Hooded Crow just finished.
#WildlifeArt #NaturalhistoryIllustration #BritishBirds #Corvids #HoodedCrow
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On this day last year I was having surgery for breast cancer. This year I am trying to focus on painting things that are less commercial but what I have wanted to do for a while. This is a tree study of one of the trees in the woods behind our house.
#NaturalHistoryIllustration #Trees #Watercolour
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Due to popular demand I have now produced a larger A2 Garden Birds Poster with updated illustrations and these are now available on my website. Ideal for framing.
#GardenBirds #BritishWildlife #NaturalHistoryIllustration #WildlifeArt
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As often, forgot tags! #zine #penandink #birdart #sciart #naturalhistoryillustration 🐡
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The front page of a zine, with the words “animals I think are cool!” In stamped serif letters and small pen drawings of some cool animals (a ringed caecilian, a Roman snail, an olm, a shell dwelling cichlid, a large porcellio woodlouse, a purple swamp hen, a long horned orbweaver, a false gharial, and an Amazonian manatee)
A black and white pen and ink zine open on a cream carpet. The page has an Amazonian manatee and a number of long amphibians, namely the one-toed amphiuma which looks a little like an eel with silly little tiny legs; a ringed caecilian which looks like a massive worm; a long-tailed salamander; and an olm which looks like a long and slightly more dragon-like axolotl
Back page of a zine, it has a text box with a Roman snail crawling on it. The text in the box says: Animals are pretty cool! So much so that there are far too many cool animals for me to include in this zine. Nonetheless, here are a few of my favourites (in no particular order)! Alice Stuart Illustration @aliceillustrates.bsky.social
A zine?? From me???
Here are some animals I think are cool. Planning on starting a monthly zine club to give me some accountability for illustration alongside my day job, watch this space if you’d be interested!
[ #zine #sciart #naturalhistoryillustration #kidlitart #penandink ]
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Common Spotted-orchid finished recently.
#BotanicalIllustration #NaturalHistoryIllustration #WildFlowers
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Himalayan Balsam Illustration
Himalayan Balsam finished recently. An invasive non native species that often grows by rivers and spreads rapidly. Produces very pale pollen which bees and wasps get covered in & are often referred to as "ghost bees".
#BotanicalIllustration #NaturalHistoryIllustration #WildFlowers #InvasiveSpecies
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Common Swift finished recently. A new law has just been passed in Scotland requiring Swift bricks to be installed in every new home.
#WildlifeArt #NaturalhistoryIllustration #BritishBirds #Swift #SwiftBricks
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I'm often asked how I got to be a #botanicalillustrator, & how to start out.
youtu.be/KALAt7xaiE8
This film explains this, my work, passions, how I got here, and how I promote myself.
(Its just me talking to the camera)
#illustration #naturalhistoryillustration #sciart #illustrator
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A WIP of a swallowtail butterfly illustration. Watercolor on paper. Un travail en cours d’une illustration de papillon machaon. Aquarelle sur papier.
A WIP of a swallowtail butterfly illustration. Watercolor on paper.
Un travail en cours d’une illustration de papillon machaon. Aquarelle sur papier.
#SciArt #swallowtail #watercolor #painting #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #butterfly
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#watercolour #naturalscience #illustration of Bloody-nosed beetle Timarcha tenebricosa, with the beetle seen from the side, pointing to the right. it's exuding a scarlet drop of liquid from it's mouth. The beetle is black with a smooth sheen and is shown in 3/4 view, with 3 legs showing on the near side and only the foot of the back leg visible on the far side. The highlights are painted so tiny black pores from the elytra can be seen in the shiny areas, and in the darkest black areas tiny white dots of gouache are used to suggest the pores on the wing cases.. Feet are comparatively large with each tarsal segment being fringed with grown. The beetle's eye is a chestnut brown.. As with everything I do, this is painted by hand without the aid of AI. It's one of my favourite #UKbeetles, so I was glad when it popped up on the species list commissioned for South Devon National Landscapes. It'll be used on information boards and leaflets, and on interpretation relating to their push to preserve environments beneficial to #insect species.
This is the #Bloody-nosedbeetle, #Timarchatenebricosa.
When threatened it exudes a red drop of liquid from its mouth
It has distinctive beaded antennae.Unlike most #beetles, it's flightless
Completed in watercolour for use on #interp & information materials.
#sciart #naturalhistoryillustration
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Close up of the flowering head of the Jersey orchid showing purple flowers at the tip of a flowering spike
Desk with completed watercolour painting of orchid on along with photo reference, my paintbox full of mixes of red paint, a magnifier, a brush and an eraser. The species is a red flowered Early marsh orchid.
Part of a labelled pen and ink diagram showing the anatomy of orchid flowers, this mentions the rostellum, perianths, pollinium, column, stigmatic surface, and spur. #sciart
Watercolour of a pyramidal orchid with compact head and pale green leaf and stem. The plant is long and thin so much of the image is black background.
New blog out, on #Orchids
lizzieharper.co.uk/2026/01/wild...
It's one of a series I've been doing on wildflower families. Hope it helps!
#naturalhistoryillustration #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #orchidlovers #orchidaceae #wildflowers
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The rainbow coloured Plymouth anole #lizard, found on the #Caribbean island of Montserrat. The head is vivid green with a yellow chin and throat flap, the tail gets bluer and is almost pin and purple at the tip. The lizard has deep orange eyes and very long toes. I saw one scuttle across the path and the colours really were astonishing. This is a cut to white watercolour illustration with the lizard raising its' head slightly and facing right. The tail curls a little and the back foot shows outstretched toes.
