One more... wanted to finish it before a camping trip but might not have the time

sadly i don't have any specimens of North African/West Asian terrestrial isopods i had to make do for the lighting reference. (If anyone wants sponsor plane tickets to Tunisia and Turkmenistan, however....)

Wood panel with rough painted rendering of three isopods that have rugged spiked plates.

Another wip, still pretty rough!

Me: Living in Alpha, NV

You: Living in Shanty Town, Nevada

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A mouse in a red dress climbs up a potted plant to reach for a colorful bowl of fruit. The background depicts the facade of a building built out of brick and colorful tiles.

A mouse mother and her children snacking on a picnic blanket. They are surrounded by colorful fruiting cactus plants.

Desert bounty🍍

An isopod on sandy terrain labeled as "wharf louse". It has oversized eyes that look sad.

Wet & pathetic...

*wingless (my phone's autocorrect is being annoying)

Velvet ant! A group of winless wasps. The ones in AZ are usually red and black, but they come in white, yellow, patterned etc too.

Thanks Wren! It does help that it probably had one of the easiest approaches haha

Took some liberties with the perspective of the rocks but in my defense I want to show off my rocks

A painting of a velvet ant, a type fuzzy wingless wasp, amongst a collection of uniquely textured sedimentary rocks.

WIP of a still life. Collected her already deceased two years ago. Getting close but still want to work a few things before I'm done.

A large lizard with a blunt head, round body, and a mottled pattern wedged underneath a rock.

Rocky terrain with a striped lizard tail poking out front underneath a rugged boulder.

Have not one but TWO bonus chuckwallas. Hadn't ever seen one wild before this trip, they're one of the biggest lizards out here, these might be juveniles. (Didn't get a great photo of the second one but see the iguana striped tail?)

Wtf does "extremism on race" even refer too. Like if it were another regime id say, yeah, the KKK and other white supremacy groups fall under this. But given everything, the fact that its under "extremism on gender" which probably just refers to some flavor of trans rights, like...im scared to guess

Little bonus off tanner trail. I passed by this spot three weeks ago, but the lighting was bad and my friend wasn't trying to stick around so I was glad to have a second chance here.

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Yup good ol arizona. I've played around St George/pine Valley/kanab a bit though, hiking the hayduke trail is high on my bucket list too!

A painting of the grand canyon depicting Shoshone Point, a white limestone ledge dotted with trees and sagebrush.

And one from the rim

The water has a slight natural bluish tint but isn't that much bluer than surrounding bodies of water, but it's extremely high in minerals (magnesium, salt, sodium bicarbonate, other things probably) that create the white deposits, which bring out the color a lot more than if it were a darker color.

A painting on wood panel of the Little Colorado River, a vibrantly blue river with white mineral deposits on the bed flowing through the grand canyon.

A photograph of a vibrant blue river flowing through a desert landscape.

Little colorado river- had to include a reference photo to prove yes the water really looks like that

A shepherd-like dog with fluffy fur and black with tan markings lays down in a lush patch of clovers, his tongue lolling out.

My friend's dog Leo

Aren't Catholics supposed to feel guilty or something

To clarify slightly: if it's like a poster or something where the text is a prominent part of the composition then yes, if it's like a random word in a text heavy comic then nah

Like they weren't flashy enough under natural human spectrum light, nooo, they just haaaaad to flex like that

Nah not a final product. It's a flaw of mine that won't full go away and what's done is done.

If I drink emergen-c too many days in a row some of my internal organs start to hurt. I dont know which ones but I just figure I should listen to them.

Welcome back king

Wtf? I've definitly had weird auto tags on posts but this is pretty excessive. Hope it gets resolved soon :(

Definitely!!!