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The 'Lanternflies' by septima-severa, visual art

The 'Lanternflies'

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About septima-severa

Artist // Hobbyist // Traditional Art

Oct 16
Czech Republic
Deviant for 12 years
www.instagram.com/veronikatruhlarova8811/
She / Her

My Bio

Ph.D. student at the Charles University in Prague
I am a zoologist specializing on vertebrate zoology, I am a part of Fish Evo group focusing on sensory systems and their dynamics in evolution of teleost fishes. In my research, I focus on developmental plasticity of vision in freshwater fish species of central Europe, and also work occassionally with cichlids from west Africa.
I consider art being my hobby which I'm unable to give up on. I discovered the oil painting technique at high school and have been practising since then. Although I was born into a family where no one ever created art (nor was the University graduate in any field - except for father), my parents left me be myself, and I consider myself lucky.

Favourite Visual Artist

Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Lucian Freud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...

Favourite Movies

Star Wars saga, Star Trek reboots, the Hannibal Lecter series...

Favourite TV Shows

M.A.S.H. 4077

Favourite Books

I read almost everything - I starve for written word all the time.

Favourite Writers

Wei Hui, J. R. R. Tolkien, Alastair Reynolds, Gregory David Roberts, George R. R. Martin...

Tools of the Trade

watercolors, pencils, ink, markers, leads, oil paints

Other Interests

art (wash painting, oil painting), photography, vertebrate zoology

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The Revenge of the Fish by septima-severa, journal

The Revenge of the Fish

Jun 26, 2017

Long time no see. Well, it clearly has been a long time since I have written the last journal entry (which nobody reads, really). I have little to no time (or I have been lazy as fuck, dear reader) to write almost anything. There has not been any progress with my novel since last year; and although I have finished a big canvas which I worked on for two years (I won't add it here since it's heavily inspired by Dusk river by daRoz and I have no permission from the artist whatsoever), I mostly just practice on still life from time to time. Since my camera literally crashed last November, I barely take photos (and cell camera is pure shit), so

Vivat la procrastination! by septima-severa, journal

Vivat la procrastination!

Nov 15, 2015

My supervisor finally returned from Villahermosa, Mexico, where he and my post-grad colleague went to inject some gar embryos (gar is a fish, rather basal one compared to e.g. carp, and its embryonic development is pretty amazing - that's what my thesis is basically about, anyway). (my supervisor is on the left) And suddenly, I have to edit first three chapters of my thesis to present them to him for adjustments. But I'm too lazy to even open the doc file. So I do a lot of other things instead. Yeah, I need to do something with my procrastination level, seriously, guys. I've got a hell of a problem with procrastination in particular, but

Painting as a therapy by septima-severa, journal

Painting as a therapy

Jun 3, 2015

Maybe you've heard about the art therapy. It is said that it helps a bit - Well, actually, it helps me a lot. Not that I would enrol in art therapy courses - none of that. But the last two semesters, I was going to my former high school teacher on almost regular basis, and was drawing and painting there. I realized that it helped to ease my tension et cetera. I should be painting more in the summer; and I hope it will help me to not shatter into tiny pieces under the pressure school gives me... And maybe I will post my sketches here. One day...

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PoetryODAug 19, 2014

Thanks for the fave

septima-severaAug 20, 2014

You're welcome

I'm starting to like modern poetry that's on DA. It's a way better than that we learnt about at school a long time ago (probably sometimes in the Stone Age)

something-deadSep 6, 2011

hezkej nick :33