Just shipped these babies to the Clay Center of New Orleans. I'm super excited to be one of the artists chosen by juror Courtney Mattison to showcase my work in the "Ripple Effect" exhibit opening April 19th.
The two pieces I will be showing are sculpted out of white stoneware clay and glazed a lovely bronze color that changes depending on the lighting.
An olive green Gloomy Nudibranch crawling over a sandy south shore Oahu reef. These tend to be larger, maybe as long as your pinky finger. Your #Hawaii#sealife#photooftheday
Today’s feature is a whole family of 3,000+ species, the Nudibranchs. Truly beautiful, they are small sea slugs recognizable by the exposed gills on their back, and they come in virtually every color and combination of colors. Some are poisonous while others pretend to be poisonous with their vibrant colors. Some feed on stinging cells of hydrozoans and store them in the rear of their body for protection. Some ingest toxins from sponges and become toxic and inedible. Some even produce their own chemicals.
The feathery gills of a Spanish Dancer Nudibranch wedged in a crevice at Oahu's #Northshore . These large nudibranchs can grow to over 30 cm long but are usually smaller. Your #Hawaii#sealife#photooftheday
Leaf sheep nudibranch eat algae and can photosynthesise themselves. They care found in the southern islands (Eg Pulau Hantu, Kusu, semakau etc) #singapore#nudibranch#digitalart#wildlife
A small selection of the pictures from Sunday's dive near Ammouliani with @vivia. First dive of the year but it was already surprisingly warm! 23°C and sunny, 18°C surface water temperature and still 16°C at 25m depth. We saw a lot of interesting animals.
Featuring: a yellow nudibranch (phyllidia flava) grazing on seaweed next to red finger sponge, a painted comber swimming on top of rocks covered with some black sponge, a biscuit sea star in a little cave surrounded by colorful sponges, and in the top-left a nudibranch ("sea cow", peltodoris atromaculata) and some yellow sea anemones, and last but not least two starfishes, one red one with five arms and another orange one that once had six arms plus some bonus mermaid's cup at the bottom.
Paper versions of Hopkin’s rose nudibranch, purple and Sputnik urchin as well as a California freshwater shrimp. Each contain gifts to unwrap. #InverteFest#nudibranch#marine