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Colored Pencil still life on toned paper by Nysa Ortega. February 16, 2025

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Sea slug saturday feature: Psychedelic sea slug

Sagaminopteron psychedelicum

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The many colors of Miamira sinuata

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Astropyga magnifica

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143644636

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Velvet Worm (Macroperipatus sp.), family Peripatidae, Costa Rica

photographs by Raby Núñez 

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Pine rhizome. Photo David Read

[suonko]

by Thomas Miles II Richardson

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Helena Berry

[jetix]

2007-03-02

[seabeck]

Ophiocordyceps myrmecophila on western black carpenter ant (Camponotus modoc)

[nemfrog]

Attraction and Repulsion. Modern views of electricity. 1892.

Internet Archive

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katrín sigurdardóttir

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Peter Paul Rubens

Four Studies of a Male Head

Netherlands (c. 1617-19)

Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 51 x 66 cm.

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.

These are by far the best photographs I have seen on this work, and we all owe a debt to the photographer. Four Studies is one of Ruben’s most popular pieces, despite the fact that it’s not one of his monumental works (some of which I have had the delight of seeing in person, and they are distinctively massive).

Studies like this one were usually meant to serve as reference in the creation those larger compositions, which would usually depict scenes from the Christian bible, Greek or roman mythology, or historical scenes of battles, monarchs, or other notable events.

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Bear’s head tooth fungus (Hericium americanum) at Cash Canyon in Tennessee, U.S.

Alan Cressler

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Twin-spot goby (Signigobius biocellatus) off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia

François Libert