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Painted Oyster Shells

A painting of a brown and orange squirrel crouched with a bushy tail waving, painted in an oyster shell, with fir boughs in the background.

Douglas Squirrel

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Green sea anemones, orange starfish, and purple sea urchins are painted inside an oyster shell, looking like a tide pool.

Tide Pool

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A large flat oyster shell. Inside it is painted a blue-grey nuthatch and the green needles and small brown pinecones of a hemlock.

Nuthatch and Western Hemlock

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A small oyster shell. Inside it is painted a brown water skipper and the green leaves of duckweed.

Water Skipper and Duckweed

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turquoise and black snake and orange wild lily, painted inside oyster shell with gold trim

Garter Snake and Lily

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blue and turquoise snake and orange and brown butterfly, painted inside an oyster shell with gold trim.

Garter Snake and Butterfly

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orange-brown many-legged centipede, painted inside an oyster shell

Bark Centipede

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fawn curled asleep in a patch of vetch, painted inside an oyster shell with gold trim

Deer and Vetch

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red and green warty toad crouched on feathery green moss, painted inside an oyster shell

Western Toad

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blue and white kingfisher with a gold halo, backed by pink wild roses, painted inside an oyster shell

Belted Kingfisher

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blue butterfly and green mistletoe painted inside an oyster shell with gold trim

Hairstreak and Mistletoe

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purple crab painted inside an oyster shell, with a banner reading, "I am not bound to please thee with my answers." and "Shakespeare"

Crabby Crab

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poem by Herrick written in calligraphy around a moon snail shell, all painted inside an oyster shell

Love Is a Circle

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A river otter, painted inside an oyster shell. Blue-green background. Beneath the otter, several silver fish swim.

River Otter

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orange spider and silver web painted on an oyster shell.

Orb-weaver Spider

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mountain lion stretching on a log, painted inside an oyster shell

Mountain Lion

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a thin blue damselfly painted inside a small, oblong oyster shell

Familiar Bluet Damselfly

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pink and beige moth with a blooming branch of pussy willow, painted inside an oyster shell

Sphinx Moth and Willow

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Three pink rhododendron flowers painted inside an oyster shell, with "Rhododendron Macrophyllum" written in a box.

Pacific Rhododendron

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long green leaves as a background to a banner reading, "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it." Also, a blue, orange, and white caterpillar, eating the leaves.

Pacific Tent Caterpillar

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yellow bat on deep blue background, painted inside an oyster shell

Big-eared Bat

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black and white butterfly on an oyster shell

Clodius Parnassian Butterfly

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a blue-ish black widow spider painted inside an oyster shell

Black Widow

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oyster shell painted with a quotation from Jane Austen, "Let us have the luxury of silence." Words are on a banner, with a background of deep blue with gold stars.

Jane Austen, on Silence

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Inside a small oyster shell, a bright red octopus is painted with swirling tentacles.

Eastern Red Pacific Octopus

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An oyster shell with gold trim. Inside it is painted a scene of two river otters swimming underwater. Blue-green background.

Two River Otters

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pacific banana slug and shield lichen, painted on an oyster shell by Kit Oz

Pacific Banana Slug

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great blue heron painted on oyster shell by "kit oz"

Great Blue Heron

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A red dragonfly painted inside an oyster shell.

Cardinal Meadowhawk

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moon and night sky on oyster shell

Full Moon Shell

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moonglow sea anemone on an oyster shell

Moonglow Sea Anemone

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red fox curled up in a sword fern bower by Kit Oz

Red Fox

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thai chili peppers with gold on clam shell

Thai Chili Peppers

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Shi Shi beach in ink wash style, on an oyster shell

Shi Shi Beach

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snow goose gold painting on oyster shell

Snow Goose

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echo blue butterfly on an oyster shell

Echo Blue Butterfly

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common loon, gavia immer, painted on an oyster shell

Common Loon

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sumi-e style painted oyster shell of "first beach" at "la push" on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

First Beach, La Push

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Bea pea flowers on an oyster shell

Beach Pea

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American kestrel painted on an oyster shell by Kit Oz

American Kestrel

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sea otter mother and pup in gilded oyster shell

Otters

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harbor seal painted on an oyster shell

Harbor Seal

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red flowering currant, ribes sanguineum, on an oyster shell, painted by Kit Oz

Red Flowering Currant

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An oyster shell with a grey-blue nuthatch bird painted on it. Burst of pine needles in the background.

Nuthatch and Pine

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kraken squid in oyster shell

Kraken on the Half Shell

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Kit Oz Pacific Giant Octopus, painted on an oyster shell

Giant Pacific Octopus

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iris tenax, the tough leaf iris, on an oyster shell by kit oz

Wild Iris

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A small oyster shell with a yellow, orange, and black bumble bee painted on it. Background is a multitude of ceanothus blossoms in blue/lavender.

Bumble Bee and Ceanothus

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Angelica Lucida painted on an oyster shell

Coastal Angelica

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orca or killer whale in Puget Sound

Orca in Puget Sound

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pacific tree frog chorus frog pseudacris regilla on oyster shell by kit oz

Pacific Chorus Frogs

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fairy slipper orchid, painted on an oyster shell

Fairy Slipper Orchid

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Anna's hummingbird painted on oyster shell, with honeysuckle

Anna’s Hummingbird

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little brown bat

Little Brown Bat

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small fox and Shakespeare quotation on an oyster shell

Vixen

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rivers otters play in the snow on an oyster shell

River Otters

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Steller's Jay on an oyster shell

Steller’s Jay

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cedar waxwing and dogwood on oyster shell

Cedar Waxwing

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coastal Larkspur painted on an oyster shell with gilt

Coastal Larkspur

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Pacific dogwood oyster shell kit oz

Pacific Dogwood

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snowy plovers on oyster shell

Western Snowy Plovers

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Fireweed painted on an oyster shell

Fireweed

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Nootka Rose blossom painted on an oyster shell

Nootka Rose

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a delicate, pale green winged bug raises a tiny front leg in a gesture toward a silvery moon, all painted inside a small oyster shell

Green Lacewing and Moon

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Townsend's chipmunk and samaras

Townsend’s Chipmunk

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William Blake poem on an oyster shell with beach morning glories

William Blake

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bumblebees on oyster shells by kit oz

Bumblebees

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kit oz oyster shell with green darner dragonfly

Green Darner Dragonfly

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All That Glitters

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ink wash style coastal scene on an oyster shell

Coastal Scene

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kit oz yellow pond lily painting on an oyster shell

Yellow Pond Lily

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oyster shell painting "perfect is the enemy of good"

Perfect is the Enemy…

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fritillary butterfly and violets, on an oyster shell

Puget Sound Fritillary

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"Kit Oz" Pacific sea nettle jellyfish painted on an oyster shell.

Pacific Sea Nettle

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oyster shell Nootka rose painting

Nootka Rose Shell

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salmonberry blossoms on an oyster shell

Salmonberry

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A tiny orange beetle with three black bands crawls up a birch leaf: all of it painted inside an oyster shell.

Three-banded Lady Beetle

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