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"I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade..."

AKA my "Draw a were-octopus without it looking like an Illithid or Cthulu" challenge". I think I... mostly succeeded?

#Weretober 2025 - Red Octopus

#Weretober2025 #furryArt #octopus #cephalopod #Invertefest #lineArt #redOctopus #tentacles #arms

A line art drawing of a reclining male anthro octopus chilling on the sea floor among corals and leaves.

Today's #Weretober is a peacock mantis shrimp - neither a shrimp, mantid, or peacock - but they can punch faster than you can blink, so it's probably better to respect their space.

Especially if they're were-crustacean sized.

#Weretober2025 #mantisShrimp #crustacean #seaLife #furryArt #Invertefest

A line art drawing of an anthro peacock mantis shrimp rearing up and brandishing their clubs at the viewer.

Dragonflies are very cool and superb little hunters - but I'm not sure I'd want to meet one big enough to consider me part of the menu. 😬

Not much human left in this werecritter...

#Weretober #Weretober2025 #dragonfly #Invertefest #bug #insect

Line art illustration of a huge dragonfly with some anthro features to its limbs and mandibles spread wide in a threatening posture, perched on the side of a log in a swamp.

#Spider warning for today's #Weretober - a werewolf! ...spider!

I'm pretty sure she looks more curious than hungry at the moment, but it's kinda hard to tell, so watch yourself.

#Weretober2025 #wolfSpider #lycosidae #bug #InverteFest #anthroBug #anthroSpider #bugFurry #spiderFurry #arachnophobia

Line art illustration of a very animalistic anthro wolf spider scuttling out from between a pair of twisty trees.

Wrote a blog about #InverteFest, for Members I talk about Dec '25 edition, and what I'm researching and thinking about while I write the story that I will send out. (I imagine @franzanth.bsky.social judging me for not making and submitting the art this early in the season :P) 🦑 #WritingCommunity

Invertefest Dec '25 | Lucid Il...

Drew this monarch with Pentel Graphgear pencils and a blender. Its wing was torn, its life near the end, but its offspring are likely preparing for the long trip to Mexico. I’ll be bringing monarchs into my 2026 workshops too–they feel like drawings that keep teaching me. #invertefest #sciart #art

Graphite sketch of a monarch butterfly with a torn lower wing resting on a flower, faint wildflowers in the background.

Drew this monarch with Pentel Graphgear pencils and a blender. Its wing was torn, its life near the end, but its offspring are likely preparing for the long trip to Mexico. I’ll be bringing monarchs into my 2026 workshops too–they feel like drawings that keep teaching me. #invertefest #sciart #art

Barnacle, hermit, barnacles. This hermit's a Hairy, serving both as barnacle transport and barnacle clean-up crew. Essential services.#VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit #Invertefest

Another small, barnacle-sized hermit. He's climbing on an old clamshell populated by acorn barnacles; three (visible) are alive, as can be seen by the present interior plates, closed over the mouth; one is just a shell that has been cleaned out completely. Specks of brown algae still grow on the outside of all the barnacles.
The hermit wears a round, dark shell; another barnacle, smaller than the rest, has fastened itself to the shell. This one has spots of green algae.
Hermie is mostly orange, with white tips to his large cheliped. His carapace is olive green, the antennae are dotted white and green lines. Dark eyes, orange and white eye stalks. He's reaching out towards one of the live barnacles; no job for him there, yet.
There's another hermit present. All that can be seen of her are the two eyes and an antenna, down at the bottom of the photo, partly hidden by a bit of brown alga (looks like kelp).
Green in the background is sea lettuce.

Barnacle, hermit, barnacles. This hermit's a Hairy, serving both as barnacle transport and barnacle clean-up crew. Essential services.#VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit #Invertefest

In this together. Accidental triple exposure. Focusing through folded pages of a book, the camera caught the switch between screen saver photos. Hermit, tree, sky, marine life encyclopedia, tech; we sink or swim together. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit #Invertefest #AccidentalPhotography

Experimental photo, using folded book pages as a frame, looking towards the computer screen.
The book pages make 5 petal-shaped frames, radiating from the bottom of the photo. In the background, an upright rectangle contains the photo of a tree against a blue sky. And in front of that, there's a Hairy hermit, facing left. He wears a dark, round shell, extending beyond the tree/sky frame.
In the centre of the one-shot collage the hermit looks at us; his eyes are blue-green, with black lines top and bottom, and a black dot in the centre. One antennule is raised, as if in greeting.
He's a light yellowish brown; the chelipeds are in plain sight; the legs are half-hidden behind the book pages.
The book was the "Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest" encyclopedia.

