Drawing graphite rocks again of course

I really like basalt

Cephalopods 🦑🩵🐙 #watercolor #traditionalart #artsky #illustration

Acanthostrongylophora sponge & some friends recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CX3...

An Asian Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis) mid-bite into a Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens). Not a bee, but still a good snack. 📷 dhruvapunde on iNaturalist 📍 India 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Sinosauropteryx prima [ #paleoart | #dinosaurs | #sinosauropteryx | #3Dart | #art ]

You're currently looking at fungus (specifically Gibellula alata) emerging from a spider. Right now, there are only six observations of this species on iNaturalist! 📷 cajqld on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

may be a bit late, but for #InsertAnInvert2024 if anyone wanted to see one of the few photos of Bathynellacea, here's one from Mongolia! @drkmabrams.bsky.social @franzanth.bsky.social

Paleoart commissions opened! Feel free to contact me. I have experience working on various books and papers, with the most notable artwork being the cover of the 4th issue of Volume 44 of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Can’t believe I forgot to post this very cute black bellied #salamander a very kind person on tumblr commissioned! #commission #art #sciart #nature #artist #digitalart #supportartists #science #amphibian

21. Forked tube lichen. I studied this forest lichen waaay back in 2013, but it's so pretty I love drawing it repeatedly 🤷 #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar

Trying the tone underpainting thing for this one

Does anyone have any recommended youtube videos or anything on oil paint I have no idea what I'm doing 💀

Sand dune in the Coorong

Binding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009. Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper. #ArtAdventCalendar

Megalonyx, a ground sloth, rests among the snow.

Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras

For day 22 of #Crustmas, we go for shiny ! I think this is aso supposed to be a Paraglyphea From the Museum en Voie d'Illumination exhibition from last year at the MNHN Paris

After four months and 36 illustrations, I present the final Kem Kem chart – a look at of one of the most incredible ecosystems the world has ever seen. Short thread below! #sciart #paleoart

And slight close up showing more details

A scorpion from the Urodacus yaschenkoi species complex. #scorpion #arachnid #ArthropodArt

Fresh water fishes 🐟

Red Clay (1) Digital painting

Glad to see more #paleoart on the timeline of the criminally underrated Triassic allokotosaur Teraterpeton. Still pretty happy with my old reconstruction #sciart

Results from the last Flocking #paleostream of the year! Appalachiosaurus, Lijiangosaurus, Teraterpeton and Gerrothorax.

The last (!?) of our Kem Kem animals, the mackerel shark Haimirichia, and the hybodont Tribodus! These are both small bodied, not thought to breach the 2m mark. Size comparison and important (!) note below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Trying oil paint

93/100 slots filled. I'll try to close the form when it hits exactly 100, but might miss the timing due to time zones. If we overflow, I'll move the extras to the next (April) edition.

My 3rd year research project was on some of these scorpions :)

Isopods 🖌 #invert

Spent #FossilFriday tweaking my Anchiornis colour reconstruction. The black+white+red intepretation does entirely match the melanosome data recorded for this species, as there's evidence of phaeomelanin (= rufous hues) on the arm, and lots of grey across the body. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

A scorpion from the Urodacus yaschenkoi species complex. #scorpion #arachnid #ArthropodArt

#ArtAdventCalendar day 18 is one I believe I’ve featured here before. From June of 2024. Still one of my favourite manis - this one is known by my nail friends as my “Priders” mani. For Pride spiders, naturally.

Today for #ArtAdventCalendar, one of my personal favorite Waymakers birds, this Manx Shearwater cruising low over a turquoise ocean! 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Buccaspinea cooperi, a hurdiid radiodont from the Cambrian of Utah, known for its large oral-cone mouth that makes up nearly a quarter of its body length.

One of my favourite animals :) they're extremely cute to see flying over at night

Black Waves II My first mixed media monotype experiment! Feeling like a mad scientist trying to combine anything and everything. No drawing medium is safe from meee 🙌

Based these pitcher plants on photos I took in Newfoundland. Water soluble encaustic on black prepped wood board. 12x12 inch #artadventcalendar #botanicalart #painting

A Hawthorn Digital painting

the important thing is this

🐦Wildlife of Shanghai studies🐿️ Series of sketches based on my own photos, taken during my visits to the Chinese city. Most of these animals were spotted in the city's parks and gardens List of species in Alt text #wildlifeart #birdart #sciart #birds #squirrel

"Forest Attendant" Black-Capped Chickadee 5"x7" Oil on panel Chickadees are wonderful in so many ways. They're often the first birds to investigate a new situation, and other birds watch & follow them to find food sources. The friendly local 'dees often bring other birds to my yard, to my delight.

Downy Woodpecker Cute little guys! It was a bit of a challenge to show form with their deep black color. Fun fact, woodpeckers use their tails to support themselves against trees. Watercolor and colored pencil, with a tiny bit of white gouache. WIP photos in reply 6x9" cotton paper #birds #sciart

Lambeosaurus in #watercolor from a few years ago. #paleoart

Arietites, an early Jurassic ammonite

Ok hear me out, if you have invertebrate latte art, submit to our art book

da carb #birguslatro #invertebrates #art #biology

Sold some paleo art drawings, one of a T-rex hatching, one of a sea scorpion (Nanahughmilleria) and one of two happy Micraspis (Silurian fish). :) If you want some original paleo art too, just check out my webshop: www.esthervanhulsen.com/shop/ #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurart #paleoillustration