Another pattern of invertebrates for #InverteFest2024 but this time from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 to 485.4 million years ago). This pattern is made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers. The spiky handprinted Wiwaxia, a soft-bodied animal covered in scales & spines lived in the early & middle Cambrian period and fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada’s Burgess Shale.
🧵1/n #linocut#printmaking#pattern#paleontology#sciArt#Cambrian
#Breccia was found in #Poland, in the #HolyCross_mountains, in the #Wysniowka#quarry. The quarry is of the #Cambrian period. Breccia is a #rock composed of larger than 1 cm in diameter angular broken fragments of #minerals or rocks #cemented together by a fine-grained matrix. The word has its origins in the Italian language, in which it means "rubble".
I am planning what to give to Vilnius University Geological Museum
January: Microraptor and the Flowers. I started this year out making paleoart watercolours and never really stopped. This one is about a Microraptor investigating the first flowers she’s ever seen. The flowers are Lingyuananthus, a lovely little fossil flower described in an even lovelier paper that was not behind a paywall for once.
June: Anomalocaris, Dragon of the Cambrian. The realisation that most Cambrian creatures were tiny gave me the idea of a whole bunch of them hiding from a 40 cm long Anomalocaris while in positions reminiscent of a D&D party facing off against a dragon.
Good morning Trilobite! This is one of a series of prints of one of the ubiquitous and wildly successful trilobites, prehistoric creatures which lived for hundreds of millions of years, carved by hand in linoleum, printed onto lovely Japanese washi papers and collaged with papers in different colours. 🧵1/2
A three-eyed organism roamed the seas half a billion years ago (www.popsci.com)
The shrimp-sized, strong-armed creature dating back 520 million years is filling in some evolutionary gaps.