#SciArtSeptember Day 22: Fellowship Obviously going to be a Lord of the Rings take on this prompt for me. The emperor gum moth was the species that Gandalf speaks to in the film, calling Gwaihir to his rescue from Orthanc. #sciart

#SciArtSeptember Day 18: Depths Sketch of an Australian sea lion. These guys dive surprisingly deep in search of food, with bulls reaching depths of 150m - one sea lion was even recorded at 250m! #sealbay #sealion #sciart #marinelife

#SciArtSeptember Day 17: Trawl Sketches of yellowfin tuna. Look I'll be honest this is really troll, as in trolling with lures or bait behind a boat, rather than trawl. Back on to the actual prompts tomorrow 🤞 #SciArt #FishArt #MarineLife

broken grasp • 11”x14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

#SciArtSeptember Day 16: Rift Quick sketch of the Casper octopus, an as yet undescribed species first recorded in deep water off the coast of Hawaiʻi by Schmidt Ocean Institute oceanographers. #sciart #oceanart #octopus

For mimic, the false cleanerfish who pretends to be cute and innocent and “ohhh here I’ll just clean you” and then CHOMP with those wicked fangs #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch

#SciArtSeptember Day 14: Mimic and Day 15: Spawn The first is a sheet of studies of the cleaner wrasse, whose mimic, the false cleaner wrasse was illustrated by @behrenskristen.bsky.social (beat me to it!). The second is the giant clam, which can broadcast spawn 500 million eggs at a time!

#SciArtSeptember Day 13: Bottleneck Saltwater crocodiles were hunted to near extinction in Queensland, especially after the Second World War, and up until 1974 when the practice was outlawed. Populations are now recovering, and it’s a privilege to coexist with these incredible animals.

#SciArtSeptember 12 - Wandering Adolescent golden jackals can wander thousands of kilometers while searching for a mate and a place to settle to. They used to only occur in southeastern Europe, but recently, they have been turning up all over the place: Netherlands, Finland, even northern Norway.

#SciArtSeptember day 12: Wandering Leaves and seed of the Cassowary plum. Cassowaries have a critical role in the dispersal of many rainforest plants. As they wander the rainforest they leave behind scats brimming with seeds ready to germinate. #sciart #cassowary

#SciArtSeptember 10 - Tawny Not all gazelles live in Africa! Goitered gazelle is native to a vast area from Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan through central Asia all the way to northwestern China and Mongolia. Though widespread, its' population is in steep decline due to poaching and habitat loss.

the Tawny Frogmouth for the #sciartseptember prompt Tawny. Always super interested in animals that can mimic their environment to some capacity.

#SciArtSeptember Day 11: Venomous A few grayscale head studies of the rough-scaled snake (Tropidecus carinatus), one of the venomous snakes of North Queensland. #sciart #snakeart

Day 10 of #SciArtSeptember - Tawny study of the longfin eel (Anguilla reinhardtii). Pretty common sight in creeks on the east coast of Australia. When ready to spawn, they travel downstream, and make their way to the Coral Sea to spawn. Photo used for the study by David Paul / Museums Victoria

#SciArtSeptember Day 9: Vanishing A rendering of the carapace of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas). Sculpted in Blender and hand-painted in Substance Painter. Turtles are under threat globally due to climate change, sea level rise, predation by feral animals, the development of coastal areas.

#SciArtSeptember Day 8: Niche A compilation of head studies of the striated heron - an important predator of fish and invertebrates in its habitat. #sciart

Day 7 of #sciartseptember Boreal. So why not some mushrooms native to around the boreal forests of North America

Catch-up day 4 of #avianaugust2025 Hawaiian Coot (status: Vulnerable) Photoshop. No Ai. Skipped bird 3 because I think I drew it as bird 30 by mistake. Little orange one. #avianaugust #birdart #birds #hawaii

#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 7: Boreal Walleye are a common fish in the waterways of the boreal forest. - #sciart #scicomm #walleye #wildlifeart #animalart

Structure of a typical stream. From my book A Field Guide to the Connecticut River, Yale University Press, 2024. a.co/d/hIabRmS 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #Freshwater

#SciArtSeptember Day 7: Boreal Study of the American avocet, a sometimes-inhabitant of the boreal forests of North America (from what I read). Something new for me to paint a bird that’s not native to Australia. #sciart

#SciArtSeptember Day 6: Prairie A couple of landscape block diagrams of grasslands, completed a while back for the Swatches Academy Intro to Environment Illustration course.

