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A photo of a colourful sea slug. Its body is covered in long flowing cerata that are transparent with white lines and tipped by yellow and red points.

On what might seem yet another dark day - here is something that hopefully will help brighten your mood. An undescribed Janolus #Nudibranch from the Oman Sea.
#🦑 #🦐 #SeaSlugs #UnderwaterPhotography

My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci My #linocut celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, solving the 🧵

Small round clay disk painted to look like the Moon in enhanced colors

Waiting for my clay to come in so I can paint more planets & moons. The originals will be mounted in frames. I think I want to make mini prints of them too! 🐡🔭

floaty watercolor painting in subdued blues and browns, depicting a mature western pond turtle surrounded by three baby pond turtles, interwoven with strands of western pond lily leaves, roots, and decaying spent flower pods. everything is drifting and floating as if underwater, but background is negative space in a warm cream tone.

Selective Sanctuary • gouache & watercolor on paper

For a group show at 301 Gallery in collaboration with Friends of the Columbia Gorge, who gave artists access to lands they steward to inspire their work for the show; in this case, a habitat site for the endangered western pond turtle.

A digital drawing with a collection of scribbles and marks on a page. Among them are flowers, mushrooms, sparkles and leaves. The drawing is very colorful.

Happy scribbles!!

#art #illustration

A graphite pencil drawing of a horse looking straight towards the viewer. White fur with a jet black mane that falls in a dishevelled way across it's face. Background is dark, and full of shadow.

My drawing of a wild horse emerging from the shadows. Available to buy from my Etsy: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #Drawing #Art #PencilArt #Wildlife #Graphite #Shadows #Horse #Pony #WildHorses #ArtWork

Cowfish with blue marble eyes in a deep black background

Seahorse back-lit with black and green background

Nudibranch with its shadows casting on its own back with a black background

Close up of the face of a leaf scorpionfish with a black green background. He's covered in sand.

Moody Aesthetic

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New process video! Messier 78 🌌
#SciArt

scriptwriting

Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama

A brightly speckled, iridescent songbird with a yellow and black beak. Olive background ©️DTL, 2024

European starling 🪶

A family of robust orange enoki mushrooms grow in the moss speckled root of a dead elm tree under blue winter skies All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Artwork sculpture of a Larger Pacific Octopus holding a handmade iridescent glass heart.

Sculpture artwork depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus, sitting on a piece of driftwood.

Close up of a mixed media artwork depicting a mini koi pond. The koi are handsculpted from colored clay and encased in clear resin.

Artwork sculpture depicting a miniature koi pond. The koi are handsculpted from colored clay. The turtles are sculpted and then hand painted. Everything is encased in clear resin.

#BlueskyNightMarket
End of Year Sales are here!

Deep discount 40% OFF my mini koi ponds (Last chance to acquire!) sahasa.etsy.com

Free international shipping on all my octopus art! SculptedReef.com/collections/

#SciArt #Art #MarineLife

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Front cover of the Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries, held in the authors hand. A martini glass is filled with pink liquid with a galaxy swirl at the tip, against a starry dark blue background.

Back cover of The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries, which reads: “'Armchair astronomers will come away with a renewed sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe' -Publishers Weekly Did you know the Moon smells of gunpowder? Saturn's rings are falling apart? Some galaxies look like jellyfish? In this guided tour through the weirdest and most wonderful corners of the cosmos, astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder delves into extraordinary facts that her work has revealed, and tells us how we have managed to discover these amazing truths. Along the way, we find out that the galaxy is flatter than a credit card; it rains iron on a brown dwarf and diamonds on Neptune; the Universe is beige, on average; Jupiter's magnetic field will short-circuit your spacecraft; and, of course, the Milky Way smells of rum and raspberries.”

It is time for book:

Do you like your astrophysics in silly form? Footnote jokes and other strange metaphors? Many cited papers at the end? Line drawings by an astrophysicist?

Explosive moon volcanos?

⬇️ all in here 🧪🔭

Links to acquire: www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/the...

A photo of a sea slug that is pinkish but with two rows of white crests down its back. It also has a white band at the front of its head.

