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Southern Stingray

Year completed: 2010
Medium: Ink Line Art Illustration with Digital Tinting
Description: Fine art drawing of a Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana)

Hand-signed limited edition fine art print (500) of a Southern Stingray. The illustration is reproduced on high-quality acid free stock. Dealer inquires are welcome.

Limited edition fine art print:
8"x10" (20.3 x 25.4cm) $17.95
11"x14" (27.9 x 36.6cm) $22.95

Print is in stock and ships in 1-2 days.

This illustration is also available as stock art.

Artist's notes:

southern stingray thumb The Southern Stingray was completed on 1.10.10. Standing in ankle deep water on an island in Costa Rica I was startled to feel something bump into my leg. That something was a stingray and there was dozens of the patrolling the waters around me. That was several years ago, but I had always meant to draw one. This image is based on a photo by Venson Kuckipudi.

Information about the Southern Stingray:

Southern Stingrays are found in the tropical and sub-tropical waters of the southern Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. It is most abundant near Florida and the Bahamas. They generally are about six feet long. These rays feeds primarily at night on on small bivalves, worms, crustaceans and small fish. They prefer shallow sandy bottoms, seagrass beds, lagoons and reefs. If stepped on by a diver or attacked by its natural predator the hammerhead shark, it will sting over its head like a scorpion.