gouache painting of a morning glory flower amongst foliage

weather has been crazy and it put me in the mood to paint this pic i took at Ka’ena point of Ipomoea indica #art #gouache

Illustration of a beetle spraying acid out of its abdomen at an ice cube

I process a lot of what’s going on around me through insects. Inspired by a good friend I made this drawing of a bombardier beetle spraying acid at ice. Abolish ICE

of course! i admire all these guys from afar!

greyscale drawing of palaeocharinus, a trigonotarbid arachnid with a segmented abdomen, standing on a great icosidodecahedron.

Palaeocharinus and a great icosidodecahedron from a few years ago, I think as lighting practice. I love trigonotarbids but something about their shape makes it really really hard to get the lighting right. #trigonotarbid #palaeoart

alternative title: “snail fall”

roughly colored digital painting of a tidepool scene featuring gastropods found in the Monterey area

super loose sketch but i’m so missing monterey tide pools… so a little gastropod composition that i want to develop further…

Closeup of cone snail on sandy, algal tidepool floor

Different cone snail closeup shot climbing up the side of a tidepool

cones my beloved (both are conus purus i think)

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a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like an opabinia, a leaf insect, close up of a starfish, and so on. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including digital, pixel art, ceramic, fursuit, post it, and so on.

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!

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#Art #SciArt

screenshot of a pink bubble snail drawing on procreate

baby bubble snail #snail

a nēnē goose from a distance, standing on lava rock in volcanic scrubland

a nēnē sitting in tall grass

everything is terrible but here are some geese! people love geese, right?

Koa is the second most common tree in Hawai'i, behind ohia obviously, and so there is just a ton of life with koa as the foundation. I could’ve fit in so many more bugs if I didn’t have a time limit for an exhibition…

Koa branch with green sickle leaves and seed pods, covered in stink bugs, caterpillars, and a couple wasps

I’ve been itching to do more plant as habitat pieces and koa (Acacia koa) made the perfect subject. Featured are the many instars of the koa bug (Coleotichus blackburniae), the koa looper moth and caterpillars (Scotorythra paludicola), and a few parasitic wasp (Pristomerus hawaiiensis). #sciart

flat color cartoon drawings of several thrips, small insects which may have four wings or none. clockwise from top left: a thrips with very complex fringed wings, a thrips with large crab claws, two drawings of thrips with no wings and a dark brown front end and tan back, and a long and thin black thrips with red legs

photos of the real animals that are drawn in the previous image; Arachisothrips has large and complex wings, Stephanothrips is wingless with a dark brown head and thorax, Idolothrips is very long and thin, and Carcinothrips has very large crab claw-like forearms

thrips

still chugging along #sciart #botanicalart

Collage painting sketch page of different sea creatures at the monterey aquarium

just doing some sketch posting as I work on bigger projects. a little page from the monterey aquarium (tuna crabs my beloved) #sketch #sciart

HAPPY WITCH HAT DAY

Art train time!

Next stops if people want to do it :)
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my eyes keep going back to the patch of lit scales and flowers, it’s so well done

Digital illustration of a brown skink with white markings with large pointy scales, it is eating wildflowers and there are vegetated sand dunes in the background.

Well this is as done as it's going to get. Tiliqua frangens, a megafauna skink from pleiocene and pleistocene australia with large pointy scales feeding on spring wildflowers. #palaeoart #palaeoart #reptile #lizard

omg juliidae! that shell is painted so beautifully

if you see this, post your bird art!

It's a Pikipek!

#pokemonart #bskyart #digitalart

thank you! it’s arches 300lb cold press, but wish i could’ve gotten hot press bc the color does not go down evenly on this texture.

beautiful pink bubble snail party the other night

thank u so much!

thank you!

trying out some color pencil layering with the watercolor…. #sciart #botanicalart

Drawing of a very long gar trying his best to fit into a square aspect ratio

It’s #garweek ‼️

thank you! it was hard to stick with it but i’m glad i did

thank you Ligus !!