Thanks!

Blue and white and some slightly green paint painted onto a blue canvas in the shapes of rocks at the beach

Using the leftover paint to do the underpainting for another one. There's rocks

Well this is as far as it's going to get until that layer dries

A colour drawing of a red & green dragon fruit with a furry brown fruit bat with leathery black wings hanging beneath it.

For Bat Appreciation Day-

From the "small world" series: "Dragon Fruit Bat", pencil/pencil crayon on paper, 8x12", 2023- $300(Cdn) #art #Sciart

Life reconstruction of the Infernodrakon, hunting Didelphodons

#Sciart #Paleoart #Pterosaur Infernodrakon life reconstruction, which I did for @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social et al. (2025)

Three mini prints of rock drawings. The bottom one is new in my store

Rocks are memories of the land. 🩶

#art #sciart #rocks #earth #drawing

Silhouette drawing in black ink of a Velociraptor in profile, facing left. It stands on a rocky patch of ground amid thorny shrubs, with its head raised and mouth open as though emitting a cry. It is of course appropriately feathered. This is not news, gentlefolks. >:}

Velociraptor. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 132 × 85 mm, 2022.

Velociraptor was formally described 100 years ago yesterday, November 7th, 1924.

Digital Drawing. The bright, ghost-like figure of a giant moa walks through the dim forest interior, framed by trees to the left and right. The ground is covered in ferns, and a layer of moss has grown on the trees. A few branches hang at the top of the frame.

The Forest Giant

Garudapterus

#berensart2026

Photograph of graphite drawings of rocks on a wall

My graphite rock drawings up in the Waterhouse exhibition at the South Australian Museum at the moment :)

And yes the glass is just from an officeworks picture frame and already the edge of it got my finger like 20 minutes in so probably dont do this

Partially painted canvas on a sheet of glass with various paints and jars in the background

Oil paint time again

Closeup of a recent lichen painting. Blue Pixie Cups in bright green moss.

While this site is breaking, reminder that I have an instagram and kofi ... :)
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Drawing of a mourning dove couple preening each other as if kissing their partner on the cheek.

#repostyourart Day 15: Soft

in shallow water, a Megamastax charges through a large school of smaller fish with its mouth open. the smaller fish dart away forming a circular gap which the larger predatory fish swims within, continuing to charge in the hope of a meal Megamastax is an ancient genus of bony fish from Silurian China, for a while it was only known from a lower jaw bone, but more recent material puts it at an estimate of around 1 metre long. one curious feature are the presence of compound tooth plates on its upper and lower jaws composed of many small backwards facing teeth, with a row of smaller singular teeth around the margin of the mouth

finally finished my Megamastax painting! started this one after the new material was described and let it simmer for a while

Portrait of a Harris's Hawk facing left, with focus on the face.

Smaller painting of a Harris/s Hawk. I love their deep brown and rust colors, accented by bright yellow.
🪶
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Three studies of a female Cooper's Hawk made with a black bic pen.

Here's a new study!

Study of a female Cooper's Hawk with bic pen

#art #birds #nature #sciart

Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking.

Some past watercolour flowers.

Ink 10/8/2019
Speedball 512 nib 6" X 8" [15.2 X 20.3 cm] #sciart #gawoski #fossil #trilobite

Image of Tiktaalik swimming towards the viewer in murky water. Its mouth is open, showing rows of tiny teeth. It appears to be smiling

Tiktaalik

Copic Markers and colored pencil on Schoellershammer paper
11.8″ x 8.3″ (30 x 21 cm)

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#paleoart #SciArt #paleoillustration
#animalart

Fig. 2. Lower first molars of Obdurodon species. (a) Occlusal view of Obdurodon insignis, image of cast of holotype SAMA P18087, mirrored for ease of comparison (imperfections in cast occur in the transverse valley and between the hypoconulids) and (b) Occlusal view of Obdurodon dicksoni from Archer et al. (1993, fig. 7.1). Other images are of SAMA P55061: (c) in occlusal; (d) buccal; and (e) lingual views. The interpretative drawings on the right of c–e are by G. Conway. NC1 is the anterolingual cusp of the talonid. Scale bar, 5 mm.

