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Some tiny paintings in progress for Art Brownie at Gallery50 in Toronto. I’m excited to do a miniature art show. The theme is Summertime, and I’m making bugs.
A coat of shellac and these will be done.
My finished paintings for Art Brownie at Gallery 50 in Toronto. These pieces are now available via their Art Brownie site.
I’m trying out Posca paint pens. This is an experiment. I gotta say, I kind of like them. This is on an acryla gouache background.
What’s this? More bugs? Something is coming soon.
Owning this cicada lamp made by @cady_the_creator would solve all my problems
@mrmederick
Freshly molted cicadas are unreal
Screaming creature leaves its shell
<High pitched noise of delight>
Upside down on the mat in the loading dock where the wig technician was tending to the post show clean up. A little white tummy and hook socks waving helplessly in the air. After a rescue and a few photos, back outside on a tree for the rest of its short life. Hope you find a mate, little one! Sing your song of summer!
The Cicadas are Coming (to the Northeast)
When I think childhood summers, I remember long days, sno-cones, playing outside, and that the ever-present hum of cicadas. Their wing-beating buzz was, and is, the ambient soundtrack to warmer months.
The northeastern US is about to get a visit from a very special bunch of these sporadic summer visitors. Certain groups of cicadas only rise to the surface to breed every 17 years, littering the ground with their exoskeletons and bodies, and the air with their constant call.
When the soil temperature begins to steady in the mid-60’s, “Brood II” magicicada nymphs will hatch underground and crawl to the surface by the billions, and the air from Georgia to Connecticut will start to come to life. While not every cicada species hatches in 17-year patterns, these particular “broods” may follow the pattern to avoid predators predicting their arrival or to keep from going extinct during long periods of cold weather. For many of you, this may be the first time in your life that this group has hatched.
Let Cicada Mania (yes, that’s a real website) tell you how to see this year’s “periodic cicadas”, some theories of cicadas and prime numbers, and what years other periodic cicada broods will hatch in your area.
Help WNYC and Radiolab track soil temperatures with home-made cicada thermometers, and follow the Swarmageddon in real-time.
Teachers: Make the cicada brood arrival part of your lesson plan with this activity.
Most of all, get out there this summer and just stop. Listen, look and take a moment to appreciate just how much life is lurking under and above us at any moment.
And watch where you step. Crunch.
fan art of my favorite bug. joy fills me when I think of these bugs. + idea I came up with. furry but bug? buggy. my buggy sona. calliope cicada girl. her dress is the patterns seen on cicadas. happy.
please I love drawing her/me? my bug sona.
i need more friends who love bugs. I cant take telling people i love bugs and there reaction being "i hate them i kill everyone i see", or "ew" ( and then giving me a weird look. where are the bug lovers? where are my friends? let me show you my collection, lets draw insects together, lets make power points of our favorites.
will wood fan confirmed.