🌿 Nambroth 🌿 (A gift for @nambroth.bsky.social, from their partner, @eldarath.bsky.social; it was such a joy to work on a hoodie for someone whose art has been so inspirational to me 💙)

Are you in North America, and want to try growing native plants in your garden, yard, public park, community space, or in containers on a balcony / porch? I've made a beginner's guide! It's long but I wanted to share all the info I have. Please consider trying. featherdust.com/growing-nati...

just... what the fuck (every day)

"The Eagle and the Dove", digital painting Inspired by the song "Flying Dreams", from the movie The Secret of Nimh. I sing this tune often to our blind parrot, but with made up lyrics (his name fits nicely into the song).

Hi friends and kind art enjoyers, I've been fighting a painful & disabling condition in both shoulders since '23, & have been very unwell since July with a spicy new tickborne disease (atop a pile of my other health conditions). Add in the gen A-eye BS, & the Everything- I've been really burnt out.

Watercolor "Crow and Rising / Cascading Fern" series I've been working on recently. The originals are available, either through my site featherdust.storenvy.com or if you send me an email/message, I can create a custom invoice for you, which saves the handling fee. 🪶

A few of the artfight pieces I did last month, sketched and painted in CSP. Su'Alagos the Galebird Joris the turkey Banana Bread the rhamphorhynchus Jack the Vulture

"Byzil's Phoenix" cockatiel, 8"x10" oil on panel, 2021 A memorial painting for a friend of her beloved cockatiel, Phoenix.

I have many little original watercolor and gouache paintings in my shop, if you're interested! featherdust.storenvy.com/collections/...

"Dream Defender" Digitally painted in CSP

If you are at Furality, you can find my art in the gallery, as well as the Dealer's Den! # 931. Here are my awkward polygons:

Adhesive Capsulitis II: Quest for the Frozenest Shoulder

Hey do me a favor this #TDOV Trans folks: drop your gfm, ko-fi, cash app, whatever in this thread Everyone else: go through the comments and give em your money if able. If you can't, share this post.

Some days you need the dragon, powerful and protective; some days you are the dragon, fierce and full of fire

"My Favorite Mornings" Digital painting (CSP) I painted two different backgrounds for this as I enjoyed both skies for different reasons. A gift for my wonderful partner @eldarath.bsky.social

Those in Firefly Territory with a yard (or if you know anyone that has a yard / property, that you can talk to), here are some easy ways to help fireflies: xerces.org/endangered-s...

A very generous person, who wishes to remain anonymous, has sponsored an additional 5 prints for me to give away! I need to order the prints and some more mailers, so there will be a slight delay in getting half of the prints out. I will pick winners tomorrow, Thursday March 6th! (pls don't reskeet)

"Expression", Scarlet tanager. A digital painting several years in the making; a future album cover for a client. Many thanks to my client for the microphone reference.

Are you trans? Would having a fierce rainbow breathing dragon print cheer you up even a little? I'm giving away several metallic prints to trans folk in the US; please read the following carefully! Please do NOT repost / reskeet, I'm not looking for followers, just want to spread a little happiness

A 9"x6" watercolor peafowl I just finished this month, and a few older watercolor and red colored pencil sketches of a female American Goldfinch and an American Flamingo. All are available in my shop if they catch your interest! featherdust.storenvy.com/collections/...

Art making has been slow and weird lately (artist friends, you get it) but I was able to do some watercolor studies of my cockatiel recently. Each is on a sheet of 9"x6" watercolor paper. 🪶 If any of them catch your interest, they are available: featherdust.storenvy.com/collections/...

Some days you need the dragon, powerful and protective; some days you are the dragon, fierce and full of fire

"Jocose" White-Breasted Nuthatch (and Jocose Sallow moth), 8"x10" oil on panel, 2023. 🪶 I found this cute Jocose Sallow this spring and knew I had to include it in a painting somehow, with some of my other favorite things (moss and birds)

"Takoma Gryphon" A gift for my friend Takoma, who wanted her lynx self gryphonized! Digitally painted slowly over the course of much of 2024, in CSP.

