Eeee!!!! So, good news: me and @lepidodendron.bsky.social will be co-hosting a symposium at EPPC this year looking at plant Paleoart!!!!! This has been a long time coming, so I'm incredibly excited that we can finally announce it! #paleoart #paleobotany #conference #FossilFriday #botany
Plant #paleoart symposium at this year's EPPC in Germany!
#fossils #paleontology #botany
We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute!
www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...
✅📄Now Free Access: The eternal struggle of trees: a commentary on ‘A dwarf conifer tree from the Triassic of Antarctica: the first fossil evidence of suppressed growth in a favourable climate?’
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
Illustration from 1754 showing a rattlesnake coiled around branches of two different plants. The snake has a speckled brown and gray pattern with a distinct rattle at its tail. The plants feature elongated green leaves, yellow spherical flowers, and seed pods. The composition highlights the natural habitat and details of the rattlesnake alongside botanical elements typical of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.
🐍 The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: .
London: printed for C. Marsh [etc.]1754..
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An digital illustration of a scrubland/pinyon-junper woodland. There is shallow, flowing, water in a sandy wash with some large rocks. The plantlife is mostly rabbitbrush and big sagebrush, but pines, deciduous trees, and joshua trees are visible going further back toward the scrub covered hills. These plants communities combine in these spots between the biomes we more commonly think of, making them extremely biodiverse. While this particular landscape is based on the Mojave-San Gabriel Mountain transition zone, this particular place doesn't actually exist. Instead, the image is based on Puma Canyon (Phelan, CA) Lost Lake (San Bernardino, CA) and the drive up Lone Pine Canyon (Lytle Creek, CA)
A landscape I did for Transition Habitat.
This place doesn't actually exist though.
It's a made up landscape based on photos I took at Lost Lake, available photos of Puma Canyon, and my commute thru the San Gabriel Mountains.
A representation of the ecotone~
#sciart #ecotone #scrubland #art
Historical botanical illustration of Lycopodium wildenowii, a species of clubmoss in the Pteridophyta group. The main image shows a detailed green stem with symmetrical, densely packed, small needle-like leaves branching horizontally. Below are additional detailed views: a close-up of a leaf cluster with a spore-bearing cone, enlarged individual spores, and cross-sectional views of stems and leaves. The illustration highlights the plant’s reproductive structures and foliage texture, providing scientific accuracy for identification and study of this lesser-known pteridophyte species.
🌴 Icones filicum ad eas potissimum species illustrandas destinatæ, quæ hactenus, vel in herbariis delituerunt prorsus incognitae, vel saltem nondum per icones botanicis innotuerunt..
Londini, Prostant Venales Apud Treuttel et Würtz, Treuttel Fil. et Richter; [etc., etc.]1831..
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If you need 150 people in palaeontology, geology, zoology, scicomm and related. And I could list more, but ran out of space!
An impression of a fossil leaf showing details of the veination. The apical and lower parts of the leaf are missing
A piece of Glossopteris leaf from the late Permian of Antarctica ~260 million years old 🌳⛏️. Broken but showing nice detail of the veination. Glossopterids are seed plants that were found on all of today's southern continents during the Permian. Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany #botany
Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!
A stunning work on the anatomy of the apical meristem in Medullosans, showing fascinating similarities with extant cycads!
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Get your weekend off to a great start by catching up on 'the Indiana Jones of the plant world' (and our past President!) Sandy Knapp on Private Passions.
As well as her music choices, she discusses how plants names are decided and her research into plants named after women.
Hello #PortfolioDay!
I'm a researcher studying insect fossils of South Korea, and also a paleoartist. Feel free to contact me!
Contact: okok2073@gmail.com
Pixiv: www.pixiv.net/users/6334360
A brown stripey Apatosaurus walks through a glade of lush tree ferns, cycads, and conifers. Small theropods run past in the foreground.
An Apatosaurus meanders through a lush glade in the ancient Morrison.
#sciart #paleoart
A watercolor painting of a branch of magnolia flowers in various stages of bloom. They are pink instead of the usual cream color that people think of when they think magnolia. This painting also has a bit of shimmer added to the petals.
