A hand holding an enamel pin of a giant panda on a blue and white backing card

Apparently today is #InternationalPandaDay! I do love a panda!

Panda pins are available in my shop (hatchlingmakes.com/products/gia...) and 10% of every sale is donated to wildlife conservation!

Hourly comics day is my favorite day of the year. Not because I draw comics, but because I enjoy observing my favorite artists like bugs in a terrarium.

An overhead shot of a small round table covered in a full mosaic of a white flower with a red centre and dark green leaves

Unexpected solo day today. Attempting to find some art supplies but so far no luck. Quick break for lunch at this fab mosaic table though!

An open sketchbook with a yellow snake and 3 pink flowers illustrated across two pages on a blue background

Happy year of the snake, everyone! Gung hei fat choi
#Sketchbook #YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #WildlifeArtist

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

An open sketchbook with sketches of humpback whales in pastel colours

Channelling my inner whale during this heatwave (it’s 40°C today. It’s horrific)

[ #Sketchbook #WildlifeArtist #AnimalArtist #Art ]

All sketchbooking has abruptly stopped as I am so jet lagged but I kind of love this page from earlier in the month!

I’m using the Royal Talens mixed media sketchbook

[ #art #wildlifeartist #sketchbook ]

Haha winging it is my speciality!

Alright blue sky. I prob should make a better go of this platform. What do we do here? If I use a hashtag am I outing myself as a millennial? 😅

A hand is holding an enamel pin of a pin chicken on a yellow and white backing card

The Aussie white ibis (or bin chicken if you prefer!) is my animal of the month! Every order comes with a themed thank you card and sticker and there’s bin chicken pins in my shop! Link in bio (do we do that here? Is that a thing?)

A photo of a sunset with blues, pinks and purples

On a trip visiting family at the minute but Mr H is holding down the fort and packing orders back home!

I’m planning on doing some older challenges I never go round to before! I might take a look at last years Aviary August list

A photo of Tash, a white passing woman with dark hair and glasses, standing behind a market table set up with products from her small business

Hi BlueSky! I’m Tash, a self taught wildlife illustrator and the person behind Hatchling Makes where you’ll find lots of unusual and under appreciated animals. I make wildlife themed enamel pins, stickers and more from my illustrations.
You can check out my shop here
Hatchlingmakes.com

Thanks Bree!

A picture of a large black lamppost with a pale yellow poster in black impact font reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will”. There is a small parking lot and a store with a few potted plants in front of it near the door in the background to the right of the lamppost. A large electrical cabinet painted dark green and decorated with paintings of baby blue daisies, ruddy orange bell cap mushrooms, and other plants is just behind and to the left of the lamppost.

stolen from twitter, but it’s too important to leave over there

A photo of a plane in a parking bay with a terminal behind it

Germany, it’s been nice to see you again. Til next time.

There’s always that feeling with a new social channel of “what do I do now” that reminds me of the first day of school.