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Francine Fox @francinefox.bsky.social · 23h

Progress made on my big oil painting of nautiluses. 🧡

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑

Detail shot of a nautilus painted with oil on canvas. The background is a vibrant blue with copper mica scraped over it.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #Invertober day 13!

Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus)

Reference photo from cowirrie on inaturalist

#SciArt #Invertober2025

Digital painting of a banded sugar ant on a bright green leaf. The ant has orange-brown coloration on its body and legs with a black head, end, and spot on its back.

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Kelley Whitley @kelleywelley.bsky.social · 2d

My next art give-away and virtual gallery will be sharks and rays. In preparation, I’ve been combing through my photos and sketchbooks for inspiration. Here is a repost of one of my old watercolors.
#sundayfishsketch #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #sharks

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 2d

I love that idea 💜

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 2d

#SundayFishSketch ... some small icefish studies.

small sketch of two icefish hovering over their eggs and nest of stones

skerchbook page showing an icefish hovering over its circular nest of stones and its clutch of eggs

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 2d

A little nurse shark to celebrate Ava's first #SundayFishSketch.

A sketch of a young nurse shark in shades of green.

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Nilo Sinnatamby @nilosinnatamby.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently an inactive taxon, here's a Tetra nurse (Brycinus nurse), to celebrate @lampichthys.bsky.social 's new addition. Congrats!

Happy first #SundayFishSketch!

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phbutler.bsky.social @phbutler.bsky.social · 13d

The Two Trees of Valinor - drawn in pencil, coloured in Procreate #illustration #tolkien #sciart #thesilmarillion #silmarillion #lotr #oak #oaktree #cypress #cypresstree #treeart #tree #fantasyart

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 5d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Vicent Gisbert Cardona @vigiscar.bsky.social · 8d

Illustration of a spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) 🪰
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #lanternfly #fly

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adelle k. @ MCM K-09 @klimtsonian.bsky.social · 8d

another study with the new procreate brushes that I’ve been chipping away at 🦉

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 9d

I'm waiting for my fish painting to dry, so I thought I do a little sketch for the spooky season.

#kleineKunstKlasse
#spooky (I don't know the halloween hashtags ... #inktober ? )

A card with an illustration of a gentle tall white demon, who is holding the hand of a little girl.
The background is red and the girl is wearing a red coat. On her shoulders is sittinng a white cat.

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 9d

#invertober 5, painted spiny lobter 🦞

#invertober2025

symmetrical color block art of a painted spiny lobster on a cyan background with geometric marks and braided shapes

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 11d

I painted this warrior woman with my non-dominant hand when I had to turn down a fun art job shortly after arm surgery; I needed to prove that I could still paint, albeit way, way slower at that time, and I'm still so proud of her!

A woman in late middle age, sitting in anglosaxon / medieval clothing and partial armor, with a golden helmet at her feet, at the base of a big tree. She is a heavier built white woman with dark greying hair in a long braid with red ribbon.

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Vojta Hybl @vojtahybl.com · 10d

Painted some mushrooms for #UKFungusDay!

#sciart #fungi #illustration #natureillustration #gouache

A hand holding artwork featuring three fungi. On the left is a fly agaric with a bright red cap and a white stem. In the muddle is a bitter beech bolete with a brown cap and an orange-pink stem. On the right is a brown birch bolete with a brown cap and a white stem with spots.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 12d

#ThreeForThursday :
Pauojoungie Saggiak (Inuit; Iqaluit, NU, b.1959)
Adorned #Walruses
Cape Dorset, 2022
Etching & Aquatint on Arches White paper 61 x 74 cm (24 x 29 in.)
www.dorsetfinearts.com/2022-cape-do...
#InuitArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt #ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists

illustration of a trio of colorful, patterned walrus heads clustered together on plain white background: red/purple facing left @ top left, green/blue facing right @ top right, yellow/orange facing right @ bottom center

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Vicent Gisbert Cardona @vigiscar.bsky.social · 12d

Illustration of a southeast Asian cicada (Tacua speciosa).
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #cicada #cigarra

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 12d

Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 🍁

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a black background.

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a white background.

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 13d

And that's a wrap for this sketchbook! That's 110 pages drawn over 2+ years featuring ~206 completed #SundayFishSketch and #SciArtSeptember works. Shoutout to the #TeamFish #SciArt community—especially @lampichthys.bsky.social and @lizlagomorph.bsky.social. Here's to many more notebooks to come! 🐡🦑🧪

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 14d

I'm not sure how many of these I'll manage, but I felt inspired by the first #invertober2025 prompt -

So here's my Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) with its tangly tentacles!

Watercolour and pastel pencil on paper, A4.

#invertober #sciart

Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica). The bell is pale orange-pink with darker segments radiating out from its centre with dark purple or maroon edges. The tentacles are a similar colour to the bell and are tangly (difficult to draw!) against a turquoise (lower) and khaki green (upper) sea behind.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 14d

I took my ribcage grinder mermaid design for a run in this watercolour painting.

a watercolour painting of stingray mermaids swimming in murky water, the nearest one's white underbelly showing off its gills and the large mouth where a human's ribcage would be.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 18d

The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025

Invertober 2025
1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica)
2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)
4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)
5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor)
6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)
7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum)
8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix)
9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi)
10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula)
13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus)
14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois)
15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
(Ornithoptera alexandrae)
‪16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬
17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus)
18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)
19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella)
21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata)
22. Sea angel (Clione limacina)
23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima)
24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus)
25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva)
27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis)
28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla)
29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)
30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis)
31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 14d

Thank-you so much for joining in SciArtSeptember this year and sharing your incredible artwork! Your symbolism and skill get more refined and amazing all the time! 😍❤️

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 14d

Thank-you so much for sharing your beautiful work and supporting so many other artists over this month! ❤️❤️

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 14d

With all my heart here is my #SciArtSeptember finale for Day 30/30, theme: #Dream. May humanity awaken to coexist with ourselves and our blue, blue home—and may the seas forever teem with life from the reefs to the deep. Thank you @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for another incredible #SciArt run!! 🐡🦑🧪

Horizontal photo of a crayon illustration of an undersea fantasia of fishes swimming in the pattern of an infinity loop, with species such as moray, mahi mahi, tarpon, shark, ray, cusk eel, onaga, file fish, cornet fish, sardine, moorish idol, surgeonfish, remora, and more

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