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Saimi Hanma ⚔️
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Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND

(aka Kelly Brenner)

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@nudibranch.bsky.social

#InverteFest

website: www.metrofieldguide.com
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Today's #Nudivember, still wet, the watercolor equivalent to hot off the press
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's white with orange spots
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Seattle's looking good this morning
Sunrise with low clouds bursting with red and orange
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Here's the first 2/3 of my #Nudivember art!
A collage of five watercolor illustrations of nudibranchs A collage of five watercolor illustrations of nudibranchs A collage of five watercolor illustrations of nudibranchs
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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For today's #Nudivember I used sparkly watercolors and contrasted it with sumi ink.
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's whitish in the middle with a blue purple gradient towards the edges, against an ink background
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Day 19 of #Nudivember
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's whitish with short, rounded cerata which are blue and tipped in yellow
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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It's kinda fun to compare my styles and format of last year's #Nudivember to this year's.
A small landscape watercolor sketchbook with cream paper and an illustration of a blue nudibranch in watercolor next to a large format sketchbook with brown paper and ink illustrations with only grays, of three different nudibranchs A small landscape watercolor sketchbook with cream paper and an illustration of a colorful purple and yellow nudibranch in watercolor next to a large format sketchbook with brown paper and ink illustrations with only grays, of three different nudibranchs A small landscape watercolor sketchbook with cream paper and an illustration of a black and green nudibranch in watercolor next to a large format sketchbook with brown paper and ink illustrations with only grays, of three different nudibranchs
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Getting closer to the end of #Nudivember! This one was fun to paint and it might be one of my favorites so far.
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's dark green, almost black with neon green spots, and it's reared up in a pose of this genus
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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My workspace looks so cozy once I close the curtains and clean up. I love a creative space free of electronics
An open sketchbook with a watercolor illustration of a nudibranch in front of a tray of watercolors, water and paint dishes and containers holding brushes and pens
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Day 17 of #Nudivember, inching towards the end about as fast as these slugs crawl.
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's beige with reddish and brown scribbly lines and volcano like gills
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Day 16 of #Nudivember is one I've always wanted to see, but still haven't found one even though they allegedly live here.
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's white with pointy yellow oral tentacles and cerata around the gills
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Halfway through #Nudivember!
A collage of five different types of nudibranchs in watercolor A collage of five different types of nudibranchs in watercolor A collage of five different types of nudibranchs in watercolor
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I finally caught back up to #Nudivember and now I'm halfway through!
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's purple with red spikey cerata all over its back
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I caught up with days 13-14 of #Nudivember. Not sure if I'll get today's done or not but I don't want to get further behind.
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that looks like it's got stacks of pancakes or donuts on its back A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's yellow with white clubs protruding from its body
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Today's #Nudivember is a swimming Melibe. I haven't seen this species swim, but I have seen our local ones and they're extremely silly swimmers. They swim exactly how you'd expect a slug would swim, flailing about in a way that could never be described as graceful.

#TradArt
A watercolor illustration of a brownish nudibranch sea slug that has large paddle like cerata lining the back and a hood for a head
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I'd recommend the manga Laid Back Camp, it's about girls camping and there's also Blue Box is about a girl basketball player.
A manga panel of a forest scene with a small campsite set up and the girl saying there we go
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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One more photo with more of the green.
The Aurora over water, green at the bottom and pink up top
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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You can definitely see the pink with your bare eye, but you can see much more with a phone camera
A slighty cloudy Aurora with a lot of pink
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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You can see it in Seattle!!
A pink and green Aurora
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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In Japanese, nudibranch is ウミウシ (umiushi) which literally means sea cow and I think today's #Nudivember fully earns that name.
A watercolor illustration of a white nudibranch sea slug with brown spots
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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My first third of #Nudivember paintings, all done in watercolor and ink and a touch of white gauche.

#TradArt
A collage of five watercolor illustrations of various nudibranchs, from white and curly to sleek black and yellow A collage of 5 different types of nudibranchs in watercolor and ink
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#Nudivember day 10 was very colorful and really fun to paint.

#TradArt
A watercolor painting of a nudibranch sea slug that's a gradient purple to blue, with yellow polka dots. The gills and rhinophores are both dark purple
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Once again I'm begging people not to compare politicians to invertebrates. Inverts are cool and diverse and play an important ecological role. Politicians are the lower order.
A nudibranch sea slug with two horn like rhinophores, two oral tentacles and a lot of finger like cerata covering its back the body is translucent with highlights of blue, orange and brown
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This week's daily 5 minute drawings was a very bad choice. These nautilus cups were way too intricate for 5 min and since I don't sketch them out first, you can probably already see what happened, I made the first ones way too big and had no room left by the end.

#TradArt #Invertebrates
An open sketchbook with illustrations of 7 different nautilus cups, some very large, some only partial, featuring nautilus shell and ornamentation like a vase
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Day 9 of #Nudivember
A whitish nudibranch with finger like gills lining the sides of the body with a tentacle like face in watercolor
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I thought today's #Nudivember would be more fun, but I spent so much time on it I don't even want to look at it anymore.
A watercolor illustration of a very complex nudibranch that has a lot of cerata, all striped with three colors, a visible foot that's gray and blue, two long oral tentacles and two other weird tentacle things I don't even know what they are
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM