Discerning a sense of size from macro photographs is hard. Camponotus intrepidus, for example, is one of Australia’s largest sugar ants at slightly under an inch long. But did you see the little Pheidole ant at her heels?

I've been all week, so here's some old #horse art!

First drawing of the year, getting ready to start a painting maybe

Happy new year 2026

Don’t forget it’s moss appreciation season

We printed fish! Starting off #SICB2026 with a VERY fun (and a little smelly) workshop

I am going to crash out harder than a 1975 Lincoln Continental at a demolition derby in a rural Iowan cornfield

A horse to start off the new year♡

Strawberry icecream birb…🍓🍓 #birdart #birdillustration #illustration #digitalart #art #birding #wildlifeart

I’ve sent off my painted postcard to @paeartforacause.bsky.social which will go towards their Postcard Art Exhibit. This year, they are supporting people affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Please visit their page if you’re interested in purchasing #postcardartexhibit26 #birds #alzheimers #art

Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me? Totallty showing off it's long legs and cuteness, and a lot of us are struggling right now so I don't know if this is appropriate at this time.

Store grand opening! I'm selling Risograph prints of my trans rex art for $20, and slightly misaligned prints for $15. Half of each print's price will be donated a local LGBTQ+ org, and the $20 print comes with a free vinyl sticker. 💖 brinsonmarie.com

Super bun nap attack #Nidoran #art #sketches #pokemon

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I did it!!!! Happy New Year everyone 🎉🎇!!! Believe in yourself! Believe that you can draw a horse!!! #art #pokemon

trying a style for a tarot deck. i wanted to illustrate my own cards for ages. let's see how this works out. #tarot #illustration #artsky #fantasy #horror

#ProjectAnimalia continues. 768:Australian white ibis (Threskiornis moluccus) The legendary Sydney "bin chicken." The urban #birds are climate migrants, moving to cities as their floodplain homes dry up. #sciart #dailyart #animalart #scientificillustration #medart #illustration #animalart #birdart

there's a short window of time to do it but the reason people use new year changeover to rethink goals and who they're trying to be is you can actually respec your character stats without penalty if you do it soon, button is in the bottom right of the level up screen the UI doesn't highlight it well

Phoroncidia americana, the weird little lumpy theridiids who hunt with a single silk line composed of tiny sticky balls loaded with moth pheromones. I love them. 🧪

grumpy rainfrog crafting. my favorite part is his butt. happy new year, make some stuff!

Pitcher plants #pixelart #украрт

Happy New Year, Bluesky!

End of year, end of #invertefest . Hopeful slug crawling towards the light away from a glob of its own defensive goo is how I hope to live in 2026

First drawin of the year, something nice and light to set the tone :) Happy New Years!

Goo morning, monsters. The chrysalis squirms in its great resinous cradle. Transformation takes time, and often a change in position. The insensible sliding of cells will continue for some time, their busy squirming creating a two-part pulse that grows deeper with each iteration. New year. New you.

Cat's outta the bag, here's the full view of the first iteration of my newest moth plushie! #invertefest #inverts 🪲🦐

HAPPY HIBERNATION!! And a happy newyear 😉🐭💤🥂🎐✨️ #happynewyear #newyearprint #hazeldormouse #iwishicouldhibernate #melissahalley

25 for '25 – 🧵 of some favorite photos from the year, some picked for the quality of the photo, some for the quality of the memory, some for both. Cheers: 🌿🐙🐸📷 First up, here's the lone phone pic of the bunch, a one-handed shot of a European mantis taking flight from my fingertip (Montana)

15 fear #CastorArt #CastorOCs #OC-tober

Wind on the Waters Comm for Fukuharu :) #berensart2025

In Chinese #mythology, Lady Taizhen Wang, born Zhi, daughter of the Queen Mother of the West, moves through the world with an ease few immortals match. She rides a white dragon across mountains and seas, unbound and fearless. Her zither playing is said to summon flocks of birds 1/2 #art #painting

Winter Queen's Flowers, Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (1888-1944).

Doing a watercolour study of one of the croissants I over-baked tonight.

What surviving 2025 feels like ( #Trigun fans will understand and probs hate me for this. <3 )

Whale Shark with a full beard? NOPE, just parasitic copepods (Pandarus rhincodonicus) - LOTS OF THEM. For more info about those copepods, see: dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2010/08/augu... 🧪 #Invertebrate www.alamy.com/whale-shark-...

Rosabel Sylestine (Coushatta (Koasati), 1923-1998) Basket in the form of an #owl, 1976 Pine needles, raffia, pine cones; Coiled, stitched; 30.4 x 20 cm Smithsonian NMAI 25/5387 americanindian.si.edu/collections-... #BirdsInArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenoisArt #WomenArtists

Sauropods xkcd.com/3185/

Squeezed in a little more observing for #invertefest before the arctic chill came through. Speaking of arctic, this springtail (genus Sminthurus) on a rock looks to me like a bunny on an arctic tundra with the lichen & all. #insects (not technically) #bugsky #macro

i colored this again and i still don't like it. but i also don't know that i want to color it a third time

I haven’t drawn her in a while so a #deercember Daisy felt right. #horrorart #darkart #art

#InverteFest !!

I drew this when I was practicing with colour pencils a while ago! Hopefully I'll have more time for colour pencil art next year! 🐡

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz... #Art #SciArt

It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns

Show me what you can do with just a pen! Old art alert!

The highlight of the birding year here in West Wales was for me a Dartford warbler but for many people it was a visit from a Hoopoe.