Microbiome Arts Art and accessories for nature minded folks! Designed in Chicago, queer and trans owned.

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Two fingers holding an acrylic pin of a symmetrical raccoon face. The eyes are holographic.

shop shipping is being put on pause for orders, starting tomorrow! I’ll be back probably early to mid may after recovering from surgery, but I’ll be taking it slow to ease back into it. If you want to peruse the new stuff I’ve been illustrating recently, i super appreciate it!
#bsnm #mammals

An illustrated acrylic charm of an American kestrel, showing the belly

An illustrated acrylic charm of an American kestrel, showing the back

An illustrated acrylic charm of a peregrine falcon, showing the belly

An illustrated acrylic charm of a peregrine falcon, showing the back

Some new double sided falcon charms! These are some of my favorite birds to watch in the city :) 🪶 #bsnm

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A poster style graphic with pink text reading “MARCH 20th shop update” and “11 am cst MicrobiomeArts.com” a collage of keychains, stickers and pins show off new products, with majority being different birds.

A bird-heavy, spring migration themed drop is coming this Friday! If you want to get notified when it launches, join my email list that pops up when you enter the website :)

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#bsnm 🪶

A poster style graphic with pink text reading “MARCH 20th shop update” and “11 am cst MicrobiomeArts.com” a collage of keychains, stickers and pins show off new products, with majority being different birds.

A bird-heavy, spring migration themed drop is coming this Friday! If you want to get notified when it launches, join my email list that pops up when you enter the website :)

www.microbiomearts.com

#bsnm 🪶

A hand holding a sticker against a white background. the sticker is an illustrated image of a grey fox as seen on a night cam. The eyes of the fox are holographic. A small black band in the bottom of the sticker looks like a camera feed and includes the artist watermark.

Has a blast designing the sticker for Feb’s Patreon rewards… still time to join if you want one!
#bsnm

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An acrylic keychain of a glassing butterfly - the acrylic leaves clear spaces to show the detail of the wings.

An acrylic keychain of a male California dogface butterfly.

An acrylic keychain of a red admiral butterfly.

An acrylic keychain of a sunset moth.

some butterfly (and moth!) charms that arrived sooooo fast… I’ve added them to the shop along with a new caterpillar and weevil!
#bugsky #bsnm 🐡 🐙

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Thank you!!

an illustration of two vaguely black swallowtail-ish butterflies, holding onto a white flower. They each have a gradient pink to purple marking on their lower wings, in the shape of a cartoonish top surgery incision scar.

I’m getting top surgery in April, if you want to grab a preorder sticker to help make sure I have money set aside for rent and the lipo recommended by my surgeon, I would much appreciate it! This one is some butterflies, with top surgery markings
#bsnm #bugsky

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A sticker illustration of three different booby species walking in a line. From from to back of line, the species are red footed booby, brown booby, and blue footed booby

I’m getting top surgery in April, if you want to grab a new preorder sticker to help make sure I have money set aside for rent that month and the lipo recommended by my surgeon, I would much appreciate it! This one is of some marching boobies!

#bsnm 🪶

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illustration of two pink dahlias, a passion flower, and a monarch butterfly flying above text that reads “SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS”

preorders of this sticker design are up, 100% of profits donated to Midwest Immigration Bond Fund ❤️

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It’s the least I can do!

illustration of two pink dahlias, a passion flower, and a monarch butterfly flying above text that reads “SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS”

preorders of this sticker design are up, 100% of profits donated to Midwest Immigration Bond Fund ❤️

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#bsnm

a sticker depicting 5 illustrated pigeons in a mix of colors including standard grey, white, and brown. The iridescence on their neck is created with a sparkly holographic material with a teal to purple gradient that shimmers and catches the light.

the sun finally cooperated enough to get a fairly accurate/less flat view of these holo pigeon stickers. I feel like photographing holo is always an uphill battle but sometimes it works out!
#bsnm #birdsky

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A mallard with face tucked into his back feathers to stay warm. He’s standing on blue green tinted ice.

a recent favorite photo I’ve taken for national bird day! 🪶

a drawing of 7 different sparrow species, foraging in the snow for some scattered birdseed.

snowy sparrows illustration for a future sticker sheet! The white throated are probably my favorite, although the juncos always entertain me in the winter. 🪶

two illustrated horseshoe crabs, one larger and one smaller in shades of purple against a mint green background.

