I Love You Gar.... My Best Friend Gar

Drew some poisonous & venomous sea creatures for my first foray into risograph printing. I’m so pleased with how bright the colors turned out in-person. :') [shop link]

just listed some more prints of these "2heads" (I edition) "6 wings" (II edition) and "6 legs" (I edition) linocuts to my online store SHOP HERE

Crowdsurfer for The Frights at Beach Goth, Santa Ana, CA

Meet the glass squids 🦑

Glass squids live in the boundless waters of the twilight zone. With no protective shell and nowhere to hide, they have to get creative.

Glass squids use an invisibility cloak to stay safe in these dark waters. Like other cephalopods, they are covered in tiny pigment sacs called chromatophores. When their chromatophores are closed, their skin is basically see-through.

When their cover is blown, they expand their chromatophores to darken their appearance. Or they might simply ink and jet away!

Glass squids also have special light organs that mask the shadow of their more opaque body parts. This helps them maintain their cloak of invisibility and hide from both predators and prey.

But the future of all midwater animals is in jeopardy. The deep seafloor contains many precious minerals critical to modern technologies—like the batteries in your phone. Mining these metals will release plumes of wastewater that will cloud the ocean's twilight zone.

We urgently need to identify the impacts deep-sea mining will have across all ocean habitats, from the midwater to the seafloor.

Help protect the glass squid by sharing what you've learned. Together we can build a community of ocean champions!

Learn more about this and other fascinating animals of the deep on our website.

The Sea Creature of the Day is the Gulper Eel/Pelican Eel!

i keep forgetting to do this until im half asleep each night so this one is going to be a shorter one

i love deep sea creatures that just have the adaptation of more mouth 🥰 among those, the gulper eel is by far the most simultaneously horrifying and adorable and i love them a lot

every time they eat something i like to imagine them making a lil "nom" noise

Rays rays rays

Wisptober Day 28: Arch

 "As the dawn is slowly approching, the stars fly down under the arches and go to rest at the bottom of the lake to await the night again.“ A very simple one but I think its one of my favourite!:D

I might revisit this world soon too.;)

Climbing a mountain just to read a book >>>

Living Fossils - Creatures that remain seemingly unchanged by time. Here's the Coelacanth, the Sturgeon, the Gar, the Horseshoe Crab and the Nautilus! (Gouache on 50x40cm canvas, available for purchase)