Are you feeling particularly artistic this week? Enter our GARtwork contest for a chance to win a crochet gar 🧶! To enter, DM your submission to @OKWildlifeDept on Twitter or Instagram. The winner will be announced on Friday 🎨🖌️ #GarWeek

Spooky season is upon us which means spooky Halloween #SundayFishSketch #FishyTheme! Show us those fishes with spooky names, spooky looking, spooky behaviors! #sciart 🦑

Enjoy some Bluesky positive vibes (sound on👍) from these juvenile Lake Sturgeon @garlab.bsky.social!

A bit more progress on my Opah illustration 🐡

Bit late for #SundayFishSketch (and not a sketch, and not finished), but it is (or will be, eventually) an Opah! But boy is it taking forever.

An Opah to celebrate 10 years of #SundayFishSketch

Happy Opah-versary #sundayfishsketch! The fish that started it all and headed into year 10.

Opa! Or should I say Opah! Celebrating 9 years of #SundayFishSketch and the community built by @lampichthys.bsky.social - here's to Year 10!

It's fun to celebrate the birthday of #SundayFishSketch 🐡 with this Opah / Gotteslachs (Lampris guttatus) in its brilliant spotted partydress. #sciart #watercolor #coloredpencildrawing #mixedmedia #FineArt #animalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

#sundayfishsketch apparently it is Opah day. #procreate #artyear

So I did an opah back in August before I knew the yearly tradition, so here’s August’s colored version and then a quick and dirty pencil redo today! #SundayFishSketch

@behrenskristen.bsky.social told me about the theme today being Opah!!!! It's one of my favorite marine fish cause theyre kinda weird. Drawing I did for FAO a few years ago. #SundayFishSketch

An early #SundayFishSketch to celebrate this incredible #SciArt community created and inspired by @lampichthys.bsky.social! Happy Opah Sketchiversary to Rene, and cheers to everyone who's ever drawn a Sunday doodle. Here's to year 10 and to new art friends taking the plunge! 🦑🐡🧪

for now - my Opah from 2021 #SundayFishSketch

Opah #SundayFishSketch #fish #Gotteslachs #Opah #KleineKunstklasse #pencils #watercolors

For the Opah #SundayFishSketch, I was REALLY lazy! The Opah is a hot fish and this is a heat map showing that heat. www.fws.gov/story/opah-w...

It's been a while, but I sketched out an Opah for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

1/2) Is that time of year again #Sundayfishsketch friends! This weekend marks the end of our 9th year of sketches! As we move into year 10, our annual #Fishytheme is to draw on Opah (the first fish sketch), to appreciate improvements made while practicing throughout the year. #sciart 🦑

Rolling into the weekend it is time for the #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme. Continuing our @lizlagomorph.bsky.social #SciartSeptember themes, 'Reef' is the prompt for this Sunday! There are thousands of reef fishes to choose from, and I can't wait to see all the colorful illustrations! #Sciart 🦑

An off-theme river chub for this week's #SundayFishSketch

#SundayFishSketch sorry for my long absence. No fishy puzzles recently. This one is a donation for the upcoming North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish conference. My best attempt at a shovelnose sturgeon. A gift from @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social

For the boreal theme of #sciartseptember and #SundayFishSketch, a burbot! This freshwater cod species is found from the #GreatLakes and Midwest north to the boreal regions.

I'm half joking here but at some point all cyprinids* look the same 😆 Here's Alburnus alburnus — the bleak / salakka / löja / laue / løje — for #SundayFishSketch x #SciArtSeptember #Boreal theme. 🐡🦑🧪 Day 7/30

For “boreal” I picked the brook trout, which is a throwback to my freshman year of undergrad when we did labs on headwater streams. Tree cover keeps stream temps in the preferred range for these guys #SundayFishSketch #SciArtSeptember

On the easel- Flying Fish. #SundayFishSketch #SciArt

Manta ray for #sundayfishsketch I’m still diving in Indonesia, so this is digital. #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #oceanconservation

#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 7: Boreal Walleye are a common fish in the waterways of the boreal forest. - #sciart #scicomm #walleye #wildlifeart #animalart

#Sundayfishsketch 🐡 Finally finished those two 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Cleaner wrasses can change frome female to male, and fairy wrasses are just swimming rainbows.

