Sorry I haven’t been posting. Been unwell with a chest infection. 🤧 I will get back to viewing everyone’s posts again, but here’s a wee sketchbook page for now. #sketchbook #snails #slugs #hoverflies #larvae #drawing

I got to photograph the roe deer in the nearby field again. #roedeer #deer #naturephotography #scotland #eastrenfrewshire #roukenglen

Drawing of a bug from the miridae family, campyloneura virgula. #insects #biodiversity #drawing #SciArt

A bit of sketching for #mushroommonday. #sketchbook #fungi

There’s a field near my home with roe deer. Last week I saw 6 of them together. This gorgeous one let me take her photo from a distance. #deer #roedeer #naturephotography

Molly’s new favourite box is the one my evernight subscription came in. @lorrainesimeart.bsky.social had to point out how apt that was #caturday #catinabox #illumicrate #evernight #ownedbyacat #blackcat

A wee bit of fungi. Shaggy scalycaps that have grown quite big. #fungifriday #fungi #naturephotography

Snail weather just now. The rain doesn’t seem to stop. #sketchbook #snails #drawing

Some recent drawing and sketching. #sketchbooks #fungi #fungifriday #snails #drawing

I think I won the fungi lottery! #fungi #photography #naturephotography

A wee drawing of a bolete for #fungifriday. #fungi #nature #drawing

It’s definitely fungi weather just now. #mushroommonday #fungi #drawing #sketchbook #sketchbooks

A bit of drawing and sketching. #sketchbooks #ladybirds #acorns #insects #drawing #sketching

Drawing of a ladybird pupa. #pupa #ladybird #drawing #biodiversity

A bit of drawing for #fungifriday. #sketchbook #drawing #fungi

Findings so many of these brown willow beetles, galerucella lineola, near my home. #sketchbook #invertefest #beetles #sketching #drawing

Drawing of a brown willow beetle, galerucella lineola. #invertefest #beetles #drawing #insects #biodiversity

A bit of drawing and photography. #insects #beetle #snails #hoverfly #naturephotography #drawing

Thursday 28th Aug I half expected seeing an increase in fungi along the Kelvin Walkway but the only #fungifriends i found were numerous Collared Earthstars

A bit of sketching. #sketchbook #insects #biodiversity

Happy birthday to my older sister, @karensime.bsky.social, who is indeed older than me! 🎂

Lots of brown rollrim mushrooms around! #fungi #sketchbook #drawing

#skyline #blueskyartshow #Scotland #bridges #sky #ForthCrossing 💙🩵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#drawing 4678 TetraPak full moon plates for #printmaking #drawingaugust #drawingaugust2025 #thedailysketch #adrawingaday #artyear

Some sketching. Lots of new friends near my new home. #sketchbook #insects #biodiversity #sketching #drawing

A little bit of home baking for friends.

A wee bit of drawing and sketching. #insects #arachnids #sketchbook #natureart #biodiversity

Happy #fungifriday everyone. #fungi #sketchbook #drawing #sketching

I met this gorgeous little common flowerbug (Anthocoris nemorum) during the week. #insects #naturephotography #biodiversity

A friendly wee aphid wants to say hello. #aphids #biodiversity #drawing #insects

A handful of my snailfish prints are now available in my Ko-fi shop. It's a little fundraiser to pay for vet bills 🐕. #SundayFishSketch 🐡 #deepsea 🐟 --- Ein paar meiner Tiefseefisch-Drucke sind jetzt verfügbar in meinem Ko-fi Shop. Kleiner Tierarzt-Fundraiser ;) #kleinekunstklasse

Argh, I missed #fungifriday, but here’s some sketches of fungi I recently came across. #sketchbook #fungi

There are two snails in my garden eagerly making new snails. 🤭 More snails to draw and photograph soon.

A bit of drawing. #snails #drawing #biodiversity #natureart

A wee bit of sketching. It’s been snail and fungi weather here. #sketchbook #snails #fungi #drawing #biodiversity

My chaotic art space (and safe space.) Yes, I need to organise my shelves, and I still have 2 boxes to unpack in the corner after moving here two months ago. #art #drawing #insects #sketchbooks #snails

A drawing of my favourite beetle, the common red soldier beetle. There are lots of them nearby just now. #insects #biodiversity #drawing #soldierbeetle

A wee something for #fungifriday. #fungi #sketchbook #drawing #painting

Wednesday 2nd July Other highlights from my walk back from Clydebank ; Donacia vulgaris : a stunning male and my first ever sighting despite the species reportedly being common 😃 (Clydebank) Common Blue-sow-thistle (Drumchapel) Fairy Inkcaps (Knightswood)

A wee something for #fungifriday. #fungi #sketchbook

Some sketching. #sketchbook #slugs #arachnids #drawing

Not my usual art but, inspired by recent fungi finds, I made cheese and rosemary savoury biscuits. #fungi #baking #biscuits

Juvenile Robin on a pole. Have a good day folks #rspb.bsky.social #rspb.scotland.bsky.social🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching

I’ve been documenting shaggy ink caps growing near my home recently. Today they were gone because the grass was cut. Butchered! 😭😭😭

Lots of mushrooms about after all that rain. #fungi #sketchbook #nature

A wee bit of sketching. Lots of critters around saying hello. #insects #larvae #sketchbook #biodiversity

Some sketches of various types of damselflies I met in the local park. #damselflies #sketchbook #biodiversity

Please say hello to my new friends. #photography #geese

A wee bit of drawing. #drawing #insects #pollinators #biodiversity #ladybirds #bees