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Traditional Artist | Illustrator | Birdwatcher | he/him Featured artist I Times of India I Best Indian illustrators I The Hindu Contact: [email protected] Portfolio: https://prasadnatarajan.com Store: https://prasadnatarajan.com/shop

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 16

Group photo from my "Live Monsoon Sketching" session at Benniganahalli Lake, Bengaluru Karnataka, India.

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Inspiring artists since 2011!

On August 10th, 2025

#sciart #traditionalart #sketching #birdart #mentoring #inspiration #mentor #chronicillness

Pink colored roof, black iron stump on the left-hand corner, green tree background, kids and adults holding up their sketches on a drawing pad. Me wearing wildcraft beige hat, kneeling down.

Art is beyond all boundaries and hurdles. Nature is the best healer!

Group photo from my "Live Monsoon Sketching" session at Benniganahalli Lake, Bengaluru Karnataka, India.

Thankful for nature giving a day without nausea, feeling of tiredness and letting me conduct this session without any major hic-ups!

This session is in collaboration with Benniganahalli Kere Community Development Trust (Regd).
On August 10th, 2025
With further tests I've been diagnosed with Achalasia cardia a rare condition which is preventing free movement of food to my stomach. Coming week further tests and treatment is awaited. Keep me in your prayers. Thank you!

Me wearing wildcraft beige hat, during our walk around the lake, kids and adults listening carefully.
Green tree leaves background.

Kids and adults holding up their sketches on a drawing pad. Me wearing wildcraft beige hat, kneeling down. Green tree leaves background. Yellow colored building with black colored iron ladder.

Art is beyond all boundaries and hurdles. Nature is the best healer!

Group photo from my "Live Monsoon Sketching" session at Benniganahalli Lake, Bengaluru Karnataka, India.

Thankful for nature giving a day without nausea, feeling of tiredness and letting me conduct this session without any major hic-ups!

This session is in collaboration with Benniganahalli Kere Community Development Trust (Regd).
On August 10th, 2025
With further tests I've been diagnosed with Achalasia cardia a rare condition which is preventing free movement of food to my stomach. Coming week further tests and treatment is awaited. Keep me in your prayers. Thank you!

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 31

on 3rd September 2025, at Sakra World Hospital, Marathahalli, Bangalore.
Keep me in your prayers!
Thankful for all the support and kindness received from all friends here!

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 31

2/2 I have achalasia cardia, which hinders food movement to my stomach. A rare nerve condition affects one in a lakh.
Making art is soothing to my soul.

I expressed gratitude to loved ones for our shared memories.
Trying to keep calm and strong during my preparation for surgery.

My surgery is

sharing various stages progress from line drawing to making color palette to working plumage to green leaves during different art sessions.
I have achalasia cardia, which hinders food movement to my stomach. A rare nerve condition affects one in a lakh.
Making art is soothing to my soul.

I expressed gratitude to loved ones for our shared memories.
Trying to keep calm and strong during my preparation for surgery.

My surgery is schedule on 3rd September 2025, at Sakra World Hospital, Marathahalli, Bangalore.
Keep me in your prayers!

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 31

Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) from Chamarajanagar, Karnataka, India, from my online watercolor session.

1/2 Watercolor on Fabriano Paper

#art #birds #sciart #scientificillustration #birdart #traditionalart #mentoring #illustration #nature #indianwildlifeartist #scicomm #watercolor

Orange colored bird with burnt umber spots on the edges of the crown, hood up, dark brown eyes, long pointed bill open slightly. Burnt umber spots on the body, dark tail. Bird perched on a tree stump with green leaves. My fingers holding a black brush, signature in red on right hand corner.
Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) from Chamarajanagar, Karnataka, India, from my online watercolor session.

Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops)
Title: Flame of the Forest_2!
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 12×15 3/4 inches,300GSM Paper
Duration: 16 Hour 55 minutes
Location: Bandipur national park, Gundulpet taluk, Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, India
January 23rd, 2025
Reference image: Own Reference image
I have achalasia cardia, which hinders food movement to my stomach. A rare nerve condition affects one in a lakh.
Making art is soothing to my soul.

I expressed gratitude to loved ones for our shared memories.
Trying to keep calm and strong during my preparation for surgery.

My surgery is schedule on 3rd September 2025, at Sakra World Hospital, Marathahalli, Bangalore.
Keep me in your prayers!

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Aug 25

Here are the last couple days of drawings for #AugArthroAwe and also #InverteFest.

