Blue Button etching

Blue Buttons, 5in x 7in, 2 color etching and aquatint, ed. 20, 2014

The taxonomic class Hydrozoa contain the tiny Blue Buttons creatures. While related to a jellyfish, they function a bit differently. Each creature is actually a colony of individual polyps. They live together on the surface of the ocean and drift across the sea. A single mouth intakes all food for the colony. While I had planned on all the etchings being one color, I decided that I wanted to do this one in two colors.