"Flow" Great Crested Flycatcher, 10"x8" oil on panel, 2023. 🪶 We love watching the flycatchers hunt in the yard. In my house we call this a "great crested fweep" because it says "FWEEP"

"Morning Stretch" American Goldfinch, 7"x5" oil painting on panel (2019). 🪶

In winter, I have bird feeders up, but the last 10-ish years I've been planting more native plants out in my yard each year. Witnessing the interactions between these plants and wildlife has been so joyful, and full of constant learning. This winter, tree sparrows taught me something new 🪶 (thread):

"Power Stance" Carolina Wren, 5"x7" oil on panel, 2023. The range of these wrens has extended northward in the last few decades, so I get to enjoy them locally now, and I love everything about them. Very beautiful, very powerful.🪶

"Ironweed" Nashville Warbler, 10"x8" oil on panel, 2023. Last fall, several warbler species came to my native plant gardens every day and gleaned hundreds of tiny invertebrates per hour out of the plants, it was magical. 🪶 I love the waxy burgundy-red and white of the spent ironweed flowers.

"My Sun, My Leaf" Digital painting. A scene from "Shadow Sun" by Jess Owen. @authorjessowen.bsky.social Suijen (dragon) and Ren (Gryfon) in a beautiful moment of flight together. From the second book in her series "Rise of the Dragon Star", you can find it here: www.amazon.com/Shadow-Sun-B...

Are you an individual artisan that sells bird / bird related stuff? Be welcome to leave a link (+ a few images if you want) to your offerings! One post per person pls 🪶 #BirdArt Are you a person that likes to buy bird related stuff for yourself or those you love? Check out the replies to this post!

I've restocked my prints, and added a few new ones. I hand inspect and sign each one. I also have a few originals still available. Here's my shop: featherdust.storenvy.com

I am going to try to keep adding accounts here as I work through the Palestinian accounts here. I am going to make this 🧵 to answer as many common questions about these accounts as well as other Gazan GoFundMes as I can so put a 📌 in it if you need a central location for these questions.

"Fading Light" Blue Jay, 12"x24" oil on panel, 2020. The insect on the branch is Ellychnia corrusca, a lantern-less (no glow) firefly. 🪶

Here's an older one: "Fold Into the Morning Light" Commissioned Digital painting, 2013

I must have landed in a starter pack(s) because I've been gaining followers at a dizzying rate (for me)! I can't keep up. Thank you so much, but also I'm terrified by the new attention! My memory's horrible, so if we know each other from Sites Past (LJ, old DA, etc) feel free to say hi in a comment!

"Green Phoenix" 12"x9" Watercolor & black colored pencil on paper, 2022 My phoenix 'sona was always fiery colors before this, but a few years ago I decided fuck it, I didn't have to make sense, and molted into green plumage! Green has always been my favorite color, so this was sort of a prototype.

"Tiny Watchtower" Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, 5"x7" oil painting on panel, 2019 🪶

The suffering is soul crushing, my heart breaks anew every day. Please let there be a ceasefire.

I want to take a moment to thank my most wonderful best friend and loving partner of over 20 years, Eld! ❤️ He's the main reason I'm still around and making art over the decades. Thank you Eld, for your support, for being so awesome, and letting me decorate our home with literal sticks and leaves

I'm Nambroth, an artist that loves painting birds and fantasy critters. I currently work mostly in oil paint but also play with watercolor, gouache, and digital painting. I'm a very tired, nonbinary, weird, furry, chronically ill, disabled, neurodivergent mess. I love bird and plant featherdust.com

Surprisingly strong solar storm tonight, enough that the aurora can be seen from the house! Bonus shooting star!

"Storm's Departure" Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher, 16"x20" Oil painting on panel, 2019. 🪶

Your periodic reminder that 96% of terrestrial birds in North America rely on insects for food; particularly during the breeding season. 🪰🪶

"Autumn Queen" Belted Kingfisher, 10"x8" oil painting on panel, 2021. My thanks to Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren of Flickr for their reference photographs!

"Sharp Intensity" Great Blue Heron, 12"x16" oil painting on panel, 2019. Special thanks to Chuck Rondeau for the reference photo for this. 🪶

Surreal to think that it’s been 10 years this month since I won the Federal Duck Stamp! My acrylic painting of a pair of Ruddy Ducks went on to be made into the 2015-16 Stamp. Looking back at it a decade later is still pretty weird. To celebrate, a few small things! (continued)

I've been toying with some quick and simple icons, they would come with simple color vibes in the back such as pride flags, favorite colors, using some of my silly nature stamps, whatever. 10 per, any interest?

Just for fun: A green pterosaur (wukongopterid species) pterosaur version of Nambroth! A green pterosaur was actually my first fursona (or animal-self), at age 5, and I recently rediscovered some of my childhood art (from kindergarten and first grade) that rekindled my desire to draw this.