Aral Sea Mermaid Doodles

I was recently reading about the Aral Sea, which is a lake lying in Asia between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but due to a Soviet-era, large-scale irrigation project which diverted the two rivers that fed it to area farms, the lake has been slowly drying up, until today, 50 years later, it has largely disappeared, being about 10% of it's original size. 
This is an ecological disaster on an epic scale, and has left many fishing communities that used to be on the shore of the lake, literally high and dry. It is not unusual to see the hulks of rusting fishing boats, laying in what looks like desert, but was in fact, the floor of the lake.
Keeping with my recent mermaid themes, i did a couple of small, quick sketches of dying mermaids, sitting mournfully in the shade of these hulks. Perhaps I will turn them into larger, more detailed paintings at some future date.