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For each quarterly issue of Edible San Francisco magazine this year, I am doing a "farm to table, in one afternoon" story to show the origins of a dish served at a San Francisco restaurant. For the last issue I visited Annabelle's farm in Bolinas, and in the current issue I traced an ingredient for Namu Gaji, a New Kor
Description Species depicted: Spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) Time taken: About 5 hours References use: www.royanddarla.com/SAtlanticI… lh6.ggpht.com/_NNjxeW9ewEc/TNI… cdn1.arkive.org/media/7E/7E28E… cdn1.arkive.org/media/2E/2ED16… www.ruffordsmallgrants.org/fil… cdn1.arkive.org/media/13/132C4… www.doc.govt.nz/upload/106807/… 27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lql… i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu… i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu… and more that I can't seem to relocate at the moment Tools of the trade: Photoshop CS5 These are Spectacled porpoises, one of the least known cetaceans. Until recently, only a handful of photos of living animals existed, and even now there are just a few. Wonderful animals; one of my favourite porpoises COPYRIGHT NOTICE All submissions in this gallery, be it photos, paintings or drawings, are copyrighted to me, Namu-the-orca. No one has the right to alter, distribute, copy or use my art without my written permission unless stated otherwise. My submissions are NOT stock
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Description Also known as the Layard's beaked whale (Mesoplodon layardii), these beaked whales might be the most bizarre of all. Conform the usual sexual dimorphism in this family females lack teeth, but males grow these huge, long tusks. They keep growing with age and eventually in old males the teeth clamp around the upper jaw completely. The old males can still open their mouth, but not as wide as they used to, and indeed - stomach contents of stranded individuals showed these old guys only eat small squid. The original photo of the skull is from this site: vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/bea… COPYRIGHT All submissions in this gallery, be it photos, paintings or drawings, are copyrighted to me, Namu-the-orca. No one has the right to alter, distribute, copy or use (nor to claim it as your own) without my written permission unless stated otherwise. My submissions are NOT stock, unless I say so. All rights reserved. Art & photos (c) Namu-the-orca
Description Species depicted: Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera brydei), Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens), Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), Pacific Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus gillii) - offshore type, Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis), Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata graffmani) - coastal type, Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis), Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba), Central American Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris centroamericana), Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei), Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), Guiana dolphin or Costero ( Sotalia guianensis) Here's a pretty cool project I got to work on while I was travelling: painting illustrations of all the cetacean species found in Nicaragua. Being enclosed by the Pacific Ocean on one side, and the Atlantic on the other, it has a rich variety of species from both oceans. There's 16 in total, all English species names are mentioned just above (together with the Latin names). I only had a very limited amount of time to work on these, which is why they all turned out pretty simple and rough. Not nearly as polished as my usual work but honestly, it was tons of fun. Forcing myself to work quickly really allowed me to loosen up. Tons of fun! Not to mention I finally got to paint some of my favourite beautiful, curious and interesting looking cetacean species. The Bryde's, Blue and Humpback whale may look familiar to some of you - that's because I reworked them from my mysticete illustrations of a year back. I have to say though that while the Humpback and Blue stayed much the same, the Bryde's is a great improvement over its predecessor! Big baleen whales are tricky animals to paint. I hope you guys enjoy!
Description These guys were finished a while back already, but now they have the scientist's final approval so onto the world wide web they go! This was another commission for the lovely people at Porpoise Conservation Society, as part of our series to illustrate all porpoise species. Usually one scientific illustration per species suffices, but with such huge sexual dimorphism (difference between males and females), two distinct colour morphs and very different calf colouration, no less than six illustrations came into being. Truei-type Dall's porpoises occur only east of Japan, while the Dalli-type extends all across the northern Pacific. Within the Dalli-type are again two morphs: in the East the white marking is long, in the West it is short. The change is gradual, and find their extremes on either side of the Pacific. Dalli- and Truei-types are not definitively separated either: a Dalli-type female from the Eastern Pacific was once found carrying a Truei-type calf. I also loved learning about the endless individual variation within colour morphs. I tried to show as much variation as possible in these illustrations, while still keeping them representative and accurate. Some examples: the Dalli-type male is dotted with fine black spots. Most Dall's have a couple around the edges of their white markings, but some animals are simply covered in them. This is unrelated to sex: both males and females can display this. The amount of white on the tail stock and pectoral fins also differs between all four adults. The Truei-type female is very dark, with almost no white markings to speak of. The Dalli-type female is as light as they get: extensive markings on her pectoral fins, and the normally vague grey tailstock marking is a solid white. The calves are a different story altogether. Unlike their adult counterparts, newborn and juvenile Dall's porpoises show clear, almost dolphin like markings on their body and especially face. Interestingly, Dalli-type calves display a Truei-type like marking in creamy grey. On very young calves this area can be very light, making them almost look like a Truei-type animal. Another interesting thing of note is the males 'manliness'. The more macho a male, the more convex shaped the flukes and the more forward-canting the dorsal fin. For some reason Truei-type males are usually displayed as smaller and more flimsy than Dalli-type males, even though there is no difference in size. So here I reversed the stereotype, giving the Truei-male more manly fins. Another interesting thing is the influence of pose on their perceived shape: although the Truei-male's tailstock seems slimmer than that of the Dalli-male, both have the exact same measurements.
It's back to baleen whales, and just now I've finished the Sei whale. They are incredibly speedy for their size: thanks to their immensely strong tails ... Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
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