Linocut print of Perkins in grey, a suited, bearded Victorian, at a wooden lab bench covered in glassware and chemical apparatus. He holds a flask at eye level with bright mauve fluid. Wide bright mauve lines radiate outward from it in the background.
Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This linocut ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. 🧪🐡 #histsci
Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry
12.03.2026 11:55
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Get Ready for Birdtober 2025 Stickers
From Annie Shao Art - Get Ready for Birdtober 2025 Stickers
I'm sticker-fying my Birdtober artwork again! Follow to stay updated on the BackerKit campaign launch on April 23. It will be part of the Beasts and Botanicals Group-collab, so it will run alongside other cool wildlife, nature and biology-themed projects!
#BirdArt #SciArt #BSNM #stickers
12.03.2026 12:02
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Cut to white #naturalhistory #illustration of the Great green #bushcricket #Tettigoniaviridissima. It is facing right and has long thin antennae sweeping behind it. The whole insect is a soft pale green with tiny scarlet lines on the wings and top of thorax and head. The ovipositor is large and flushed crimson. Front legs point forward and hind legs are bent, ready to spring into the air. The wings are held at an angle that allows you to see the abdominal segments below. This insect was illustrated for a wildlife reserve in coastal Devon, UK, where the bush crickets hang out in unimproved grassland overlooking the sea
This is the Great green bush #cricket #Tettigonia viridissima, #sciart illustration, in watercolour.
I've seen these insects in the wild, but although large they're amazingly well camouflaged. I loved painting the the network of wing veins, and the sweep of the antennae. #insect #entomology
12.03.2026 08:37
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Photograph I took from a path, looking at a mossy forest floor, sunlight through the trees making all the new green glow.
Text reads: Welcome to the Forest Floor: Wooden Nature Pins
I have a new set of eco-friendly pins coming this Spring! All inspired by my nature walks. 🫶🏼
Give it a follow!
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
#art #backerkit #woodenpins #NightMarket #nature
03.03.2026 20:40
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This is so cool! If I ever need to crowdfund a Little Creature again (someday, maybe, I REALLY want to get back into resin) I hope it's still going.
28.02.2026 16:30
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That's fantastic! 😁
28.02.2026 08:50
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Beautiful! 😍
28.02.2026 08:22
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A white paper with multiple blue buttons on it.
The center is pink with radial lines, and blue outer circle and then blue tentacle like
a blue button (porpita) drawing - you can see the central disk (yellow) there is radial lines, and then small tentacles of various size and different shades of blue forming tentacles.
#TradArt #invertebrate
A Porpita porpita (blue button) floating in sea water -- it is a yellow-brown coloured disk, with radial and circular lines in the middle. Outside there is a blue circle. outsie there are tentacles with blue dots on them.
there are lots of air bubbles too.
#Photography #Invertebrate #SciArt #MarineLife
Screengrab of insta story, text reads this one is my emotional support Porpita porpita.
There are multiple porpitas of varying size on a paper. The tiniest one has a red circle around it with red text reading here.
#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Round and well well well, let's bring back some Porpita porpita back on the feed!
You can get art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci... (use RSVYQPS for 20% discount)
Photo print? lucidillusions.darkroom.com/products/inv...
#Photography #SciArt #MarineLife #BSNM
28.02.2026 05:11
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Beasts & Botanicals on BackerKit
Welcome to Beasts and Botanicals!
Currently open to applications from creators fascinated by wildlife, nature and biology! 📣 You’re invited to launch your next crowdfunding project with us on Apri...
We're so excited to have so many creators already onboard for Beasts & Botanicals!!! A collection of crowdfunding projects celebrating life in all its forms. Check out the projects here - or even sign up to join us!
www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
#sciart #illustration #artsky
28.02.2026 08:21
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Thanks! 😁🤣
24.02.2026 16:15
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Aequorea victoria (crystal jelly), looks like a crystal chandelier against a midnight blue sea. Watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.