An arctic char for the #SciArtSeptember Borealis theme and a late #SundayFishSketch. I tried an experiment where I painted with only two colors.

Haven’t kept up with #sciartseptember very well. Here’s a plains minnow for the #vanishing prompt from earlier in the week. Once, one of the most common minnows in the sandy drainages of the Kansas and Arkansas rivers, flow regime changes greatly reduced their numbers #sundayfishsketch

Banded Archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix #SciArt #SundayFishSketch

Here is a Farlowella catfish for this week’s #SundayFishSketch mimicry theme! Inspired by one I saw at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington DC this past winter.

For mimic, the false cleanerfish who pretends to be cute and innocent and “ohhh here I’ll just clean you” and then CHOMP with those wicked fangs #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch

For the Mimic theme of #sciartseptember and #SundayFishSketch, it's the mimic shiner! Probably because it looks like other shiners. Thanks shiners... #GreatLakes

Another manta ray for #sundayfishsketch #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #oceanconservation

A few modifications to the screenshot I posted, but here's the initial fish cranial kinesis model's movement. Fish people: I'm having a hard time getting the premaxilla to "slide" forward. How important is that? (I will keep trying tho.) #SciArt #SciComm #SundayFishSketch

#SundayFishSketch Anguilliformes on stuff found by the sea European eel, Anguilla anguilla, on a piece of clay Spooted moray eel, Gymnothorax isingteena, on a stone

#Fishytheme 'Mimic' Twin-spot goby / Krabbenaugengrundel (Signigobius biocellatus) 👀🦀 #SundayFishSketch 🐡 #SciartSeptember #sciart #watercolor #coloredpencildrawing #mixedmedia #FineArt #animalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 14: Mimic A mimic filefish, from a photo by Francois Libert. These devious nuggets mimic the poisonous saddled pufferfish. - #sciart #fish #aquarium

#SundayFishSketch Pinnate spadefish 🐡 #KleineKunstKlasse

A #WIP Brown Trout illustration for an early #SundayFishSketch 🐡

Keeping things low-key for the time being. Here's a scribble of an African Lungfish. Graphite in sketchbook. #SciArt 🐡 #TradArt 🎨 #SundayFishSketch #art #artists #WildlifeArt #fish #FishArt #NatureArt #sketchbook

#SundayFishSketch #SciArt 🦑 Twig Catfish, Farlowella vittata

Never done this before but here goes! Catostomus occidentalis (Sacramento sucker) for my #SundayFishSketch! Based on the gorgeous photo taken by Steve Ryan in the Wikimedia Commons commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... #sciart

Blazingstar and a white sucker for #SundayFishSketch. The blazingstar was in our yard and the sucker was caught in Green Bay last week during wetland surveys. #GreatLakes

I drew this sticker!! If you want a customized sticker for your favorite species, or for new discoveries, hit me up!! really happy to have worked on this one, thank you again for the commission!! #sciart #commission #digitalart

As a hobby artist who devotes waaay too many hours to an economically-unviable past-time, I have to take my victories where I can. So seeing my drawings in an exhibition and genuinely feeling that they belonged there (quality-wise) was a fantastic experience that I'll treasure for a long time.

Things don’t always go as planned. When that happens sometimes all we can do is make the best of it and go on. Mimic Surgeonfish, Acanthurus pyroferus #SciArt #SundayFishSketch 🦑

A buckler dory for #SundayFishSketch this week. I worked on this during the last few days of ASM training. #FishArt, #SciArt

Sometimes all you can manage is some silliness. An inked fever dream. #SundayFishSketch