#SciArtSeptember Day 5: Corridor Studies of the fruit of the Jijuu (Antidesma bunius) from Peterson Creek, Yungaburra. The creek has been revegetated as part of the incredible efforts of folks on the Atherton Tablelands to create corridors connecting remaining patches of Mabi forest. #sciart

#SciArtSeptember 4 - Riverbank Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox). Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!

A little late but here's a quick pen/ink drawing of a jewel beetle for the prompt "Jewel" in #sciartseptember.

#SciArtSeptember Riverbank, where a common swift soars around a lighthouse This is my most 4th attempt at a linocut print, and it's the most recent, maaybe a year old at this point? #art #artist #sciart #print #linoprint #linocut #linoprint #birds #birdart #lighthouse

#SciArtSeptember Day 4: Riverbank A sketch of a platypus having a nice little float. I’ve also added in a figure from The Fauna of Australia by T.R. Grant showing a cross section of the incredible, complex burrows Platypus excavate in the riverbank. #platypus #sciart

#SciArtSeptember Day 3: Jewel An extremely literal interpretation of the prompt for this one because it’s fun to paint this stuff. Studies of Olenite, Pyroxmagnetite, Topaz, and Quartz samples from the Museums Victoria Mineralogy collection. #sciart #geologyart

September 2: “canopy”. Here is a digital sketch of an Australian king parrot. #sciartseptember #sciart

#SciArtSeptember Day 2: Canopy A sketch of a tree limb in the canopy of the rainforest I’m lucky enough to live near. This plant has the classic rainforest combination of waxy, smooth leaves and and extended ‘drip tip’ to help heavy rain flow off the leaf quickly. #sciart

#SciArtSeptember day 1! Islet. This is a figure I put together as a bit of a practice exercise after reading Freeman and Wright’s 2021 account of juvenile blacktip reef shark circling and trailing grouping behaviour observed at Milman Island/Islet. Paper linked!

It’s that time again. 🌟 - #sciartseptember #sciart #scienceart #scicomm

My summer shop update is now LIVE! Lots of new stickers, prints, patches, enamel pins, and more are now available! 🌊🦦💕 🛒 shop.fossilforager.art reshares are appreciated!! 💕

I'm nearly done with the cave lion and ngl this might by my best work yet

Had a visitor at our place today. A green tree snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) making its way from our place to the neighbours’.

Giraffe skull

Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) in marker and Prismacolor on Strathmore blue toned paper. Tried something a tad different with this background. I like it. #marinelife #sciart #nature #fishart #animalart #conservation #shark #sharkweek #reef #oceanlife #bskyart #art #animal

Juvenile bicolor parrotfish sketches (Cetoscarus ocellatus) #SciArt #fishart

Silver Isopod Tangle 6/2019 17 X 13 inches [43.2 X 33 cm] Colored Pencil & Graphite on Paper #sciart #gawoski #arthropod

I really enjoy doing these head studies as a first step when illustrating a new bird - in this case the pied cormorant in breeding plumage. Great way to get to know the forms, anatomy and proportions in preparation for sculpting. #sciart #birdart

Quick study of a weeping fig branch that was removed from the tree by a flock of metallic starlings and landed right at my feet #sciart #botanicalart

If you aren’t following @villesinkkonen.bsky.social already, why not?

A study of the Lilac mycena (Mycena pura). This will be the first of a few simple studies like this to get properly back into the swing of art making after the birth of my son last year! #FungiFriends #SciArt

Lapland Buntings (or Longspurs depending where you are from). Pencil and watercolour. Done for @flamboroughbird.bsky.social annual report a few years ago #UKBirding #Birds #Birdart #art 🪶

Consider the SciArt starter pack! go.bsky.app/DygrEnH

The rose sea star, Gomophia rosea (which can also be green) is one of the many beautiful sea stars that can be found on the GBR. I used a combination of 3D sculpting and texturing with digital painting for this study, I’ll post a bit more about the process below #SciArt #SeaStars #OceanArt

A recently completed illustration of a Tinselfish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

Study of a Nankeen night heron eye. Really enjoy doing studies like this, really spending time to focus on just a small part of an animal. This one was a graphite underdrawing on bristol, scanned in and painted digitally. #BirdArt #SciArt

Juvenile bicolor parrotfish sketches (Cetoscarus ocellatus) #SciArt #fishart