BREAKING CUTTLEFISH NEWS: Flamboyant cuttlefish hatchlings are now on exhibit! These petite cephalopods hatched on January 6th and are just as dazzling as their parents—only tiny!
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Source: montereybayaquarium
This little guy is the first one in a series I’d like to call Bio-spheres (I was very happy when I came up with that name and found it very clever :P) I’d like each one of them to contain an animal I love (or just love to look at) or alittle environment with different animals. At the moment I decided to exclude animals with either fur or feathers for I don’t quite know how to pull that off in that scale, but I might include them once I found a good technique.
So. On to the Octopus. I made him mostly from polymer clay (this time it was a brand called pardo of which I got a bunch of jewel colours from a former job. It was a really, really lovely shade at one point, but I mostly painted over it so you can’t really see it anymore) but painted him in a lot of layers to achieve the mottled “skin”. I started off with another Octopus, which, surprise, surprise, turned out a bit too big for the sphere I envisioned, which turned out to be awesome, though, cause I was able to play around with painting techniques, and especially with the suckers. I originally planned to make them in polymer clay too, but then decided that I don’t want to get crazy yet. So I ended up painting first a little dot of paint and then taking paint away with a very fine dotting tool. To complete the piece I added a little bit of sand and small rocks to the base. The Pendant measures a bit more then 30 mm, the dome itself measures 25. The pictures truly don’t do this piece justice.
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Source: asabaijan
This tiny octopuses are called Caribbean pygmy octopuses, and these two have recently hatched at the Florida Aquarium. These tiny things are nocturnal as to avoid becoming the meal of larger animals. - See more at: http://www.awesomelycute.com/2014/04/the-cutest-and-tinest-octopus-youll-see/#sthash.gDT3urvv.dpuf
