My favorite past time in all of the world is visiting, photographing, and drawing directly from off-view specimen collections. Usually these collections are tucked away in quiet, cavernous rooms within the museums and institutions that own them. It's an opportunity to come face to face with animals, insects, and plants that you've only heard of or seen in pictures. You get to experience their scale, which gets lost in photographs, and understand how delicate or robust they truly are. And most importantly you are getting to know one specific specimen.
Day Three's drawing, an Archon Centaurus, isn't just some random beetle - he is an individual that lived and breathed. I will never be able to look at him simply as a countless member of an incomprehensible army of other beetles. He has his own story to tell. He now resides in Fort Worth Museum of Science and History's off-view collection. I took his photo May 6, 2013 and I had the good fortune to spend more time with him again today as I drew him. Good to know you little guy.
Day Three's drawing, an Archon Centaurus, isn't just some random beetle - he is an individual that lived and breathed. I will never be able to look at him simply as a countless member of an incomprehensible army of other beetles. He has his own story to tell. He now resides in Fort Worth Museum of Science and History's off-view collection. I took his photo May 6, 2013 and I had the good fortune to spend more time with him again today as I drew him. Good to know you little guy.
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