My students are painting either healthy and happy coral reefs with beautiful tropical fish, or they are painting sharks and barracudas who will come closer to shore in search of food once the reef fish are gone.
Other students are happily painting garbage in the water - plastic bags floating, soda cans, car tires, even a boat anchor that has broken some coral.
My advanced students are painting small sub-environments - we have a huge, detailed coral reef where D is painting in a pointillist manner. R is painting her angelfish swimming through sea grass. J has a huge turtle, with detail showing each and every wrinkle of skin and scale on his shell. We have jellyfish and seahorses and moray eels.
Some of the basic classes have talented students, who are challenging themselves with egrets, terns, and other shore birds. Mostly are drawing/painting the bulldozers and trucks killing the trees. On the healthy side, we have spaced apart small houses, lovingly painted, with a few electric cars parked by the houses. The unhealthy side has a huge factory spewing pollution into the air, and runoff darkening the ocean.
What a fabulous reef!
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