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Ele Willoughby, PhD

background so you can see the whole animal & then its reflection is shown against dark blue so you can see how its bioluminescence would appear underwater with fluorescent blue spots.

This adorable Bobtail squid (actually, not a , but a cephalopod of order Sepiolida, closer to ) is printed by hand onto black Japanese washi paper with a deckle edge. Sometimes these little things are called dumpling squid or stubby squid. Objectively some of these cutest cephalopods around 🧵3/4

My cute and round little bobtail squid linocut in white and orange on 8” x 8” black washi paper.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

My Firefly Squid 🦑 linocut for !

This is a linocut print of the firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans), also called sparkling enope squid or hotaru-ika in Japan. These tiny squid live at depth (200 to 400 m) & they are bioluminescent & emit blue light from photophores.

The print shows the squid against a white background so you can see the whole animal & then its reflection is shown …

Linocut print of a firefly squid against a white background in rosy pink, with gold and black eye on left and then reflected and shown with its bioluminescence in light blue spots on dark blue background on right.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

The fabled iceberg squid, a gargantuan arctic squid, who camouflages himself as an iceberg, is the subject of this whimsical mini linocut print. Some believe the iceberg squid is imaginary, but who am I to say?⁠
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It is widely believed that the blue whale is the largest extant animal on earth, but the iceberg squid can dwarf even that mighty mammal. Improbably, it is its sheer size which makes it so hard to find -

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A square linocut in blue on white washi paper 8” x 8” shows an icy shore with igloo, an iceberg and an imaginary colossal squid with its bell disguised as an iceberg with the rest of its huge body below water. Its eyes are purple and gold.
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