Sleeping Beauty Original Acrylic and Oils on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
Mystical underwater silhouette artwork
$150.00
Elevate your space with this stunning original painting featuring the mysterious silhouette of a whale in deep blue tones. The dynamic strokes and ethereal lighting evoke a sense of wonder and serenity, making it an ideal piece for ocean lovers and art enthusiasts alike. Perfect for living rooms or offices.
We visited Moorea, an island of Tahiti, for many years. Usually, we would go on shark-feeding and snorkeling tours. On one trip, we had the opportunity to go on a whale excursion. We actually got to swim with a mother humpback whale and her baby.
At first, the mother was asleep on the ocean floor, and the sun’s rays shone through the water, illuminating the whale. Then, as she began to rise toward the surface, we noticed that she also had a baby with her. She seemed very gentle, almost as if she knew we were friendly. However, it was quite intimidating to be so close to something so massive. I was afraid that her sheer size could possibly pull us beneath the water, where we might not be able to rise back to the surface.
Around that time, the professor conducting research on the whales quietly summoned us to get back into the boat. He had spotted a huge lemon shark heading in our direction. Once we were back in the boat, he showed us pictures of a dolphin that the lemon shark had taken enormous bites out of a few days earlier.
But back to the whale: We were in a fairly small boat with only a few other couples. The whale began swimming back and forth underneath the boat. I thought she could easily surface beneath us and capsize the boat. Still, she seemed to understand people and appeared to be trying to be friendly, as though she appreciated our presence.
It is always amazing to learn from animals, especially very large sea creatures. It is incredible to see how intelligent they are and how accustomed they have become to our presence in their world.
While on Moorea we did many exciting adventures. We went on a Motu Picnic which included snorkeling in the deep ocean with sharks and in the more shallow waters with sting rays. Then they would take us to a very small uninhabited island to have a picnic. This picnic consisted of fresh fruit, "punch" which was really a huge bowl of mai tai and poisson cru. A yummy island favorite with which rice, onion, celery, bell pepper, fresh tomatos, carrots and raw fresh tuna. There was then a ritual of coconut breaking, sharing a sip of the coconut milk and or water and then shaving the coconut meat inside the shell. The shredded coconut was place inside cheesecloth and then twisted and they would squeeze until the milk came out of the coconut and filled the bowl of rice with the coconut milk. After that, fresh limes were squeeze onto the raw tuna to "cook the tuna" This bowl of goodness was wonderful, and usually cake for dessert.
On one such day, we decided to go for a whale swim and of course it was in the deep ocean. Did you know there is a perfectly straight line between the dark blue deep ocean and the crystal clear turquois shallow water. What an exciting day. First off, there was a sinking boat as we headed towards the deep ocean. So we stopped and threw it a tow rope. When we finally made it to our destination there was a mother humpback whale asleep on the ocean floor. She also had a baby with her. Then I suppose the motor of the boat woke her up because she started arising to the top with her baby following. That whale could have easily crushed or turned over our little boat but it didn't. It acted like it knew we were friendly. She swam around the boat and she swam underneath us. I feared she would raise up and dump the people contents of our boat out into the ocean. But she didn't. Instead she acted like she was trying to communicate a thank you to us. She was huge and beautiful and I'm so thankful and blessed that we were able to have that once in a lifetime opportunity.