The truth is that there are times we cannot stop being surprised by the initiatives particular and ingenious of some artists. Also, some of these proposals might be forgotten if the Internet did not exist, especially since the traditional channels were in charge of filtering them, and we already know what happens when two or three hold the final decisions about whether a work has quality or not. no.
A Dutch artist named Esther van Hulsen, who received an ancient ink By paleontologist Jorn Hurum, he used this to draw an extinct eight-tentacled octopus called Keuppia that lived during the Cretaceous era. This ink was discovered in a fossil found in Lebanon in 2009.
Having the fossilized ink of an octopus in your hand and having the honor of being able to use it to create that extinct species must be a great responsibility. Something that Esther prepared to paint the octopus as you can see in the shared image.
An artist passionate about animal life and that he usually draws all kinds of species of birds and mammals, so this opportunity to be able to paint an octopus with the ink found in a fossil in 2009 in Lebanon, was received as a gift from the Palvenn Museum in 2014.
After thousands of years, Hulson was surprised that the color stayed so vibrant, preserved all this time from the cephalopod ink sac. Something exciting that van Hulsen's own words highlight:
Know that this animal used this ink to survive it's just amazing.
The idea for this illustration came from the story of Mary Anning, an English paleontologist and fossil collector who made the same drawing of an ink sack in 1800. Hulsen's replica of the octopus is now housed in the Natural History Museum in Oslo.