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This was supposed to be part of #InsertAnInvert2024 's Oct prompts but I am too fastidious about what I create so it takes me FOREVER to finish a piece 🙄 Featured is an #Endangered #GiantDragonfly #PetaluraGigantea. My BF says it looks like a movie poster lol That's kinda cool 😎

A poster featuring a GIANT dragonfly (Petalura gigantea) and its ommatidia

At long last, the final four #InsertAnInvert2024 keyrings are listed in my Etsy Shop!

https://blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #FediGiftShop #ArtShop

Two 3d printed Flower-hat Jelly designs. On the left, a jelly-fish like creature with translucent bell and coiled tentacles. The bell has vertical black stripes and short tentacles tipped with neon green and pink. The left design shows the “back” of the design, with an orange inner structure visible through the translucent body. Both designs have-inch (2.5cm) split ring through the top of the bell. In the middle is a US penny for scale.

Three 3d printed velvet worm designs. Velvet worms are a worm-like creature with a pair of antennae and many stubby legs. The upper left velvet worm is blue with tan spots. On the right black with brown spots. In the lower left, pink with purple spots. All three have a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring through the head. In the middle is a US penny for scale.

Two 3d printed Strawberry Squid designs. The Strawberry Squid has a red body covered with pinkish specs and pinkish fins on the mantle. The eye on the left is small and dark blue, the eye on the right is large and greenish-yellow. The tentacles and suckers on the arms are tan. Each squid has a 1-inch (2.5cm) spit ring though the top of the mantle. Between them is a US penny for scale.

Two 3d printed Lined Earwig designs. The earwig is an insect with a reddish head and thorax, a dark abdomen with pincers on the end, tan legs and a pair of tan stripes down the back. Each earwig has a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring though the abdomen. The left design is facing upish, the right design is facing down. In between them is a US penny for scale.

Collection of all 12 keychain designs for #InsertAnInvert2024! Species are in the alt text.

All but four are available in my Etsy shop, and those will be added soon.

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#SciArt #FediGiftShop #ArtShop

Twelve keychains arranged in two rows. Top row: Stone Centipede (Lithobius forficatus), Mud-Nest Harvester (in nest) (Quindina limbata), Sea Butterfly (Diacria trispinosa), Gossamer Worm (Tomopteris helgolandica), Hairy Stone Crab (Lomis hirta), Fish Louse (Dipteropeltis longicaudatus). Bottom row: Velvet Worm (Peripatopsis capensis), Sap-Sucking Slug (Elysia viridis), Basket Star (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis), Strawberry Squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis), Flower Hat Jelly (Olindias formosus), Lined Earwig (Doru taeniatum). Split rings are 1-inch (2.5cm).

Finally the last #InsertAnInvert2024 keyring design, Velvet Worms! The prompt was Peripatopsis capensis, which is the black/brown one, but I'm doing some color variations for fun.

(Yes, I will take a group shot at some point. And get them all listed on my Etsy shop.)

#SciArt

Three 3d printed velvet worm designs. (A velvet worm is a long worm-like creature with antennae and stubby little legs.) The left-most velvet worm is pink with purple specks, facing down. The middle velvet worm is black with brown specks, facing up, with a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring through it's head. The right velvet worm is blue with tan specks, facing downwards.

Finished Lined Earwig keyring design for December's "Motion" theme for #InsertAnInvert2024. I really liked the red/black/tan color scheme.

(Almost done! One to go.)

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Two 3d printed Lined Earwig designs. The have a reddish head and the thorax is the same reddish color with tan stripes along the outside edges. The abdomen is black with black pincers and reddish stripes. The wing covers are black with tan stripes along the outer edges. The legs are tan. The left earwig is facing the top of the picture. The right earwig is facing the bottom of the picture with a 1-inch (2.5cm) spilt ring through the abdomen.

