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Night fire on the beach

I especially like the way the fiery light glows through the algae in the 3rd picture.

Octo Art #3

The octoriginal, the sand sketch and the final on canvas

From SQUIRT (the octo-artiste):

    With this painting I wanted to provide a simple example of how I understand color.    For octopuses color is a very complex matter.  We use it in conjunction with motion to communicate when we are within eyesight of another creature or sometimes just for fun (lets turn reddish brown and sneak up on that rockfish!) .    
   The colors I put down on the left part of the canvas (red and orange) represent what I know is possible.   on the right side of the canvas the light purple and blue are colors I am unable to express on my own skin.   After making a few suggestions to Alex he came back with a sketch that I liked.   I instructed him to paint the main portion of my head and body around the red and orange colors, while intertwining my tentacles through and around the purple and blue.  The latter represents my appreciation of and desire to achieve these colors of vibrancy with the understanding that they are beyond my physical reach.   The off canvas work, where my tentacles disappear off the side and reappear elsewhere, emphasizes this point.

Octolaboration #2 at HMSC

Here is cephalo art collaboration #2. I forgot to take an octo-only art shot before I added my embellishments but you can pretty easily see the strong brush strokes of Squirt.

Octolaboration #1 at HMSC

The finished collaboration (above)

Squirt's contribution

The contraption built by Kristen at HMSC for Octopainting fun.

a) Contraption fits over side of tank.

b) fish goes in Mr. Potato head (or other toy)

c) octopus plays with toy to get food out

d) brushes move around canvas as octopus moves around

e) ART!

Artist's note:

I have been wanting to do a focused artistic collaboration for a while but have hesitated to approach someone primarily because if I said "Hi, I am an artist and I think you do good work. Would you like to collaborate?" .... then I would feel like a stray dog coming up to a picnic and asking if I could have half their ham sandwiches.

When the opportunity presented itself for me to collaborate with and build on the artistic talents of Squirt the HMSC Octopus I jumped at the chance... primarily because I know Octopuses don't eat ham sandwiches.

More Octo-art to come

-Sym

Ocean washed stones 2

The second wash on the incoming tide.

Ocean washed stones 1