Pen and ink illustration of the rainbow coloured Plymouth anole lizard. Details of the tecture and markings of the lizard skin are represented with stippled in lines, the main shapes are a solid black ink line. The illustrations is atonal, and destined to be used in a colouring in book. I create these pen and ink illustrations by tracing the watercolour, either using a light box or a desk-mounted projector.
Detail of the tail and hind leg of the Plymouth anole. There are a few white spots of the thigh, but the remarkable thing is the way the tail fades from a vivid spring green through teal to turquoise, and the tail tip is a pink magenta.
Detail of the head of the Plymouth anole, The individual scales on the edge of the lip are shown, along with white spots of the lizards bright green skin. The eyes and surrounding sockets are a reddish orange, and the throat flap is a bright yellow, The folds in this are clearly visible.
The #Plymouth #anole #lizard #Anolislividus
It's another #sciart #watercolor #illustration completed for #Montserrat National Trust educational materials (the #penandink to be used in colouring books)
#naturalhistoryillustration #naturalscienceillustration #madebyhand #NoToAIGeneratedImages
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Colored pencil drawing of a Heliconia rostrata inflorescence with a Gold Dust Day Gecko climbing on it.
Heliconia rostrata with visitor. Colored pencil on hot-pressed watercolor paper.
#botanicalart #botanicalillustration #naturalhistoryillustration #coloredpencil #tropicalplants
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The Angerona hairstreak or Bronze hairstreak Electrostrymon angerona Butterfly, on a Tridax daisy. The nuances of the oranges, blues, and mottled blacks are hard to untangle, but make for beautiful markings. You can see them blending on tge lower wings which are held closed. The upper wings has less markings. This Butterfly is found in Montserrat and Dominica, along with other islands in the lesser Antilles, where it is endemic. Cut to white #watercolour #illustration #sciart #naturalhistoryillustration #naturalscience #hairstreaks #electrostrymon #insectart #lepidoptera #nature
Up close detail of the Butterfly head and striped antennae, showing the butterflies palps, striped legs, abd beige wings. You can see individual disc florets on the Tridax
Detail of the outer edge of the folded wings showing patches of sky blue, burnt orange, and lines of white and black, alongside the distinctive elongate tail.
This is the Angerona #hairstreak or #Electrostrymon angerona Butterfly, on a Tridax daisy.
This Butterfly is found in Montserrat & is one of a series of illustrations completed for the UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum (Montserrat)
#sciart #naturalhistoryillustration #electrostrymon
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Chromolithograph and wood engravings of bats from the 1882-84 edition of the German natural history series ‘Brehms Thierleben.’
#chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart
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Uncoiling frond of Hapu’u Hawaiian Tree Fern (Cibotium menziesii) rendered in stippled ink.
Uncoiling Hapu’u (Cibotium menziesii) fronds. Native Hawaiian tree fern. Sakura Micron pen on sketchpad. #inktober #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #penandink #tropicalplants #naturalhistoryillustration
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Leaf of Salal (Gaultheria shallon) rendered in stippled ink
Salal (Gaultheria shallon). Micron pen on sketchpad for #inktober. #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #naturalhistoryillustration
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Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae and Common blue #butterly illustrations cut to white with blue butterfly above the tortoiseshell, both with outspread wings
Watercolour #naturalscience #illustration of the Hooded #crow #Corvus cornix showing the pale grey body with black wings and head
Cut to white botanical illustration of the Caribbean grass Bamboo grass Lasiacis divaricata, completed in watercolour. It shows the black seeds and broad leaves of this #graminaceae species
Completed #botanical illustration of the #Twinflower with paint-box and brush alongside
October's Newsletter is out!
mailchi.mp/4be6c0f21bbc...
Fancy catching up with what Lizzie's been working on, accessing her films and blogs, and having the chance to buy originals? You know where to look...
#botanicalillustration #sciart #naturalhistoryillustration
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Ink drawing of a dried fallen linden tree leaf
Linden leaf. Brown, sepia and black Sakura Micron pen on watercolor paper.
#SciArt #botanicalart #illustration #penandink #naturalhistoryillustration
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Spinosaurus
Copic Markers and colored pencil on Schoellershammer paper
11.8″ x 8.3″ (30 x 21 cm)
#paleoart #paleoillustration #spinosaurus #cretaceous #prehistoricart #extinctanimals #naturalhistoryillustration #dinosaurart #animalart
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For the butterfly loving kid "Sensational Butterflies" by Ben Rothery #kidsky #butterflylover #booksky #childrenslibrary #bookishkids #naturesky #naturalhistoryillustration #edusky #curiouskids #lepidopterology
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A family of killer whales in water color
www.esthervanhulsen.com
#naturalhistoryillustration #whalesanddolphins #whaleart #whaledrawing #dolphinart #dolphindrawing #animalart #killerwhaleart #orca #orcapainting #killerwhalepainting#wildlifeart #animalillustration #whaleposter
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Image shows a detailed coloured pencil illustration of a flamingo on a plain white background. It is standing on one leg on a patch of sand with the other leg bent and raised off the ground.
Haven't posted for a long time so here's a flamingo illustration I did some time ago. Haven't done much illustration of late but planning to get back into the flow very soon. 🦩🐦🦩
#naturalhistoryillustration #birdillustration #birdart #flamingo #birds #illustration #natureart #natureillustration
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