I've Got Work to Do

Hello there friends. I am still on spring break. I can't do much field wise, but I have taken this time to sit and begin to render some of my specimens and pictures I have taken.

This is called a "death cap" scientifically known as the Amanita sp. The sp. means that the particular species is kind of a toss up. This particular mushrooms is not edible. Remember, I cam across this on March 1, 2019 the second time I went to the Abacoa Greenway. This particular photograph was snapped at 10:46 AM. The resulting rendering is as follows.

​When it came down to rendering, I forgot my burnt sienna watercolor. To make lemonade out of lemons, I tried my best to recreate the color with burn umber, yellow ochre, a touch of lemon yellow, crimson red, and white water color. Naturally, I couldn’t quite get the color I wanted. 
 
Compared to the photo, the fungi looks pretty good I’d say, but the color matching is horrendous. Will I redo this one? Probably.

This was a shell I found on the Coral Cove trip on February 8, 2019 at 2:45 PM. This particular shell is called the giant cockle, scientifically known as Dinocardium robustum​. Fun fact: cockles live in shallow water. Here is my rendering of it.

I do like this, but for symposium, I think I'm going to go with the mushroom.

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