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A Smooth Sea Never Made a Killed Sailor

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half_built_pyramids

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Sweet

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Thanks :)

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Wow, that is an awesome piece.

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Thank you!

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That's one peculiar albatross, I like it.

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It's a cormorant. There's a lot of them by the water where I live.

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I think that's a snake bird.

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edit: unearned confidence got me again

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I used a cormorant as reference, but they do look a lot alike. Didn't know these kind of bird. They look very cool!

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Honestly, it's a really nice piece! I should've waited until I was fully awake before posting 😞

It made me think about that porm "rhyme of the old mariner", where sailors were stuck on a calm sea (no wind at all, I'm not sure what's the real sailing term for that).

I don't remember the full details, but a guy killed an albatross and got cursed for that. They hung the albatross around his neck as a sign of the curse.

Thus, bird + dead ship made me think of that story!

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Thank you very much 😊 Someone else mentioned this poem as well! I'm gonna listen to it when drawing tonight. Ian McKellan reads it in this video

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Dead calm sea is common in the area of the equatorial atlantic called the doldrums

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The title isn't a typo. Sometimes we need a smooth sea as to not work ourselves to death.

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But the caption of the image is different?

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Uh shit... that is a typo. I'm really glad I can reupload an image here. Thanks for making me aware

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No worries 😺

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Do you sell these?

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I will put it up on my Big Cartel store and send you a link :)

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You can get a print here :)

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Thank you!

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And could i use it as a background image on my phone?

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Sure! Sorry for the late answer, Lemmy wont let me comment or post on computer...