Jelly Sketches

Usually I do a lot of very structured drawings of structured animals like arthropods. It can be difficulty to draw more fluid organisms, so tonight I felt like just using a ball point pen and quickly sketching some jellies in an effort to capture their fluidity.

Chrysoara fuscescens, sea nettles

Siphonophores

Narcomedusae

Stuaromedusae

I really enjoyed doing these sketches, so I wanted to turn one of them into a painting. I thought the sea nettles looked better as a group of three. Using a micron pen on watercolor paper, I re-sketched the three jellies and then used water colors over the pen.