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a dragonfly larva which has a large, flat, circular abdomen

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a skeleton shrimp that looks like a long, skinny alien with inexplicable appendages

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · Aug 25

Day 25 - Kaua‘i ‘Ö‘ö / Moho-braccatus / Hawai'ian HoneyCreeper #AvianAugust2025

2hr Sketch Study
An extinct bird referenced from taxidermy, described as a primarily black bird with bright yellow patches by its feet.

#AvianAugust #birds #bird #ornithology #nature #SciArt #BirdArt #NatureArt

Digital Sketch study of Kaua‘i ‘Ö‘ö / Moho-braccatus / Hawai'ian HoneyCreeper for AvianAugust2025

An extinct bird referenced from taxidermy, described as a primarily black bird with bright yellow patches by its feet.

It's always difficult to do extinct birds with Taxidermy references because the taxidermist almost always forgets to balance the weight of the bird. I tried correcting it while also referencing some very fuzzy photographs to assemble this design. All I can say is I tried in the 2 hrs I had for it.

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · Aug 26

#NatureIsArt

Euphorbia heartennas - captured Wednesday

#Phonetography
#MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #floralballet #swoonlake #floaty

Close-up of the tiny blossoms in the center of clusters of white edged leaves. The anthers on the stamens look like little yellow hearts.

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · Aug 21

Day 21 - Red Whiskered Bulbul #AvianAugust2025

1hr Sketch Study
I'm probably not going to be as detailed in the last few, my hand is starting to go ( painful arthritis issues ) so, taking it as I go atm.

#AvianAugust #birds #bird #ornithology #nature #SciArt #BirdArt #NatureArt

Digital sketch study of a Red Whiskered Bulbul for Avian August 2025

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NorCal Lynne 🍂 @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · Aug 21

Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary. Jan van Kessel the Elder, c. 1653. National Gallery of Art. #InsectThursday #SciArt #Gardening

An oil painting on copper, 12 different types of insects are arranged around a sprig of rosemary, insects vary from beetles, butterflies, a bee and other winged insects.

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · Aug 18

Meet my friend Toad who lives in the base of our bird bath. I clean and refill this bath most days and he regularly pops up, especially when water dribbles down in to his home! Not sure by his look whether he likes it! 📷🌿🐸

Happy new week everyone!

#Herps #Photography #MacroMonday #EastCoastKin

A photograph of a common toad who has appeared from a cavity with his head and front legs in view as he looks straight ahead at the camera. The toad is grey-brown, with dry, warty skin and copper-colored eyes. Taken in the UK, August 25

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · Aug 18

Day 18 - ʻEkupuʻu / Laysan Finch #AvianAugust2025

1.5hr Sketch Study
Laysan Finch hopping in the air, these birds can be seen around coastal shrubs and have become quite the skittish little hoppers.

#AvianAugust #birds #bird #ornithology #nature #SciArt #BirdArt #NatureArt

Digital Sketch Study of ʻEkupuʻu Laysan Finch for Avian August, a small round yellow and gray bird hopping in the air.

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 18

thank you so much, Lauren!

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 18

thank you so much, Cass!
They all did a fabulous job :)

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 17

thank you so much!

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 17

thank you so much, Mat!

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 16

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 16

thank you so much, Emma.

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 16

thank you so much for your wishes, Colpizen!

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

thank you so much, Susan. I am on the mend, however going to take more than few months. Hope to keep fighting and getting back to normal in few months :)

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

thank you so much for your wishes, Aastha. I still sketch daily however it is for myself only and not sharing those works. Thank you for being here and sharing your thoughts about my work, appreciate it kindly!

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

thank you so much, Saimi. Slowly adapting to my condition, i am no longer able to spend long hours creating in my studio. It is going to be this way for few months. Setting health as my first priority at the moment. Hope to bounce back in few months.

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

for 3 weeks i am on bland diet, Karre. Having already lost so much weight, going lose more weight with this diet. Glad that there are certain foods that my body is not rejecting and able to eat in small amounts. Spending more time with my family and taking rest often. Hope things get better!

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

thank you so much for your wishes, Mark :)

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

thank you so much, Jess. True, it is getting bit tough to follow my daily creative routine. Since medication, exercise, rest have taken away more time. Thank you for your wishes.

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

thank you so much for your wishes :)

Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.com · Aug 8

thank you so much, Dr. Rebecca. I still sketch for myself during this period. Just that not able to share works and interact regularly :)