Hi all! Just letting you know I’m going to take a short break from here for a bit.

Time to remember

Bath time

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Cheers!

Scraperboard dragon

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Cave dragon

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Good, thanks!

Thanks!

Sounds like you've done the right thing, Jon. Is there plenty of fine sand/soil somewhere near it that the bees can use to fill up the holes, once they've laid their eggs in there?

Faerie dragon

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Mountain dragon

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I made a bee hotel a few years ago & put it up on one of our garden walls. I didn't ever see much activity in it, so this year I repositioned it higher up on another wall. I have now seen several bees going in and out. Maybe you could try moving yours to a different location?

The Weight of Thought
–Black Watercolour Painting

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#artshare #blueskyartshow

A watercolor and colored pencils drawing of an hawaii akepa bird in four poses; three full body poses and one headshot.

Hawai'i Akepa #avianaugust day 3.

Watercolor and colored pencils.
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#coloredpencils #watercolor #wildlife

Thanks!

Found one for day 4 of #smaugust2025.

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We’ve got some buddleia bushes at the back of our garden that tend to attract the butterflies to the area, but we get a lot more bees than butterflies. We have had painted ladies, but I haven’t seen any recently.

Quick sketch done whilst meeting up with some friends the other evening.

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A coloured pastel drawing of an open mouthed, single horned dragon on orange paper.

#smaugust has started again, I’d love to take part, but it’s unlikely that I’ll have the time. Here’s one I drew with pastels for the 2019 round.

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Thanks!

Sounds like you did a good job with the monarchs, fingers crossed for the swallowtails.🦋

A watercolor and colored pencils drawing in a sketchbook of an Iwi bird in five poses, four full bodies poses an one headshot.

ʻIʻiwi #avianaugust day 1. Happy Challenge everyone!
Watercolor and colored pencils.
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#coloredpencils #watercolor #wildlife

Watercolor and colored pencil drawing of a Sulphur-crested cockatoo sitting on a branch in my sketchbook.

The bird of July is the
Sulphur-crested cockatoo /Gelbhaubenkakadu (Cacatua galerita)
for @birdwhisperers.bsky.social
based on the photograph by
pen_ash

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#mixedmedia
#sketchbook
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#art #animalart #birdart
#kleineKunstklasse

Collage aus 19 Portraitskizzen.

Portrait - project in July
#proporly
Vielen Dank für Deine Challenge, liebe @sagebock.bsky.social
Wie immer den Pinsel vernachlässigt - aber Spaß gehabt. 🤗

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Cheers TBS!

Is it a good year generally for butterflies over there or have you done something different yourself? I'm getting the impression that this very dry Spring that we've had has helped them a lot over here.

Haha, I bet you have! If I get chance I'll try and take part, but I can't promise, as it's a bit tricky with time at the mo.

A black and white ink drawing of a group of small trees in a shallow pot. There is a pale tinted background which has a suggestion of a bamboo pattern.

A bonsai study

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I think I remember seeing some of your butterfly posts, I'm well envious, usually we get hardly any in garden, mainly just the boring white ones laying eggs on our salad leaves :(