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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks! 😁

Lily @landersart.bsky.social · 9d

It's the start of #birdtober2025 - I fell down a rabbit hole of exploring differences between the four extant species of banded penguins and ended up with this graphic as the end product! At first these birds seem so similar but illustrating them is a great way to notice all the small differences!

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · Aug 11

I love that this project lets me make and share things with friends every year, so it’s extra exciting to co-host this year’s #SciArtSeptember with my friend Lucy, who illustrated this week’s banner. 🌟
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#sciart #scicomm #wildlife

A banner image promoting the month-long art challenge, Sci Art September 2025. The banner features an animal illustration plus text describing a monthly theme, weekly themes, and daily prompt words. The month-long theme is conservation. In order, the weekly themes are: Lands, species, water, people, and a shared future. Finally, the list of daily words is as follows. Week one: Islet, canopy, jewel, riverbank, corridor, prairie, boreal. Week two: Niche, vanishing, tawny, venomous, wandering, bottleneck, mimic. Week 3: Spawning, rift, trawl, cenote, depths, glacial, reef. Week 4: Fellowship, scouting, numbered, tireless, forage, bounded, harvest. Week 5: Foresight, dream. The event is hosted by LizLagomorph and LucyGemArt.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Aug 8

The tilt of a Wren’s head, the shadowed curve of a hare in long grass. The weight of an owl's gaze... Moments live again in art. 🎨

Are you an artist inspired by our natural world?

The SWLA's Annual Exhibition returns in October.

Submit by 22 Aug: www.mallgalleries.org.uk/open-calls/s...

A graphic print of a Barn Owl peering out from behind a tree heavy with white blossom. The owl’s plumage is rendered in warm browns, golds, and blues, with large dark eyes framed by a pale heart-shaped face. In the foreground, white flowers rise from a bed of green ferns. Art by Matt Underwood.

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Aug 4

Roedd yn bleser i arlunio clawr hwn am Natur Cymru. Ac roedd yn siawns wych i ymarfer fy gymraeg!

Natur Cymru @naturcymru.bsky.social · Jul 31

Mae’r celf clawr hardd o’r Gwibiwr Brith ar ein rhifyn cyfredol ni gan yr artist ifanc talentog, Lily Anderson – gallwch ddod i wybod mwy am ei gwaith hi yma:
@landersart.bsky.social
lilyanderson.uk

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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · Jul 11

GNSI VISUAL SCICOMM CONFERENCE 2025 LIVESTREAMS

We are thrilled to be able to offer a small selection of this year's conference presentations as free #SciArt livestreams on our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@GNSIVideo/s...). Read on for our schedule...

A banner that reads "Four Livestreams & Recordings Available!". It shows four icons of different pictures and, underneath each, the respective presentation and presenter. There is one for each talk described in the body text.

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Jul 11

Diolch Catherine

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · Jul 10

Another beautiful cover on latest Natur Cymru magazine! 🎨
@naturcymru.bsky.social

"Gwibiwr Brith" gan Lily Anderson

#nature #culture #heritage #conservation #sciart

See inside for #watervoles #dolphins #birds #butterflies and discussion of some of the top environmental policy issues in #Wales

Colourful Natur Cymru magazine cover with "Grizzled Skipper" butterfly by Lily Anderson 🎨

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Jul 10

I've recently been trying to branch out from only drawing birds. Tonight, I went for a quick study of the water buffalo and I couldn't resist adding an egret perched on top

Drawing of a buffalo with an egret perched on top

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Apr 29

Just saw my first swifts of the year, screaming overhead in North Wales. As always I failed to get a picture so here's an old illustration instead #birdingwales

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Apr 18

The 3:30am start was a struggle but definitely worth it to help out with my local Black grouse count. I love the Lek it Be slogan to raise awareness on the importance of not disturbing these amazing birds #birdingwales

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Apr 10

I illustrate a lot of birds over on my Instagram @_inked_stars_ and I'm trying to post more here ☺️

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Apr 4

Sketchbook throwback! This time last year, I was learning to ring a range of garden birds at A Rocha Portugal. Sketchbook pages like this are such a lovely way to remember fieldwork

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Mar 19

Thank you 😊

Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Mar 17

#birdingwales

Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Mar 17

South stack, ynys mon, never disappoints. This Saturday, the cliffs were full of razorbills and guillemots, watched over by a peregrine. The short eared owl was a lovely bonus. My drawings will have to make up for the lack of photos

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Mar 16

Delighted to have dropped this off at the mid wales arts centre, where it will be on display from the 24th of March. #curlew

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Mar 7

This illustration is so special to me as my first commission and now my first gallery piece! And for it all to go towards supporting Curlews in Wales is absolutely incredible

Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Mar 7

So excited to share that this illustration will be featured an upcoming exhibition 'Plight of the Curlews' hosted by Mid Wales Arts Centre.

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Mar 3

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Feb 25

#birdingwales

Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Feb 25

I've seen a lot of #wrens recently so it feels like a good time to repost one of my favourite #illustrations

Gouache painting of a wren on an oak branch

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Feb 7

Oh wow, thanks Adrian! I wonder if there were peregrines in the clock tower then?

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Feb 6

Seeing the cardiff clock tower peregrines is always such a treat #birdart

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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · Feb 5

Watching the gulls tap dance away is always a highlight of my walk home. I made a little animation of one I saw this evening.

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