Glue-guns. Slime blankets. Mind-altering venom, flesh-rotting chemicals, and fountains of spit so powerful, they’ll knock you off your perch and into a pair of awaiting jaws. Better grab a raincoat, because nature is positively crawling with ingenious ways of dealing out death via some carefully aimed bodily fluids.
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Finished finches!
Eight males ranging from least to most fit according to female preference and one female.
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Twelve Danio Triptych — watercolor, ink — six individual 2.5” x 3” watercolor paintings
This collection is all mounted in one frame. The common names of these fish are (top to bottom, left to right): Zebra danio, Meghalaya danio, spotted danio, gold-ring danio, celestial pearl danio, emerald dwarf rasbora, glowlight danio, moustached danio, rosy danio, pearl danio, blue danio, and yoma danio. I tried to paint them to be life-sized when possible (Danio dangila gets 6” long! Had to shrink it to fit.) The smallest one in my painting is Danio erythromicron, which is 0.75” long.
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Chameleons of the World | ©Roger D. Hall
Fine art illustration of some of the species of the world’s chameleons.
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Fishes / by Sir John Richardson. on Flickr.
Publication info London :Reeve,1848.
BHL Collections:
Ernst Mayr Library of the MCZ, Harvard University
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Dwarf Gourami Box – acrylic — 5” x 3.5”
Painted with heavy-body acrylic and pearlescent pigment so each scale has a slight 3D effect and flashes beautifully in the light. The painting is framed in a photo box. The box is 7.5” x 6” x 2.5”, with a brushed metal lid and black velvet interior. The anubias plants on the front are hand-sculpted.
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Print trade!
Today was my last unofficial day of grad school and I got to exchange art with my talented classmates. Sorry for the crappy photo quality.Fairy wren by Adam Labuen; butterfly and flower buds by Thao Do; brussel sprouts by Melissa Snider; pomegranate and apple blossoms by Mary Williams.
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