Old drawings
Once upon a time many years ago, I was in a financially unpleasant situation and I hatched a plan: I would paint and sell some pictures (of seashells, because of course). That plan never got even as far as offering anything to anybody, but I did paint some pictures. Shells are fun to paint, and you also get to feel like Ernst Haeckel or some other scholar-illustrator of old.
Can you ID all the shells?
(I don't intend to sell the pictures anylonger, don't get the idea that this is an ad.)
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These are very beautiful! I happened upon them by randomly scrolling through journal posts (which I seldom do).
I can't identify any of them; shells are not within my purview. But I can clearly identify them as highly detailed, skillfully rendered scientific illustrations!
Truly lovely, I'm glad you're keeping them, and hope you have done more.
Fantastic paintings! I can identify an Ermine Cone, Scorpion Conch and Big Auger in the top panel. I live in the sub-tropics so most of those shells are not what I see on a normal trip to the beach but have been shelling in far North Queensland and also have a pretty awesome shell collection. I don’t collect live shells but was gifted a lot of live collected shells from PNG and QLD from the 1960’s. Anyhow, just came across your paintings and I’m really impressed with your work.
I'm very envious of anyone who can find interesting shells on a beach: it must be so fun! All we have is about 5 dull species.
Yes we are a bit spoilt here with the beauty and diversity of shells but it gets even better as you travel north. I was in North QLD earlier this year and walked 4 hours through croc territory to this remote beach where we found 12 Nautilus shells on one small stretch of beach. Heaps of other interesting shells there as well ( amongst all the washed up rubbish). We had limited time because we had to walk back but can only imagine what other incredible shells were about on the neighboring shorelines. Crocs definitely keep you on your toes. The rubbish floats in off the ocean because there’s no inhabitants out there.
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