Glazing day

Apparently my Adult Content (specifically "explicit sexual images") was set to "Hide" so initially when I searched this user I didn't even see them in the results. This is ridiculous, it's not protecting anyone from seeing things they don't want to see, it just blanket disappears folks from bluesky.

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“Gumball” 8” x 10” oil on panel

Last year I bought my wildly curious kid an Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids. About a month later, I threw it into the trash. I grew up reading almanacs, it felt like digging through a clutter drawer of facts. It had all these tiny detailed illustrations, tables and charts...

If you can't even bother paying an illustrator for your cover, how can we trust you not to cut corners with what's inside? We need to push back against this kind of bullshit practice, so if you don't like this, make your voice heard.

She is made of but cardboard, so her time on this mortal coil will be brief, but I hope she entertains and educates many during her stay. Wish her luck, everyone. 🫡

This is the way

A4 Watercolour and silver leaf on Arches paper. ‘By the Light of the Silver-y Moon’ Many Silver-Ys nectaring in the garden this evening, never seen so many before! Moon rising 🌕 94% full Moth trap is on… #teammoth #watercolour #sciart

Thank u @bugmom.bsky.social for teaching us about the Telluride Mushroom Festival and its fungal costume parade. From _false_face on Instagram:

Aaah!!!! 🥳 I have always wanted to find a warty leaf beetle in person!!!! Checking another off my bugket list! #bugsky

Here's how I deal with mosquitoes in my Pennsylvania yard. I also have some opinions on what you shouldn't do. #mosquitoes colinpurrington.com/fighting-mos...

It’s really messed up that Daniel Tiger’s breakfast nook has Tiger skin curtains

you're growing ⏾ #art

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

I looked up this warbler to see if it migrates and Birds of the World said nope, "sedentary". The Spectacled Redstart calls the Andes Mountains home from Colombia south Bolivia. Like our North American warbler friends, this bird feeds on insects. 🪶 Guango Lodge, Ecuador

My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

Crowned Woodnymph #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #costarica #birds #nature

And finished! Magpie Portrait Acrylics on board 9.8″ x 9.8″ (25 x 25 cm)

My new Butterflies of Canada puzzle just launched! It features a collage of my illustrations & is available in 3 different piece counts (1008, 504, & 192) from the unique Ontario #puzzle company The Occurrence: www.theoccurrence.ca/product/butt... Made in Canada! #butterflies #jigsawpuzzle #sciart

Finished piece. Bronze and 925 sterling silver, with black glass and 2ct stone. #sciart #invertebrate

Possibly my best Say's Phoebe photo! #birds #BirdPhotography

female Habronattus signatus jumping spider photographed in situ at night, local San Diego desert I don't like bothering them at night, but at the same time, this type of in situ shot during the day is very, very challenging. she sees well, and will always move away in the shrub

Everytime I read 'A human artist would not make this mistake' somewhere online, I, a human artist, start to sweat nervously.

Not for cuddling

I overwintered a single swallowtail chrysalis after finding a chonky caterpillar making a run for it in the alleyway. Here is the result 8 months later

I haven't done any drawing for ages, so I had a go at a Nut Tree Tussock moth caught in my trap the other night. It was tricky to get the intricacy of all the markings on its wings but got my rusty observation muscles working again. 4 ins wide - ballpoint pen #teammoth #ballpoint #penandink

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

Ferocious predator of the water

🐝Bee Reading🐝 Animation cell and painted background Art size: 2.75x2.75" Mat Size: 5x7" Available! DM to claim $110 (includes US Shipping)

Snakes of Singapore #herps #snakes #snake #snakesky

Would you like to hear a story? Let me tell you a story. I was just now walking home from the doctor and I saw a carpenter bee on the middle of the sidewalk not moving. I scooped it up onto a leaf, it was extremely sluggish, could barely move. It was 95 degrees yesterday, is currently 56.

#ClipStudioPaint tip: When you want to reduce a layer's opacity so you can more easily draw on a layer above it, clicking this little guy (at the top right of the Layer window) will colour your layer blue, like a blue pencil sketch, to make it even easier to tell the lines apart. #CSP

Look at that chestnut back! 🌰 Chestnut-backed Chickadee 📷🌿🔭

an oldie #SciArt for #WorldBeeDay

Ferocious predator of the water

Here are some nice bees I've met #WorldBeeDay

Happy International Bee Day! In the Rethinking Lawns lab @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden, we're working to help turn our lawns into better spaces for native pollinators. To celebrate, have some id keys for Midwestern/NE American bumblebees! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

“Radiant Cornucopia” 24x36 acrylic on canvas, so much love for the Alaskan deep sea- this painting is currently on display in Spokane, Washington, and will be traveling to Newport Oregon this summer 🐡🦑 #deepsea #deepseacreatures #sciart #scienceartist #deepseasponges #deepseaart

“Daphne”, coming to Modern Eden’s annual portrait show, “Masquerade” June 4 💚

#Daggerheart turns 1 year old today! I was hoping to have a Daggerheart-related supplement for Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games ready for Birthday Week, but one of my monsters still needs some last-minute adjustment. Watch this space—it'll be fixed soon!

A summer love song

Diadasia rinconis is supposedly a cactus bee but this one’s happily lounging in a thistle. Dripping Springs, Texas.

It’s #WorldBeeDsy! They come in an impressive array of colors and sizes. This fuzzy friend is enormous! #invertebrates 🌿 🐝

May 20th means its #WorldBeeDay 🐝🌼 Let's give our bees and other pollinators a fighting chance with no mow May and planting more native flowers! Older sketch from 2017, when I was doing more expressive loose style sketching. #HoneyBee #SciArt #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #bskyart

Happy #WorldBeeDay – here is a favorite, the death camas mining bee, Andrena astragali, on its namesake toxic flower, death camas (Toxicoscordion sp.). Only a few generalist insects can tolerate the toxic nectar & pollen, but this bee specializes it it. Some of us like our food spicy. #Bugsky 🌿🐙📷

May 20 is World Bee Day. 🧪🐡🐝 There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend

Here’s some bee pixel art made by my son when he was 10yo #WorldBeeDay 🐝🧪🐡

Here are some nice bees I've met #WorldBeeDay