#cambrian explosion
Cambrian Creatures premium mask
Masks are probably still going to be part of our daily life for a while. So why not wear a nice one! This one has over 20 critters from the Cambrian fitted into a pattern.
Mask has resizable ear loops and a nose wire for a perfect fit. You can even insert a filter for better protection.
Design by Caroline Fleet
I FINALLY finished part 1 of the Evolution of Life poster that I was doing for my class-
it’s been a passion project of mine- I wanted to attempt something like this outside of school, regardless. the history of life on earth has always fascinated me!
This first part shows the transition from simple life to complex life, and the move from sea to land.
I really hurt my hand making this, but I think it was worth it (:
Drinking Chocolate originated in Mesoamerica and was even used as currency by the Maya!
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WE HAVE A KICKSTARTER LAUNCH DAY FOR OAKLEY THE OPABINIA!!!
Remember, remember, the 5th 17TH of November!
No but I think it’s so interesting how well Cambrian creatures translate into Spore, the game that always gets made fun of for how weird the creatures look.
dancing Cambrian creatures 2
The second of my new patterns is Cambrian Bowling Alley Carpet, which is exactly what it sounds like - a bunch of Cambrian era creatures in a pattern inspired by 1990’s bowling alley carpets. Why? I don’t know, it’s not my style at all, but it was just one of those things where once I thought of it i needed to make it exist or else it’d lurk in the back of my mind forever. (Much like my Werther’s wrapper waistcoat) I painted the creatures in gouache and scanned them and then spent a very very long time editing.
I made a smaller coordinating print of just the little confetti creatures in between the larger ones, and I liked the way the omnidens looked so much I added some texture and made them their own print with blue and brown versions.
I wrote down all the names as I drew them so I wouldn’t forget that the big creatures are: omnidens, anomalocaris, opabinia, norwoodia, marrella, facivermis, diania, pikaia, and hallucigenia.
And the little confetti creatures are: orthoceras, burgessia, wiwaxia, isoxys, kiisortoqia, tuzoia, vetulicolia, dinomischus, urokodia, plectronoceras, nectocaris, eokinorhynchus, and various trilobites. (Every single one of those names is underlined in red! Spellcheck must really hate prehistoric invertebrates.)
All of these patterns are on Spoonflower,MyFabricDesigns, and Redbubble.
(Insert joke here about being nostalgic for a simpler time before smartphones and trees and internal skeletons)