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Smart Alyk
@smartalyk.bsky.social
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In my Bacteria Era 🦠 Painting a new Species daily until I die. Starting as a beginner, watch my art evolve over time. instagram.com/smart.alyk
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · Aug 25
I made 2 folding art storage boxes to store my paintings in. Since I started in June I've been saving my art in a dresser drawer, so I built these that can be stored on a bookshelf.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 23h
DAY 125
SPECIES 125 - Westiellopsis ramosa
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Writech pens

W. ramosa is an intensely branched cyanobacterium isolated from a freshwater habitat of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 1d
C. stagnale is a species of filamentous, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria found in aquatic and terrestrial environments, forming mats on and growing as periphyton on plants. It has distinct specialized nitrogen-fixing cells present at the ends of the filaments.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 1d
DAY 124
SPECIES 124 - Cylindrospermum stagnale
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Writech pens

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 2d
DAY 123
SPECIES 123 - Dolichospermum crassum
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. HWC + QoR Watercolor. Writech pen

NOTES: Not that I need to be challenged more😄, but I wanted to attempt this specimen that's partially out of focus submerged in the broth

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 3d
Oscillatoria tenuis is a species of filamentous cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 3d
DAY 122
SPECIES 122 - Oscillatoria tenuis
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek+ QoR Watercolor. Writech pen

NOTES: I find myself thinking more and more about solving these puzzles of light when I paint.

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 4d
Those look so nice!
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 4d
O. limosa characterized by its unbranched, filamentous trichomes that are typically dull blue-green, though they can appear violet or brown. It's a freshwater species, found in shallow, stagnant, or slow-flowing bodies of water, and can cause an earthy odor in water due to its production of geosmin.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 4d
DAY 121
SPECIES 121 - Oscillatoria limosa
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Charsoco pen

NOTES: A bit rushed on tonight's painting but excited to be doing some more Cyanobacteria! 🙂

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 5d
Very clean design! Love it
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 5d
U. urealyticum is a microbe that peacefully lives on the surface of the moist inner lining of some organs. It has undergone evolutionary adaptations that were degenerative evolutions. This evolutionary trajectory has resulted in the loss of the peptidoglycan cell wall.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 5d
DAY 120
SPECIES 120 - Ureaplasma urealyticum
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Charsoco pen

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 6d
M. procyoni is a facultative anaerobe, mesophilic bacterium that forms fried-egg-shaped colonies and was isolated from the oral cavity of a north American raccoon.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 6d
DAY - 119
SPECIES 119 - Mycoplasma procyoni
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Writech pens.

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 7d
New pens! 🥹
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 7d
Ah! Look at that, yeah I can see what you mean. Thank you so much for the tip!
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 7d
oh wow!
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 7d
Love the colors on this one!
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 7d
Around 1915, Washington navel trees near Redlands, California, were the first to show symptoms of what is now known as Citrus Stubborn Disease. S. citri is the causative agent of Citrus stubborn disease. It also belongs to the Spiroplasma genus which is composed of bacteria that lack a cell wall.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 7d
DAY - 118
SPECIES 118 - Spiroplasma citri
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek watercolor + paper. Writech pens

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 8d
Baekduia alba was isolated from a temperate grassland soil in Germany. Cells are rod-shaped, non-motile, stain Gram-positive and can have multiple vesicles in the cell surface.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 8d
DAY - 117
SPECIES 117 - Baekduia alba
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek paper. Chromatek, QoR watercolor. Writech, Kingart pens

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 9d
NOTES: A very cool specimen that I wasn't able to portray accurately. With various shades of black, the shading and whole process felt reversed, so I wasn't sure how to approach it. I ended up painting over the whole thing almost 4 times. But this leaves a big area for me to improve in! 🙂
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 9d
DAY 116
SPECIES 116 - Geodermatophilus pulveris
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek watercolor + paper, Writech pen

G. pulveris A black-pigmented, aerobic actinobacterium, tolerant to ionizing radiation, was isolated from desert limestone dust in Tunisia.

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 10d
If things get that bad i'll be trading poorly painted crustaceans for bread crumbs. 😄
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