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a traditional painting of herons in flight among trees, green, pink and white hues

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

pan of cute biscuits decorated to look like faces

same pan baked, a horrific fucked up mass of evil

how it started/how it's going

Baby dragon

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

A tree with a blue cloudless sky. The tree is a little less than 10 metres tall. The branches have no leaves on as it's winter, and the branches are full of pigeons.

Close up view of a lot of pigeons on a tree

A cold snap followed by some mild weather has caused the local pigeon tree to bloom much too early.

#Birds #Pigeons #Trees #Manchester #Parks #UK

Drawing of an eastern hercules beetle - a beige beetle with a horned thorax and spiky legs.

Drawing of a bright green jungle nymph - a stick insect with a large abdomen, tiny wings and spiky legs.

Drawing of a chinese tiger beetle. It has a metallic shiny surface with blue, green and red highlights. Its legs are long and slender. Oh, and it has impressively large mandibles.

Drawing of a dragon flower mantis, an unusual thin insect with slender legs. It's red orange and yellow.

Hi #portfolioday, I'm Martyn. When I'm not drawings bugs, I'm drawing other bugs.

Yes

Chrysilla jumping spider on a leaf is judging you because you aren’t as colorful as he is

Stunning overhead view of a Chrysilla

Stunning Chrysilla spood

Chrysilla jumping spood

My god. The news is horrible. More horrible than usual.

So here is the Chrysilla Jumping Spider from Southeast Asia.

Stop doomscrolling and look at these.

A hummingbird is perched at a feeder. It is mostly white with some green and black. It is a genetic variation that removers color from some of its feathers.

Sept 2023

Leuci !!

There was a week or two this little partially leucistic Black-chinned hummingbird made daily visits 🥰
#birds SoCal

fanciful drawing of a branching green algae covered in several ostracods

D is for Dichotomosiphon (it's the algae)

A macro photo, side angle, of a multi-colored grasshopper on bright green leaves. The grasshopper has large black eyes, a neon green and yellow face with black markings, patches of bright red-orange on the thorax and abdomen, yellow and black jumping legs, and bits of metallic blue and green elsewhere on the body. It is decidedly not attempting to blend in with the leaves.

A little color to start off the weekend – a vibrant monkey grasshopper, Paramastax sp., from Colombia. They really do look like this - no saturation or vibrance added during processing. #bugsky 🐙🌿

A stunning male Resplendent Quetzal perched vertically on a mossy branch. The bird has an iridescent green body, a bright red chest, and extremely long, flowing tail feathers (train) that hang down vertically against a blurred green forest background.

I guess these birds are OK. A bit showy, perhaps.

Male Resplendent Quetzal at San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica

#birds #nature #wildlife

A loose painting of a yellow headed vulture in deep and vibrant blues, yellows, and pinks. The vulture is looking at the viewer with magenta eyes.

Yellow headed vulture sketch painted in gouache.

me trying to hold all the grocery bags at once, hustling from my car back to my apartment.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Digital painting of a magpie harpy perched on a barren branch. Its pale face peers back at you, framed by long black hair.

Magpie Harpy

Three panel black and white comic. Panel 1. A smiling eel-like primitive fish shows off it's new iPhone in front of it to two trilobites. Fish dialogue: check out my new phone! It's got 16 gigabytes it can hold! Trilobite dialogue: oh yeah? How many trilobites can it hold? Panel 2: the fish looks on, concerned, as the two trilobites crawl onto the phone and others join. Panel 3: the fish looks upset, its phone is buried in several trilobites. Fish dialogue: please stop

An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte

練習

Can I drag your attention to the artworks by contemporary Czech palaeoartist, Vladimir Rimbala. His works are a perfect mix of modern science and retro composition (🧵)

#Dinovember2025 had Megaraptor in the list but I decided I wanted to do Gigantoraptor instead! After seeing it in a museum recently and it was very impressive!
I went for shaggy ostrich-like feathers on the arms instead of neat and tidy wings like other theropods

Coelophysis

Shunosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

Dryosaurus

DINOVEMBER 2025
Day 9-12 #dinovember

Coelophysis 🦖 Shunosaurus 🦖 Pachyrhinosaurus 🦖 Dryosaurus

Black Crakes chasing each other in South Africa

One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.

(They're Black Crakes, btw.)

Photo of a watercolour painting of a cute mushroom creature. A big round yellow orange cap with white spots. A big smile on their face and a little snaggletooth

Little Eggie! A little mushroom painting I did yesterday because I could.

Silhouette illustration in black ink of a feminine figure in 18th century dress with voluminous skirt and a tall wig topped with feathers. The figure is seen in profile, facing left. Her face is that of an exposed skull. She carries a mask of an elegant face on a stick in one hand, and a fan dangles from her other wrist. She stands on a grassy bank and appears to be about to step into the water, one foot raised above the ripples.

Masquerade 1.

Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed watercolour paper, 90 × 169 mm, 2019.

Inspired by the works of Walter Draesner.

Participated in another art telephone game hosted by @ascalaphid.com :) look at all the wonderous entries here!!>>>https://ascalaphid.com/telephone/feastphone25
#feastphone2025

Photo of an object in front of a plain white background. The object is a soft-sculpture made of wool. It's a breakfast radish in red and white with white roots growing out of the bottom and big leafy dark green leaves growing from the top. It's also in a bird pose and standing on two bright orange chicken legs. It's an odd animal.

Years ago I went through a phase of putting chicken legs on ... stuff?
Everything I've ever made has always been a bit absurd and self-indulgent.

For example: here is a breakfast radish on legs, which I made of wool and wire.

Late Afternoon Light ~ Cyril Cox, 1958

Feral Pigeon on a water fountain sipping water

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #notabranch So birds perched on anything except a branch.

#birds 🪶

A collection of replica banana slugs on hangable wooden plaques with visible slime trailing behind each slug

I made some banana slugs on hangable wooden plaques and put them up on savimade.ca/shop
#SciArt #NatureArt