Close up photo of the end of a broken branch completely covered in yellow, green and white lichen

Small worlds

A bird with a pink head, white body and a colourful crest

Pink cockatoo

yerba santa

After the morning session with the Bustards, I've spent the day exploring the area. It's very diverse in habitats, fishponds, wetlands, reedbed, steppe, gravel pit, etc. Managed to sketch a few other birds, Black-winged Stilt, Black-tailed Godwit, Mediterranean Gull, Red-crested Pochard.

I actually painted the Muttaburrasaurus too. With the new long narrow snout and front teeth plus the short arms I can’t not think this dinosaur looks like a big Thescelosaurus relative. #paleoart

Warming up

Where No One Goes 🖤❤️

My piece for Together From Afar, the HTTYD tribute exhibition celebrating the film’s 15th anniversary at Gallery Nucleus.

Digital art of a white space turtle with a blue shell carries a crescent moon on her back as five baby turtles fly around it. The background is in space with many distant white stars.

april postcard ✨

kim kitsuragi from disco elysium standing with his back turned to the audience. he has his hand in his bright orange bomber jacket

jacket study featuring kim kitsuragi #discoelysium

A selection of the bugs I've drawn, including a crimson winged grasshopper, blue weevil, green sawtooth stag beetle, yellow man-faced shield bug, orange stag beetle, a small shiny blue leaf beetle, a large cecropia moth, a big green leaf insect an earwig with spread wings, a red shield bug and much more.

Hey #portfolioday, I draw these little weirdos. For fun (apparently).

2025 full color illustration memorial commission A long haired tortoiseshell in a blue tunic crosses the threshold into a cave teaming with jewels, fossils, and plant life. Behind her is a canyon and village. She slings on a pack and her eyes linger upward, lantern full and bright.

mouth of the cave (2026)

Yep :)

Eggs are gathered when I spot a female laying them, otherwise I wait for larvae to pop up. They eat bloodworms, the larvae of blood sucking mosquitoes and other similar critters. I use rain water from the outdoors containers they’re collected from. They’re not picky, just very hungry buggies.

Several glass specimen vials, each has one Toxorhynchites egg inside.

Toxorhynchites larva under a microscope.

Toxorhynchites pupa.

Adult Toxorhynchites female on a finger.

I pick the eggs/larvae from outdoors containers, keep them in separate specimen glass vials to prevent cannibalism and release them once they’re fully grown. Easy to set up at home. The only hard part is not running out of food for them. :)

I’ve reared over a thousand of these. They’re wonderful.

Tomatos🍅 ...practice arts! ^o^

My drawing of a wasp-mimic moth - an incredible black and yellow specimen with long orange antennae.

My drawing of a bright pink and yellow elephant hawkmoth.

A mottled green and brown Oleander hawkmoth, with small pink bits on its wings.

A striped hawmoth - mostly brown, with flashes of hot pink on its lower wings.

Thinking about how cool moths are.

I love to look at my orange tree

Close up of my latest drawing - a bright yellow variegated grasshopper. In this shot, you can see a red and black foreleg, a black and yellow head with big red eyes, and part of the vivid yellow thorax.

This next image shows parts of the bold green forewings and transparent hindwings, along with a striped yellow and black abdomen.

This image focuses on a chunky hind leg with a black knobbly knee joint.

This final images shows the full drawing in a wooden frame against a blue wall. The grasshopper is viewed from above with spread legs and wings.

I decided not to post any progress shots of this one, to hopefully make the reveal more impact full.

But has it worked?

Zonocerus variegatus.

Tormentil 🌼 #art #illustration

An illustration of a jungle in Australia showing seven of the creatures that live there including: the striped possum, green tree python, Bennett's tree kangaroo, saltwater crocodile, white-lipped tree frog, southern cassowary, and the buff-breasted paradise kingfisher

Some of the creatures that reside in the Australian Daintree Forest 🌿🐸🐊

Which is your favorite?

A brown bird of prey with red tail feathers from behind perched on a branch

Red-tailed hawk

An illustration of archeopteryx - a feathered dinosaur often described as a “missing link” between dinosaurs and modern birds. It is shown with a pale grey body, dark wing and tail feathers and bright yellow jaws, leaping from a tree in pursuit of a dragonfly.

Learning to fly.
The dinosaur that changed everything: Archaeopteryx lithographica.
#SciArt

A shallow river running through a pine forest

A creek in the woods

A page of various bug pokemon interpreted as realistic invertebrates. The pokemon drawn are caterpie, snom, nymble, sizzlepede, venipede, karrablast, farountula, blipbug, grubbin and scatterbug.

More bug pokemon interpreted as realistic invertebrates, plus a few non-bugs. The pokemon drawn are spinarak, wurmple, kricketot, oorthworm, larvesta, joltik, skoropi, sewaddle, weedle, dunsparce, and soleosis.

Finally drew the Bugs ✨ (plus a few friends)

Will the cardigan be restocked? 🥺

500 year old slumber (2022) #venti

Rest your mind tonight 🌱 #art #illustration

There are similarly colored (black and white) isopods on top of the cookies and cream dessert. Some are sitting on top of cookies and are decorated with cream or meringue. Kind of isopods (species/morph) : Porcellio laevis 'Dairy cow' , Porcellio werneri 'Dalmatian', Porcellio hoffmannseggii, Porcellionides pruinosus 'Oreo Crumble', Armadillo officinalis 'Dalmatian', Laureola sp. 'White skull spiky', Porcellio nicklesi 'Rubivan'

Cookies and cream and isopod 🍪