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Ready to display - Something Fishy...

  • sarah816202
  • Jul 15
  • 3 min read

Updated: Jul 27

A wonderfully calm week as we explored life beneath the water through the lens of fish. We visited aquariums large and small, discovered tropical and cold-water species, and explored garden ponds and seas. The remarkable diversity of fish, their vibrant colours, and the mysterious underwater world inspired some amazing artwork. Take your time browsing our online gallery aquarium and see what captured our creatives' imaginations. Do you have any favourites...


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. Watercolour painting of a Kohaku koi carp with a white body and rich red markings, swimming gracefully through a dark blue, mottled underwater background.
Something Fishy... by Sarah

Sarah - 'Grace Beneath the Surface'

I have always enjoyed watching koi glide effortlessly through the water, and this painting reflects the sense of peace they bring me. The Kohaku, known as the King of the Koi, is admired for its elegant white body and balanced red markings. It symbolises harmony, resilience, good fortune and the quiet beauty of life's journey. Watercolour with white acrylic highlights have been used.


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. A large orange and white striped clown fish centrally placed, in among colourful fronds of coral and rocks to the bottom. Light is coming from above and two other smaller clown fish.
Something Fishy... by Christine

Christine - A lovely clownfish swimming among the coral under the sea, coloured in electronically by Christine using a programme on her iPad. It's great to have a piece of Christine's colouring to add to the blog; she uses this device during the art sessions and can find it tricky to match the topic with what she has available to her - she found this in the 'Marine Life' section. As always, Christine enjoys taking part when she's available. Love the colours in this picture. Well done.


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. Simple line drawing of fish with a rounded body, large eye and small fins, sketched in black pen on white paper.
Something Fishy... by Matthew

Matthew - A lovely drawing of a fish. During the session, Matthew explained he drew a fish that lives under the sea; perhaps he visited an aquarium and saw one. Drawn with a black biro on white paper.


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. Drawing of a round fish bowl containing four orange fish and one black fish swimming among green aquatic plants. A bright red treasure chest sits on a sandy base decorated with colourful pebbles.
Something Fishy... by Donna #1
Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. Drawing of an underwater scene featuring a smiling grey shark with sharp triangular teeth swimming above four colourful fish. Green seaweed, orange coral, rocks and a shell decorate the seabed against a light blue water background, creating an ocean-type habitat.
Something Fishy... by Donna #2

Donna - Fabulous pictures, really colourful and full of life. The first picture features Donna's fish, Toothless (black) and Flop (orange), in their aquarium. The second features many fish, all varieties. I especially love the shark, with their sharp white teeth, and the body shape looks so streamlined, brilliant work, Donna! While in the art meeting, Donna explained that she had been watching some Pinterest drawing videos and had been practising using them independently; these are the results. This resource works well for you, Donna. Both artworks are drawn using pencil and coloured in with felt-tip pen.


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. Painting of three brightly coloured tropical fish swimming in pale blue water. One large yellow and blue fish, one orange fish with blue stripes, and one small blue-and-white striped fish are painted in bold, vibrant colours against a soft watercolour background.
Something Fishy... by Andy

Andy - Amazingly colourful, love this painting. Andy decided to paint these beautiful angelfish that live among the shallow reefs of the tropical oceans. He used oil pastels on a watercolour background.


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. A colourful photo collage, set against a vibrant rainbow-gradient background. The collage features seven yellow-framed photos depicting a group of men on a humorous, fish-themed adventure. The scenes include eating fish and chips in a restaurant, working behind a chip-shop counter, posing playfully with freshly caught fish on a pier, celebrating with large fish under party disco lights, and a digitally edited shot of two men looking at a tropical coral reef underwater.
Something Fishy... by Phil

Phil - A comical collage of photographs featuring Phil and people he knows in various scenarios with fish! He used Google Gemini AI to assist him with this collage and generate the funny images in the various settings.


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. A reddish orange fish swims in the centre directly above a vibrant green, yellow & bright pink coral structure. A blue sky with a small yellow sun in the top left. The bottom is a blue, wavy sea.
Something Fishy... by Noor
Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork placed centrally. A large, round shape with a circular green centre, flanked by blue and red petal-like shapes at the top. It's supported by thick green and yellow rectangle shapes, extending downward on a white background.
Something Fishy... by Noor

Noor - These are absolutely gorgeous pictures of very delicate-looking fish. I love the tiny fish in your first picture, which is so cute, swimming among the flower-shaped coral! Noor said she had been following a YouTube video while she was drawing her fish in the sea. Your second picture has lovely colours and shape. Coloured pencils were used for both.


Display frame is bright blue, with decorative fish & seaweed. Artwork is central, a colourful sea goddess with flowing green-blue hair, wearing a shell-inspired dress and holding a staff. She is surrounded by turquoise, purple and orange tropical fish, with a sailing ship, swirling clouds and ocean waves in the background.
Something Fishy... by Mandy

Mandy - This is a beautiful coloured Queen of the Sea! Love the richness of the colours used. When Mandy first began this, she shared she had been using specific gel pens. With time and steadiness, this artwork is now complete, and it's stunning 🩵


A wonderfully colourful week under the water, where we all gained our water wings through the power of imagination. It was a theme everyone seemed to enjoy.


As always, creativity took many different forms. One community member finished an artwork from a previous week, while another continued working on an intricate colouring piece inspired by this topic, requiring time, patience and precision. They also shared a recommendation for some highly pigmented gel pens they had been using, which produced excellent results and were admired by the group. It's a fantastic space to share not only company and creativity, but also tips, techniques and favourite art materials.


If you would like to join us, we have a new topic every week. Our online sessions run every Wednesday from 7:30–9:00 pm (UK time). If you're free, we'd love you to come along. Visit our Linktree and select All4Art.


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