@whiteoceanwitch - Tumblr Blog

A bit about me:

Female, about 37 years old

Designer: media, games, fashion 👩‍🎨

miniatures: landscapes, objects, fashion, 1:87, 1:500, 1:1000🏜️

natural history: flora & fauna, fossils 🦕 🌱🦤

sci-fi and space 🚀

arсhitecture: brutalism, modern, Hundertwasser, shrines, practical & sustainable ⛩️

LGBTQIA+ ally 🏳️‍🌈 & bi 🌈

gardening: more plants - happier person🪴

languages: currently learning Chinese, Japanese and Arabic🎙️

robots: 🤖

Innovation-curious: AI, health, technology, education, VR, entertainment 👾

writing stories 📝

reading books: sci-fi, fiction, art books, scientific papers📚 currently reading: Too old for this - Samantha Downing

foodie: Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Soviet cuisine, greens 🍱 🥑🌱

memes 😜

series and movies: Scrubs, Bones, Nanny, Wednesday, Good Omens, only Murders in the building, Argylle, Monk, Lilo & Stitch, 5th Element, LD&R, Ghost in the Shell, Powder and more 🎞️

cats😻 and dachshunds 🐶

Neurodiversity/ADHD: research, jokes and scientific papers

Current obsession/ need: get healthy

___All of potential mixed between the topics______

Occasionally intrusive thoughts or questions 😵‍💫 (ADHD (diagnosed))

rowecommaadam

Howard V. Brown (1878-1945), "The Model Workers"

70sscifiart

Brown was a really cool 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine artist. This one isn’t sci-fi, but it still might be my favorite work of his! Which is an odd thing to find myself saying, given that — as longtime readers may have noticed over the 13 years I’ve run this blog — I really like sci-fi art.

70sscifiart

I found more info on it! It's Brown's June 1924 cover to Scientific American.

Here's a larger version of the original artwork, too.

I wonder what structure is being added here.

gabalut

Capsicum pelvis, watercolor and colored pencil on paper

Process video available on my Patreon HERE

important-cat-pics

kyotoprotocols

smolsyrena

Gorgeous coral colors and anemones 🩵🪸🐠

manta-pngs

Original photographs by Simon J Pierce on iNaturalist (link). These photos are all under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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A transparent PNG of a male (identifiable by the presence of claspers between the pelvic fins) reef manta ray from a 3/4 view and below; its cephalic fins are furled. Its ventral side is mostly white with smoky smudges on the posterior undersides of its pectoral fins and around its mouth, and it has smudgy black spots between and just behind its gill slits.

A transparent PNG of an oceanic manta ray from below; its cephalic fins are furled. It has black coloration taking up about half of its pectoral fins on the posterior edge, and a set of black freckles behind its gill slits. A pair of remoras hitch a ride just below the cephalic fins.

A transparent PNG of a male (identifiable by the presence of claspers between the pelvic fins) reef manta ray from a 3/4 view and below; its cephalic fins are furled. Its ventral side is mostly white, with smoky coloration at the trailing edge of its pectoral fins and posterior to the gill slits; it has small black freckles on its abdomen and posterior pectoral fins and some larger black streaks between its gill slits.

A transparent PNG of an oceanic manta ray from below; its cephalic fins are extended in a feeding position and its mouth is open. Its ventral side is mostly white with smudgy grey freckles along the trailing edge of its pectoral fins, and a cluster of small black freckles on its abdomen.

A transparent PNG of a reef manta ray from the side; its cephalic fins are down in a feeding position. What is visible of its ventral side is entirely white and it has two small remoras hanging on to the underside of its pectoral fin.

A transparent PNG of a reef manta ray from below; its cephalic fins are loosely down. Its ventral side is almost entirely white save for a few black freckles across its abdomen and on its pectoral fins.

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