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Vivid Manateeby `ursulav

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I went to Florida last week, and at the Epcot center, for the first time, I saw real live manatees.

If there is anything more adorable and tragic than the manatee, I do not know what it is. Their wodgy little faces! Their poor scarred up backs! We spent like an hour there with me making idiot noises at the poor wodgy manatees and my boyfriend attempting to convince me that I probably shouldn't ditch my career and devote my life to manatee rehabilitation, what with my fear of water and all.

When we finally got home, naturally I had to paint one.

Probably going to Midwest Furfest, unless someone would like to make me an offer I can't refuse first. The manatee is around 9 x 6, mixed media and gold leaf on watercolor paper. Prints are available at Red Wombat Studio: [link]

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~onlygoodart Jun 17, 2011

alsom

~Hopez10 May 30, 2011

I live in florida, and I think I am lucky to be able to see them so commonly ((Along with dolphins))

~TaraLinzee Feb 24, 2011

I LOVE manatees! These vivid animals remind me of Rinconada figures. (and no that's not a cheeky way of saying you copied anything, just a compliment!

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~thesweetfreak Jan 8, 2011

iy's so beautiful

~Minkymy Dec 17, 2010

That thing is super cute. I just wanna adopt it an make a nice living space for it in the local pool.

~youngpilgrim7 Nov 2, 2010

i love this very very much

~tigerpixie16 Sep 21, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

So CUTE!!!

~Mrs-Imperial-Bryant Jul 18, 2010

So cute

Love the colors

~glowworm56 Jun 6, 2010

That is very adorable.

~DragonAnimeParty Jun 5, 2010 Digital Artist

It's such a terrible thing to have beautiful creatures likes these get run over by boats ;_; The problem is that they only respond to high pitched frequencies and boats have very low ones. Another problem is that they don't learn to get out off the way after the first time they get hit.
Very lovely tribute ^^

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