SHELL oil drum, the old type with the roll-around rail in the middle

Stop Shell - Save the Arctic!

(C) GREENPEACE/MARPEL

It was a stunner

Many.

Compare with Few.

Shell pattern and cables from Alice Starmore's Cape Cod in "Fishermen's Sweaters" but otherwise my own, Yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed. Needles 3.5 mm (US 4). Knitted in 2006.

I found a lot of shells with starfish holes on them - brought a bunch home and made a simple wind chime. Most likely it will tangle, but that is okay - I will just have to try to untangle it.

shells texture on Ocracoke beach

Balanus amphitrite (little on on the side of the biggest barnacle) and probably is Megabalanus californicus. The pinkest shells in front are from off the coast of southern California. The big one in back (with the little barnacle on its side) is another megabalanus and is from Australia. The little barnacle (sideways) is Balanus amphitrite.

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A bunch of shells.

A while back, Cullman County was in a drought situation. My step sister and I took advantage of the lakes being down to explore around the edges. The inside of this shell is not manipulated, only sharped a little to show some detail.

Early morning walk around Herm. Shell Beach us a very special location

Shell Mex Building at night, London, UK.

See also for more information:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Mex_House

Shells in water

bakingcures.blogspot.com/2013/10/stuffed-shells.html

One of the "shell trees" on Wild Beach at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge / Assateague Island National Seashore. Visitors like to decorate the remnants of trees, once in the marsh but now overtaken by the beach as it shifts.

Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS

Shells taken from Shell Beach, La Jolla.

Navel shell. Model by Tomoko Fuse. From Spiral: Origami | Art | Design. Left: elephant hide; middle: Kraft Alios; right: Strathmore tracing paper.

Apollolaan Amsterdam 1969 beeldbank.amsterdam.nl

The snails died about half a year ago, but their shells still stick to the limb...

Die Schnecken sind wohl vor etwa einem halben Jahr gestorben, aber ihre Häuser kleben immer noch an dem Ast...

Bei Götterswickerhamm, Voerde (Niederrhein).

See where this picture was taken. [?]

I loved the golden lustre on the inside of this shell.

Trying out my new 3x filter, I cant afford a new macro lens yet. Nags Head,NC

Shells from the Pacific coast near Chiclayo, Peru

Shell half

made from string and a couple of cheap bracelets!

Getting better. This is for the Strathmore watercolor sketching workshop I'm taking.

I'm trying two new things today. First I tried a technique called the double transfer. It's used by scientific illustrators to make an exact drawing. I photographed the shells on a white background remembering to overexposed the image by +1 E.V. (stop) in order to get a good white. I then transferred the file to my iPad, cropped it in Photogene, sized it in Pages, and printed it to plain paper using my Epson NX430 wireless printer. I then traced the shells onto thin tracing paper using a soft pencil. Here's where the double transfer comes in. You fold the tracing paper so that more tracing paper covers the original tracing. You then burnish the tracing with your fingernail or the edge of a spoon to transfer the graphite to the back of the folded piece. You then transfer that image to your art material by placing the tracing paper with the graphite down and burnishing again. By transferring the graphite twice you don't get a mirror image. If you do it right, you get a very faint pencil outline of your subject that is photo accurate. It's an interesting process to try, but I don't think I'll use it very often. It's more suitable for a finished illustration than for sketching. I'd rather just do a quick drawing.

The other new thing I tried today was to use my iPad to scan and upload my sketch to Flickr. In the past I used my desktop computer to scan, edit and upload. The Epson NX430 printer is also a wireless scanner. So, I scanned the sketch directly to my iPad, rotated, straightened, cropped, and resized the image in Photogene, and used FlickStackr to upload it to my Flickr photos.

Moleskine journal, Lucas watercolors, Kuretaki mini waterbrush, Zig extra fine sepia brush pen.

Note: I love my Zig brush pens. I got them from Jetpens.com.

Shell beach during the Sponge-O-Rama Dolphin Cruise in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

just trying out the video with the 50mm prime lens

Something for the spa, perhaps

Shell Beach on Tern Island in the French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii.

Camera: Olympus OM-1

Lens: Olympus OM-System S Zuiko MC Auto-Zoom f/4 35-70mm.

Film: Kodak Ektachrome E100D Expired 10/20

Developer: The Darkroom

A few of the shells and rocks collected

Shell pattern and cables from Alice Starmore's Cape Cod in "Fishermen's Sweaters" but otherwise my own, Yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed. Needles 3.5 mm (US 4). Knitted in 2006.

shell Full Name sheldon. He is a lover..He loves love. But.. He will nib you if you kiss him too much.... not Hard but he will bite you on the nose check or forehead ,,He lloves to sleep with us. with the covers up to his neck.and his head on the pillow.,,,He could never be a spy Because he sniffs really loud..so you could hear him miles away..............we call him sniffy wet jet.once and awhile ha ha. He is the babby. And we love him...

Circa 1910 postcard of commercially harvested abalone shells (personal collection of G.A. Jones)

Shell grotto, Margate

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