Bottle Nosed Dolphin (Original)

Artist: Janet Blakeley
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 13" x 17" (320mm x 420mm)
Date: 1979
Code: BlakeleyDolphinLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Janet Blakeley.

A pod of Dolphins flip their powerful tail fins to propel themselves out of the water. In the United States, bottle-nosed dolphins like those shown in our picture are trained to catch beach balls and juggle them on the end of their noses.

This is the original artwork for illustration on p7 of Look and Learn issue no 900 (21 April 1979).

• Artist Biography

  Janet Blakeley
  Janet Blakeley was a regular contributor to Look and Learn and was one of their most prolific artists for nature articles in the late 1970s, appearing almost every week.
  
  She also contributed illustrations to Watching Wildlife by Andrew Cooper (London, Usborne, 1982) and the children's novel Alice's Part by Vera Boyle (London, Macmillan Children's Books, 1983).
  Source: From biographical notes by Steve Holland