Joel Popp

Yellow Warbler perched on a non-descript branch

Just sharing a little Yellow Warbler I made for leading a watercolor workshop! 🐡🪶🎨

We’re kicking off the new year with a week full of beautiful artwork during our annual art-a-day challenge, #BirdArtWeek2026! Celebrate and create with us, January 18-24. Now announcing this year’s artists. Please look forward to seeing their challenges and artwork on our Insta, @cornellbirds!

@cornellbirds.bsky.social is the better @ I believe 😅

Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

A watercolor painting of a Turkey vulture. The painting has no background and is focused on the animal. It is perched with wings held out as if sun bathing. Its body is facing away with its head turned to face the viewer.

I've been hired by @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social as an illustrator through the Bartels program and I couldn't be more excited to start! This has been a dream of mine for years.

My Turkey vulture has been finished for a while so I am finally sharing that too! 🐡🪶🎨 #BirdArt

all! my name is charlie, and im an aspiring scientific illustrator. i am new to posting my work online, and im trying to find my community :-) hit me up if youd like to be art friends! #art #SciArt #birdart #bugart #insectart #frogart #artist #supportartists #artistsupport

Illustration detail of the head and shoulders of an adult Snowy Owl, done in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

Snowy Owl illustration (detail). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #Owls #LongIslandSound #birds #BirdArt #SnowyOwl

Hooray! Congrats to you both. It was fun illustrating for this.

Hope we will be working together again!

#sciart #science #scicomm

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A watercolor painting of a Turkey Vulture. It is half finished. The left side is finished including the wing, head, and half of the body and tail.

Another day another feather!

Update of the Turkey vulture.

#birds #bird #sciart #vulture #birdart #illustration #watercolor

22x28 inches. I'm used to 11x14!

Thanks! And yes, highly underrated bird. If only everyone knew how much good they do

I would like that!

A work in progress watercolor illustration of a turkey vulture.

Ever get in way over your head with an illustration? Cuz I am with this turkey vulture on a very large piece of watercolor paper 😅

Work in progress! Note to self: buy smaller pieces of paper.

#sciart #watercolor #birdart #birds #animalart #wip

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

A digital Illustration of a Pristine Crayfish crawling over a piece of net fabric.

Pristine crayfish (Cambarus pristinus)
Commissioned by a graduate student for their advisor. A fun gift featuring the species they study, and the net matches the equipment they use. 🐡

❤️

If you see this post a bird :)

Some Mallards I painted for a Graduate student's project. The foreground hen is equipped with a GPS backpack

#art #SciArt #birds #ducks

Bobolinks are my favorite 😍