Dunno if anyone still follows the tag, but I finally got my #InsertAnInvert2024 Flower Hat Jelly (not actually a jellyfish) printed! It required me to get my Multi-material setup, uh, set up. (I had already planned to do so over the holidays.)

Two more designs to go!

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Two 3d printed flower-hat jelly designs. On the right, the "top", showing a translucent jellyfish-shaped creature with an orange inner structure. It has dark colored stripes on the bell, and is covered with many small tentacles that are tipped with green and pink. It has a 1-inch (2.5cm) spit ring through the top. The one on the left is upside down, showing only the clear body and the orange inner structure.

For the last day of 2024, #InverteFest, #InsertAnInvert2024 wildcard: This linocut shows three fireflies (Photinus pyralis, the common eastern firefly or big dipper firefly) in a field against the night sky. These bioluminescent insects are the most common firefly in North America and they use the light organ on their abdomen to 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #washi #collage #fireflies #bioluminescence #sciart #insect #glowInTheDark #InverteFest2024 #MastoArt

My linocut showing 3 fireflies in green grass against a dark blue starry sky. Each firefly has orange on its upper body and its lower body is surrounded by a globe of light to show it is glowing, printed in glow in the dark ink.

For the final #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “diving” and for #invertefest this is a hand-printed of the Paroster pallescens beetle, surface diving water beetle from Australia. It is printed on 8” x 8” Japanese paper.

Paroster is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae. I really liked the look of this beetle and the amazing diversity of this genus of Australian diving beetles!

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1793686974

#linocut #printmaking #insect #beetle #entomology #divingBeetle #sciart #MastoArt

My linocut print “Diving Beetle Paroster pallescens” shows the beetle viewed from above on an 8” x 8” white Japanese washi paper. It’s an oblong beetle with pale yellow limbs and antennae, black eyes, and a muddy green elytra. The most striking feature is the long hairs radiating out from the back legs like extravagant eyelashes.

For #insertAnInvert a print about how monarch butterflies who are fooled into laying eggs on the invasive dog-strangling vine (European swallowwort, Vincetoxicum rossicum) due to its similarities to its host plant milkweed are cursed to hatch larvae which starve and die. Dog-strangling vine unlike milkweed doesn’t serve as a food source for the caterpillars, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #monarchButterfly #urbanEcology #invasiveSpecies #speciesAtRisk #insertAnInvert2024 #MastoArt

print on 11” x 14” paper with a gel plate print in green with swirling dog-strangling vine with leaves and pods along with a flying linocut monarch butterfly in tints of orange, white and black. The monarch looks surrounded and the intent is for the green and the vine to look threatening like it is being encircled. It’s titled “European swallowwort and monarch butterfly,” signed Ele Willoughby and dated 2024.

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, hadal - which refers to the deepest ocean trenches 6 km or more, it’s the headless chicken monster!

This is a lino block print of a strange-looking sea cucumber called Enypniastes eximia, the swimming sea cucumber, the pink see-through fantasia or the headless chicken monster!🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024

As described this is an 8” x 8” linocut print of a strange-looking sea cucumber called Enypniastes eximia, the swimming sea cucumber, the pink see-through fantasia or the headless chicken monster! The semi-transparent bulbous creature with bifurcated tentacles, large anterior sail and visible intestines ranges from light pink to reddish-brown surrounded by water in a gradient of dark to lighter blue from bottom up.

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt is crawler, about shellfish who can drag themselves over surface like the spectacularly coloured lined chitons (Tonicella lineata), beautiful, tiny marine mollusc of the North Pacific. I don’t usually make reduction prints but I think I might otherwise loose my mind trying to capture the complex patterns.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Final stage of my chiton print shows the ovoid animal from above with a series of plates surrounded by a girdle. The plates have pale pink and orangey brown downward pointing triangles down the middle with slanted thin stripes of burgundy, blue and black on either side. The girdle around the circumference has a reddish rim with yellow and blue dashes and a burgundy ring around the plates.

