Liz Butler

📢 Big news for the future of the Ontario Science Centre!

We’re beyond excited to share that Ontario Science Partners, a design, build, finance and maintain consortium, has been selected to build our new permanent home at Ontario Place.

Here’s a first look!

🎶 🐦 👀?
#SciArt

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

We're horseposting post your horses.

Drawing the rhinos and associated fauna of the ashfall beds. I would love to recreate this in 3d but I think to do it justice I would need more info and data than currently is available to me

We're horseposting post your horses. 🐡

We're horseposting post your horses. 🐡

Close up on a sculpted frog on the surface of a mug meant to look like bark

Frog mugs today!

WIP artwork for commission. I have sketched out a path in the foreground, leading off into the distance, and revealed is a giant marble 'head' of a woman in the Roman style. It looks like it's almost part of the landscape. I have marked out the vague lines of the hills and landscape, with some initial watered down acrylic washes of low saturation colours.

WIP commission #mixedmedia

Multiple photos of little grub charms, decorated with a gold chain, bell, and red tassel. They have a pale, white belly, and head, and black bodies with brown accents, completed with wire legs. Tiny little eyes look out towards the world.

grub effigies to be hung from a spot of reverence (sold)! #ceramics

A pair of Sefapanosaurus zastronensis react to a sudden noise.

A pair of Sefapanosaurus zastronensis react to a sudden noise. (Really) Early #Jurassic South Africa.

From my #book ”När dinosaurierna tog över” (2025, Idus förlag)
#dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

My first ever attempt at #SundayFishSketch. Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus).

Horizontal photo of a crayon sketch of scrawny fish larvae, with large eyes, long body, and pigment cells

To celebrate adding "Eggs and Larvae of 500 Taiwan Fishes" 《魚大十八變：魚卵及仔稚魚多樣性圖鑑》by Shao et al. to my #TeamFish library, here is the larvae of Coryphaena equiselis 棘鬼頭刀 pompano dolphinfish, drawn after the book's great photo. Another #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 for #SundayFishSketch! 🦑🐡🧪

Watercolor painting of a tiger shark

Here is a tiger shark for #sundayfishsketch
#sciart #coralreefs #marinelife

an eohippus, a prehistoric horse, rearing up while looking backward

Eohippus for horse year :')

#berensart2026

Nearly done the inking. Just need the room details then it’s on to scanning & colouring! #SciArt

Line drawing: a very rotund mourning dove perching on a wire.

Protecting parrotfish works but not quickly. New Blog: Why Saving Parrotfish Takes Time #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife
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Flat illustration of a Willow Ptarmigan perched in wintry trees with 3 camouflaged in the snowy background. (From 2025)

Snowy Ptarmigans!

Various kinds of fish painted in watercolors. (The O.P. can't remember all the names of the fish and like a fool didn't write them down...) (One is of a Betta fish, though.)

Various kinds of fish painted in watercolors. (The O.P. can't remember all the names of the fish and like a fool didn't write them down...) (One is of a chunky goldfish though.)

Some watercolor fish studies I did back in 2024 when I decided to learn how to use watercolors again. 🐠 :3
🎨🖼️ #TraditionalArt #SciArt #SketchBook

Three paper beetle zines facing each other. The orange and purple ones have their wings closed, and "Exquisite Beetle" is visible across their shells. The blue beetle's wings are open, as if mid-flight

Purple beetle zine with its wings open to reveal two halves of a face. It is very geometric and crying

Neon yellow beetle zine with its wings open to reveal two mismatched face halves. The left half is scowling, while the right half is grinning slyly

Beetle zines! 🖌️🪲🐞 #invert #insects #zine

The wings open to reveal different faces. The halves can be aligned in any combination, making it look like mid-flight.

These were made as January rewards for Patreon members. Pledge $8 or more by January 31st to receive one
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Ink sketch of a small fish.

In the dark depths of Lake Superior, it's the Kiyi. #SundayFishSketch

Watercolor painting of a side view of a fish facing to the right. The fish has a green top and an orange belly with green and orange fins.

Being from Minneapolis, these past few weeks have been especially heavy. I’ve been painting fish again to calm my nerves. Here is a tangerine darter in breeding colors for my first #SundayFishSketch in a while.

A paint pen drawing of a black and white striped fish with yellow fins and face.

Early #SundayFishSketch in the heatwave. New pens
(Oblique banded sweetlips)

Sketch of a male Queen Parrotfish in color pencil and water marker

#SundayFishSketch
#Fish #FishArt
#Parrotfish #QueenParrotfish
#Scarusvetula

Here is a watercolor painting of a Roundhead Parrotfish, intermediate phase, Chlorurus strongylocephalas. Reference photo(s) by Stephen Spangler

Here is a watercolor painting of a Roundhead Parrotfish, intermediate phase, Chlorurus strongylocephalas, for my #sundayfishsketch
#sciart #marinelife #coralreefs
#parrotfish #spanglersscuba

Photo of a crayon sketch of a Japanese sillago fish, which is slender and has an elongated snout with a petite mouth

Another belated (for my time zone) #SundayFishSketch. Here is シロギス Sillago japonica, whose slang in Taiwanese Hokkien 台語 Tâi-gí is 沙腸仔 or "sand intestines" for its slender shape and sandy substrate preferences. Tried it for the first time as sashimi recently, lovely! #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 🦑🐡🧪

Strange, Shovel-Tusked Elephants Puzzled Paleontologists, Until Experts Took a Closer Look at Their Teeth The animals' extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they could do a lot more than initially expected

Shovel-tuskers! Ancient elephants like Amebelodon are an evolutionary success story, and we’re only just starting to understand how they used their exceptional jaws. I’ll tell you more at Smithsonian. 🧪

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced

My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #visualscicomm #sciviz #dinosaurs
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