Fortunately I'm a very productive procrastinator. While I was avoiding ordering more pin samples, I had very long conversations with two people I've only said "hi" to in passing before, and I made this drawing of Aequorea victoria, crystal jelly 🐡🤣
24.02.2026 15:47
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Omg procrastination is reaching new heights today, trying to order a second round of pin samples - after *getting it a bit wrong* the first time.
⏰ Oh - that's time! School run! Oh well, looks like I'll have to try again tomorrow 🤦🏻♀️
24.02.2026 14:47
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That would be awesome @destinytoro.com ! Such a shame it won't be ready in time! Next time 😁
24.02.2026 14:41
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Hahaha... yes, probably!!! 🤣
24.02.2026 14:40
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If you're even a bit curious, get in touch with @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social or I and we can answer any questions to help get you started! #sciart #illustration #artsky #scicomm
23.02.2026 20:21
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Beasts & Botanicals on BackerKit
Welcome to Beasts and Botanicals!
Currently open to applications from creators fascinated by wildlife, nature and biology! 📣 You’re invited to launch your next crowdfunding project with us on Apri...
Whether you're a crowdfunding pro or a nervous baby deer newbie we can all give each other a helping hand to make our projects a success! So why not give it a go and apply below 👇 We're friendly honest!!
#Illustration #Art #Backerkit #opencall #artopps
www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
23.02.2026 19:16
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Beasts & Botanicals on BackerKit
Welcome to Beasts and Botanicals!
Currently open to applications from creators fascinated by wildlife, nature and biology! 📣 You’re invited to launch your next crowdfunding project with us on Apri...
Calling all nature inspired creatives! 🍃 The lovely @kathryngarner.co.uk and I have teamed up to run a brand new @backerkit.com group collab and we're looking for creators fascinated by wildlife, nature and biology to join us! 👇
#SciArt #Nature #ArtSky #WildlifeArt
www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
23.02.2026 19:05
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That's brilliant, thanks!
22.02.2026 16:20
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This looks great! Is there a way I can buy either the print or digital version from the UK? Thanks :)
22.02.2026 08:55
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a printed zine, the cover features a watercolor nudibranch which is purple and pink with yellow spots and the title says 2025 Nudivember: 30 days of nudibranchs
Guess who finally solved the printer issues??
I FINALLY have 2025 Nudivember zines in my shop!
This is one of two zines I now produce entirely at home, 100% homemade by my own two hands.
Buy here: saimihanma.com/product/art-...
20.02.2026 21:04
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My linocut print on black Japanese washi paper in a vertical gradient of copper to green ink of ground, grass and ground pangolin. Every scale of the pangolin is printed on different Japanese washi papers in various colours and patterns.
The 3rd Saturday in February is World Pangolin Day to draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. 🧪🐡 There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa and Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat & scales (used in traditional 🧵
21.02.2026 13:04
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Mycoplasma bacterial cell partly painted as a diagram, partly from a microscope image, and partly as a mash-up with a map of the village I grew up in. Blue, brown and yellow ocre acrylic on paper.
Not managed to check out my crazy bacteria vs castles #sciart project yet? Well let me tell you about it
#biosky #artsky
I like drawing #bacteria, but I wanted to add texture to make the drawing more EXCITING! So I added a map of the village I grew up in.
This is a Mycoplasma. (We call her Mimi.)
31.01.2026 06:47
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I couldn't agree more!
08.02.2026 07:50
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Oh I see! It's interesting how you went about doing that
07.02.2026 13:14
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That's great you lost track of time - but also yes, shame you didn't finish!
The pattern in the orange part looks a bit inspired by a Japanese woodcut. Was this intentional or just how it turned out? Interesting!
07.02.2026 07:56
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The artist wearing a black top and purple cardigan. There is an Organoid and an Organ-On-A-Chip sticker on her top. White lanyard around her neck reads Hub Organoids.
Second day of handing out my #Organoid and #OrganOnAChip stickers at WORD+2025 World Organoid Research Day in Cambridge!
Part of me misses being in the lab but the other part thinks what I do now is way cooler 😎
#sciart #scicomm
05.02.2026 06:10
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