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Harris Illustration

@harrisillustration.bsky.social

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Gimuy (Cairns) based artist. Birds, fishes, and other critters.

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · Dec 31

Hi there! 👋 I’m Matt, an illustrator from Gimuy (Cairns). My work is focused on highlighting the incredible fauna and flora of what is now known as Far North Queensland.

#sciart #naturalhistoryart #tropics #fnq

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 16d

Haha I think the nature nerds/LOTR nerds Venn diagram is almost a perfect circle.

Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 17d

Hah, fair call! Horse anatomy is tricky as!

Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 17d

#SciArtSeptember Day 22: Fellowship

Obviously going to be a Lord of the Rings take on this prompt for me. The emperor gum moth was the species that Gandalf speaks to in the film, calling Gwaihir to his rescue from Orthanc.

#sciart

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 20d

Haha definitely! I get the same feeling when there’s really nice light that I’m trying to replicate in the painting, just want to make it pop ☀️

Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 21d

#SciArtSeptember Day 18: Depths

Sketch of an Australian sea lion. These guys dive surprisingly deep in search of food, with bulls reaching depths of 150m - one sea lion was even recorded at 250m!

#sealbay #sealion #sciart #marinelife

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 21d

So much movement and energy in your brushwork, adds so much life to your work 🙌

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you so much!

Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 22d

#SciArtSeptember Day 17: Trawl

Sketches of yellowfin tuna.

Look I'll be honest this is really troll, as in trolling with lures or bait behind a boat, rather than trawl. Back on to the actual prompts tomorrow 🤞

#SciArt #FishArt #MarineLife

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 22d

For sure! The colouration is just too good not to paint as well, all those blues and purples!

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 22d

broken grasp • 11”x14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

painting of a swift circled by floating ivy vines

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 23d

Your sketch was wonderful too! Amazing how subtle the differences are between the false and true cleaner wrasse.

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 23d

#SciArtSeptember Day 16: Rift

Quick sketch of the Casper octopus, an as yet undescribed species first recorded in deep water off the coast of Hawaiʻi by Schmidt Ocean Institute oceanographers.

#sciart #oceanart #octopus

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Kristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 24d

For mimic, the false cleanerfish who pretends to be cute and innocent and “ohhh here I’ll just clean you” and then CHOMP with those wicked fangs #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch

Colored pencil drawing of the false cleaner fish. The side view shows a slender fish that is yellow graduating into blue with a black stripe down the middle. The front few shows the absolute chompers on this little bad boy, which are used for causing problems.

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 24d

#sciart and #sundayfishsketch too!

Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 24d

#SciArtSeptember Day 14: Mimic and Day 15: Spawn

The first is a sheet of studies of the cleaner wrasse, whose mimic, the false cleaner wrasse was illustrated by @behrenskristen.bsky.social (beat me to it!).

The second is the giant clam, which can broadcast spawn 500 million eggs at a time!

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 26d

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 26d

#sciart for the feed 🐡

Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 26d

#SciArtSeptember Day 13: Bottleneck

Saltwater crocodiles were hunted to near extinction in Queensland, especially after the Second World War, and up until 1974 when the practice was outlawed. Populations are now recovering, and it’s a privilege to coexist with these incredible animals.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 27d

#SciArtSeptember 12 - Wandering

Adolescent golden jackals can wander thousands of kilometers while searching for a mate and a place to settle to.

They used to only occur in southeastern Europe, but recently, they have been turning up all over the place: Netherlands, Finland, even northern Norway.

Simple illustration of a golden jackal - a fluffy, coyote-like canid with rufous and blue-grey fur - standing on a field of yellow grass with a pale blue background. The jackal looks like it has stopped mid-stride to look at the viewer.

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 26d

#SciArtSeptember day 12: Wandering

Leaves and seed of the Cassowary plum. Cassowaries have a critical role in the dispersal of many rainforest plants. As they wander the rainforest they leave behind scats brimming with seeds ready to germinate.

#sciart #cassowary

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 27d

Haha thank you! Really appreciate that :)

Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you so much!

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 29d

#SciArtSeptember 10 - Tawny

Not all gazelles live in Africa! Goitered gazelle is native to a vast area from Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan through central Asia all the way to northwestern China and Mongolia.

Though widespread, its' population is in steep decline due to poaching and habitat loss.

Illustration of a female goitered gazelle, a small light brown antelope-like animal, drawn after photos taken in Korkeasaari Zoo, Helsinki. It's standing in front of a round background featuring a messy painterly depiction of its' natural habitat: brown earth, blue distant hills and grey sky.

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 28d

the Tawny Frogmouth for the #sciartseptember prompt Tawny. Always super interested in animals that can mimic their environment to some capacity.

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · 28d

#SciArtSeptember Day 11: Venomous

A few grayscale head studies of the rough-scaled snake (Tropidecus carinatus), one of the venomous snakes of North Queensland.

#sciart #snakeart

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