Loggerheads
“Loggerheads” – 2012
Modeled and rendered in Blender. Texturing and post-processing in GIMP.

“Loggerheads” – 2012
Modeled and rendered in Blender. Texturing and post-processing in GIMP.

Do you like Octopuses? How about Dinosaurs?
Then check out this new T-shirt I designed. That’s right – it’s an Octopus eating a Velociraptor in a tree.
(note: this is a compressed jpeg version – the original and t-shirts are much higher quality).

You can get it in black or white (or multiple other colors I believe).

It’s basically a re-rendering of my detailed digital artwork “Octopus arborealus”
The excellent scientist and blogger, Dr. Christopher Mah (of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the Echinoblog was interviewed at Ocean Portal about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill’s impact on some of the lesser appreciated organisms: the echinoderms (sea stars, sea urchins, etc). My artwork “Echinodermata” is prominently displayed behind him (Note: the poster was originally a gift to Chris back when I created it).
Here is the interview:
Look for this behind Chris:


Squid tend to their paper nest amidst the Spanish moss of a southern bayou.
This is the eighth in a series of pieces, “Ocean Invasion,” which finds ocean creatures living in absurd land habitats.