#ArtAdventCalendar day 18
#watercolor
#magnolia
#flowers
#botanical
#gardeningfeed
#sciart
FULL SPECTRUM call for art closes November 2, 2026 (yes, a year away—botanical art is slow art!)
YELLOW: A close-up sunflower by member Dorothy DePaulo.
VIOLET: A single thistle blossom by member Mary Crabtree.
RED: A pairing featuring bright Indian Paintbrush by Jan Boyd Haring.
OPEN CALL FOR ART! Claim a color in "Full Spectrum" — A joyful celebration of COLORS. Color choices must be in by Jan 1, and some colors are almost full!
You have most of 2026 to finish your piece.
Check it out at: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084FA8...
#callforart #juriedshow #botanicalart
Result from the Talara tar seeps #paleostream! Like the La Brea tar pits this was Pleistocene death trap, however these fossils come from Peru so everything has a south american flavor. This piece is set at the beginning of the rainy season, with new green beginning to sprout...
Nice wee blog on #Permian plants. #geology #paleontology
An excellent article on plant paleoart, its history, its importance in fighting plant blindness, and how we can further the field as a whole! Congrats to @pepecarrion.bsky.social and coauthors!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A travel poster reading Explore the most of the Kaiparowits, Late Cretaceous. A misty swamp scene in purple, blue, and green with a distant pair of crested Parasaurolophus, turtle on a fallen tree, and bird high up in a tall tree.
More Kaiparowits #paleoart for #artadventcalendar day 2: this travel poster featuring a pair o' Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, perched enantornithean, and big ol' turtle. 🐡🎨
Studies of some horsetail fossils from the Yorkshire flora of Jurassic UK to start off a brand new sketchbook.
#paleoart #paleobotany #botany #sciart
Study of Matonia pectinata fiddlehead & mature frond. I forgot how time-consuming ferns are to render 😭 #sciart #botany
Matonia pectinata is a beautifully-shaped fern, and the family it belongs to can be traced back to the Late Triassic. When researching I often make reference sheets like this of the most useful figures, photos & illustrations I can find. Most pics from iNaturalist or Flickr. #paleobotany #botany
Pencil study directly based on the figure above, to practice the complex shapes of this fern. With plants, especially ferns, I find you have to start with very simple, geometric shapes & slowly build up complexity
#paleobotany #paleoart
What is super cool is Clathropteris has been found in monotypic thickets where they got pretty dang big! Suuuper cool implications for how one can illustrate Jurassic period undergrowth.
More paleobotanical studies - this time the Mesozoic dipteridacean fern Hausmannia. Another example of how ferns during this time exhibited a diversity of forms that can spice up #paleoart
#paleobotany #sciart
Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right.
#paleobotany
More evolves as the painting progresses. Subtle details of the plant mater emerges from the illusion of water on top. The stones beneath become apparent. Water Lilly Pads seem to float or are partially submerged. Reflections of the plants can be seen on the water surface. The Burnt Umber underpainting is taking control and creating a warm feeling to the painting, a sense of being outside in the warm Sun.
Respectfully submitted for your approval #sundaystunday yet another posting of WIP oil painting “Illusion of Still Water” 24 x 36 aka “The Beast”🙄😝 #art #tradionalart #artyear #artshare #blueskyart #botanicalart
Black-and-white pencil sketches on a piece of paper, depicting four prehistoric animals. All are fully black, as if made of shadows. The Lepidodendron tree, Baryonyx, and Champsosaurus are all tiny and concentrated in the upper left corner, while a much larger Genyornis takes up the bottom-right half of the page while looking directly at the viewer with blank white eyes.
Yesterday’s flocking #paleostream sketches, in shadowy forms: Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, and Genyornis. No I don’t have a favorite. #paleoart #pleistocene #cretaceous #paleozoic
The size charts this time were a collaborative effort between @montanoceratops.bsky.social,
@seismic-shrimp.bsky.social @sassypn.bsky.social
and me. As you can see there the local insect fauna had some bangers. When you want large insect interacting with dinosaurs/pterosaurs: this is your place!