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Pearl

@pearlbarry.bsky.social

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Freelance Natural Science Illustrator, ecologist, lover of of all things nature MSc in Ecology from the Uni of Otago 🦎 BS in Enviro Science from Western Washington Uni Commissions open Website: https://pearlmomilanibarry.wixsite.com/studiopearlbarry

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · Jul 18

#art #digitalart #waterfall #landscapepainting

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · Jul 18

Painting and inspiration

#art #landscapepainting #forest #natureart

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · Jul 9

I've been super inspired by the glowy and colorful forest paintings by @mk-howling.bsky.social. I have a lot to practice and learn!

#art #landscapeart #painting #digitalart #krita

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · Jun 22

I'm trying out a digital stippling technique for botanical illustrations using one of my favorite PNW wildflowers, the understated and charming Pacific starflower (Lysimachia latifolia).

#botanicalillustration #SciArt #scienceillustration #natureart #flower #PNW #wildflowers #botanicalart

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · Jun 18

While looking for #tīeke at #OrokonuiEcosanctuary, I saw many other inhabitants lucky to reside inside the protection of the mammal-resistant fence🪶. Here, a tauhou or silvereye was prying away the strippy bark of a kanuka, plucking insects hiding underneath.
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #SciArt #birding

A tauhou rests on the trunk of a kanuka tree in-between stints of pulling bark away to eat insects underneath.

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yesterday I participated in a sanctuary-side survey for the recently released #tīeke at #OrokonuiEcosanctuary. We use a playback technique to draw in #birds to take note of their colored leg-bands. A curious miromiro also came by, wondering what the ruckus was about.
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #SciArt

A tīeke, a black bird with a sharp beak and a brown back, faces left with its bright red mouth open as it calls "tīeke tīeke tīeke". Its colorful, identifying leg bands are clearly visible, making the photo useful for our survey records.

A tīeke, a black bird with a sharp beak and a brown back, faces right with its bright red mouth open as it calls "tīeke tīeke tīeke". the grey eye is alert and shining in the low winter light.

A miromiro, a small bird with a large black head, small pointed beak, and bright yellow belly perches on a dead, thorn-armoured gorse branch.

A miromiro, a small bird with a large black head, small pointed beak, and bright yellow belly perches lightly on a pale tree stump, with the blue sky in the background.

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 25

Thank you 💛

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 24

More pieces from my workshops on botanical and natural science illustration techniques. All drawn from life and accurate to scale 1:1. A Fuchsia flower in colored pencil, a river stone in watercolor, and a feather🪶 in watercolor.
#botanicalart #SciArt #scientificillustration #art #coloredpencil

Colored Pencil illustration of a pink fuchsia flower on white background

Watercolor painting of a disc-shaped river stone on white background.

Watercolor illustration of an orange and grey feather on a white background.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 22

Wow thank you! I really admire your work so it's nice to hear your thoughts on mine.

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 22

Close up of the kahu

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 22

Close-up

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 22

When takahē were discovered not to be extinct, conservationists had to learn to save them without much available information about their ecology. This illustration represents when alpine tussock grasslands were thought to be their preferred habitat.

#Aotearoa #NewZealand #SciArt #Birds #digitalart

Takahe tussock grasslands where we thought was there preferred habitat before more data showed they prefer swamp and forest edge habitat. Two takahe tussle in the foreground while another watches them closeby and a fourth seems ambivalent in the background. An Australasian harrier hawk, or kahu, soars around looking for the now extinct flightless wrens. A New Zealand Pipit watches the tussle from the branches of a dead hebe.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 21

Thanks! I love the weird and wonderful :)

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 21

Maybe I'll design a creature inspired by parrot tongues haha!

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you! That's exactly how the tongue felt on my fingertip. It's funny how parrot tongues are all so dry firm and soft at the same time.

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 21

Hi! I would love that, thank you. Happy to be a part of the bird lovers of blue sky :)

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 20

While visiting the aviary in the Dunedin Botanic Gardens a curious lori tried to taste my camera. Lorikeets have one of the strangest tongues in the bird world, with a brush like-tip that gathers pollen and nectar efficiently!

#birding #birdart #anatomy #study #sciart #scientificillustration

Yellow bibbed Lori 3/4 view extended tongue anatomy.

All of the the three illustrations on one page with handwritten text anatomy labels

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 7

A #treasuremap for my friend and award winning author John Egenes @jegenes.bsky.social for his new book, The Marfa Blues. So much fun to make a treasure map to fit in with the story!

#fantasymap #map #illustration #bookmap #artsky

An illustration of a hand drawn treasure map written in Spanish on a rectangular piece of soft leather.

A close up of the map showing a detail of the canyons the treasure is hidden in.

A close up showing the rabbit cascades, illustrated with a rabbit beside some mountains.

Close up of las montañas de la muerte and the sierra cajon.

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 7

A book cover for my friend and award winning author John Egenes @jegenes.bsky.social of his new book, The Marfa Blues. You may have heard of John's last book, Man and Horse (or maybe you've seen it's cameo in the Barbie movie). Both are great reads so check them out!

#bookcover #illustration #art

A book cover for the book: The Marfa Blues by John Egenes. The cover has a graphic illustration of a old western café with a sign on the awning saying Vera's cafe. A raven perches on the rooftop.

The cover has a graphic illustration of a old western café with a sign on the awning saying Vera's cafe. A raven perches on the rooftop. To the left, which is the back of the book, a silhouette of a cow on the horizon, casting a long shadow.

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John Egenes @jegenes.bsky.social · May 7

We're at Planet eBooks for the next few days. Stop by and look around.
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The Marfa Blues: Searching for Treasure by Bestselling Author John Egenes

The Marfa Blues: Searching for Treasure by Author John Egenes is a classic yarn, full of surprises, with all the right elements: love and loss, hope and despair, drug dealers and cloned cows, and the

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 6

Thanks! You have some lovely work in your gallery too :)

Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 6

A spotted towhee for you.

#sciart #birdart #birds #animalart #painting #illustration

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · May 3

Tesyed out some lovely impasto brushes on #krita using a moko kakariki as my subject matter.
#aotearoa #newzealand #gecko #sciart #animalart #reptile #painting

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · Apr 14

The Wild Dunedin Festival of Nature put on an amazing Nature Dome event! It was a fantastic day to celebrate Dunedin's wildlife and help spread the word that you too can get connected to nature by visiting natural spaces nearby, like Orokonui Ecosanctuary! Thanks Marty Buyck for the lovely photos!

Me, a woman with long brown hair holding a kiwi plushie on from of a poster with a large kaka printed on it.

Me, a woman with long brown hair holds up a kiwi plushie like in the lion king, with a poster behind that says Orokonui Ecosanctuary

Me, a woman with long brown hair hild a tuatara plushie next to a kiwi plushie wearing a flower lei. In the background is a poster with a kaka on it.

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · Feb 24

🪶 Today, more than 1/3 of the federal grant $$ we were relying on to finance our science & conservation work in 2025 is paused w/ no indication of when, or if, we will be able to access it again. Your tax-deductible donation helps us weather this period of uncertainty. birdpop.org/pages/do... 1/2

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