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My art in 2023 (7/12)
July: Caihong and the Kalligrammatids. Kalligrammatids were neuropterans that superficially resembled large butterflies, but unlike them their wings were transparent! I combined them with the gorgeous iridescence of Caihong and backlighting for a fun experiment.
#MyArt #Jurassic #Caihong #Kalligrammatid #silhouette #paleoart #MyArtIn2023
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In a dense Sequoia forest where the darkness is broken by only a single solarbeam, a #Caihong curiously inspects a #Kalligrammatid, seeing a face not unlike its own staring back from the strange insect's transparent wings.
Although kalligrammatids superficially look like butterflies, these #Jurassic insects are in fact #Lacewings! This means their wings, which in Kalligramma brachyrhyncha's case seem to have mimicked a maniraptoran face, were transparent!