Last night to join my patreon and get this horseshoe crab sticker for the month of December! 🦑🐡🐙 #bsnm

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Get more from sami mark on Patreon illustrating, quilting, wishing I was a fish

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Illustration of a snowy owl standing on a mound of dirt with snow piling around it. a simple shooting star motif is above its head along with a snowflake in the bottom left corner.

snowy owl ❄️ merry christmas if you celebrate! 🪶

sticker showing a whale fall, with whale skeleton made out of a glimmering holographic vinyl. deep sea creatures surround it, including sea stars, an octopus, crab and giant isopod.

maybe my favorite item included in this shop update, can’t get enough of whale falls 🐡🦑🐙 #bsnm

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an organic shaped sticker depicting a cartoony kelp forest ecosystem, with central white text reading “PROTECT KELP FORESTS”

My last shop update of the year is here! Very restock-heavy, but some new sticker offerings and a print are there too! #bsnm 🐡🦑🐙

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hand holding a bumper sticker with two pigeons with text in the middle reading “I ❤️ PIGEONS”

Everything in the shop is 15% off until the end of the night! No Black Friday sale tomorrows so this is your chance to get some nature goodies before the holidays from me! 🪶 #bsnm

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QUEER FISH E.G. BOULENGER. Orange cover, black lettering, black decoration of fish in centre of cover.

Book Cover of the Day:

simple illustration of two nearly identical snowy owls directly next to each other. their eyes are yellow ovals and a burst of light behind them shows their silhouette.

photograph of the reference. two snowy owls sitting on a concrete pier, with water and the shore behind them. they both are making the same expression with their head turned to the right. the rightmost owl has darker coloration than the one on the left.

double snowies doodle inspired by the two I saw yesterday! 🪶

arched sticker with a black background. text reads “NATURE IS QUEER” in a rainbow gradient and various marine animals swim above the text

hand holding a transparent maple leaf shaped red pin. a rosy maple moth illustration sits in the center of the pin.

hand holding a sticker of a mom and three baby opossums. Their eyes are holographic and look like they’re shining.

hand holding a heart shaped white sticker that says “I ❤️ kelp” and kelp fills out the negative space in the heart shape.

shop update is live! so pleased with the new stuff this go around - check it out if you’re able!
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#bsnm 🐡🦑 #bugsky

Thank you!! It’s the little things like that I’m working on relearning, appreciate it!!

My bird ID is rusty but I assume if I keep this up it’ll come back to me. When I was in elementary and middle school I was a backyard birder who begged my mom to take me to birding groups #nerd so I just need to relearn lol. I spent so much time learning foraging the birds dropped more off my radar!

A male mallard cleaning his feathers while swimming.

Peregrine falcon photo taken from below. She’s perched on a red metal pipe and you can see her banded foot.

American coot swimming in greenish water. You can see one red eye from the side.

Downy (?) woodpecker climbing up a tree trunk with red leaves on the branches behind.

I’ve quite literally never used my camera for anything other than documenting my paintings until this week and I’ve gone birding twice to figure it out. Having lots of fun! Founds all these guys at Montrose Point (and the harbor) in Chicago! 🪶

A photo of a peregrine falcon standing in very shallow lake water. The bottom half of her body is damp as she is mid-bath.

Peregrine taking a dip in Lake Michigan at Montrose Point this morning 🪶

a hand holding a sticker against a background with dirt and fallen yellow leaves. The sticker is of a whale fall, with the bones made in a matte holographic material. Colorful deep sea creatures surround it, including sea stars, a giant isopod, a crab and an octopus.

Last call for whale fall stickers! I love using this matte holographic material so much it makes things look awesome LOL. For Remora and Whale Shark tiers on Patreon
#bsnm 🐡🐙🦑

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