#insertaninvert2024 — Public Fediverse posts

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 #InsertAnInvert2024.

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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1756971456

For the last day of 2024, #InverteFest, #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #washi #collage #fireflies #bioluminescence #sciart #insect #glowInTheDark #InverteFest2024 #MastoArt

For the final #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “diving” and for #invertefest 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!

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1793686974

#linocut #printmaking #insect #beetle #entomology #divingBeetle #sciart #MastoArt

For #insertAnInvert 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

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #monarchButterfly #urbanEcology #invasiveSpecies #speciesAtRisk #insertAnInvert2024 #MastoArt

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, 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!🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, 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!🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, 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!🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, 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!🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, 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!🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 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.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 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.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 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.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 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.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 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.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Another invertebrate for #invertefest2024: made for the coastal #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #anemone #wildlifeArt #oceanLife #invertebrate #InverteFest #MastoArt

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 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 … 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 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 … 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 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 … 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 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 … 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt flyer, #artadventCalendar and #invertefest 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
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #MastoArt #typography #termsofvenery #insect

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: For the #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #grasshopper #invertebrate

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #dumboOctopus #octopus #sciart #abyssal #Grimpoteuthis

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #dumboOctopus #octopus #sciart #abyssal #Grimpoteuthis

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #dumboOctopus #octopus #sciart #abyssal #Grimpoteuthis

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #dumboOctopus #octopus #sciart #abyssal #Grimpoteuthis

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #dumboOctopus #octopus #sciart #abyssal #Grimpoteuthis

Though 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 #InsertAnInvert2024.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1756971456

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Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #MastoArt

Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #MastoArt

Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #MastoArt

Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #MastoArt

Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 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

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #MastoArt

Day 8 #ArtAdventCalendar: an adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from New Zealand or Aotearoa I made for #InsertAnInvert2024!

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

#linocut #printmaking #velvetWorm #sciart #invertebrate #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Day 5 #ArtAdventCalendar: What’s inside this cigar box? A black smoker - with giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) for #InsertAnInvert2024. I’ve had the idea for this #multimedia 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 🧵

#sciArt #hydrothermalVent #marineGeophysics #marineBiology #MastoArt

For #ArtAdventCalendar 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 #InsertAnInvert2024. 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

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #barnacles #humpbackWhale #wildlifeArt #reliefPrint #MastoArt

This December #InsertAnInvert2024 is about #insect motion. The first prompt is scuttler, about “early” insects who didn’t evolve flight. So I made a tiny #linocut silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum). It got its common name from its colour and its fishlike movements.

#printmaking #sciart #silverfish

every day until New Year’s. I made this print for the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt intertidal in mind. My Lino block print of two Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. A common sea star, or starfish of the Pacific, it is a keystone species considered an indicator of health in the intertidal zone. 🧵2/

An extra jellyfish for #InsertAnInvert2024 Blobmonth!

Maybe I should make this print into fabric? 🤔🪼

You can find some of my other jellies on fabric here:

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/17305754-discomedusa-dance-by-minouette

#linocut #printmaking #jellyfish #sciart #patternDesign

The Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt Blobbagedon is about invasion jellies and the tiny “immortal” jellyfish Turritopsis is believed to be spreading across the world through ballast water discharge in a sort of silent invasion. While not known to be causing problems like many invasive species they have got everywhere! 🧵1/n

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/228161507

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #jellyfish #typography #MastoArt

For Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many genetically identical zooids which each perform different roles. 🧵1/2

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1664787693

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #printersolstice2024

For Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many genetically identical zooids which each perform different roles. 🧵1/2

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1664787693

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #printersolstice2024

For Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many genetically identical zooids which each perform different roles. 🧵1/2

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1664787693

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #printersolstice2024

For Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many genetically identical zooids which each perform different roles. 🧵1/2

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1664787693

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #printersolstice2024

For Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many genetically identical zooids which each perform different roles. 🧵1/2

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1664787693

#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #printersolstice2024

For the Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt disco blob: This artwork combines my comb jelly, hand carved, hand-printed linocut, with painting and collaged gorgeous Japanese washi papers and multicolour, colour changing LEDs, and custom designed light filters to create a magical light box. The comb jelly lights up & produces every-changing, mesmerizing patterns of colour, with slow & faster flashing areas. 🧵

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #multimedia #electronics #ctenophora #combJelly #MastoArt

For the Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt disco blob: This artwork combines my comb jelly, hand carved, hand-printed linocut, with painting and collaged gorgeous Japanese washi papers and multicolour, colour changing LEDs, and custom designed light filters to create a magical light box. The comb jelly lights up & produces every-changing, mesmerizing patterns of colour, with slow & faster flashing areas. 🧵

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #multimedia #electronics #ctenophora #combJelly #MastoArt

For the Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt disco blob: This artwork combines my comb jelly, hand carved, hand-printed linocut, with painting and collaged gorgeous Japanese washi papers and multicolour, colour changing LEDs, and custom designed light filters to create a magical light box. The comb jelly lights up & produces every-changing, mesmerizing patterns of colour, with slow & faster flashing areas. 🧵

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #multimedia #electronics #ctenophora #combJelly #MastoArt

For the Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt disco blob: This artwork combines my comb jelly, hand carved, hand-printed linocut, with painting and collaged gorgeous Japanese washi papers and multicolour, colour changing LEDs, and custom designed light filters to create a magical light box. The comb jelly lights up & produces every-changing, mesmerizing patterns of colour, with slow & faster flashing areas. 🧵

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #multimedia #electronics #ctenophora #combJelly #MastoArt

For the Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt disco blob: This artwork combines my comb jelly, hand carved, hand-printed linocut, with painting and collaged gorgeous Japanese washi papers and multicolour, colour changing LEDs, and custom designed light filters to create a magical light box. The comb jelly lights up & produces every-changing, mesmerizing patterns of colour, with slow & faster flashing areas. 🧵

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #multimedia #electronics #ctenophora #combJelly #MastoArt

For #WorldJellyfishDay & the 1st prompt, dangerous, for Blobfest month of #InsertAnInvert2024 it’s a smack of jellyfish!

The collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a “smack”. This amuses me, because I imagine them smacking their tentacles together in some sort of deepsea high five. To be honest, marine biologists speak of ‘blooms’& we do tend to lump in a bunch of soft-bodies marine creatures into the term jellyfish, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #jellyfish #typography #termsOfVenery #MastoArt