gRACE KINNEY 

https://www.instagram.com/gracehkinney/

Theme: Biodiversity and Aquaculture on the North Coast.

From Grace: My design started out with a drawing done by hand painted in gouache, then scanned into the computer and edited with photoshop, I mask over the colors to make them solid and find the right hues. I like to draw by hand first because it allows me to have a more organic flow, just like the kelp and then clean it up on the computer for a more finished look. I'm inspired by the movement of seaweed and all of it's different shapes, I drew native seaweed species to the northern coast and wanted to share diversity among them. I like to include a sun in my work to depict a perspective of being underwater, in a kelp bed, with the sun shining through the sea.

Lysa DuCharme

https://www.instagram.com/lysaducharmeart/

Theme: Urban Ocean Ecosystems

From Lysa: I wanted to convey the relationship between our urban environment and the natural world which exists below the sea. Several of the species of seaweed provide some sort of economic benefit as food/ingredients. Kelp forests provide home/protection to many species, supporting entire underwater ecosystems. The piece is created with micron pen and then scanned into Adobe Illustrator to color and vectorize.