{"id":309,"date":"2012-05-15T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T02:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-07-05T02:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:50:48","slug":"in-the-studio-anemone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"In the studio: Anemone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I used mixed media for this close-up (4″ x 4″): semi-transparent washes of acrylic paint, with colored pencil and graphite. I like both drawing and painting, and the surface of an acrylic wash holds the colored pencil nicely.<\/p>\n

This anemone is either a sunburst anemone (Anthopleura sola, <\/em>solitary rather than aggregating which is\u00a0<\/em>Anthopleura elegantissima<\/em>), described as solitary and white with shades of pale pink, green, blue, purple, or a pale and solitary giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica<\/em>). I thought I would look up the species and discovered I need to see the individual again to be sure!\u00a0\u00a0They live in intertidal ecosystems from Alaska to Baja CA. They seem to glow, and are green because they contain a symbiotic green algae or dinoflagellates living in their tissue. In shady areas, individuals are less green– I suspect that is what I have drawn here, but would need to see it again to see whether the column has rows of warts (verrucae), or if the warts have no pattern (indicating\u00a0A. xanthogrammica<\/em>). It’s all here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wallawalla.edu\/academics\/departments\/biology\/rosario\/inverts\/Cnidaria\/Class-Anthozoa\/Subclass_Zoantharia\/Order_Actiniaria\/Anthopleura_elegantissima.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This individual lives in a tank at the Bodega Marine Laboratory (open to the public on Fridays):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/bml.ucdavis.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Anemones are fascinating and varied, try and find them where you live or in an aquarium!<\/p>\n

This mixed media piece is headed to an exhibit (and is for sale) at Copperfield’s Books in Healdsburg, from May 21- June 10, for “Art at the Source” 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used mixed media for this close-up (4″ x 4″): semi-transparent washes of acrylic paint, with colored pencil and graphite. I like both drawing and painting, and the surface of an acrylic wash holds the colored pencil nicely. This anemone is either a sunburst anemone (Anthopleura sola, solitary rather than aggregating which is\u00a0Anthopleura elegantissima), described […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[11,15,31,39,110,160],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibits","category-nature-miniatures","tag-anemone","tag-art","tag-bodega","tag-ca","tag-nature-miniatures-2","tag-sonoma-coast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/miniatures_anemone.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}