#science art

[crossbills]

Betty Busby, "Diatom Parade" (2022), quilt [52 in x 68 in]

[montereybayaquarium]

‘Tis the season of deep-sea art! 🎨✨

Join Monterey Bay Aquarium, @mbari-blog and FathomVerse as we cozy up to the ocean’s hidden wonders all month long with daily deep-sea art prompts.

Let the unique beauty of this extraordinary ocean ecosystem spark inspiration as the days turn dark and chilly. Dive into these prompts and create daily art in any medium–digital, ink, sculpture, tattoos, macaroni art, or whatever calls to you from the depths.

We’ll be reblogging art all month long, so make sure to follow @MontereyBayAquarium and @mbari-blog and tag your posts #deep sea december. Here’s some other ways to keep the sea-lebration going all month long: 🩵 Come chat with fellow artists and share your creations in the Monterey Bay Aquarium Discord server.

🩵 Submit your art to our online gallery.

🩵 Download the FathomVerse mobile game to find inspiration while contributing to MBARI deep-sea research. By protecting the ocean, we can all work together to preserve the unique and fragile beauty of the deep sea that inspires us to create. There’s wonder in ocean life, and caring for it helps us all. 🖤

The list of plain text prompts is available under the cut:

Deep Sea December daily art prompt list:

Snow

Red

Glitter

Chilly

Brunch

Crystal

Fish

Glow

Fathom

Home

Precious

Inky

Camera

Twilight

Gossamer

Hidden

Star

Drift

Sweet

Gadget

Dark

Jelly

Soft

Chimney

Feast

Rest

Community

Descend

Dazzle

Wonder

Renew

[sheishine]

Giant Flea (2021).

[leaves-and-inks]

[ID: Digital illustration with some unnatural posing and proportions floating over a dark green rectangle on an off white background. Its head faces down to the center right, the majority of its body following the same angle. its front two legs are angled down, its right leg slightly drawn up. Its left long, side spike is unnaturally bent to stay in the frame. Its back legs are gathered underneath it, and its spiky tail is bent at unnatural angles, filling up space in the top left corner. In the bottom left corner is a watermark reading “LEAVES AND INKS” /end ID]

Borealopelta

[yee-qi]

Lambeosaurus amongst a herd of Corythosaurus

Both are large hadrosaurs from Campanian North America! Unlike modern mammals, herbivorous dinosaurs had a tendency towards endemism: That is, they were typically found in singular locations. Both Corythosaurus and Lambeosaurus are only found in Alberta, despite Corythosaurus being widespread within Alberta, implying geographic restriction. Lambeosaurus magnicristatus, meanwhile, seems to be fairly rare. Many hadrosaurs tended to live in vast herds, and used their large crests for noisemaking and social signalling.

[xanaxfarts]

Tal Danino: Microuniverse (2015)

[incaseyouart]

Wild Lines

Traditional black & white pencil sketches of various fauna

My animal sketchbook Kickstarter is now live, for a whole month!!

I am very proud of this project - before starting to draw animals last November, I really didn't have much confidence with their shapes, but after >100 drawings, I gained so much knowledge!

Here are the reward tiers (all prices are in CAD, and I am shipping everywhere):

If you'd like to see all of the pages (not edited as nicely in the book), go to my animals tag!

Any support would really mean a lot, even if it's just spreading the link around to friends :D

Cheers!