art, marine education, marine conservation and social enterprise project

Atelier Aquatic Drawing inspiration from life in the Ocean, to life on Earth

A-Z Colouring book of Creatures Who Live in the Sea

This is an Art, Marine education, Marine conservation and Social enterprise project.
The students learnt about creatures who live in the sea and chose their favourite creatures to illustrate pages of an A-Z colouring book.
We illustrated the creatures on the back of each page under the pseudo name Steph La Pod (Cephalapod !), see examples of illustrations below. On the back of each page are fun facts and little poems about each Sea creature.

Art, marine education and conservation social enterprise.
Created by children with special educational needs to raise funds for their school.
26 A4 pages of hand drawn pencil illustrations, each letter a different creature!

Support West haven special school by buying this brilliant gift – the gift that keeps on giving…give your finest coloured pages to friends and family! Spell names, funny words…
Re-discover your creative side.
Relax with therapeutic colouring in of crazy creatures from the sea!
Learn about life in the sea with the fascinating facts on the back of each page
Support The Reef-World Foundation, an environmental conservation charity- 20% of profits of the book sales go to this Charity.

Front of page

Back of page

Illustrations by: Steph La Pod

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We learnt about:

Different creatures who live in the Sea and what makes them special
Using inspiration from artists; Millie Marotta and Johanna Basford
Drawing techniques amd mark making
Visual Elements; Line, Pattern, Colour
Collage and mixed media of oil pastels and watercolour
How we can conserve, protect and regenerate life in the Sea
Warm Colours, Cold Colours in art and the effect of global warming on life in the Sea
How we can use Art to raise money and awareness

Amazing Argonaut facts:

Argonauts are a species of octopus.
Argonaut female and males are very different sizes, this is called “sexual dimorphism”. Males only grow 3cm while females grow up to 45cm long.
Argonaut female creates a thin shell to use as a brood pouch for eggs. This shell is secreted and formed by a modified arm that has a wide sail-like lobe, which stands out from the other seven “normal-looking” arms.
Argonaut males also have a modified arm called a “hectocotylus”. During mating, this arm breaks away on a mission to carry sperm and crawls into the female where it just hangs around until she is ready to fertilize her eggs! The female then carries the fertilized eggs around in her shell until they are ready to hatch.
Argonauts swim about in warm open ocean areas called pelagic sea, eating krill, shrimp and pelagic snails.