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Sea Anemone, tan and orange

This painting of a sea anemone is only 5 x 7 inches! Sea anemones, eat fish, shrimp, crabs and microorganisms. They can eat a small fish in just a few minutes. They are also cannibals and eat each other. In turn, sea slugs, starfish, eels, flounders and codfish eat anemones.

I have not heard of humans in the U.S. eating anemones, but in Spain and Italy the snakelocks anemone is deep fried after being coated in batter, and eaten. I have shown a painting of a snakelocks anemone in my January 3 post. If you would like further information about the painting pictured in today’s post, click here.

Sea Anemone: Blue and Green

This small painting on canvas panel shows a blue-green sea anemone, an animal which looks like a flower. A few species of anemone are lethal to humans but as a rule sea anemones do not attack humans. Their venom is, however, highly toxic to most fish and crustaceans.

This type of sealife is a close relative to jellyfish, corals and hydra and ranges in size from less than an inch to ten or more inches. In some areas they can grow to more than three feet! These animals do not have a brain but a diverse network of nerves throughout their bodies. To see more about this painting, click here.

Sea Anemones: Jewel, Snakelocks and Bubble

For the next few weeks I am going to show my paintings of Sea Anemones that were prepared for a magazine article I wrote for a South Carolina magazine called The Breeze. It has been suspended due to the Covid pandemic. I will tell you about these interesting animals under each painting. Perhaps one day if the magazine resumes, you can read the entire article.

Sea Anemones look like lovely flowers but are actually voracious, carnivorous animals that are found in oceans at different depths. They wave rubbery tentacles to attract prey. Some species have only 6 tentacles and some have more than 1,000. Each tentacle has a stinging cell that injects a poison into the prey which paralyzes it. The anemone then moves the prey into its mouth which is at the center of the beautiful flower-like structure.

If you want to know the price of this painting or see other sea anemones, click here to go to my online art gallery.

Bella on Her Bed

Bella belongs to John, who rescued her from the city animal shelter–just in time! She was very thin and bedraggled when he first got her. She has now filled out and weighs about 40 pounds. She is sitting on a three-layer dog bed. To see more about this painting or to look at other pet portraits, click here.

Rosa Gallica Regalis

This is an old fashioned rose that according to a book I have originated in Paris at the time of Napoleon. His wife Josephine had a legendary rose garden with many varieties. Such roses can still be grown and are sometimes found in specialty nurseries. This 8 x 10 painting is an oil on canvas panel. For information on the price of this painting, click here.