Hand Made - Long Live Crafts

Hand Made - Long Live Crafts is an excellent exhibition in the Rotterdam museum Boijmans.
The rooms are airy and spacious, the displays are unpretending and the objects are precious.  I love to love it. On show until May 20, 2013.

Siphonophore Sarsia siphonophora

Sarsia siphonophora (B. 657) Watercolour, 2001-2004, 2012 (ca 55 x 70 cm)

Recently I reworked a  study of the siphonophore Sarsias siphonophora.  This subject kept me busy over the years. By the end of 2012 I decided that the image was completed.
 Blog entries on other studies of this animal can be found at
Wedenesday, October 17, 2012 and  Wednesday, October 24, 2012. 

Siphonophore Diphyes sieboldii

Recently I resumed studies of siphonophore shape, I did earlier in 2008.

This blog entry compares the 2008 and 2013 versions of Diphyes sieboldii  (B. 203)

Diphyes sieboldii  (B. 203) Watercolour 2008 (30 x 20 cm)

Diphyes sieboldii  (B. 203)  Watercolour 2008 (38 x 28 cm)

Siphonophore Rhizophysa filiformis

Recently I resumed studies of siphonophore shape, I did earlier in 2008.
This blog entry compares the 2008 and 2013 versions of Rhizophysa filiformis  (B. 218)

Rhizophysa filiformis  (B. 218) Watercolour 2008 (30 x 20 cm)

Rhizophysa filiformis  (B. 218) Watercolour 2008 (38 x 28 cm)