The Detested Radishark

The second piece of my senior thesis. I did 4 spreads of the book "Scranimals," a children's book of poems written by Jack Prelutsky.

In case it's hard to read, here's the poem:

"The Detested Radishark

In the middle of the ocean,
In the deep deep dark
Dwells a monstrous apparition,
The detested Radishark.
It’s an underwater nightmare
That you hope you never meet,
For it eats what it wants,
And it always wants to eat.

It’s appalling bulbous body
Is astonishingly red
And its fangs are sharp and gleaming
In its huge and horrid head,
And the only thought it harbors
In its small and frightful mind
Is to catch you and to bite you
On your belly or behind.

It is ruthless, it is brutal,
It swims swiftly, it swims far,
So it’s guaranteed to find you
Almost anywhere you are
If the Radishark is near you,
Pray the beast is fast asleep
In the middle of the ocean
In the dark dark deep."

(I unfortunately had to cut the last stanza from my actual piece.... ironic, no?)

16"x10.667"
Acrylic on board