So here we have a Babakina indopacifica #Nudibranch from Anilao in the Philippines. The rhinophores are almost rabbit like.
#🦑 #🦐 #Invertefest

A family of mature splitgill mushrooms grow off the side of an upturned branch. They overlap and fill the frame, each one radiating double-gills from their centers like a cluster of fireworks All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

A digital illustration, a low angle showing Link and Zelda facing away. Link has his hands on his hips, Zelda is tilting her head looking at a map. In the background is Peach’s Castle, from the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario, in his boxers, is jumping angrily from the castle’s bridge toward Link and Zelda. Peach is on the castle balcony looking shocked with her hand over her mouth.

Wrong Turn in Lost Woods

Yarn bowl featuring outer space with a blue galaxy to the right and a spaceship with sharp angles and large gold wing-like panels on the sides that is attached to a tether that leads to the yarn feed.

Yarn bowl featuring outer space with a blue galaxy to the right and a spaceship with sharp angles and large gold wing-like panels on the sides that is attached to a tether that leads to the yarn feed. Detail of ship.

Art Deco spaceship yarn bowl complete!

Why tiny snails are being set free on remote Desertas Islands near Madeira Conservationists released the critically endangered snails to help restore a remote island habitat.

A good news story about bringing species back from the brink of extinction.

🐌 🏝️

Also a reminder that:

- zoos are important for conservation.

- it’s less work and expense to conserve habitats in the first place than to have rescue individual species in crisis.

🌍

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Artwork, octopus sculpture being held up by the artist's hand over a solid black background. It depicts the species Caribbean Reef Octopus also known as Octopus Briareus. She is a teal-ish blue color with a maroon pattern and neon green and pearlescent white patches. Each arm has two neat rows of suckers.

#InverteFest The beautiful & uniquely colored Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙

Meet Aurora, the largest octopus sculpture I've made (so far 👀).

Her ~1200 suckers truly tested my artist determination 💪 😂

Named Aurora for her royal appearance and the Aurora borealis colors she wears.

#MarineLife #SciArt

An upward shot of hundreds of violet tooth polypore shelves are stacked up the side of a dead black cherry tree, climbing toward the gray winter sky

Here are some nice mushrooms

And I had a great time with the Rio bird concepts back in the day at Blue Sky Studios. Can't show my current project yet but I have a couple decades of paintings to burden you with ready to go...

A cheese and meat board, with an arrangement in the shape of master criminal Feathers McGraw.

While you've all been slaving over Turkey, I've been preparing this Chicken for later.

A detailed gingerbread model of a Voyager spacecraft. A tiny golden record gleams on its side.

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

A photo of a parrot fish that has a green base coat colour that is interspersed with short red bands across its flank and purple lines along its fins. There is a yellow patch on the bottom half of its head.

Last minute entry for #Fishmas is this Parrotfish from the Northern Red Sea.
#MarineLife #TeamFish

Artwork, sculpture of a Mototi octopus photographed on a solid black background

Artwork, Sculpture of a Blue Ringed Octopus photographed on a solid black background

Artwork sculpture of a Caribbean Reef Octopus being held up over a solid black background

Sculpture artwork depicting a baby Giant Pacific Octopus

🖥️ Desk Buddy or Bookshelf 📚 Guardian? 🐙

🌞 These little octopuses are great at keeping you company & excellent at being whimsical lil dudes 😁

Which one would you choose to watch over your workspace or bookshelf? 👀

Shelltopus: sahasa.etsy.com

#SciArt #MarineLife #BookLovers #WorkSpace #BookShelf

Two vibrant orange and green turkey tail rosettes grow from the top of a log like two flowers in a bare winter forest All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

A colourful painting of a quail, which is quite stylised. The quail has a turquoise neck, fading into an orange underbelly and back to a turquoise colour for the tail feathers. The quails wing is a deep orange, almost verging on red. The quail also has very light beige spots dotted around the body and wing. Around the quail are floral motifs; pink flowers on dark green stems, light green leaves, red and pink berries, a strawberry, turquoise leaves, individual pink flowers, and a red toadstool. There are also deep yellow stars. The paper that the quail is painted on rests atop a medium brown wooden worktop. Three paint tubes lie across the page; deep yellow, vermillion, and blue green. They are all Holbein Acrylic Gouache.

wow, last day of #ArtAdventCalendar! I've loved seeing so many wonderful creations - December has been decidedly more colourful and inspirational thanks to all of your wonderful works!

My last piece is this little quail painting! Acrylic gouache and coloured pencil on cotton paper 🍀