“Hey there sailor…” by Jessica Douglas is a painting done in the year 2007. It features a anglerfish-like monster with a nude mermaid as a tail luring a ship of unsuspecting sailors to their fishy doom. The medium is watercolor on canvas, with the colors looking rather layered for that type of paint. It has a soft, humorous aesthetic, its hues of blue and green making the viewer feel happy and preserves the tone of the piece even though the subject matter involves the death and destruction of an entire ship and its crew. The focus of the piece is the green and scaly creature, a strange mix of an anglerfish and a bullfrog hiding in the bottom left corner.
The piece is not designed to be taken seriously, and was admitted by the artist as merely a humorous dream she had painted onto a canvas. Art does not always have to be profoundly deep to be well made.
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