#ArtAdventCalendar day 18 #watercolor #magnolia #flowers #botanical #gardeningfeed #sciart

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Result from the Talara tar seeps #paleostream! Like the La Brea tar pits this was Pleistocene death trap, however these fossils come from Peru so everything has a south american flavor. This piece is set at the beginning of the rainy season, with new green beginning to sprout...

Nice wee blog on #Permian plants. #geology #paleontology

An excellent article on plant paleoart, its history, its importance in fighting plant blindness, and how we can further the field as a whole! Congrats to @pepecarrion.bsky.social and coauthors! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More Kaiparowits #paleoart for #artadventcalendar day 2: this travel poster featuring a pair o' Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, perched enantornithean, and big ol' turtle. 🐡🎨

Studies of some horsetail fossils from the Yorkshire flora of Jurassic UK to start off a brand new sketchbook. #paleoart #paleobotany #botany #sciart

Study of Matonia pectinata fiddlehead & mature frond. I forgot how time-consuming ferns are to render 😭 #sciart #botany

Matonia pectinata is a beautifully-shaped fern, and the family it belongs to can be traced back to the Late Triassic. When researching I often make reference sheets like this of the most useful figures, photos & illustrations I can find. Most pics from iNaturalist or Flickr. #paleobotany #botany

Pencil study directly based on the figure above, to practice the complex shapes of this fern. With plants, especially ferns, I find you have to start with very simple, geometric shapes & slowly build up complexity #paleobotany #paleoart

What is super cool is Clathropteris has been found in monotypic thickets where they got pretty dang big! Suuuper cool implications for how one can illustrate Jurassic period undergrowth.

More paleobotanical studies - this time the Mesozoic dipteridacean fern Hausmannia. Another example of how ferns during this time exhibited a diversity of forms that can spice up #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart

Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right. #paleobotany

Respectfully submitted for your approval #sundaystunday yet another posting of WIP oil painting “Illusion of Still Water” 24 x 36 aka “The Beast”🙄😝 #art #tradionalart #artyear #artshare #blueskyart #botanicalart

Yesterday’s flocking #paleostream sketches, in shadowy forms: Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, and Genyornis. No I don’t have a favorite. #paleoart #pleistocene #cretaceous #paleozoic

The size charts this time were a collaborative effort between @montanoceratops.bsky.social, @seismic-shrimp.bsky.social @sassypn.bsky.social and me. As you can see there the local insect fauna had some bangers. When you want large insect interacting with dinosaurs/pterosaurs: this is your place!

typical Solnhofen fauna form a long corridor through southern Germany but localities in France show similar preservation. The Atlmühltal Formation has iconic taxa like Archaeopteryx and Pterodactylus and was therefore the first of these formations we covered.

and bennettitaleans are the most common plants. The beaches were probably blinding white, consisting of sand that formed from broken down corals and sponges, as these islands were often not much more than reefs peaking above the waves. Formations/localities that housed the...

Popular images of the Solnhofen islands show them as tropical paradises, often with cliffs and tall trees. The opposite appears to be the case. The islands were probably small, arid, flat and had vegetation that can be better described as shrubbery. Small conifers... (Europa Island for reference)

All of these creatures being preserved in marine sediments. For one it makes it possible to show all the cool pterosaurs and other stem birds from here. On the other hand, more importantly, it offers the possibility to show the environment many of these animals occupied.

And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...

back on #paleostream flocking this time we got lepidodendron, baryonyx, champsosaurus and genyornis, still testing the vector style #paleoart

#PaleoStream Flocking Together Lepidodendron/Baryonyx Champsosaurus/Genyornis

other #paleostream sketches

Flocking! Lepidodendron (the trees), Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, Genyornis #paleoart #sciart #paleostream

On today's flocking #paleostream Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champosaurus and Genyornis

Congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social et al 2025 for the publication of their Oxroadia paper! And thanks for bringing me onboard to do some restorations of this relative of Lepidodendron and Isoëtes from the Carboniferous of Scotland. academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #FossilFriday #paleobotany

Production of root suckers in #Glossopteridales from the late Permian of #Antarctica New #AJB research by Anne-Laure Decombeix & Rudolph Serbet doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #glossopterids #paleobotany #fossils #FossilFriday

Well, today is a holiday, so I'm taking my time enjoying my art. Since this piece is digitally colored, it'll be finished soon. Unlike analog art, it gets done much faster💪 #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.

