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Today for #ArtAdventCalendar, I have all of the insects I painted in 2024 for #Invertober (I missed it this year, due to moving). Rather than going with the official prompt list, I focused on invertebrates found in my home state of Colorado.

#SciArt #InvertArt #InsectArt #watercolor

Many watercolors of invertebrates, cut out and placed on a black background. Includes: Mormon cricket, tiger beetle, brown tarantula, rocky mountain capshell, cave pseudoscorpion, say's stink bug, mountain cicada, mussel, millipede, grass carrying wasp, Colorado soldier beetle, desert centipede, robberfly, yellowjacket, cow killer, rocky mountain snail, boxelder bug, silvery blue (butterfly), snakefly, tiger moth and caterpillar, two spotted stinkbug, rocky mountain billbug, thread-waisted wasp, colorado potato beetle, firefly, mountain pine beetle, ornate checkered beetle, golden blister beetle, rabbitbrush beetle, pigeon sawfly, and an extinct wasp... I think I got all of them.

found a digital copy of one of my old work and added it to @inprnt.com - www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci... great time to buy some art for #Invertober #SciArt #BSNM #DigitalArt 🦑🐙🐡 #虫

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Octopus - I, an art print by L...

#Invertober Set 2!

4: Palmetto Weevil
5: Painted Spiny Lobster
6: Buff-tip Moth

Three drawings of invertebrates with squared backgrounds. A red and black palmetto weevil surrounded by musical notes, a teal and pink spiny lobster, and a grumpy-looking yellow and brown moth.

Took me a hot minute but I'm finally back in the game 🥓 #Invertober

1: Japanese Sea Nettle
2: Red-banded Leafhopper
3: Giant Green Anemone

Three drawings of arthropod animals in squared formats. The first is a gold and brown jellyfish, the second a red and blue leafhopper, and the third a cluster of green sea anemones in various states of retraction.

My slightly late offering for day ten of #invertober (common earthworm) 🪱

Did you know earthworms have a special lip-like first head segment called a prostomium (meaning 'before the mouth')? They use it to sense and manipulate food, and move through soil!

#SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography #Entomology #Earthworm #SoilEcology #Soil #Nature

A photograph of an earthworm's head pushing out of the soil surface, with a tiny half-segment at the tip clearly visible.

Today is World Egg Day so here's a painting I did for #Invertober last year of a sweet mama desert centipede and her clutch of eggs.

Centipedes never actually meet to reproduce - males just drop off a spermatophore somewhere on the ground for a female to pick up and inseminate herself with later. Females do all the parenting, too, protecting, feeding, and even grooming her clutch of baby 'pedes.

#SciArt #InvertArt #centipede

Watercolor of a tan and reddish centipede curled up in a figure 8. One half of the eight is curled around a clutch of tiny yellow eggs.

Scaly foot gastropod, and bee killer robber fly :)

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #HEAVYPAINT #MastoArt

Two deep sea crabs followed by a scaly foot gastropod moseying along the rocky crags.

A rough painting sketch of a bee killer robber fly (which is a very buff looking fuzzy creature), on a stick.

Painted spiny lobster, and buff tip moth :)

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #MastoArt #Krita

A painted spiny lobster at the bottom of a sandy crevice partially under a rock.

A buff tip moth, a moth that looks like a bit of wood, on a stick.

Japanese Sea Nettle, Red Banded Leafhopper, Giant Green Anemone, and Palmetto Weevil!

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #MastoArt #Krita

A painterly red banded leafhopper on greenery.

A painterly giant green anemone in shallow water by red sea lettuce.

A painterly palmetto weevil on greenery.

For #Arachtober today I have another painting I did for #Invertober last year, of a Boulder cave pseudoscorpion - Larca boulderica. First discovered by a particularly curious family of cavers in 2008, the species was finally formally described as a unique species last year.

#SciArt #InvertArt #arachnid

Painting of a round orange creature with eight legs and pokey pincers.

#invertober Day 4 Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)
#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #weevil #palmettoweevil #insect #painting #invertober2025

Watercolor painting of a Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)

Today for #Arachtober I present a Colorado brown tarantula, Aphonopelma ????, that I painted for #Invertober last year. The question marks are there because there's lots of debate on whether Colorado has its own unique species (or three or more) of brown tarantulas or whether they're all just subspecies of A. hentzi, the Texas/Missouri/Oklahoma brown tarantula (depending on who you ask).

Taxonomy is hard!

#spider #SpiderArt

Watercolor of a very fuzzy brown tarantula.

#invertober Day 3 Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) I tried to be interpretive with “tried” being the key word. They all can’t be winners!
#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #anemone #invertober2025

An attempt at a painting of the giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)

#invertober Day 2 Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #insect #leafhopper #arthripod #painting #invertober2025

#invertober Day 2 painting of a Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)

Okay, I'll bite (ha!). I have a couple things to contribute to #Arachtober. Today, it's this comic I made for #Invertober a couple years ago. Pink Crab Spider party!

#spider #spiderArt

Three crab spiders are conversing in a circle. An all hot-pink one says, "I'm a Pink Crab Spider!"
The next, white with pink spots, says, "So am I!"
The third, mostly white with a yellow face, says, "Me too!"
A yellow crab spider with a green face asks, "Hey guys can I join?"
All four spiders in a row shout, "Yay! Pink Crab Spider party!"

Day 1 of #Invertober Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica)
#Invertober is an art challenge for the month of October that celebrates the biodiversity of invertebrates. The challenge provides a list of daily prompts featuring different invertebrates, encouraging artists to create themed art and share it on social media.
#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #invertebrates #jellyfish #japaneseseanettle #invertober2025

Day 1 of #Invertober a painting of a Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica). #Invertober is an art challenge for the month of October that celebrates the biodiversity of invertebrates. The challenge provides a list of daily prompts featuring different invertebrates, encouraging artists to create themed art and share it on social media.

For #invertober people, it looks like the fried egg jelly! I saw one also (in the Valencia aquarium)

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Fried egg jellyfish Phacellophora camtschatica. Top of it is like a fried egg, but the orange "yolk" is quite bulbous in this individual

Initial designs for #InsertAnInvert2024, a Strawberry Squid. Not sure if I should make the photophores darker or lighter than the main body. I'll print both and see how they look.

(I do intend to add the asymmetrical eyes, just want to make sure the basic design works first.)

#SciArt #Invertober

Screenshot of a 3d model of a strawberry squid. A reddish squid with pink flecks and fins.

Screenshot of a 3d model of a strawberry squid. A pinkish squid with pink red flecks and pink fins.

Another beautiful image for #invertober2024 #invertober

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A fun way to discover beautiful creatures that help keep our ecosystem alive, it’s worth following @ehrenenglish.bsky.social for some fascinating updates, especially during #invertober (invertebrates are awesome all year ‘round but especially during October)

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#Invertober

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