#natureartist
Messing around with my new tube of Prussian blue. 😁 Watercolor on cold press paper. 4”x6”.
#watercolorpainting #art #painting #landscape #landscapeart #landscapepainting #watercolorart #watercolor #painting #lake #outdoors #breathe #nature #natureart #natureartist
Project Animalia #701
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)
A Eurasian canine which is actually more closely related to wolves than other jackals...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #jackal
I can't believe I'm at...Project Animalia #700!
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)
The state of art has changed a lot since I began this little project.
Creating is human. Keep creating!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #lynx
Project Animalia #699
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)
A climber, a leaper, and a swimmer, with the camouflage of sunlight through jungle canopy...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #ocelot
Project Animalia #698
Indian bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus)
A very charismatic bullfrog.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #bullfrog #frog
Project Animalia #697
Caracal (Caracal caracal)
A nocturnal savannah and desert cat whose name means "black tufts" from the Turkish 'Karrah-kulak'
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #scientificillustration #natureartist #animallover #medart #caracal
Project Animalia #696
Spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi)
Poor unfortunate soul...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #scientificillustration #natureartist #animallover #medart #eel #fish
Project Animalia #695
Leopard catshark (Poroderma pantherinum)
A bottom dwelling shark named after not 1, but 2 cats!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #scientificillustration #natureartist #animallover #medart #shark #catshark
Project Animalia #694
Acorn barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides)
A synchronous hermaphrodite. Has separate male and female parts, but can use them at the same time.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #barnacle
Project Animalia #693
Pallas's Cat (Otocolobus manul)
A wild, montane-dwelling version of grumpy cat. 😜
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #pallasscat
Project Animalia #692
Hairy octopus (Octopus sp.)
This thumb-size species has "yet to be described scientifically." The "hair" are actually papillae—long bumps used as camouflage.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #octopus
Project Animalia #691
Cassius blue butterfly (Leptotes cassius)
Sunday (where I am in the world) blues...
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #butterfly
Project Animalia #690
Cat (Felis catus)
I feel this creature needs no introduction. If you know, you know.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #cat #feline #catart
Project Animalia #689
Hieroglyphic clam (Lioconcha hieroglyphica)
Maybe my favorite clam, which I find on the beaches of Fiji. Each one a work of art, reminiscent of cuneiform and cladograms.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #clam #mollusk
Mountain lion side profile study!
#animalart #animalartist #art #digitalart #digitalartist #artist #ocartist #lion #dailyart #natureart #natureartist
Project Animalia #688
Banded houndshark (Triakis scyllium)
A bottom dwelling shark, and nocturnal loner. Like many sharks, it is ovoviviparous: yolk sac fed babies, but live births.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #shark
Project Animalia #687
West African lungfish (Protopterus annectens)
A fish that breathes air and waddles on land on primitive limbs, and estivates underground during dry season.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #lungfish
Project Animalia #686
Leopard (Panthera pardus)
The coat of the #leopard helps it slip into its surroundings and become invisible to its prey, by mimicing mottled patches of light.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #medart #bigcats
Project Animalia #685
American goldfinch (Spinus tristis)
Common but beautiful. I watched these #birds flit through the silver birches outside my window half of last year, and always felt lighter.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #bird #goldfinch
Project Animalia #684
Calico fantail goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Happy Friday!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #fish #goldfish
Project Animalia #683
Golden tanager (Tangara arthus)
A burst of golden color in the highland Andes.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #bird #birds
Hello new blusky users! I post pictures of nature, as well as my art! #nature #cottagecore #art #artist #paintings #painter #natureartist
Project Animalia #680
Orange linckia starfish (Linckia laevigata)
A vibrant, brightcolored sea star, active in the night, feeding mostly on bacterial film.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #seastar #starfish
Project Animalia #679
Spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)
A European cousin of the common starling.
A bird named by its absorption of all wavelengths of light.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #starling #birds #birding
Project Animalia #678
Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus)
An endangered crane with a unique serrated bill. It makes the longest migration of any crane.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #crane #siberiancrane
Project Animalia #677
Green mantisfly (Zeugormantispa minuta)
Looks like a mantis, but isn't. The larvae crawl inside spider egg sacs and eat their eggs.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #insects
Project Animalia #676
European pine marten (Martes martes)
Put a bunch of martens together, and you have a richness. A richness of martens.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #pinemarten
Project Animalia #675
Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
Super loud and visible. I fell in love with these intelligent resourceful birds when I first lived on the east coast ten yrs ago.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart
Project Animalia #673
Greenhouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum)
A frequent garden "pest". They damage plants through feeding, but also by transmitting plant viruses.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #insect #dailyart
Project Animalia #672
Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
Largest toothed whale, with teeth on the lower jaw, which fit into sockets on the upper. It has the largest brain of any living animal.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #medart #whale
Project Animalia #669
Small milkwood bug - nymph (Lygaeus kalmii)
Another animal that derives toxic compounds from its food—the sap of the milkweed.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #butterfly #insects #entomology
Project Animalia #669
Sloane's viperfish (Chauliodus sloani)
A deep sea dragonfish, with photophores along its sides!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #fish #deepsea #dragonfish
Project Animalia #668
Blue-headed emerald hummingbird (Riccordia bicolor)
No words for you today, just a gem of a creature.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #birds #birding #aves #hummingbird
Project Animalia #667
Zebra agate snail (Cochlitoma zebra)
I am, like this snail, moving a bit slow this week. Lots of reminders that things never go as planned, and it's best to leave room for chaos.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #snail
Project Animalia #666
Red warbler (Cardellina ruber)
I am drawn to this to by its unapologetic redness. Researchers found alkaloids in the feathers which make them inedible for humans.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #birds
Project Animalia #665
Okenia leachii sea slug (Okenia leachii)
I ❤️ classic #sciart. Inspiration for this #scientificillustration came from 1855 "A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca."
#bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #nudibranch #seaslug
Project Animalia #664
Brownspotted Shield Bug (Sphaerocoris testudogrisea)
I am 38 today, and I offer you this handsome insect!
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #shieldbug #insects #entomology
Project Animalia #663
Painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala)
This stork roams the South Asia wetlands, nesting together in trees, which can get pretty raucous. I'm a fan.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #stork #birds #birding
Project Animalia #662
Madagascar green lynx spider (Peucetia lucasi)
A colorful #spider from Madagascar that stalks and pounces on its insect prey. Pretty good eyesight, though not as great as the jumping spiders.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart
Project Animalia #660
Rainbow parrotfish (Scarus guacamaia)
This fish can be 4 feet long. Like all #parrotfish, they have a second set of teeth in their throat for grinding coral.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #fish
Project Animalia #655
Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis)
An elusive "ghost animal." With clues like feces, plants they eat, and rare sightings, researchers determine they may be recovering.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart #manatee
Project Animalia #653
Mashona mole-rat (Fukomys darlingi)
Not as well known as theur naked cousins, but still interesteing!
Hormones maintain a reproductive division of labor in colonies so only one pair breeds.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart
Project Animalia #652
Southern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides)
Nests in riverbanks & launches into the air to catch insects. regurgitates indigestible bits like an owl, & removes bee stingers before eating.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover #medart
Project Animalia #651
The Dahl's whip snake (Platyceps najadum) had me at it's cool neck. Like most snakes, they are very colorful when young, and get a bit duller in adulthood.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #scientificillustration #natureart #natureartist #animallover
2023 was a struggle.
But for 2024, I'm taking Project Animalia to 1000.
Today, #650 Goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni)
Truly unhinged—really—they can unhinge their threatening jaws to engulf fish, squid and crustaceans.
#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #natureartist #animallover
