More works in progress. Insects and spring ephemerals.
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#naturesketch #springephemerals #spiderwasp #insects #illustration

Another future painting…

Sketch that maybe one day I’ll get around to painting.
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#nature #sketch #forestart #wildlifedrawing #animalsketch

Long-wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger) for @audubon.org
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#umbrellabird #birds #birdart #illustration #cotinga

Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) for @audubon.org

#harpyeagle #eagles #birds #birdillustration #birdart

Yellow-headed Amazon (Amazona oratrix)
Latin American bird number three for this year’s spring issue of Audubon Magazine.
#yellowheadedamazon #amazonparrot #parrots #birds #birdillustration

Black-and-chestnut Eagle (Spizaetus isidori)
Another Latin American bird for @audubon.org
Dream job.

#blackandchestnuteagle #eagle #birds #illustration #art #idrawbirds

It’s not often I get a chance to draw some fun tropical birds. Huge thanks to @audubon.org for the excellent assignment. The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus) is the first of 5 birds I illustrated for an article in the latest spring issue.
#greatgreenmacaw #parrots #birdillustration #birdart #birds

Had a lot of fun working on this subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) cone sticker design for the Completely Arbortrary Podcast's Cone Club (Sign up and get a new tree cone/flower sticker every month. Each design is created by different actual artist).
arbortrarypod.com/coneclub

Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) &
Pitcher Plant Moth & Caterpillar (Exyra fax)
From my Bog Life poster (jadafitch.etsy.com)

#carniverousplants #pitcherplant #botanicalart #watercolor #boglife

New warblers poster in the works…

#warblers #parulidae #birdsketch #birdart #birding #birds #sketch

They're baaaack. (Woodcocks in Maine)
#woodcock #timberdoodle #bogsucker #mudsnipe #nightpartridge #hookumpoke #Labradortwister

RED SEAWEEDS
1 Irish Moss
2 Laver
3 Caribbean Sea Moss
4 Rainbow Leaf
5 Turkish Washcloth
6 Common Coralline
7 Nori
8 Sea Sacs
9 Dulse
For Tasha Greenwood’s Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants
#seaweed #redalgae #botanicalart #watercolorillustration #oceanplants

Carpenter's Chameleon (Kinyongia carpenteri)
Just finished up a third species, native to the high-elevation montane forests on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Would love to see one IRL.
#chameleon #africanwildlife #watercolor #painting

Impatiens runssorensis
Another recent commission. Runssorensis is a wild impatiens species, endemic to the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
#impatiens #watercolor #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #wildflower

Dusky Crimsonwing
A recent watercolor commission. It's always fun getting to paint a bird species from afar. This estrildid finch is native to the montane forests of the Albertine Rift in east-central Africa. And I have to admit, red and black is my favorite color combo to rock, too.
#birds #art

More art for Tasha Greenwood’s Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants, published by Storey

Sea otters help protect kelp forests by snacking on sea urchin populations that would otherwise overgraze kelp.

#kelpforest #seaotters #illustration #natureart #seaweed

Another illustration for Tasha Greenwood’s Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants, published by Storey. Yay! Tidal Zones!

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#intertidal #bookillustration #scienceillustrator #dunlin

Thanks Kimie 😘

Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants by Tasha Greenwood, with illustrations by me, is out today! Published by Storey Publishing . Look for it at your favorite book retailer.

#seaweed #bookart #bookillustration #scientificillustration #natureillustration

DECEMBER!
Painting from The Forest Revealed. Posters, postcard sets, and signed copies of the book are available at jadafitch.etsy.com

#december #snowyowl #winter #winterwildlife #watercolor #illustration #bookart #wildlifeillustration #maineartist #newenglandartist #birds #nature #art

Happenings on my desk from one year ago.
Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus) for “Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants” by Tasha Greenwood. Out January 20th. Original watercolors for the book are available in my Etsy Shop. jadafitch.etsy.com
#seaweed #watercolor

More original art just added to my Etsy shop. Birds, bugs, shrubbery, etc. Check it out. jadafitch.etsy.com 🦉🐞🌳

#originalart #etsymaine #watercolors #natureart #birdart #wildlifeillustration #maineartists #shopmainecraft #🎨

The art is piling up around here. It took forever, but I just added over 100 original watercolor paintings from the past couple of years to my Etsy shop (jadafitch.Etsy.com) If you don’t see the thing you think I might have, shoot me a message and I’ll let you know.

#originalart #watercolor

Thank you!

Celebrate the biodiversity of Northeastern North America’s bogs, with my new Bog Life of the Northeast poster. Just added to my Etsy shop (jadafitch.etsy.com) as well as all the original watercolor paintings. What’s your favorite bog species?

#bog #natureart #watercolor #maineartist #illustration

Huge thanks to Sarah Stenbins and @downeast.com for featuring The Forest Revealed in the upcoming December issue!

Probably :). Have not sold a full set yet

NOVEMBER
Page from The Forest Revealed
*Posters and signed copies of the book are available in my Etsy shop now. jadafitch.etsy.com

#november #watercolor #forestlove #grayfox #natureart #animalillustration #newenglandwildlife #birds #maineartist