~Julia Margaret Cameron
I try to draw an animal every day. Yesterday I picked a snail illustration to use as a mentor drawing but ran out of time before I got around to it. Thinking about what to post for Art Thursday, a snail's spiral shell popped into my head.
When I looked up "spiral shells" on Wikipedia, my curiosity was piqued by "spirals in animals" generally. What other spirals do animals have? There are millipedes, ammonites, other sea animal shells, dog tails, chameleon tails...
Woo, chameleons are impressive-looking! (I'm including the Black-headed dwarf babies at the end even though you can't really see their spirals very well because, aah, so cute!)
Blue-legged Chameleon (Calumma crypticum), Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
Frank Vassen
Eastern Cape Dwarf Chameleon (Bradypodion ventrale)
Marius Burger
Amber Mountain chameleon (Calumma amber) male Montagne d’Ambre, Madagascar
Charles J. Sharp
Female Chamaeleo africanus digging a nest
Benny Trapp
Cryptic Chameleon (Calumma crypticum)
Julien Renoult
Indian chameleon From Kanakpura, Karnataka
Girish Gowda
Black-headed Dwarf Chameleon (Bradypodion melanocephalum)
suncana
2 comments:
These photos of chameleons are really cool...such variations in color. Hadn't thought about them having spiral tails, but that's cool, too!
Hi Tabatha! I am struck by "I try to draw an animal every day." Just wow. I would love to see these! Do you know Joyce Sidman's picture book about spirals? If not, I think you would love it. xx, a.
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