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Saimi Hanma ⚔️
@saimihanma.bsky.social
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Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND

(aka Kelly Brenner)

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@nudibranch.bsky.social

#InverteFest

website: www.metrofieldguide.com
webshop: https://www.metrofieldguide.com/shop/
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Jan 15
I am Saimi Hanma (formerly Kelly Brenner) and the author of The Naturalist at Home as well as Nature Obscura. I'm also an artist and photographer, focusing largely on invertebrates.

You can find my art, photos, writing, info and web shop on my website: www.metrofieldguide.com
the book cover for the naturalist at home: projects for discovering the hidden world around us by kelly brenner. the central image is a curiosity cabinet with various items like skulls, shells and lichens. the book cover for nature obscura: a city's hidden natural world by kelly brenner. it's a pencil illustration featuring a variety of nature such as a ladybug, crow, invertebrates, moss, slime molds and so on a charcoal illustration of a sea angel, which is a sea slug which looks like a winged sluggy devil a photo of a horned nudibranch from the front against a dark background. the sea slug is translucent with spiky cerata on the back which have brown lines and are tipped in orange
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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
#Nudivember day 10: Felimida luteorosea, which was probably conjured into existence by clown wizards
#nudibranch #seaslug #polkadots #art
A purple nudibranch with yellow spots and a yellow edge on its mantle and foot
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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My first third of #Nudivember paintings, all done in watercolor and ink and a touch of white gauche.

#TradArt
A collage of five watercolor illustrations of various nudibranchs, from white and curly to sleek black and yellow A collage of 5 different types of nudibranchs in watercolor and ink
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
I just finished the finale film of Thunderbolt Fantasy and this was truly one of the best shows I've seen. Just glorious in story, characters and production. I'll never get over how it was entirely hand made, from the gorgeous puppets to the intricate sets and costumes. The antithesis to genai.
saimihanma.bsky.social Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Oct 10
I'm currently watching season 3 of Thunderbolt Fantasy and reminded again how much I love this show. I recently got a Nendoroid of my fav character.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
My first third of #Nudivember paintings, all done in watercolor and ink and a touch of white gauche.

#TradArt
A collage of five watercolor illustrations of various nudibranchs, from white and curly to sleek black and yellow A collage of 5 different types of nudibranchs in watercolor and ink
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
#Nudivember day 10 was very colorful and really fun to paint.

#TradArt
A watercolor painting of a nudibranch sea slug that's a gradient purple to blue, with yellow polka dots. The gills and rhinophores are both dark purple
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Once again I'm begging people not to compare politicians to invertebrates. Inverts are cool and diverse and play an important ecological role. Politicians are the lower order.
A nudibranch sea slug with two horn like rhinophores, two oral tentacles and a lot of finger like cerata covering its back the body is translucent with highlights of blue, orange and brown
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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#Nudivember Day 10

(Watercolor and colored pencil on watercolor paper)
A purple nudibranch with yellow polka dots on a green background.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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michellejonesart.bsky.social
#Nudivember Day 9

(Posca markers, colored pencil and watercolor on pastel paper)
A cream colored nudibranch with branching tendrils all over its back, white spots and an orange/bronze patch on top.
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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nudibranch.bsky.social
Today's #Nudivember species has also had a name change and is now Felimida luteorosea.

Info: www.seaslugforum.net/showall/chro...
More info: slugsite.us/bow/nudwk476...
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/469622-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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This week's daily 5 minute drawings was a very bad choice. These nautilus cups were way too intricate for 5 min and since I don't sketch them out first, you can probably already see what happened, I made the first ones way too big and had no room left by the end.

#TradArt #Invertebrates
An open sketchbook with illustrations of 7 different nautilus cups, some very large, some only partial, featuring nautilus shell and ornamentation like a vase
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Day 9 of #Nudivember
A whitish nudibranch with finger like gills lining the sides of the body with a tentacle like face in watercolor
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Check your ballots, Seattle! A couple years ago my signature wasn't accepted and it was easy to fix and get it counted.

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
#Nudivember day 9: Tritonicula myrakeenae, which looks like one of Cthulhu's winter solstice decorations
#nudibranch #seaslug #snowflake #art
A ghostly white nudibranch with an orange core and covered in pale branchlike structures
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
This week's daily 5 minute drawings was a very bad choice. These nautilus cups were way too intricate for 5 min and since I don't sketch them out first, you can probably already see what happened, I made the first ones way too big and had no room left by the end.

#TradArt #Invertebrates
An open sketchbook with illustrations of 7 different nautilus cups, some very large, some only partial, featuring nautilus shell and ornamentation like a vase
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
I swear, the high pitched whine of electric leaf blowers is almost as bad as the deafening roar of gas powered ones. Someone please start a nonprofit to give away free rakes.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Day 9 of #Nudivember
A whitish nudibranch with finger like gills lining the sides of the body with a tentacle like face in watercolor
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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manyojo.bsky.social
#Nudivember IX
Digital sketch of a tritonia myrakeenae sea slug.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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liminalitea.bsky.social
Day 9 of #nudivember is Tritonia myrakeenae, which is bringing back the 90s/00s "translucent tech" aesthetic.
A drawing of a white sea slug with a pinkish mass at its centre and several branching growths across its body.
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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nudibranch.bsky.social
#Nudivember species for day 9 is Tritonia myrakeenae.

Info: www.seaslugforum.net/find/tritmyra
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1180215...
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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moa810.bsky.social
⛰️山海経9: 欽原。蜂の姿をした動植物絶対殺すバード。文章から受けた第一印象がスズメバチだったのでスズメ顔にしました。オシドリを大きさの基準にするセンス独特すぎ。
🌊Shanhai jing 9: Qin-yuan. A hornet-like, duck-sized bird with a lethal sting. Any animals and plants die if the bird stings them.
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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I thought today's #Nudivember would be more fun, but I spent so much time on it I don't even want to look at it anymore.
A watercolor illustration of a very complex nudibranch that has a lot of cerata, all striped with three colors, a visible foot that's gray and blue, two long oral tentacles and two other weird tentacle things I don't even know what they are
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
#Nudivember day 8: Cerberilla ambonensis, whose stripey fringes reminded me of isopod legs
#nudibranch #seaslug #stripey #art
A black and white striped nudibranch with orange bands on its back looking at a surprised isopod
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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jewelskidding.bsky.social
dont know how many of these i'll do this year but i want to do as many as i can!

#nudivember #furry #furryart #illustration #art #oc #characterdesign
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
#Nudivember Day 04- Ardreadoris electra

🦑 🐌 🐠 🐡 #Invert
Digital illustration of a white sea slug with an orange outline
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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michellejonesart.bsky.social
#Nudivember Day 7: the starry night nudibranch!

I had to use my Van Gogh paper for the background of the collage
Two blue nudibranches scattered with yellow stars, and purple gills and rhinophores. The background is a grayscale image of Vincent Van Gogh's distinctive curling brush strokes.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM