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Blue AppaloosaCollection of all 12 keychain designs for <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>! Species are in the alt text. All but four are available in my Etsy shop, and those will be added soon.<a href="https://blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com</a><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciArt</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/FediGiftShop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediGiftShop</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ArtShop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtShop</a>

Blue AppaloosaFinished Lined Earwig keyring design for December's "Motion" theme for <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>. I really liked the red/black/tan color scheme. (Almost done! One to go.)<a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciArt</a>

Blue AppaloosaDunno if anyone still follows the tag, but I finally got my <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 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!<a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor the last day of 2024, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InverteFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InverteFest</a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 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<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/washi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#washi</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collage</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/fireflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fireflies</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/bioluminescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bioluminescence</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insect</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/glowInTheDark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glowInTheDark</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InverteFest2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InverteFest2024</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor the final <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> prompt “diving” and for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertefest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertefest</a> 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!<a href="https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1793686974" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1793686974</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insect</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/beetle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beetle</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#entomology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/divingBeetle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#divingBeetle</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insertAnInvert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insertAnInvert</a> 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<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/monarchButterfly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monarchButterfly</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/urbanEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#urbanEcology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invasiveSpecies</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/speciesAtRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speciesAtRisk</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insertAnInvert2024</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDA 2024 invertebrate print for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertefest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertefest</a>: made for the deepest prompt of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>, 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!🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Enypniastes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enypniastes</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/headlessChickenMonster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#headlessChickenMonster</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/seaCucumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seaCucumber</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertebrate</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/hadal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hadal</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertefest2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertefest2024</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDAnother 2024 print for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insertAnInvert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insertAnInvert</a>: made for the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 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.<a href="https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Tonicella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tonicella</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertebrate</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chiton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chiton</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifeArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDAnother invertebrate for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertefest2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertefest2024</a>: made for the coastal <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 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<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/anemone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anemone</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifeArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/oceanLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oceanLife</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertebrate</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InverteFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InverteFest</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDBonus <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtAdventCalendar</a> & <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertefest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertefest</a> &<a href="https://spore.social/tags/crustmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crustmas</a> print made for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 🦀 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 … 🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crustacean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crustacean</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crab</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/frogCrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#frogCrab</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/spannerCrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spannerCrab</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Ranina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ranina</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifeArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> prompt flyer, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/artadventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artadventCalendar</a> and <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertefest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertefest</a> 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 ⠀ <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#butterflies</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typography</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/termsofvenery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#termsofvenery</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insect</a>

Blue AppaloosaLast keyring design for <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>, 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.<a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDBonus <a href="https://spore.social/tags/artAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artAdventCalendar</a>: For the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 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<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insect</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/grasshopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grasshopper</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertebrate</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDDay 15 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtAdventCalendar</a>: The third <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 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<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/dumboOctopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dumboOctopus</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#octopus</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/abyssal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abyssal</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Grimpoteuthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grimpoteuthis</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDThough 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 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>. <a href="https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1756971456" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1756971456</a>🧵2/2

Ele Willoughby, PhDDay 12 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtAdventCalendar</a>: made for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> 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<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/PortugueseManOWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PortugueseManOWar</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertegrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertegrates</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/siphonophore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#siphonophore</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDDay 8 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtAdventCalendar</a>: an adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from New Zealand or Aotearoa I made for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>!Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture and somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged nocturnal animals who spit slime to trap prey, somewhere between worms and arthropods. 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/velvetWorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#velvetWorm</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertebrate</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifeArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDDay 5 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtAdventCalendar</a>: What’s inside this cigar box? A black smoker - with giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>. I’ve had the idea for this <a href="https://spore.social/tags/multimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#multimedia</a> in my head for years! Cigar box, collaged papers, gouache, Posca pen, glue, washi tape.I’ve never had the opportunity to go on a research cruise to a hydrothermal vent, though I have contributed to plans for monitoring 🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/hydrothermalVent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hydrothermalVent</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/marineGeophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marineGeophysics</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/marineBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marineBiology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtAdventCalendar</a> day 3 my final hand-printed lino block print with gel plate printed areas is about Coronula diadema, a barnacle which specializes in humpback and some other baleen whales for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a>. Each print is 20.3 cm x 20.3 cm (8” x 8”) on lovely Japanese mulberry paper and shows the humpback whale swimming above and a close up of the whale below with six barnacles. 🧵1/3<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/barnacles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#barnacles</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/humpbackWhale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humpbackWhale</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifeArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/reliefPrint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reliefPrint</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDThis December <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> is about <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insect</a> motion. The first prompt is scuttler, about “early” insects who didn’t evolve flight. So I made a tiny <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum). It got its common name from its colour and its fishlike movements. <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/silverfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#silverfish</a>

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