Reopening commissions! The price of character illustrations like these will depend on the complexity of the character, but will usually be about 200-300 for colored drawings and about 100 for the black and white pen drawings.
Contact: Holly.o.lucero@gmail.com
Tanystropheus
Illustration in the style of ancient Greek vases. On a black background, a woman with long hair and flowing dress is sitting on a chair and offering leaves to a group of four prancing deer the size of dogs. There is a decorative border with swirling patterns underneath them. On the upper right corner, there is an image of a vase, on which the same illustration is overlain.
Another ancient Greek vase from an alternative history in which humans were more gentle to the world around them.
A group of Candiacervus, endemic Cretan deer, taking part in a spring festival. I imagine them as tame but not domesticated, like the famous deer in Nara, Japan.
I don’t just want trans acceptance. I want trans respect and honor. We have unique experiences and insights that flow from who we are. Cis society could learn a lot from us if they could take their fucking boots off our necks.
About 5% of known bird species have gone extinct over the past 130,000 years. @science.org
"The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions."
Read more
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
⏳️👁️🗨️
Finally, something we can ALL agree on! 😏🦑💙💙💙🐙
Sea pandas (orcas) around = a bad day to be a whale shark 🦈🐼🐋
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... 🦑
Group of a dozenish shrimps upside down on a coralline algae and sponge covered rock in Bali. The shrimps are delicately striped in red and white, with big green eyes. The one closest to the camera looks hilarious.
Starting off #Crustmas with a bunch of Rhynchocinetes durbanensis shrimps, which have a seasonal color scheme (but not the same family as "peppermint shrimp")
A watercolour drawing of a goldeneye duck with a shining black-green head flaps his wings in front of six other goldeneyes. A watercolour palette and two brushes are on the edge of the frame.
A watercolour drawing of a goldeneye duck with a shining black-green head flaps his wings in front of six other goldeneyes.
Have been up since 3:30AM est
My latest weird duck watercolour was calling for completion so I listened.
These #commongoldeneye ducks are a commission. And a little different for me as I generally just draw a single bird.
#addBirder #birds #birdart #weirdduckseason #goldeneye #ornithology
Get those wing exercises in, kids. You're gonna need them!
These big fluffy wandering wandering albatross made it through their first winter in ground nests on South Georgia.
Now they're preparing to begin their adult lives, mostly in the sky. Albatross can fly 10,000km in one trip!
🎥 Katie Wells
Hawaiian short-eared owl or Pueo
#addBirder #birds #photography #hawaii
Huge areas of the Arctic seafloor between Svalbard and Jan Mayen are at least temporarily saved from deep sea mining following negotiations in Norway’s parliament. Exploration permits due to be offered in early 2025 suspended
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
"The analysis suggests dengue cases will continue to skyrocket as Earth's climate continues to warm. By the middle of the century, the number of cases could rise by 60% as more parts of the world enter the mosquito-friendly temperature zone."
For Dinovember 2024: Children of the Lizard King
A celebration of Tyrannosaurus rex and the influence it had and still has in the arts, from King Kong to Jurassic Park to Prehistoric Planet.
#paleoart #tyrannosaurusrex #maccadam #jurassicpark #dinosaurs #dinovember2024
A large carpenter bee on my finger looking directly at the viewer. It is mostly black with orange fur and a light yellow face
oh. a b
🧪🌎🦑🦈
400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
When trying to decide if a plastic cleanup technology is a good idea, ask yourself:
Would this work on land? Would dragging a net through a forest be a good idea?
If the answer is “no”, then it’s not a good idea in the ocean, either.
#INC5 #PlasticsTreaty
she glow up good
Jury's out if Atlantic salmon can be regarded as using kelp farms has habitat but this guy passed closed enough to one of our baited cameras to deserve being added to our fishy list. Wait until you see the next interloper, it has tentacles!
Oh, and happy #PhycologyFriday (because it's sugar kelp).
Peppermint narwhal collage of many arthropod species drawn in cartoon extra cute style. Text: I am thankful for arthropods. Be thankful and protect what you love
Every day:
Hunter holding up a turkey by the feet. The big spurs are pointing to the left.
Fossil turkey foot bone (tarsometatarsus) with a sharpie marker for scale.
Fossil turkey foot bone (tarsometatarsus) with a sharpie marker for scale
Chances are the 🦃 on your table didn’t come with the feet still on it, so you won’t see the awesome spurs!
And just for fun: here’s an #Idaho #fossil turkey foot, with spur(!) from the last interglacial period. This turkey knew some mammoths!
🦃 🦌 🦣 🦁 🐴 🐪 🦬
Happy Thanksgiving 🍽
I’m grateful for:
-Moths when you least expect them
-People who put their art in public spaces
-The crabs that live in my kitchen
-All who tolerate late night texts from me
-Every one of you who made me cackle from an unhinged post you made here
-Deep sea livestreams
-My stupid wonderful cats
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Drawing of a cartoony Velociraptor, blue and yellow in colour
dingus
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
🦃 #RavenCrafts #ShiorinSketch
