#marine animals
Manta ray earstuds (instagram @qelffy)
I’m starting to work on a sea anemone and I’m loving how hectic and colourful my base layer looks each colour is a different layer - so many tentacles to draw and add details to!!
These stickers have been selling like crazy! I had to order a whole new batch of them - thank you so much for all the amazing support!!
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Egg-yolk jellyfish are a beautiful jellyfish found in the waters along the West Coast. Hitchhikers like crabs have been found catching a ride inside their bell (the umbrella shaped top)- which is something I REALLY want to see!
Happy pride month everyone! I am so excited to be spending this month talking about how diverse sex, mating, and gender are in the ocean (or water)!
Head to my Instagram to enter my World Oceans Day giveaway for the chance to win one children’s T-shirt size 4 and three octopus stickers!
Haven’t posted a video in a while. We went tidepooling yesterday and saw these adorably tiny thick-horned Nudibranchs I am definitely obsessed (and had a hard time leaving them behind haha)
Ooh look what just came in the mail I’ll be adding them to my shop soon!
Blood star… why are you such a simple but complex being??? After hours of drawing and redrawing I think I’ve reached a star that I like and that represents the many blood stars I’ve seen hidden in between rocks. Next up I will spend days agonizing over the leather star
Did you know that sea urchins in the wild wear shells, rocks, leaves, and algae as hats? It’s theorized that they use the hats to help weigh them down and to protect them from predators. They might even help protect the urchins from UV rays and help camouflage them.
In aquariums apparently urchins kept taking parts of the exhibit to use as hats - including items like baby corals. To help keep the exhibits intact, staff started printing small 3D hats for urchins. These hats were not only functional - but made aquarium urchins so much more fashionable than their wild friends.
Working on this blood star right now what’s your favourite sea star species?
Look at the spikes on this one! This Frosted Nudibranch (dirona albolineata) was super intimidating at first - but I actually loved playing with the many layering “spikes”. Crazy to see all the forms these creatures come in
Here’s a better photo of my Monterey Sea Lemon and Atlantic Ancula
My hands have decided to cooperate today so I’m taking some time to work on more Salish sea Nudibranchs while I listen to crooked kingdom! Did anyone else binge Shadow and Bone on Netflix?
New postcards arrived in the mail today!! Decided to try semi-gloss finish and I love how they turned out
My bird art is now available on an eco-friendly sticker sheet!
This photo has stuck with me for years. Balance in all things. @annieguttridge on Instagram
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a sea slug! The spanish dancer nudibranch brings a new level of excitement to diving with slugs. Where most nudis amble slowly over their environment, the spanish dancer can actively swim by twisting its body and pumping water with its large, flowing “skirt.” The fluffy tuft on its back end are actually gills, and give the nudibranch its name - nudi meaning naked, and branch meaning gills! Found at @reefdivers on Instagram.
You’ve heard of a hammerhead shark, but have you ever heard of a winghead shark? Little is known about this eccentric-looking species and why they’ve evolved such an exaggerated hammer-head, called a cephalofoil, though the current popular theory is that the larger surface area is simply better at detecting prey buried beneath the sand. The youngster in this image was captured for tagging and released. This species is endemic to northern Australia and is classified as Near Threatened.
Photo credit: Dr. Tristan Guttridge
Reach for the sky! Thresher sharks have been reported for their flying leaps out of the water, but that behavior is rarely captured. It’s also a treat to see the shark’s iridescence so clearly beneath the sunlight. I hope that remora enjoyed its unscheduled flight! Found via @ah360views on Instagram.
