My drawings today featured sharks wielding kitchen tools that exemplify the shark's feeding mechanism. Here we have the whale shark with a sieve. There's also the tiger shark with a can opener, horn shark with a nut cracker, great white with a set of knives, and a mako shark with forks. Imagine actual teeth accompanying these pictures... match the tooth to the animal and kitchen utensil! Makes for a fun birthday party game a la Birch Aquarium.

Projects like these are educational for me too. I didn't know what a mako shark looked like, for instance, so I Google imaged it. They're huge, beautiful animals, as impressive as great whites, but are hardly as well known. There are photos of them athletically leaping out of the water. There are also photos of giant dead makos and mako heads, unceremoniously displayed with proud-looking people.