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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

My 8” x 10” linocut print “Winter Walrus” from 2008 shows a large purplish brown walrus emerging from water surrounded by ice printed in blue.The walrus faces the viewer.

A throwback for World Walrus Day - this limited edition walrus #linocut. Rapid climate change and loss of sea ice in the arctic is a challenge for these extraordinary mammals.

#walrus #WorldWalrusDay #printmaking #sciart #arctic #mammal 🧪

it's all ambers - the only red this trip was a little bit of plastic that fooled me...

About 50-60 pieces of seaglass in various sizes and colours, mostly greens and aquas, resting on a white surface. Sunlight beams in through a net curtain casting a wavey light almost like being under water

#SundaySunlight - a small #seaglass pile from Mallorca, in the Spanish sunshine (which i’m already missing having got back from a 48 hr whirlwind worktrip) #beachcombing

A roughly trapezoid shaped piece of earthenware pottery resting on a beige and seafoam tartan fabric. The glaze is dark been and a trace of an etched pattern is visible

#ThursdayTrace I like to think this bit of #Seapottery is a Bartmann jug. It probably isn’t, but a beachcomber can dream…. #beachcombing

A seaworn and frosted aqua glass marble lying among mixed stones and pebbles

#MarbleMonday - always one of the most exciting #Beachcombing finds #seaglass

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Photo of part if a large dark brown tock resting on sand. There are many pale fossil fragment inclusions, including one that is clearly a spiral shell.

#FridayFossil - i really appreciate fossils that are immediately identifiable even by non experts like me 😅 #Beachcombing

A broken plastic figure- it looks like a kneeling figure in flowing robes, lying on grey rocks

Hands holding the figurine, it is a kneeling figure with arms outstretched. Both hands and the neck/head are missing

#TuesdayTorso - who do we think this belonged to? Barnacle encrusted plastic saint(?) found in Madeira #Beachcombing #SeaPlastic

Snails! Dirty beachcombing fingernail for scale 😅

Not attached at all, i just put them in there for the photo. I sometimes think about making it permanent but I have too many shards and not enough wall space!

Flatlay, a decorative green frame with copper filigree inlay. In the frame are 11 very different seaworn sea pottery shards, some small, some larger, all different patterns- plain yellow, green florals, stripes etc

#SaturdayShards - a collection of #SeaPottery in a frame from a charity/thrift shop #Beachcombing

A seaworn piece of crackle surfaced safety glass, trapezoid shaped, blue-white with two lines of metal reinforcement that are rusting slightly. It rests on dark brown, beige and pink quartz pebbles

#SundaySafety - a seaworn piece of crackled safety glass #Beachcombing #Seaglass

A long pointed seashell in shades of apricot and peach, lying in wet grey rocks surrounded by cockle shells in similar shades.

#ThursdayTrumpet - toot toot! (Yes it’s actually an Auger but i always think trumpet first) #Beachcombing #SeaShells

The changing nature of beachcombing. Construction related debris, picked up from the beach.

A disk of metal with a heavy orange coating of rust and small points at the 12 and 6 o clock areas. It rests on grey rocks

The same metal circle flipped over to show interlacing disks, also encrusted, on the underside

#MondayMetal - i think beach metal, like seabricks, are underrated finds. I like them encrusted and unidentifiable and that they cannot be preserved in the form you found them because they are constantly chemically evolving. #Beachcombing

A roughly triangular piece of sea worn pottery, white with a spinged purple pattern- lying on very fine very pale sand

Finger and thumb holdong up the sea pottery from the last ohoto. Beyond stretches a pale sandy beach and deep blue-green sea with mountains in the background

#FridayFinds - miles (well, half a mile) of gorgeous white sand on the Outer Hebrides, and this one little bit of purple spongeware #Seapottery #Beachcombing

An irregular piece of well frosted primary blue seaglass with smooth fat ridges. It rests in fine gravel in shades of brown, beige and grey

The blue seaglass in context - it is low foreground and a shingle breach stretches to a grey blue sea

#TuesdayTreat blue #Seaglass - and it’s textured!

I think it's easier to see a bit zoomed out, right at the edge of the picture there's three black dots that make two eyes and a nose, and it is looking back over its body, its tail tucked in anticlockwise.

A circle of autumnal beech leaves on top of a tree stump showing a gentle shift of colour going round the circle

17 yo daughter made this on our walk:

omg I had never seen that before!

A grey pebble resting on other rocks. It has two white inclusions that form a circle within a circle like a target.

#SaturdayStone i’ve given up apologising for missing a day. Let’s just say it was a strange, busy week and leave it at that. Back on target now #Beachcombing #Seaglass

Huh, so it seems my posts tagged #Beachcombing #Seaglass etc are no longer showing up on the seaglass feed. How disappointing.

Please friends, I beg you to alt text your Portfolio Day posts. Personally, I only repost those with alt text—and I encourage you to do the same, as a way to promote accessibility here!

Sea glass lamb light 🐑 #seaglassart

A stack of thick, seaworn and faded plastic pieces, with a row of vintage bottles behind. The pieces are mostly curved buoy bits in shades of yellow to red, topped with a long green plastic object and a knobbly orange bit containing a purple lego brick.

#SundayStack - mostly buoy bits and some fishing waste. (And a note that while saying “what’s in the bag? Oh just some buoy bits” sounds fine in US-English it makes you sound like a serial killer with the Brit-English pronunciation…) . I think the lego brick is a fake #Beachcombing #Take3ForTheSea

Tràigh Alba :: Scottish Beach Art Discover Tràigh Alba, a collection of unique Scottish beach artworks created with sustainably sourced shells, driftwood, sea glass, and sea pottery. Each piece reflects the beauty and wildness of Scot...

There are some great beachcombing artists who make amazing framed flat lays (e.g. www.traighalba.co.uk ). I think the most i’ll do is make myself a calendar of prints!

Thank you!

Rectangular flat lay on a white background of beachcombing finds, mostly green, white and brown seaglass. There is also a grey hagstone, copper coin and white tile fragment. Text above reads Mallorca April 2024

#ThursdayThings I’ve only recently got into the good habit of laying out and labelling all the finds from each beach - on preview I couldn’t see the text and guessed this was Wales, biut I was wrong! (And the penny is actually a euro) #Beachcombing #Seaglass