Owlby

I was recently asked if I had ever captured wolves howling on camera. This is one of my all-time favorite captures.

The Emerald Nap 💚
#originalcharacter #warcraft

YouTube video by Be Smart The Weird Science That Lets Insects Fly in the Rain

how to unwet your bugs

Digital painting of an anthropomorphic dog character with red tears running down its cheek to its chin.

hurt comfort

Pokémon Illustration Contest 2024 Feraligatr promo card

My artwork of Feraligatr from the Pokémon TCG Illustration Contest 2024 has been made into a promo card. Thank you for all your support!

Hand embroidery of a tiger swimming amongst green weeds represented with French knots

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

I hope everyone is having wonderfull holidays! I took last two days off but I'll be fully back on track with comm work tomorrow :3

PhyloPic PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org

I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

Multi-stage decomposition of a pterosaur infographic

How your email finds me...

Ackies are a special shape, they look like little cartoon guys!

It also seems that that 67% fatality rate for house cats was an underestimate for the current strain— newer data puts it around 90%. Please take this seriously. bsky.app/profile/drkr...

20 big cats killed by the bird flu at Washington sanctuary | CNN Bird flu has been on the rise in Washington state and one sanctuary was hit hard: 20 big cats – more than half of the facility’s population – died over the course of weeks.

This is one recent example of how devastating it can be to felines— this big cat sanctuary lost over half their population to H5N1 over the course of weeks. Just as dangerous to house cats as it is to their bigger cousins. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/...

Cats in the U.S. Are Contracting Bird Flu: What Pet Parents Need to Know Cases in domesticated cats have risen dramatically over the past year.

PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it:

-keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice.

-do not feed them raw dairy

-do not feed them raw meat

*forms my first thought of the day and blows up*

“i’m learning blender” that’s great! i’ve been practicing microwave for a while and i think i’ve gotten pretty good at it. might tackle toaster next

I'm a bit late for #GarWeek, but here is a shameless plug for the gar weathervane that I designed and mostly made (95%, or so) that should be sitting atop the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit.
#GarWeek #Weathervane #BelleIsleAquarium #Detroit

An open sketchbook with watercolor illustrations of fort invertebrates, the top is long slender and brown goldish. The second is a rotund springtail. The third is a black and white owl fly. The last is a back swimmer, upside down floating on its back

DONE! FINISHED! THE END!

December's #InsertAnInvert2024 and the final month of these paintings. I thank and curse @franzanth.bsky.social for this year long project.

#SciArt #TradArt #Invertebrates

I left my heart in the Devonian sticker with an illustration of a Dunkleosteus

I left my heart in the Carboniferous sticker with an illustration of a meganeura

I left my heart in the Cambrian sticker with illustration of Anomalocaris

I left my heart in the Pleistocene sticker with an illustration of a wooly mammoth

Day 21 of #Artadventcalendar... and here are four stickers from my "I left my heart in a prehistoric age" design series! 🎨🐡

The male glowworm on its back, showing just how huge its eyes are

his hobbies include looking, viewing, and seeing

Driftwood gar by Julie Szczyrbak. #garweek #gartwork

honest work

Collage of me and 8 artowrks I made this year. Top row: Martian landscape, waterbirds, Ordovician invertebrates Middle row: prehistoric fish Bottom row: lapwing, songbirds, ammonites

#ArtvsArtist2024
This year it's been mostly birds and extinct fish, with some onvertebrate paleoart and a bit of space art
#artvsartist #paleoart #birdart #fish #spaceart

sky

THIS IS HUGE! Would you believe what started as a study on Gila monster venom in the 1980s led to the development of peptide medications, diabetes medications, GLP-1-based therapies, and NOW the FIRST ever FDA approved treatment for severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

2-page spread with ink and watercolor flowers across the page and handwritten notes at the bottom. Left page- Sept 2, 2021, Schulenberg Prairie, 77 degrees, sun with clouds, lovely day! Saw dragonflies swirling overhead, monarchs, E.tailed blue, tattered indigo duskywing, lots of colorful grasshoppers, lots of small caterpillars on prairie dropseed by parking lot. Sketch of Indian grass bloom with notes on parts next to it. Note-Sept 4, 2021, Midewin NTP, 72 degrees, cloudy and drippy. Sketch of bottle gentian with purple-blue vase-shaped blooms. Right page- Sept 6, 2021, Middlefork Savanna, Lake Forest, IL, 77 degrees, sunny and breezy, Gorgeous day hiking with Brett, lots of monarchs, skies were filled with dragonflies at times- amazing! Sketch of ironweed with magenta blooms and a blurry monarch landing in the back. Sept 7, Schulenberg Prairie, 81 degrees, humid, windy- gusts up to 30 mph. Sketch of yellow Maximilian sunflowers, Sept 8, 2021, Dixon Prairie, Chicago Botanic Garden, 73 degrees, sunny and windy, saw Philip Juras' amazing prairie art exhibit! Sketch of yellow-flowered stiff goldenrod.

Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar -spread from my Illinois prairie nature journal, covering September 2-8, 2021.

September is when the tall grasses start blooming and monarchs and dragonflies start massing in preparation for migration.
#SciArt #prairie