New Images

The image on the right is a dinoflagellate, not a diatom, and its name is Prorocentrum micans. Pretty interesting shape.

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Additional Sample Photographs

These are just a few items that are available at our CafePress store. L - Postcard, R - Journal.

Samples

These are samples of items available with Diatom images on them: 4" x 4" ceramic tile coaster to the right, and a great canvas tote with image on both sides above.
This and other items can be found on the CafePress store site.

What Are They?

The images shown here are microscopic algae, many of which are diatoms, provided by my friend, and project associate, Paul E Hargraves, PhD., Emeritus Professor of Oceanography, GSO, University of Rhode Island. For the past year or so, I have been colorizing some of these images, using various digital paint programs. As an artist and colorist, I am always fascinated by the order and detail of these amazing creatures. The variety of shapes has been astounding to me, and creating color images from black and white has been a challenge. Nevertheless, the results have been pleasing and illuminating.

These are some of the images that will be shown at the Earth Focus event

Greenhouse Earth Focus Art Exhibition

We have been invited to participate in the Greenhouse Earth focus Art Exhibition:

"Since the fall of 2008, the youth-run environmental advocacy group, Greenhouse, based at Kettle Pond Visitor Center has been expanding and developing. The group, made up of a core group of 10 teenagers representing four area high schools uses art to encourage awareness and appreciation of the natural world. They figure," summer is a great time to fine tune that song about the butterfly chrysalis you've been writing for your guitar, or that poem that you've only half written about that encounter with the owl on your walk." So on August 22nd from 7-9 pm. at the Corliss Auditorium on the URI Bay Campus, the group will be culminate their year of public events by hosting "Earth Focus/ a Showcase of Art inspired by Nature." The event will provide avenue for poets, singers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers of all ages to share their perspectives about the natural world, and how we can learn to live more in harmony with it."