Check our paper with @paleobotanist.bsky.social on root suckering in a Permian glossopterid from Antarctica 🌳⛏️🇦🇶 It's the 1st report of root suckering in this group & the oldest in the fossil record doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5 #paleobotany #botany @umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

If you see this, post a dinosaur! TFW you realize like half your #paleoart isn't dinosaurs lol (I still have plenty though)

Magnolia Aging ... bringing its own beauty ...

To brighten up a wet and rainy #FossilFriday, here's my take on the recently described drepanosaur Mirasaura grauvogeli. It's shown among the conifer Voltzia, a plant found in abundance in the same beds as Mirasaura. The pointed sail shape is based on fossil data... #sciart #fossils #paleontology

It's October now and we are getting autumnal vibes from this pteridosperm specimen, also known as a seed fern. What are your favourite things about autumn? 🍁 Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #FloraFriday #Autumn #fossils #fossil #fern #palaeontology #paleontology #museum #geologyrocks

If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me. The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…

A "proper" #botanicalillustration this time. This is the #sunflower #botany on full display. #Watercolour #watercolor #art #SciArt #botanical #nature #yellow

Day 25 of #AvianAugust2025, Birds of Hawaii, hosted by @cookiedoves: ʻōʻōʻāʻā or Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (Moho braccatus) #AvianAugust #hawaiianbirds #birdsofhawaii #hawaii #birds #birdart #illustration #ooaa #kauaioo #moho #hawaiianhoneyeater #extinctbirds #alakaiswamplobelia #lobelia #botanicalart

Getting back in the groove with a few favorite desert plants! I haven’t painted globemallow is years thanks to emotional damage from the last time, but adding a square brush to my quiver definitely made it less painful! #watercolor #botanicalart #moleskine #painting #utah #sketchbook #natureart

We need more #paleobotany love.

New Dinosaur for my colouring book. And I went a bit overboard with about anything concerning details. This time it's Baryonyx on the hunt for some fish. And Scheenista having a crappy day. #sciart #paleoart #dinosaurs 🐡 #digitalart You can support my work here: ko-fi.com/saralutra

My illustration of the Carboniferous Period when the massive forest made the oxygen level so high that it fueled both giant insects and constant wild fires. 🔥 Art from my new book DINOSAURS out this October. Preorder here: a.co/d/0tR5c9u #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #fossiladdict #evolution

I struggle when studying depth. It's like I overcomplicate by focusing on the tiniest details instead of simple shapes. Maybe it's my misplaced mentality of, "take little steps at a time"? #art #artstudy

I'm super grateful for being included in a diverse lineup of extremely talented artists in the upcoming Mesozic Art II. Especially considering I have no art education & the artworks I do are after-work cartoons, which bring joy to a lovely niche of people on the internet! ❤️

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In some Brazilian cerrado, about 29 KYA, a 5-ton male Eremotherium laurillardi munches on some hearty, leafy browse after a 3 hr nap. Soon, he will seek out a wallow spot before he returns to feeding. …. #paleoart #sloth #megafauna #iceage

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens is a fast-growing, clustering palm. It would be great as a source of hearts-of-palm (“palm cabbage”), EXCEPT the growing point (the “heart”) is loaded with cyanogenic glycosides + enzyme. Do not eat it! ☠️ #HCN #Arecaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

🌲 A research on the pines of Australia, Sydney, W. A. Gullick, government printer, 1910. [Source]

🏵 Vollständige Naturgeschichte der forstlichen Culturpflanzen Deutschlands. Berlin, A. Förstner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (P. Jeanrenaud)1851. [Source]