I did dolphins in oil paint at last yeyyyy!!

I've been attending a local art class recently as a way of getting out the house while recovering from a long term illness. I've been enjoying keeping it all offline, but I thought I'd share this as it was my second time ever with oil paints and I'm pretty happy!

Bow riding bottlenose dolphins from below

For some reason I felt the need to paint a sad Risso's dolphin

Minke whale in the fog

Harbour porpoises cruising past an offshore wind farm. Getting the perspective right in this one was surprisingly challenging.

Have another painting with common dolphins! Can't get enough of them tbh

Dropping in to share a painting I've recently finished. I've been pretty unwell for a few months now but felt inspired by both being out with HWDT last year and completing my honours project on common dolphins. Hopefully I'll get back out on the sea soon!

Manx sheerwaters in the Celtic Sea looking fairly unbothered by some very energetic common dolphins for #superseabirdsunday

I had an absolutely fantastic day out at the Scottish Marine Forum 2025! It was full of fascinating talks and so many wonderful people, and I even spotted some of my pins and stickers on the water bottles and bags of attendees! Thanks @strandings.bsky.social and WDC for a great day out.

Awesome to see my photo being used to advertise talks at my uni! I submitted this to a photo competition (sadly no winnings) but it's nice to see it out in the world all the same!

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A majestic looking puffin for #superseabirdsunday

Happy #superseabirdsunday from a Skomer puffin with some seaweed and a stick

Have a harbour porpoise photo dump, in case you required more porpoises in your day #marinelife 🦑

A juvenile kittiewake getting mugged by a skua in the Minch for #superseabirdsunday ,from a couple of years ago

@haystravel.bsky.social using AI slop in their travel brochures. Please consider doing some research and using images of actual Ganges River dolphins than whatever this is!

Has anyone got a pdf of the Scottish bottlenose dolphins photo ID catalogue? I'm needing to cite the catalogue but I can only find it as a web page!

My head is full of common dolphins just now (to block out * gestures at everything*), so here's a favourite of my common dolphin photos.

Puffin among the bluebells on Skomer last year for #superseabirdsunday . I'm going back again this year!

The full Dall's porpoise painting. I don't know if I'll ever match the immaculate vibes of this one

A curious young gannet for #superseabirdsunday . This bird followed the ship I was surveying from for a good while before arriving into Lisbon last year

A sketchbook page of belugas from a while back, this was from the life drawing class held with Little White and Little Grey of the Beluga Sanctuary in Iceland

A rainbow lorikeet for today's #birbfest #birbfest2025

I've been following along with #birbfest2025 in my sketchbook, but only now got round to posting what I've done so far. Enjoy a dump of birbs! #birbfest

Calico swordtail for this week's #sundayfishsketch . They're apparently lucky fish to keep!

Northern lights on the first day of 2025, and my first time seeing them without any doubt!

More common dolphins! This time with coloured pencils.

Lazy day off drawing common dolphins in pencil, while my Hector's dolphin watches on #sciart #marinelife 🦑

I've not had my shops open for a few months but new EU regs mean that I won't be able to ship to the EU at all when I do reopen sometime next year. A decent chunk of my income will now be gone because of Brexit. Hooray.

Set sail for the weekend with the MASTS #FridayEmail . This week’s feature the Culture Collection of #Algae and #Protozoa mark 20 years of growth at the SAMS. Plus the #FeaturedPhoto comes from @pintofangrybees.bsky.social of a Puffin. See thread for an overview: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/friday...

Absolutley cracking morning out in the hills, and all accessed by public transport as well!

🔈 ANNOUNCING! BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements Applications open Jan 2025 More details: bou.org.uk/funding/s...#ornithology 🪶

Some more fish drawings from my time learning species for a recent university field course. The corals are all nightmares to draw but somehow they feel quite representative of the various groups! #sciart #marinelife🦑

Commerson's dolphins from above in gouache. #sciart

Hi! I thought I'd introduce myself more properly. I'm a final year marine and freshwater biology MSci student and cetacean artist. I'm doing all I can to get a career in marine mammal science (dolphins are why I wake up every day), and on the look out for grad jobs and cetacean PhDs!

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

I managed to get into photography a bit more properly this year, a bit by borrowing lenses and a bit by upgrading. Here's some of my faves from this summer! And all shot on a Canon 600D that's old enough to be in high school

Another of my faves. This painting was inspired by a life drawing zoom class with Little White and Little Grey of the beluga sanctuary in Iceland. They're such weird shapes. #marinelife 🦑

Being on here has me excited about sharing some of my favourite pieces again! Pacific white sided dolphins in acrylic, based on a photo by Leanne Rosser #marinelife 🦑

I've recently returned from a 2 week field course in Egypt, and this is how I learned the fish and corals we had to memorise!

Here are some of the pins I make! I normally sell via my website and Esty but for various reasons (everything in my personal life imploding at the same time) my shops are likely going to be closed until 2025. I'll have new pins once I'm ready to reopen!

Hi! I've finally got myself an account on bluesky. I make art and merch of dolphins and all things marine biology. Here are some of my paintings!