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Thank you! I really enjoyed making this one.

It's gorgeous! 😍

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Known for its extremely high affinity for ammonia, enabling survival in nutrient-poor open oceans where it plays a crucial role in the global nitrogen cycle by converting ammonia to nitrite

DAY 185
SPECIES 185 - Nitrosopumilus maritimus
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor. Sakura pen. Tombow pencils

N. maritimus is a key marine ammonia oxidizing archaeon.

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A. aceticus is a non-motile, anaerobic, hyperthermophilic archaeon that forms small, coccoid cells, thriving in extremely hot and acidic environments like volcanic hot springs

DAY 184
SPECIES 184 - Acidilobus aceticus
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. HWC Watercolor. Sakura pen. Tombow pencil

NOTES: I used hot spring inspired colors around today's subject to give the impression it was rising out of the thermal waters

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Love everything about this!

It's genetically distinct, sharing no more than 89% of its genetic material with its closest relatives. It's the sole species within the order Fervidicoccales and genus Fervidicoccus

DAY 183
SPECIES 183 - Fervidicoccus fontis
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC Watercolor. Sakura pen

F. fontis is an extremophilic archaeon that thrives in high-temperature environments.

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a bunch of tall grass with a few pink flowers ALT: a bunch of tall grass with a few pink flowers

This is so cool!

NOTES: I chose this one to practice painting some wrinkles, this one is supposed to look like a raisin. It's something that I have no idea how to approach yet. 🤔

DAY 182
SPECIES 182 - Pyrolobus fumarii
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC Watercolor. Tombow pencil. Sakura pen

P. fumarii is a species of archaea known for living and reproducing at extremely high temperatures that kill most organisms.

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Really! How lucky is that! I didn't have a whole lot to work from visually, so I had to fill in the blanks. 😄

Thanks, that's very kind! I'm personally better at starting new projects than finishing them 😄, but you should finish it, i'd love to see it.

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I lovvvveee glitch art, and I love your work! I bought a dither tool a few months ago just to play around with it. But I have no idea what i'm doing. 😅

Thank you! I just gave your youtube a follow. I've always loved prokaryotes being named for looking like a nut. The tiny seeds that started it all, it's very fitting.

Due to its fast growth and genetic tractability, it's a widely used model organism for studying methanogens.

DAY 181
SPECIES 181 - Methanococcus maripaludis
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. HWC Watercolor. Tombow pencil. Sakura pen

Thanks to @lesliedaymicro.bsky.social for suggesting it!

M. maripaludis is a rapidly growing, motile archaeon found predominantly in salt marshes.

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I'll have to check it out, sounds interesting!

What I'm currently working on is getting everything organized in a beautiful way. I have these art storage boxes that I made, and I've been trying to figure out a good way to label them. So I've been working on some designs that I'll turn into a stitched label that I can then fasten to them.

Yeah I can see that with #177! Some of them i've felt I was making more of a wallpaper or curtain design! 😆

As far as doing anything with them, maybe down the road if I can offer enough value to people as an artist. At the moment though I need some more time in the oven to cook.

Very cool! The left part of the graphic looks like a castle blueprint... but is it a bacteria? I'm intrigued, you had me at castles! 😄 The bacteria castle combo would make a good idea for some kind of attack/defense game. Love the graphics!

Thank you! I was saving some of the most difficult ones for the last few days. If I was forced to choose my 3 favorites they would be... Day #156, #62 and #54. #177 is growing on me though. It's funny how much I dislike some of them only to fall in love with them a week later! 🤣

I could spend a lifetime on bacteria. In 180 days I've learned so many interesting things about the little guys. But it's time to evolve as an artist and move onto Archaea! 🦠_🦠🖌️

STAGE COMPLETE, NEW ERA!

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I'd like to shine a light on others doing good work with bacteria. If you are a scientist, science communicator or an artist working with bacteria, introduce yourself and what you're working on below! 🙂

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E. fishelsoni is a large, cigar-shaped bacterium that lives symbiotically in the intestines of surgeonfish and can be up to 700 micrometers long, making it visible to the naked eye

DAY 180
SPECIES 180 - Epulopiscium fishelsoni
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatic & HWC Watercolor. Tombow & Derwent pencil. Sakura & Kingart pen

NOTES: I accidentally painted a hotdog. 🧐

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