Nicole Sparverius

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

saw this and thought of @abzjharding.bsky.social

QTP with women ❤️‍🔥
Happy Women's Day!!

Digital painting of a colorful nebula representing the 4 elements, with something like a living being, a God, in its shapes

The chaotic god of elements ⚡️🔥
1/9

For @fersus.bsky.social

stylized, simple drawing of a horseshoe crab colored in yellow, green, and blue, with the name Tachypleus gigas in the corner

We're horseposting post your horses.

wishful thinking

Sketch of a burrowing owl made with graphite pencils on paper.

Little Owl

Graphite on paper
5x7

#art #birds #nature #sciart

The Messenger

A gallery of flying swans featuring both tundra and trumpeter swans demonstrating how difficult they are to ID.

Aproposal to open a 🇨🇦 hunting season on Tundra Swans-they look, mingle with look-alike Trumpeter Swans (special concern). Swans are very difficult to ID in flight & trumpeters will be killed -reversing conservation successes.
Send yr thoughts to MbregsReports-Rapports-Omregs@ec.gc.ca by Feb 15

Two burrowing owls perch on a prickly pear cactus. The larger bird rests its head on top of the shorter bird as they both look to the left in the photo.

Happy Valentine’s Day #birds #owls #wildlife #photography
Aruba. Jan, 2026.

A black ballpoint sketch of a female Great Currasow, viewed from the side, facing to the left of the image

Great Currasow (female) sketch

-3323 🎨🐡🪶 #art

The Strength tarot, featuring a scene at Mars' house, where he's pulling the ruined painting of his late wife and him from the fireplace where it's been thrown, as Morenn watches from behind. The house has been ransacked, and it's split to show the garden outside. The scene is framed into a long dark haired woman dress, with flowers in her hair. In the background, Mars' feral form, holding a wild rose, distraught.

🌿

[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

A horned lark, a brown bird with white belly and black markings around its head, chest, and eye. There is a yellow tint to the feathers on its face. Its standing on a dry grass ground with snow visible on the ground in the background.

An eastern towhee, a bird with a black back/head, orange sides, and white belly. It’s standing on snow.

A female northern cardinal, a gray bird with red wings, crest, and tail feathers. It’s standing on a bare, thin branch

A white-throated sparrow, a bird with a brown back, white belly, grey chest, and black cap. It has white stripes along its head and yellow markings by its eyes. It’s standing on snow.

Back at Parker River, MA today and finally got my lifer snowy owl!!!!!!! It was a distant scope sighting so no photos, but winter isn’t over yet…

Lots of fun glamour shots of other species! Pictured: horned lark, lifer eastern towhee, northern cardinal, and white-throated sparrow 🪶🌿

Fallen Angel

A polyptych representing four animals. The text above it reads "And God gave the beast-kings gifts that they might share with their people." The first panel is a panting wolf and reads "To the Wolf, God gave ripping teeth and the Law of the Pack." The second is a roaring bear with the text "To the Bear, God gave crushing jaws and terrible strength." The third is a falcon looking over a pastoral scene, the fields stretching all the way to the horizon. "To the Falcon, God gave slicing talons and great sight." The last is a simple snapping shrimp just sitting by some rocks. "And to the Shrimp, God gave the concussive plasma cannon."

redrew a sketch from 3 years ago of one of my favourite tumblr posts #art

Bog waterpool at Bridestones in freezing fog

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

colorfully illustrated page with nature scenes and a short ogden Nash poem: Song of the Open Road I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all.

Thanks to @70sscifiart.bsky.social newsletter (sign up) for this cool recommendation.

hmr.posthaven.com

Submitted for the ilustra.see competition last year. This was an experiment on depicting Paleontology with Wayang kulit, a traditional shadow puppet art form from my country. Here a scene reminiscent of my City, Surabaya's founding myth is depicted, but instead of a shark fighting a crocodile, it is a Permian Spiny shark fighting an early armored sea reptile. Surrounding them are brachiopods, tabulate corals, and horn corals found throughout Permian strata in Java and Timor, while the Gunungans in the back have a simple wavy pattern to indicate the scene is taking place underwater. The wayang cutouts are drawn in Photoshop, imported as transparent PNG objects in Blender and rendered in Cycles to achieve the shadow puppet look

Wayang purbakala
The iconic myth from my hometown (a shark fighting a crocodile) depicted as Javanese wayang shadow puppets of Permian animals.
#wayang #wayangkulit #3D #blender3d #Surabaya #Indonesia #Permian #paleoart #SciArt

A male Eastern Towhee stands in the snow. A large sparrow with a dark black head, back, and tail, red sides, a white belly, and red eye.

Eastern Towhee
#birds #snow #photography

A lock of wool from a Polwarth sheep

Let’s talk about 🐏 WOOL🐑 a 🧵 in multiple parts (if I can figure out how to do a thread)

When I was a vegan, I never bought wool, assuming it to be unethical and exploitative somehow. Now I know better. Wool reveals its secrets and is a literal record of the sheep’s life, nutrition and care. (Cont.)

Great Egret

Great Blue Heron

Prairie Falcon

Cactus Wren

January rewind ⏪ 🪶

a cartoon illustration of a man in a denim jacket and jeans playing a lute and singing while walking down a path next to a river winding through foggy green hills. the hill on one side has birch trees with little pink leaves, and some pink mushrooms upon which a little white and black cat is perched. the other side has prickly, mostly bare evergreen tree trunks with the occasional needled branch. In the foreground there are ferns and glowing pink flowers. Another little black and white cat with ziggy stardust lightning bolt markings is nestled in among them. in the far background hiding behind a hill and some trees is a large blobby black shape with white pinpoint eyes. on the left among the ferns is a giant raven. a tiny nuthach meeps on a birch tree on the right.

last night I got to go to a single release party for my pal Doug McArthur (whose album art I drew earlier this year) and set up at the merch table to sell prints of it alongside my regular stuff. I realized I forgot to share it so here it is! #art

I’ve just added Talos Gallery Garden to my online shop, an original ink drawing. claireleach.com/shop

Autumn
#Nature
#Autumn
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#Frost

Rotkehlchen und Primeln ist ein handgemaltes Acrylgemälde der Künstlerin Karen Kaspar im zeitgenössischen quadratischen Format. Ein Rotkehlchen sitzt in einer Frühlingswiese und schaut sich aufmerksam um. Der Vogel ist umgeben von gelb blühenden Primeln und frischem grünen Gras. Seine orange-roten Brustfedern leuchten vor dem blauen Himmel im Hintergrund.

Rotkehlchen und Primeln
Das Originalbild hat bereits ein neues Zuhause gefunden, Prints gibt es hier:

www.artheroes.de/de/motiv/Rot...

#art #painting #robin #birds #rotkehlchen #flowers

Kermit the frog sitting on a log surrounded by flowers Text: "what radicalised you?" empathy bro, literally just wanting people to be treated like human beings

A sparrow with a striped head faces the camera, its feathers all fluffed out so it looks very round and puffy.

MUCH FLOOF! MUCH CUTE!

(White-throated Sparrow) #birds 🌿

Calappa, a dome-shaped crab in dark color, seen from the front. Behind its body and in front, hiding its claws and most of its face, are phalaenopsis, moth orchids with roughly circular shape, in lighter colors. Black and white drawing.

#ArtAdventCalendar is happening, go check out the hashtag to prettify your scrolling experience.

Burrowing owl with its mouth open, hovering in the air and facing the camera.

Good morning! 🪶