forms in nature
be always
impossible be
enchanted
reaching out
in reciprocity to
meet the world halfway
The Kick-About challenge this week uses Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms in Nature” as inspiration. If you’ve never seen these images, take a look here. Below is the sample provided with the challenge, but I decided to use different images as inspiration for my composite creatures.

I looked in my collage box/reference book collection for nature images that I could combine to create new forms based on Haeckel’s paintings.
This is a project that could go on and on…
Oh wow! I LOVE each one of these, brilliant!!!
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Thanks Tiffany!
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I absolutely love your composite creatures … so exotic and creative, sheer wonder!
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Thanks Kate. It always helps to have good inspiration.
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for sure, but talent goes a long way too 🙂
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Love these!
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Thanks D!
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Like critters from The Dark Crystal! Very cool X
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Thanks! They definitely live in a different world, Haeckel’s world.
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beautiful, but jarring. or vice versa! love these.
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Thanks Nick. I think Haeckel’s idea was to make us look at nature in a different way.
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Oh, I would read a book of these (with poems? alternative natural history?) again and again. No pressure. ^_^
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Thanks Sun. I hope to do more…but the list of want-to-dos is long…I’m not sure I’m the right author for these images though.
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These are beyond fabulous, K. Really wonderful work. N.
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I feel like these are critters waiting to meet us in another dimension. Extraordinary! Kerfe speechless at how good these are.
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p.s. that book looks cool too. You’ve taken it to the next level.
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It’s a wonderful book. I think I have the abridged dover edition somewhere in storage…
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Thanks Jade. Haeckel’s world is definitely in a parallel universe.
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You’re very welcome. You could do a book of these in glossy paper.
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Many books I think. What a visionary he was.
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Fantastic!
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Thanks Cindy–this was a fun prompt.
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Fantastic collage and I loved it, M. Too good.
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Thanks !
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Welcome
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These are amazing: they just set my mind reeling!
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Thanks Ingrid. It’s a very inspirational prompt.
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Wow Kerfe! I am inspired by your images! I might have to try a few of my own. 😊
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You should! Thanks.
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I love it!
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Thanks!
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These are gorgeous, Kerfe.
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Thanks Robbie. I had fun with them.
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These are gorgeous
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Thanks Jude. good inspiration.
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