If you hit my spoonflower site or Image Catalog (or Pattern catalog, now all mobile-friendly), you will notice lots of dizzying fish and dolphin patterns emerging...why may you ask? Because I did those two adult coloring books (now on Amazon, bn, etc.) :

Of Oceans and Rivers, Fishes and Whales: A Coloring Book of Marine Life for Grown-ups and other Children (available on Amazon here)

Of Oceans and Rivers, Fishes and Whales II: A Coloring Book of Marine Life Patterns for Grown-ups and Others (available on Amazon here)

In doing those two books, especially the second one (which is all patterns, black and white of course so you can add your own imaginative colors), I got inspired to make the natural full color patterns for stuff and fabrics/wrap/wallpaper too. 

What emerged are flowers, stars, swirls, wheels, and the like...which I hope you will like.

I might make a few into cool Hawaiian shirts for myself :0)

Calm Seas, Sunny Shores, and Tight lines,

Bryce

Adult Coloring Book project

Got a wild hare (or hair? as my Pop would say) and as suggested by my sister, created an 'Adult' Coloring Book ('adult'= requires the dexterity of an older kid or adult, the only thing naked in it are fish, whales, dolphins, seals, reptiles, etc.). Anyhow, took quite a bit of work to take various marine life scenes from my kids books, and turn them into black and white color-able images. 104 images later (and many false starts) lead to a 220 page book, 8.5" x 11" with a scene index. Why 220 pages?  because the coloring pages are really single sided, the back page blank except for a header about being blank on purpose, and a footer page number, plus pages of index, plus author notes, and a how-to note. Title data for said book:
Of Oceans and Rivers, Fishes and Whales
A Coloring Book of Marine Life for Grown-ups and other Children
ISBN-13: 978-1523855735
ISBN-10: 1523855738
target price is far less then similar offerings,
should be up for sale sometime before 12 Feb 2016.

Each image (scene) can be colored in using pencils, cut out, and framed if that is what you want.  You could also cut out the page, use markers or paints (ala paint by numbers, minus numbers) then frame or do whatever.

At a min, as you color in the images, you will definitely take a mental vacation while learning about nature.

Still working the myriad of other projects also...
calm waters and tight lines,
Bryce

By popular request, several American freshwater fish are now available on Spoonflower (http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/combatfish)  for purchase :0) These include crappie, largemouth and smallmouth bass, pike, and catfish.  Working on my Arctic and African rivers designs also, and trying to get good new eagle and ice pictures as the winter deepens.

Posted 60 more designs on my spoonflower site, now waiting for all 90 to print and proof....

Got around to updating and making biologically accurate my Mahi-Mahi (dolphin-fish) in Cafepress and other spots, so I can use the fish in my book Sight Fishes.  My earlier drawing was from Paige's Book of Fishes and Whales, and like all the fish in there, very primitive, as I was still learning to use the tools at hand (at thet time Powerpoint and Paint). Over time I hope I have gotten better :0) Mahi's have many complex art features such as bright and shaded colors, moving from blue to green to yellows and oranges to browns.  Since I caught quite a few over the years and took their pictures, I now had enough of a library

New fish and dolphin fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap designs

Posted 30 new designs on Spoonflower, waiting for the proofs now before marking for sale.
This batch has whales, dolphins, penguins, and lots of fishes including trout, striped bass, and dozens of other ocean and river fish designs.
The proofs for five others will get up for sale today, including deep sea fishes, Garibaldi, and many others.

Art Blog 25 Nov 2015

Working now on fishes and animals of the Arctic Ocean and African rivers (i.e. Congo, Nile) for my next two children's Fishes and Whales books. I also have released individual works ahead of the books to buy on shirts, hats (Cafepress, Zazzle), wallpaper, fabrics (spoonflower), etc. on my shopping sites. I added Dalls Porpoise, and Elephant Fish for the next two books, in addition to Nile Perch, Tigerfish, and Harp Seals.  Also assembling a master book of all my fishes, and whales,  in a large color book called Sight Fishes for 2016, as a kid's fish identification work. For that book I pushed out a liopleurodon design on my designs page) .  If you didn't know, that monster had a giant set of jaws with snaggly teeth, like a mosasaur but bigger jaws compared to body length. For extinct animals, take pictures from a set of fossils, then using what I know about biology, then take some guesses for color and muscle structure. On the same site you can find my Dunkleosteus, Orthocone, Xiphactinus, and  Megolodon. Illustration is by far the longest time element in any of my children's books, but I can reuse the drawings usually in other books, or for sale.