Fig. 4. Photographs of the upper right second premolar SAMA P55167 of Obdurodon insignis in (a) lingual, (b) buccal, and (c) apical views. (d–f) Interpretative drawings of (a–c) by G. Conway. (g) The upper right second premolar of O. dicksoni QM F57736 from Flannery et al. (2022, fig. 2B IV) in buccal view, although the orientation is somewhat rotated towards the posterior compared to (b) and (e), and (h) apical view. Scale bar, 5 mm.

Fig. 5. Lateral views of monotreme scapulae as photographs above and interpretative drawings below, comparing the partial right scapulocoracoid of Obdurodon insignis SAMA P58379 to Ornithorhynchus anatinus, SAMA M14097, and Tachyglossus aculeatus, FUR 087, by G. Conway. Scale bar, 20 mm.

Some of my illustrations for it :) there's going to be a media release and drawing of the animal soon I think

doi.org/10.1071/AZ26...

First paper I've been involved in is out, some new material from the Oligocene of the toothed platypus Obdurodon insignis :)

Link: doi.org/10.1071/AZ26...

Oof one day ill finish this. Mammuthus columbi

More lens cloths arrived just now!!

Results from the #paleostream!
Don Juan (still unnamed rat fish relative), Muttaburrasaurus, Lystrosaurus (baby) and Bakonydraco!

An digital illustration of a scrubland/pinyon-junper woodland. There is shallow, flowing, water in a sandy wash with some large rocks. The plantlife is mostly rabbitbrush and big sagebrush, but pines, deciduous trees, and joshua trees are visible going further back toward the scrub covered hills. These plants communities combine in these spots between the biomes we more commonly think of, making them extremely biodiverse. While this particular landscape is based on the Mojave-San Gabriel Mountain transition zone, this particular place doesn't actually exist. Instead, the image is based on Puma Canyon (Phelan, CA) Lost Lake (San Bernardino, CA) and the drive up Lone Pine Canyon (Lytle Creek, CA)

A landscape I did for Transition Habitat.

This place doesn't actually exist though.
It's a made up landscape based on photos I took at Lost Lake, available photos of Puma Canyon, and my commute thru the San Gabriel Mountains.

A representation of the ecotone~

#sciart #ecotone #scrubland #art

Thanks!!

The grey graphite drawings are the illustrations, the specimens were quite stained and the teeth were slightly translucent so an illustration was useful. There's a molar, premolar and a scapulocoracoid.

Fig. 2. Lower first molars of Obdurodon species. (a) Occlusal view of Obdurodon insignis, image of cast of holotype SAMA P18087, mirrored for ease of comparison (imperfections in cast occur in the transverse valley and between the hypoconulids) and (b) Occlusal view of Obdurodon dicksoni from Archer et al. (1993, fig. 7.1). Other images are of SAMA P55061: (c) in occlusal; (d) buccal; and (e) lingual views. The interpretative drawings on the right of c–e are by G. Conway. NC1 is the anterolingual cusp of the talonid. Scale bar, 5 mm.

Fig. 4. Photographs of the upper right second premolar SAMA P55167 of Obdurodon insignis in (a) lingual, (b) buccal, and (c) apical views. (d–f) Interpretative drawings of (a–c) by G. Conway. (g) The upper right second premolar of O. dicksoni QM F57736 from Flannery et al. (2022, fig. 2B IV) in buccal view, although the orientation is somewhat rotated towards the posterior compared to (b) and (e), and (h) apical view. Scale bar, 5 mm.

Fig. 5. Lateral views of monotreme scapulae as photographs above and interpretative drawings below, comparing the partial right scapulocoracoid of Obdurodon insignis SAMA P58379 to Ornithorhynchus anatinus, SAMA M14097, and Tachyglossus aculeatus, FUR 087, by G. Conway. Scale bar, 20 mm.

Some of my illustrations for it :) there's going to be a media release and drawing of the animal soon I think

doi.org/10.1071/AZ26...

First paper I've been involved in is out, some new material from the Oligocene of the toothed platypus Obdurodon insignis :)

Link: doi.org/10.1071/AZ26...