Another invertebrate for #invertefest2024: made for the coastal #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “sand” - an anemone who can move over sand. This is a wandering sea anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa) or swimming anemone, is a species of venomous sea anemone in the family Actiniidae native to sheltered reefs of shallow seas around Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #anemone #wildlifeArt #oceanLife #invertebrate #InverteFest #MastoArt

This is my hand-printed Lino block print of a wandering sea anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa) on 8” x 10” Japanese mulberry paper. The anemone has been likened to a pile of baked beans; it appears like a jumble of mainly ovoid shapes in hot pink with some in white against a background which is a gradient of gold at the bottom to dark teal on top to indicate the seafloor under ocean. The texture and shadows on the animal are overprinted in grey.

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 Time after time shrimp like crustaceans have evolved crablike forms (through a process called carcinization) and do a good job of pretending to be crabs, but this odd looking fellow is the real deal, a true crab. My red frog crab (Ranina ranina), also known as a spanner crab or Huỳnh Đế crab, is … 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt flyer, #artadventCalendar and #invertefest this final week of the year: my kaleidoscope of butterflies. Kaleidoscope is the wonderful name or term of venery for a group of butterflies so I designed this print to match the symmetrical images you can see in a kaleidoscope. There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), 🧵1/2
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #MastoArt #typography #termsofvenery #insect

A square linocut on white paper with the words ‘A kaleidoscope’ at the top and ‘of Butterflies’ at the bottom in black ink. Inside are 3 rings of 3 types of butterfly at 60° to each other with the middle ring offset by 30° so they look like they are arrayed like items viewed through a toy kaleidoscope. From the inner ring out there are three each of the orange Isabella's Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax).

Diel migration is so cool that I: a) went blackwater diving to be inside of it and saw all kinds of cool things (including phyllosoma [slipper lobster] larva, NOT riding jellyfish) b) drew an interpretation of the phyllosoma riding a jelly for #InsertAnInvert2024 and now #Crustmas 🧪🦑

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Phyllosoma larva riding a jellyfish, rendered in watercolor pencil, mostly blues purples and pinks. Accents in neon orange and pink pen. Drawing by me!

Last keyring design for #InsertAnInvert2024, the Lined Earwig! For December's "Motion" theme. Dunno why, but I really like earwigs.

Probably won't get these last 3 designs printed and finalized until January, but at least the initial design are done before the end of the year.

#SciArt

Screenshot of a 3d model of an earwig (a slender beetle with long pincers at the end of the abdomen). The earwig is mostly reddish brown, but has tan/yellowish legs and two yellowish striped down the outside edge of it's back.

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt jumper: This is a small little handprinted linocut print of a red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), one of the most common grasshoppers in North America, these are the most commonly seen grasshoppers in the northern US and southern Canada. Reddish-brown on their backs, yellow-green below, they are named for their orangy-red legs. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #grasshopper #invertebrate

My tiny linocut print side view of a standing red-legged grasshopper. Its antennas and lower legs are orange, and its body is printed in lime and grey on white kozo paper.

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt for deep sea month is abyssal - the lightless, extreme pressure and low oxygen zone 4 to 6 km below the surface. So I made a lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears on the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #dumboOctopus #octopus #sciart #abyssal #Grimpoteuthis

My lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears on the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. Hence their common name dumbo octopuses. The print is 9.25” by 12.5” on delicate ivory Japanese washi paper with visible margin, number, title and signature. The background is black. The octopus is reddish on top, then dark blue, with brown legs are spiralled up and drawn in close to its body.

Though most closely related to octopods it is the only surviving memeber of its own order Vampyromorphida. It survives in the deep sea thanks to bioluminescent organs and its unique slow oxygen metabolism. Made for #InsertAnInvert2024.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1756971456

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Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea, printed in blues, turquoise, violet and pink on white 9.25” by 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #MastoArt

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