In this together. Accidental triple exposure. Focusing through folded pages of a book, the camera caught the switch between screen saver photos. Hermit, tree, sky, marine life encyclopedia, tech; we sink or swim together. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit #Invertefest #AccidentalPhotography

#3MaterialsDrawingChallenge Day 30+31/31 - draw from life every day - for no longer than 30 mins - use 3 materials In the last days of August, I had little time to draw. #InverteFest #naturejournaling 🌱 #naturesketching #watercolor #FineArt #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

Sketchbook with drawing of an eggplant, butterfly and expressive tomatoe plants in front of tomatoe plants.

#InverteFest

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For #InverteFest :
Alister Hardy (UK, 1896-1985)
-Some of blue and transparent animals at or near the surface of a tropical ocean, Pl. 2
-Typical example of deep-sea pelagic life from a depth of 1,000 metres and detail of Euphausia superba (the Krill), Pl. 6
Watercolors, 1925-7
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London PAF7087,8
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-101915
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-101914

1. The 'Portuguese man-of-war', Physalia physalis. 2. The fish Nomeus gronovii, which associates with Physalia, seen against the long trailing tentacles of the latter. 3. Velella velella or 'Jack sail-by-the wind'. 4. Porpita sp. (umbella?) 5. The pelagic sea-slug Glaucus atlanticus. 6. The snail lanthina janthina with its bubble float. 7. The salp Salpa fusiformis. 8. The ctenophore Deiopea. 9. The siphonophore Hippopodius hippopus. 10. The pelagic tunicate Doliolum. 11. 'Venus's girdle', the ctenophore Cestus veneris. 12. The amphipod Brachyscelus rapax. Sheet: 381 x 265 mm

“Depicting a ‘typical sample of deep-sea pelagic life from a depth of 1,000 metres,’ the painting contains an assemblage of zooplankton, including amphipods, copepods, shrimps, jellyfish and small fish, many in larval stage, and gives an impression of the richness of this floating planktonic ‘soup'. In pride of place at the top is a detailed depiction of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), a relative of shrimps that swarms in huge numbers and on which many other animals feed, including baleen whales.” Sheet: 380 x 268 mm

Today I released the last monarch of 2025 raised from our yard.

Over the summer I released 50+ butterflies from eggs & caterpillars found on-and fed with-milkweed in our city backyard. I cleaned up a lot of poop is what I’m saying. I’m also saying a small natural area can do a lot.

#InverteFest #insects #butterfly

Photo of a monarch butterfly standing on a purple echinacea flower in a garden

For #InverteFest :
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (UK, 1901-1979)
Illustration of a Rock Pool and Marine Life, from _What to Look for in Summer_ by E. L. Grant Watson, Ladybird Books, 1960.
Colour lithograph, 18 x 12 cm / 7 x 4¾ in

“In muted tones of blue, grey, orange, green and brown at seem wholly appropriate to the cold British tidal saters, a lobster, prawn, shrimp and two crabs rest peacefully on parallel bands of seaweed and rock. Such close conjunction would seem almost impossible in the wild, but here the famed wildlife artist Charles Praderick Tunnicliffe (1901-1979) presents marine animals native to the waters around his home on the sand of Anglesey in Wales as though helpfully atranged on a set of supermarket shelves, enlivened by a diagonal tilt from right to left.” (from the book Ocean: Exploring the Marine World)

Unlocking

Watercolor, pencil, and acrylic ink on 7x10” hotpress

#InverteFest #art

Illustration of a pale green, yellow and black swallowtail caterpillar clinging to an old ornate brass key against a blue wash background

#invertefest Polymer Polyps, Catholic Cicadas, and Drag Dryads: the Metamorphic Work of Raúl de Nieves - BmoreArt

Polymer Polyps, Catholic Cicad...

#InverteFest tho???

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Listening to on-hold music, so why not make my "never posted before" #InverteFest crabs into a megathread. First up are the true crabs 🦀

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#inverteFest

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