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Silvaris Studio
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Sil -  (noun) Latin for forest
Var -  (adjective) for changing, colored, different, diverse

A wildlife ecologist celebrating the biodiversity all around us through art

Website: https://www.silvaris-studio.com/
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Silvaris Studio @stellarsquirrel.bsky.social · Sep 8
My lil' print shop is finally open! ✨

www.silvaris-studio.com/print-shop

Starting w/ a few favorite watercolors of native flora & fauna of the southern US. 🐸🦉🌿

I would be honored if you visited or shared!

#BirdArt #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #supportartists #OriginalArt #WildlifeArt #TraditionalArtist
Blue jay perched on a tree branch, looking back over their shoulder. Screenshot of two of the prints available in the backyard birds collection: Barn Owl and Blue Jay
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Male northern flicker (yellow-shafted morph) and eastern redcedar

#Watercolor and #gouache #painting on 9x12 paper

#sciart #birdart #botanicalart #wildlifeart #ecoart #originalart #traditionalart
Male northern flicker perched so you can see his ventral (belly) side. Perched on a thing branch of a eastern redcedar tree that has some ripe berry-like cones visible.
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Getting ready for my next art festival! This is one of my favorite pieces I'm bringing. My wonderful husband made a frame out of locally sourced cedar

#acrylicpainting #fox #foxart #sciart #handmade #woodworking #cedar #art #traditionalart #originalart #redfox #painting #frame #wildlifeart
painting of a red fox on a dark background with a red cedar frame.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Super neat concept!!
jerthorp.bsky.social Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 11d
It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Santa Fe River
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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bittelmethis.bsky.social
🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals

Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪

❤️‍🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️‍🔥
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...
Grizzled by Jason Bittel: 9781426223358 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Funny, fascinating, and scientifically grounded, this charming book reveals unknown details about 50 well-known animals. Effortlessly readable, Grizzled reintroduces nature lovers to species they th...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
A smug (or proud) red fox (Vulpes vulpes) just in time for #samhain

Acrylic on black canvas

#fox #foxart #wildlifeart #wildlifeartist #acrylicpainting #originalart #traditionalart #sciart
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
One of my current wips...

Getting ready for my next show in November!

#acrylic #birdart #crow #corvids #sciart ##wildlifeart #wildlife #birds #originalart #traditionalart
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
A slightly better picture of my latest

Love u Vulpes vulpes <3
October 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Vulpes vulpes

Foxes have always been a favorite muse 💜

Last painting before my first art festival... I am nervous and excited

#wildlifeart #traditionalart #originalart #acrylicpainting #fox #foxart #smallbusiness #sciart
red fox looking forward, just the head and shoulders are visible
October 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Brown thrasher and yaupon holly. Thrasher's are some of my favorite birds and yaupon is fruiting now in my local forests. Yaupon berries are an important food for many birds during the fall and winter.

#sciart #birdart #botany #wildlifeillustration #gouache #ecoart #traditionalart #watercolor #art
Brown thrasher perched on a yaupon holly branch with fruit and leaves visible.
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Just keep swimming 🦦

Just finished this little painting of a river otter swimming in a Florida first magnitude spring.

#riverotter #saveoursprings #Florida #sciart #originalpainting #wildlifeart #acrylicpainting
In center an otter twisting underwater. The bottom of the spring is sandy with dark vegetation, and the sides are framed in dark limestone. The sun shines through the clear blue water above.
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?

Barred Owl - Acrylic on Canvas

One of my favorite species of owls to see (and hear!)

#birdart #wildlifeart #sciart #traditionalart #originalart #owl #painting #art #acrylicpainting
Barred owl facing the viewer head on, perched on a bare branch, with bare branches and gray sky as background.
September 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
My lil' print shop is finally open! ✨

www.silvaris-studio.com/print-shop

Starting w/ a few favorite watercolors of native flora & fauna of the southern US. 🐸🦉🌿

I would be honored if you visited or shared!

