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🌙 Sorcha the Starry Night Octopus (Callistoctopus luteus) 💫🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BlueSkyNightMarket #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡
A vibrant red octopus sculpture with many white spots, depicting the species Callistoctopus luteus, also known as the Starry Night Octopus. The octopus is holding several tiny Swarovski crystals, sitting inside a shell. It is hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics. It is coated in epoxy resin for protection and shine.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
gruntleme.bsky.social
Finishing up October with this COMPLETE PERFECT ANGEL #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025
Pen and ink drawing of a millipede. Handwritten text reads: Tiny! Social! Pink! Fungus-eating! Dad's brewed the eggs! Dads will adopt abandoned eggs to brood! ANGELS. #insertaninvert 40: Eyes (Eyeless) Feather Millipede (Brachycybe lecontii)
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
liminalitea.bsky.social
Not as much art recently because my phone's camera is basically dead and I can only use the front camera, but I felt the #InsertAnInvert people might appreciate this one from next month's illustrations for @lhardingwrites.bsky.social.
A drawing of a crab holding a disc of metal on a cord.
October 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
gruntleme.bsky.social
Fuck Bruce Harrell. Anyway, here's a clam! #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025
Pen and ink drawing of a clam whose mantle is absolutely covered in spots, squiggles, and stripes. Handwritten text reads: "#Insertaninvert 37: Eyes (Lensless) Giant Boring Clam (as if!), Tridacna crocea An arrow pointing to the clam shell is annotated: Typically you wouldn't see any of the clam shell, because it's all burrowed deep into the substrate!"
October 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
sculptedreef.com
🌙 Sorcha the Starry Night Octopus (Callistoctopus luteus) 💫🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BlueSkyNightMarket #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡
A vibrant red octopus sculpture with many white spots, depicting the species Callistoctopus luteus, also known as the Starry Night Octopus. The octopus is holding several tiny Swarovski crystals, sitting inside a shell. It is hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics. It is coated in epoxy resin for protection and shine. It's being held up by the artist's left hand over a black background.
October 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
sculptedreef.com
🌈 Aurora the Caribbean Reef Octopus (O. briareus)
💫🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BlueSkyNightMarket #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡
Aurora the Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture. It's a bluish teal octopus with a maroon colored webbed pattern and bright green patches around the eyes.
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
sculptedreef.com
🌙 Sorcha the Starry Night Octopus (Callistoctopus luteus) 💫🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BlueSkyNightMarket #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡
A vibrant red octopus sculpture with many white spots, depicting the species Callistoctopus luteus, also known as the Starry Night Octopus. The octopus is holding several tiny Swarovski crystals, sitting inside a shell. It is hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics. It is coated in epoxy resin for protection and shine.
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
sculptedreef.com
💓 Zephyr the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus ✨ 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BlueSkyNightMarket #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡
A hand sculpted and painted Larger Pacific Striped Octopus, a white and dark brown octopus with white spots on its arms and arm web and dark stripes.
October 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
sculptedreef.com
☀️ Nyla the Day Octopus (O. cyanea) 💫🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BlueSkyNightMarket #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡
A small octopus sculpture sitting in a shell, holding a royal blue spinel gemstone. It depicts the species octopus cyanea, also known as the Day Octopus. It's a warm brown colored octopus with a pattern of white spots on each arm, and a star like white pattern around the eyes.
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
gruntleme.bsky.social
Second set of deep sea weirdos/cutie pops for #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025! These are both hella cool Holothurians (sea cucumbers).
Pen and ink drawing of a sea cucumber. Handwritten text reads: #InsertAnInvert 35: Deep Sea (Abyssal) "Gummy Squirrel" (Psychropotes longicauda). "I think I'm the only one who sees this, but the gummy squirrel looks like a bicycle handle with an open brake to me. I keep wanting to squeeze down its sail and ring its bell!" Annotations point out its tail (which is thought to act as a sail) and feeding palps, that it is 2 feet in length, and that it lives 16,000 feet below sea level. Pen and ink drawing of a sea cucumber. Handwritten text reads: #InsertAnInvert 36: Deep Sea (Hadal) "Headless Chicken Monster" (Enypniastes sp). "Only found in the deepest sea and colored pink to red, these fantastic animals are more prom princesses than monsters in my eyes!" Annotations point out its anterior veil for rowing, its tentacles for feeding and swimming, and its visible intestine.
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
gruntleme.bsky.social
Drew two deep sea creatures today for #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025, both surreal, stalked carnivores.
Pen and ink drawing of three creatures that are basically just open mouths attached to stems. Handwritten text reads: "Do they look like small, transparent submarine turrets that also happen to have hungry, gaping maws? Yes. Do their yawning hoods trip-trap shut when a small crustacean or diatom enters? Yes! Should "Predatory Tunicate" be a band name? Definitely. #InsertAnInvert 33 Predatory tunicate Deep Sea (Mesopelagic) (Megalodicopia hians) Pen and ink drawing of what looks like a cross between a flower and a bunch of balloons. Handwritten text points to one of the balloon shapes and reads: Covered in tiny hooks ("spicules") that form a velcro-y texture to trap foods. Can be 20 inches tall! The Internet claims that the U.S. Navy saw these & thought they were Russian listening devices. Apocryphal? #InsertAnInvert 34 Deep Sea (Bathyal) Ping Pong Tree Sponge (Chondrocladia lampadiglobus)
September 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
nollthere.bsky.social
Insert an Invert: Sand
Wandering sea anemone
Not all who wander are lost, some are just really weird sea critters.
#insertaninvert #sciart #oceanlife #nature
Digital art of a peachy orange sea anenome on a dark background with light blue swirls.
September 10, 2024 at 2:10 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
I see someone else found the BugSky feed for you first, but there's always hashtag InsertAnInvert
August 2, 2024 at 4:50 AM
chicagoseb.bsky.social
I took a pic and tried my hand at #watercolor -ing it ... I'll keep practicing 😂🤣😆 #AgapanthusPraecox #BlueLily #Colombia #Invertebrate #Snail #Gastropod #InsertAnInvert
A bunch of blue lilies in the foreground, most are dead and dried, one is getting ready to bloom (one the left) and 2 are bloomin (in the center and one behind it on the right). Under the central flower there is a snail crawling its way up the stem near the base of the flowers. Behind them are the Colombian Andes Mountains and a beautiful blue sky with a few white fluffy clouds. My attempt at watercoloring the previous photo. I need more practice! lol
January 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
stanton.bsky.social
If you see this, drop something Pleistocene
#InsertAnInvert #InsertAnInvert2024 #Pleistocene
April 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM
rapti.bsky.social
#InsertanInvert ?
I forgot the correct hashtag 😂 doesn‘t matter.
August 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM
nollthere.bsky.social
I am so late for this prompt but here, for #insertaninvert2024 I present: The hibiscus harlequin bug (Tectocoris diophthalmus) and its very cute eggs like a pink pearl bracelet for the prompt "Relationships: Eggs." #sciart #insertaninvert #bugs
Digital art illustration of an orange beetle on a leaf with its pink, round eggs attached around the leaf stem. Around the beetle are yellow hibiscus flowers.
February 18, 2024 at 9:30 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Week two of #InsertAnInvert.

Too many damn legs @franzanth.bsky.social
A journal page with an illustrated firebrat and centipede in watercolor
January 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM
stanton.bsky.social
#InsertAnInvert #InsertAnInvert2024
February 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM
greyauk.bsky.social
#insertaninvert
Ende Dezember gibt es da noch das #invertefest ;)
December 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
lindzeamays.bsky.social
Giant conifer aphid ink doodle!

These (true) bugs are all over the pine barrens of NJ. My husband and I found some in a decomposing wood pile and he snagged a few awesome macro shots.
IG: @kurt.lindhult.photo

#SciArt 🎨🕷️🌱🐡🐞🐛📸
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Ink drawing of a giant conifer aphid Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens. Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens.
January 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
gruntleme.bsky.social
This is what you get hahahahaha #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025
Horrible black ink sketch of two scallops swimming. They look like hairy dentures. Handwritten text reads: "InsertAnInvert 12: Shells (Swimmers). Spiny Scallop (Chlamys hastata). I give up, y'all. Just go look up pictures of scallops and then watch videos of them swimming. WILD."
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
gruntleme.bsky.social
Hello. I drew an anemone.

#InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025
Pen and ink drawing of an anemone. It looks like it is wearing a wig made of pacifiers. Handwritten text reads: "A nipply fella, friends with anemonefish (famously). #Insertaninvert (29) Coastal (Tropical reef) Bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)
August 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
sockynoob.bsky.social
Fortunately it's a common species, so even my failed attempt at transplanting the eggs to its host plant won't doom their future. Thankfully both tree species are not far from one another, like mere feet. Such a glorious and adorable fluffy moth. #InsertAnInvert #Inverts #Insects #Moths
Large orange and light brown moth with fluffy legs and body on a human arm, viewed from the top of the moth. Large orange and light brown moth with fluffy legs and body on a human arm, viewed from the front corner of the moth. Large orange and light brown moth with fluffy legs and body on a human hand, viewed from the side of the moth. Large orange and light brown moth with fluffy legs and body on a human hand, viewed from the front of the moth.
September 10, 2024 at 12:53 AM
magicmetalbird.com
🎨 InsertAnInvert 2024

Parasites week 2: endoparasites

green-banded broodsac (leucochloridium paradoxum)
a snail with green-banded broodsacs in its eye tentacles that are somewhat visible through its head. It is drawn with green lines and coloured with green halftone
June 13, 2024 at 10:15 AM