How To Be A Mermaid/Marine Biologist
All smiles! I won the bid with NOAA/NMFS to create an educational rockfish kids science book & poster!! Drawings of canary rockfish, yellow eye rockfish & bocaccio coming soon!
Nothing like catching a big fish contract!
Photo throwback to catching the biggest fish in Palau
I have a talented and handsome brother named Alex (see below). He writes for the young, broke and beautiful on a site called brokeassstewart.com. This month, I had the pleasure of illustrating the above for one of their tongue and cheek articles on which city is “hipper” San Francisco or Oakland. If you are interested in the answer, check it out: http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2015/09/01/10-reasons-why-oakland-beats-san-francisco/
Story Hour with the Mermaid Scientist was a success!
Thank you to the SLO librarians, the enthusiastic kids and supportive parents
You are the wonderful!
The Mermaid Scientist Displays will be up at the San Luis Obispo Library for all of August 2014
Hammerhead shark heads.
Embellishments for the text pages in Mermaid Scientist Alphabet Book
Art After Dark in a monthly Art Show Event in San Luis Obispo
Illustrations from The Mermaid Scientist Alphabet Book will be showcased at Anaya Acupuncture
Address: 1264 Higuera Street Suite 102D
(Next to Vintage Wine Bar on Monterey Street & Johnson Ave)
Come peruse some fish art and enjoy!
O is for Octopus
Scientific name: Amphioctopus marginatus
Tagalog: Pugita
The Coconut Octopus of The Coral Triangle is a multi-talented mollusk. He can change color to tell you how he’s feeling, solve puzzles, catch fish, blow ink, swim, crawl, explore, befriend mermaids
AND, most impressively, he joins the elite group of species on planet earth who use tools. His favorites include coconuts and clam shells and uses them for protection. Like the nudibranch, he is a soft and squishy little guy who feels exposed and naked when walking across the ocean floor. A clam shell acts like an army helmet or bunker, making a safe place to hide when a hungry sea monster attacks.
Video: http://bcove.me/u67wa3sj
The Baby Brown Banded Bamboo Shark likes stripes.
Stripes, like those of the poisonous sea snake, fool potential predators (the dumb ones) and protect this baby from being eaten.
When the Brown Banded Bamboo Shark grows out of his juvenile stripes, he becomes a mature brown.
Unfortunately, most humans are not fooled by the stripes and these little guys are commonly eaten in the islands of The Coral Triangle.
Boding = Tagbanua/Tagalog name for Shark
I am an Anemone,
A tentacled beast at the bottom of the sea.
It is a beautiful place with a lot of space,
And it used to get quite lonely.
One day a clownfish and some Zooxanthelae
floated by, nestled in and came to live with me.
We are now a happy, multi-species family.
The Anemone, the Clownfish and the Zooxanthellae are a symbiotic threesome found all over the reefs of Palawan.
The Mermaid Islands Corp is coming out with a fun fact filled Alphabet book of the sea creatures we have found in Palawan. Bright watercolors and ocean critter stories promise to be entertaining to mermaids and kids alike. Enjoy these teasers and stay tuned for more updates on how to reserve your book.
Banan = Tagalog/Tagbanua name for Anemone
Mermaid Scientist 
