Francine Fox

In-progress drawing of an Eurasian lynx.

Hello handsome.

#eurasianlynx #lynx #charcoal #wildlifeart #drawing #dna 🐡

In-progress drawing of lynx with large double helices behind them.

Work in progress. Finished shot coming soon. 🤞 Charcoal and acrylic on paper, 25” x 50”.

Inspiration research from #bangoruniversity : www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-01...

#iberianlynx #eurasianlynx #lynx #cats #wildlifeart #drawing #dna 🐡

I love that! Its such a beautiful bird to have in your neighborhood!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Watercolor painting of two tree swallows on thin branches.

Yesterday, I finished this #watercolor #painting of tree swallows in one sitting. It’s been a loooong time since I made a piece that could be knocked out in a day. It was a good confidence boost!

#birdart 🪶 #watercolor #painting #swallows #wildlifeart 🐡 #blue #birdlovers #ornithology #realism

It is a painting! I made this with oil paint on an aluminum panel.

Oil painting of a small robin in a nest on a Tudor lantern at night. A whistle is dangling from the nest.

The Night Watch, oil on aluminum, 14”x11”, 2026

I just finished this yesterday. Someday I will take a professional sharp photo of this without glares. That is not today.

#birds #birdart #birdnest #nightpainting #painting #wildlifeart #lookout #whistle 🐡 🪶

Seems like something I should be making art about :)

This is lovely!

Mixed media artwork of a Columbia’s mammoth fossil overlayed by a highway map of Lincoln county Nebraska.

The Columbian mammoth fossil I worked from for this painting was found in Lincoln county, Nebraska (the map depicted). I was inspired by the state’s Highway Paleontology Program.

Lincoln County Mammoth, Acrylic & charcoal on paper, 12”x12”

#mammoth #Pleistocene #megafauna #fossil 🦣 🐡 #paleoart

Charcoal drawing. A loon dives down after a bald eagle in front of a lake. A wildlife sends up a plume of smoke in the distance.

Interpretations of this drawing continually transform, since even before I finished it. The core is the same, but rarely the specifics. It is my master shapeshifter.

Common Loon, 48”x40”, charcoal on paper, 2025

#loon #eagle #wildlifeart #politicalart #charcoaldrawing 🪶 🐡 #birds #wildfire

Thank you for sharing! And for all the great work on the podcast. :)

It’s a nice educational long format program that works well for my painting days.

In-progress piece of art of a colombian mammoth fossil with roadmaps from Lincoln county, Nebraska - where it was excavated.

Working on the skull and tusks today while happily listening to @commondescentpod.bsky.social

#mammoth 🦣 #iceage #paleoart #fossil #painting #charcoal #mixedmedia 🐡 #megafauna

Thank you! It’s a nice shift for the moment.

In progress artwork of a Colombian mammoth fossil over a map of Lincoln county Nebraska.

Maybe 2/3 of the way there? After some notable color and light adjustments, I’ll be ready to start finer details - mostly highway markers and bone textures.

#mammoth 🦣 #iceage #paleoart #fossil #painting #charcoal #mixedmedia 🐡 #megafauna

Thank you! I’m hoping to keep those areas variations of teal, but after today’s session, a lot of the lower parts of the bones are more deep terracotta in color… so who knows where it will go :)

It was my first time visiting the museum, and the elephant room was wonderful!

Thank you so much!

Work in progress painting of a mammoth fossil over a highway map of Lincoln county in Nebraska.

I’m two sittings in on this little piece inspired by the mammoths at UNL’s Morrill Hall and Nebraska’s Highway Paleontology Program. Made with acrylic paint over powdered charcoal - Still quite a ways to go.

#mammoth #iceage #pleistocene #morrillhall 🐡 #fossils #paleoart #unl #painting #drawing

This PBS piece was interesting too. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

i hope you’re right. The pieces I read note copper as the main ore of interest with lesser/ trace amounts of silver, gold, and other rare earth minerals mixed in. dsm-campaign.org/wp-content/u...

It is very scary stuff. I’ll try to look for some of the articles I had read about the deep sea mining activity off the coast of Papua New Guinea and send you links. The painting series I have going is just pairing creatures from that region with the types of tech we want those ores for.

Hi there. Electric motors are used in quite a few different kinds of modern technologies from large wind turbines to home appliances to even kids toys. This painting is not specifically about electric cars.

Colorful oil painting of 7 seahorses.

These seahorses are on the copper windings of an electric motor. Metal ores are heavily used in modern tech and are being deep sea mined near thriving aquatic habitats.

Bismarck Sea: Spiny Seahorses, 20”x16”, oil and synthetic mica on canvas

#seahorses #oilpainting #wildlifeart #marinelife 🦑 🐡

Oooo I love this! 🦀🩶

In-progress painting of seahorses on an electric motor’s strator.

Three more seahorses done; two to go.

#oilpainting #seahorse #marinelife #oceans #electricmotor 🐡 🦑 #wip

Chameleons Use Built-In Crystals to Change Color Tiny photonic crystals embedded in chameleon skin help the animals achieve their spectacular color change.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Watercolor of three small chameleons stacked on top of each other with crystals on top.

Happy New Year’s Eve ya animals!

#sparkly #chameleon #crystals #glitzandglam #reptiles 🐡 #watercolorpainting

Totem, watercolor and graphite on paper, 6”x4”, link to underlying inspiration research in comments.