#BirdArt #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #supportartists #OriginalArt #WildlifeArt #TraditionalArtist
Blue jay perched on a tree branch, looking back over their shoulder. Screenshot of two of the prints available in the backyard birds collection: Barn Owl and Blue Jay
September 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
White-winged dove in gouache in my new watercolor sketchbook.

Yes, I was definitely singing the song in my head while i painted 😅

#birdart #sciart #originalart #traditionalart #gouache #sketchbook #wildlifeart
White-winged dove perched on a branch, looking over their back.
September 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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willhillenbrand.bsky.social
The black-capped chickadee is known for its distinct “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” calls, where the number of “dee” notes indicates the level of threat from predators. #🪶 #🐡
August 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
the egrets stalk through the rain / as if nothing mortal can affect them’ – Derek Walcott

Great egret in breeding plumage in acrylic 10 x 10 canvas

#sciart #wildlifeart #birdart #acrylicpainting #originalart #traditionalart #wadingbirds #poem #art
the neck and the back of a great egret in breeding plumage on a dark green and shimmery background. Same photo but held up against an ouside background.
August 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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lizlagomorph.bsky.social
It’s that time again. 🌟
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#sciartseptember #sciart #scienceart #scicomm
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.
August 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
I was a busy girl this weekend, and I'm really happy with one! White ibis, one of the more common wetland birds around these parts, but when you take a minute to really look at them, they are stunning 🥰

#birdart #sciart #wildlifeart #acrylicpainting #traditonalart #originalart #wadingbirds
white ibis on a dark blue green background with iridescent streaking closeup of the painting
August 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Just finished a new painting of everyone's favorite backyard bully, the tufted titmouse. I love watching these little guys cause drama at my feeders.

8 x 8 acrylic on canvas

#acrylicpainting #birdart #sciart #wildlifeart #originalart #traditionalart #tuftedtitmouse
tufted titmouse sitting on a branch with a milky sunset. tufted titmouse sitting on a branch with a milky sunset
August 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Eastern bluebird and pokeweed. Bluebirds eat a lot of fruit in the fall and winter time, including pokeweed berries! We are lucky to have both these lovely species right here on the farm

#sciart #birdart #bluebird #pokeweed #nativeplants #botanicalillustration #wildlifeart #gouache #painting
Two Eastern bluebirds perched on a bending pokeweed branch that is displaying ripe fruit and a flower.
August 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Hart Springs 💜

#Florida #wildspaces #naturalbeauty #greategret #photography #freshwater #springs
August 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Lovely birds, even as bebes! <3
avian-aves.bsky.social Aves • Artist & Finch Parent @avian-aves.bsky.social · Aug 1
For #AvianAugust day 1, an immature 'I'iwi 🪶🐡

Reference image by Norman Graf: macaulaylibrary.org/asset/635863...
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
stellarsquirrel.bsky.social
Two of my paintings were accepted into a virtual exhibition entitled "Small Wonders" hosted by an LA gallery, The Hummingbird & Dragonfly.

I am in very good company. Lots of lovely little wonders to see here: www.hummingbirddragonflyartgallery.com/featured-exh...

#originalart #artshow #virtual
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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merryrobin.bsky.social
Mary Hewes Hinckley (1845-1944) was a US herpetologist who made important contributions to the study of frogs in North America.
She is attributed as the author of the description of Fowler's Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri) as a distinct species.
🐸 #WomenInSTEM
A sepia portrait of a young white woman with a pensive expression and eyes lost in thought. She has her hair up in an elaborate braid crown bun. A serious toad resting on a wooden surface. His skin is light yellow and greyish with a spotted pattern of brown, olive green, and rust red colors with darkened warty spots. He looks pensive.
July 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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coreywelch.bsky.social
In my talks to Biology depts since 2015, my recommendation of a several month career shadowing requirement for all PhD students has never been warmly received.

6 years and y’all can’t find 3 months for a non tenure track career exploration that ~85% of PhDs will end up in.
July 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM