Sea Jelly Wood Print

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The Sea Jelly is an image of a Pacific Sea Nettle jellyfish currently residing at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Affectionately known as jellies, jelly fish are mesmerizing, ancient, marine animals, believed to be more than 700 million years old. They are found in every ocean on the planet and some do live in freshwater. The term jelly comes from the gelatinous nature of their bodies, which are disc-like or umbrella-shaped. Typically, tentacles hang down from the underside of the body. The jellyfish moves very efficiently through contraction and expansion pulsations of its umbrella-like body. Jellies vary in size from tiny bell disc types that live in tidal pools to the longest animal known, the lion￿s mane jellyfish that can grow to 120 feet in length. Groups of jelly fish are known by several names, a swarm, a swarm or a smack.
Most swimmers and divers are aware that jellyfish sting their prey through a lance inside the nematocysts in the tentacles. Toxic venom is in...

Creating portals of light, love, joy, beauty, compassion, hope and gratitude is my lifelong passion and purpose. My mother painted when i was young and encouraged drawing and painting and handcrafting in all forms and my father, the photographer, gave me my first camera at age 8. As a result, i have been a lifelong student of both mediums. Formal training of my eye and technique has been with the wonderful Pacific NW painter teachers, Stan Capon and Edi Olson. i hope you will enjoy these images as much as i enjoyed their creation.