta Fish only like small spaces, even researchers say that Betta Fish still need as much space in a tank as many other fresh water fish so they have room to grown and move about. I know this from my own Betta Fish. I have both a male and a female and we bought two separate tanks for them so they wouldn't mate and they LOVE swimming everywhere and playing games with their food and their bubbles. They even like watching us, as they are actually very curious creatures. Although they are very territorial against other Male Betta fish, sometimes even their own reflection if they live in an aquarium which also makes them very skittish. Like most male animals in the animal kingdom the male is the most colorful and the most vibrant to attract the female, which is the exact opposite of our Human society. The females need to be gorgeous and allure the male. But I guess we have different standards than most animals.

I have a bit of an obsession with Jellyfish. I believe they are quite astounding creatures. Their physical structure is so fragile a since it mostly just a membrane. They don't have any kind of a brain, respiratory system and no digestive system. That membrane does all of this for them. They breath through it, absorb the nutrients they need and their nervous system is made up of a net of nerves that run through that membrane which has only the basic of functions: it detects the presence of other creatures, simple direction and light. And there are close to 2,000 different kinds of Jellyfish. The most poisonous one is so tiny it is almost microscopic to our eyes. They inject venom into their prey/ victims through a sting. They use their tentacles similar to how we would use either a whip or a lance to stab their victim thus injecting the venom. By many cultures they are considered to be invaders and if even one jellyfish is caught in a net while fisherman are out collecting their catch they entire net has to be thrown back into the ocean because the fish are considered contaminated. Yet some Asian cultures eat these creatures as special culinary dishes. I always pictured these creatures as being quite Alien like, possibly one of the true invaders of the planet.
Thus here in this piece I took the approach of the Portuguese Man of War a huge dominating creature of the ocean to be able to survive in any environment and pose a threat to those around it.
This piece was done in a method called pointillism or stippling as some know it. It is all ink done with copic markers on bristol paper.