For this #PortfolioDay I’m sharing some of the art from the Encircled Lands
This world building project combines my love of Bronze Age cultures, mythology and high fantasy. With a focus on diversity too 🏺🏛️🐉
🌐 www.tobyfoxart.com
✉️ tobyfoxartist@gmail.com
Dragginz
Thanks! I do love how wildlife rehabbers describe owls 😂
Drawing of an owl centered in a square composition. The bird is mainly colored in orange and de-saturated purple, with large yellow eyes. The background is diffuse green and light blue and in daylight.
Marker drawing of great horned owl, semi-sketch because I did a bare minimum of planning before, shall we say, drawing the rest of the owl? 🦉
#Birds #BirdArt #TraditionalArt
A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"
I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.
Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
Original landscape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "With Light, We'll See It Through" 20"x16" oil on linen (2025). A loosely painted landscape with a dark, tree-lined body of water underneath a brilliant orange-toned sunrise sky. Light from the sky is reflected in the water below.
Wishing you a good weekend and hoping you're able to find some peaceful moments to rest!
Tisha Mark ©2025, With Light, We'll See It Through, oil on linen, 20"x16"
Original is available:
tishamark.com/shop
#art #painting #SciArt #scape
A female Wood Duck pauses for a moment in shallow waters before paddling off across the lake.
A male Pileated Woodpecker using his sticky tongue to lap up carpenter ants.
TINY CRESTS
Probably would have helped if I added the #RepostYourArt tag to this the other day 🤦♀️😂
Painting of two bright blue poppies against a background wash of green and purple.
Himalayan poppies!
A little gouache experiment, partly to test how opaque my ancient newly-opened set really was. 😛 Finally popped on the last wash after adding a little more turquoise in watercolor pencil.
#bloomscroll #flowers #traditionalart
A banner with a picture of the book cover, a sticker saying signed edition, and the release date of 12th May 2026
Ooh, signed copies of @annleckie.com's forthcoming Radiant Star are now available for preorder at Waterstones!
A new standalone tale in the Imperial Radch universe, this is absolutely one of those instant-preorder moments for me 😁
Get yours here: www.waterstones.com/book/radiant...
💙📚🪐
#SFF
A male Wood Duck in the tree tops. These ducks have special claws on their feet that help them perch on branches.
Wild Turkey toms working hard to impress the hens. 🦃
I was already fond of both you and ZQ, and I have to say, I was honestly amazed by how he somehow made the narrator both likable *and* just untrustworthy enough that I could have doubts about his reliability
A small dark grey heron walking along a beach.
This lava heron looks all business striding along a beach in the Galapagos, 2023.
#SteppingOut #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
A robin with its face completely submerged in water and wings pointed back.
One of the neighborhood American robins taking bath time extremely seriously.
#Splash #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
Boosting to #SciArt and #Invertebrates (more Lego animals and plants in the thread!)
Updated flower beetle illustration - it now sports more refined fur on its legs and the head and thorax aren't too big.
Another one of my earlier drawings that I've slightly remastered for the book. The original was lacking some fur and was also slightly out of proportion (it was from a time where I was working off quite poor phone photos).
A tiny hummingbird with white chest and rufous belly hovers in the air near a dark pink flower.
One of the smallest—a female white-crested coquette. I love that the tip of her tongue sticks out as she approaches the flower. Costa Rica 🇨🇷
#SmallBirdsInFlight #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
On Friday @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social published our literature review on orange-bellied parrots!
Everything you wanted to know about these adorable bird; plus, some very cute videos I’ve accumulated over the years 😍
Free to read!
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...
Photograph of a female Gang-gang Cockatoo on a wooden railing. The bird is grey with orange barring on its breast and belly, and light green/yellow barring on the wings. She has brown eyes, hints of red on her cheecks and above her beak, and a curled, frilly crest. Her beak is light grey and large enough to cause injury (don't ask how I know).
I was visited by a Gang-gang Cockatoo, so now you have been too.
#birds
Drawing of a lutino cockatiel with motion blur, the feet just moments from touching the ground. The background is warm yellow and golden brown with purple shadows. The bird has a serene and focused look on its face.
"The Leap", aka "Zoom!" 😄
An oil pastel drawing I did to relax on A4-sized grey paper, based off of a photo of a cockatiel mid-jump. I love this medium for making intentional blur!
#ParrotSky #BirdArt #TraditionalArt #OilPastel
Vipps prisen av en kaffe til #525211 for å støtte transpersoners politiske arbeid for verdig helsehjelp❤️ (hater du rikshospitalet så er dette den beste måten å bekjempe de på)
Framed these two little nudibranch yesterday in a vintage folding frame 🌈🐌 #embroidery #nudibranch
Fiksfjorden.no altså. Stikk innom og hei på andres tips du ønsker å se løst, eller legg inn egne. 4/
The last 11 years, in the era of a fully fledged nature & climate crisis, Norway has opened more than 1000 new offshore blocks for oil and gas exploration. Many of them in the Arctic, and ALWAYS ignoring the advice from Norway's Environmental Protection Agency. Big story:
www.nrk.no/klima/xl/sta...
Nocturnal flowers painting, snowdrops botanical illustration use acrylic gouache on paper
So good to be back at painting flowers for #februaryfrost26
Nocturnal snowdrops 🌑🌱
#gouache #art #illustration
two paintings of the same place at different times of the day. the top one is during day, and the bottom one during night. it’s a landscape with flowers, a cabin in the middle and mountains in the background.
day & night ⛰️
#sketchbook #gouache #landscape
I've got a cold and I'm whiny, so here's a creature I saw on better days in New Plymouth.