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In an underwater scene, a sailfish, a mola, a mermaid whose flowing hair recalls marine algae, a dugong, and several golden trevally are grouped together in a vertically-oriented composition with some kelp against a black background. The illustration is drawn with intricate linework, with an emphasis on contours and varying line weight, and with areas of solid black ink.

'Two Sirens'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020.

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An oil painting of a Carolina Wren. The wren's feathers are fluffed up into a round shape, and it is sitting on a rock, with strong sunlight illuminating it. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com

"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel

I just think they're neat

My camera is a macro camera I always try to photograph birds with anyway so I always end up going through the photos the next day going oh no... which 6 pixels on a tree branch is the bird... 😅

photograph of a Synamphisopus isopod facing towards the camera

side view of a Synamphisopus isopod

another side view of a Synamphisopus isopod

I got a video of some of them moving around the creek but it was uhhh not great so I've just got some more photos of this individual for now.

photograph of a strange greyish elongate isopod, synamphisopus, on a rock. In front of it is a dark green isopod on its side.

Synamphisopus (isopod) and an amphipod in a stream in Gariwerd/the grampians. #phreatoicidea #isopod #amphipod #crustacean

a blurry swamp wallaby crossing a path in mid air

most of my animal photographs end up like this

photograph of some green plants in a shallow pool

Does anyone know much about Isoetes? Saw these in Gariwerd/the grampians which is supposed to have Isoetes drummondii and thought they possibly looked like them.

photograph of a Synamphisopus isopod facing towards the camera

side view of a Synamphisopus isopod

another side view of a Synamphisopus isopod

I got a video of some of them moving around the creek but it was uhhh not great so I've just got some more photos of this individual for now.

photograph of a strange greyish elongate isopod, synamphisopus, on a rock. In front of it is a dark green isopod on its side.

Synamphisopus (isopod) and an amphipod in a stream in Gariwerd/the grampians. #phreatoicidea #isopod #amphipod #crustacean

a Camelops walks past a fairly newly formed tarpit nestled amongst thick vegetation Camelops is an extinct kind of camel that lived during the last ice age, unlike modern camels it had quite a slender snout and was slightly taller, it's unknown if it had a hump or not, however, we know that if it did have a hump it would only have one rather than two thanks to the shape of its back

a Daemonosaurus slowly walks along the shallow muddy banks of a lake in the morning, it's slow movements are calculated as to not alert any nearby phytosaurs Daemonosaurus is a Triassic dinosaur who's position in the dinosaur family tree is still debated, some consider it a basal theropod, while others consider it a non-theropod saurischian related to dinosaurs like Hererrasaurus. it's a small dinosaur with a short face and large teeth, although, it's only known from a single skull, some neck material, and a few ribs

three Panderodus kick up fine sediment by the shoreline of the ocean at night, they're illuminated from above by a light offscreen and outside of the water Panderodus is an unusual type of conodont (extinct jawless fish related to lampreys) which is flat like a stingray unlike other conodonts which are more eel-like. it's most well known for it's large conodont elements (mineralised tooth-like structures) which are simple and very proportionally large, some species of Panderodus have grooves on their conodont elements, which some scientists have proposed were for delivering venom, this would make conodonts the earliest venomous vertebrates

a Eustreptospondylus swims along the surface of the water during the afternoon, most likely travelling to a nearby island. the camera is at the surface of the water with a small portion above showing the animal's head, while most of the camera is under the water where the body is. bubbles escape from the dinosaur's feathers as a wave submerges its body with only its head left above the water. the animal is swimming using a mix of its tail, legs, and arms. Eustreptospondylus is a theropod dinosaur known from Jurassic England when it was a series of scattered islands. Eustreptospondylus is only known from one juvenile specimen, the juvenile is around a meter tall at the hip. none of Eustreptospondylus' closest relatives preserve a nasal bone, so one scientists suspects that they could have had nasal crests akin to dinosaurs like Ceratosaurus or Guanlong, this isn't known for sure but i have followed this interpretation in my reconstruction of the animal.

results of this week's #Paleostream flocking!!!

this week we sketched Camelops, Daemonosaurus, Panderodus, and Eustreptospondylus

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going through old work for a thing
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017

crab illustration seen from above. it's stout and robust but otherwise normal crab looking. the color is blue with some splash of bright red around the joints and the snout.

On the eighth day of #Crustmas, my true love gave to me
Eight Petrolisthes walking among seastars in Florida

I can finally share this!!! a huge Thanks to both @skyemcdavid.com and @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social for allowing me to do a Nyctosaur for this poster!!!

Black and white intaglio spit-bite aquatint print of an intimate night sky looking over the ocean with neuron trees and a sky full of stars and neurotransmitter constellations. In an edition of 10. by Kindra Crick Neurotransmitter acetylcholine as a constellation rising in the night sky with serotonin diminished and setting on the horizon as in the stage of sleep called REM. REM sleep is when your #dreams are most vivid and the mind is highly active while your body is paralyzed; except your eyes, which are in rapid motion.

“While Sleeping”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint

Look closely. You may see neuron trees and neurotransmitter constellations. ✨

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willow ptarmigan hidden in summer foliage. 8x10” acrylic on panel

A very fuzzy blue and orange beetle. It has a greenish blue head and thorax with a patterned orange and dark blue abdomen.

Close up of the drawing, showing the knobbly surface of the beetle's abdomen. Plus a blue leg covered in yellow hairs.

Capturing the knobbly surface of this Trichodes alvearius was a real challenge #ArtAdventCalendar

A flat coastal wetland covered by small plants, a Ceratosuchops bends down to the ground far away, near the shoreline, a three-toed footprint filled with water sits in the dirt in the foreground.

Two Anhanguera flying over a beach in the evening, the sky is bright pink and orange while the sun hangs just over a distant peninsula, bright red and yellow. One pterosaur glides calmly towards the sun, the other actively flies up from below to meet its partner.

A flat sandy beach covered in patches of water and growing plants in the evening. A group of Bakiribu are walking through a puddle to filter feed, whole another casts a reflection in the water closer to the pov, flying past.

Shores of the Cretaceous
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pink cloud

Some marine gastropod sketches

Sizing up the hidden beauty. Kalama tricornis, a lace bug, not rare, lives right among us.

Colored pencils

Painting of my character, Pudgy Horse, a horse of baroque type appearance with luxuriant mane and tail, and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including short, slender legs with dainty hooves and an extremely generous girth; here painted in tribute to one of the famous horses in the Lascaux cave paintings using similar colours and simplified shapes.

#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.

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digital painting of a dunnock

Continuing my series of bird neighbour portraits - is there a more overlooked bird than the dunnock?

iguana type dragon in flight

lil dragon

Drawing of a large cream and black goliath beetle with spread, black iridescent wings.

A close up showing bright cyan highlights where the light caught the beetle's wing.

Another #ArtAdventCalendar offering, this time Goliathus orientalis. One of my earliest pieces, I drew this using Rebelle on my PC.

Placodonts are so fun #sciart

Illustration of a pair of Stegosaurus in a Jurassic landscape composed of ferns and conifers, a group of the small theropod Hesperonithoides is in the foreground.

A pair of Stegosaurus leisurely walking while a group of Hesperornithoides bicker in the foreground

I just think everyone needs to see Stegosaurus every now and then. Makes everyone happier 😊 This is an illustration of my licensing library and is available for non exclusive licensing.

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I will have time for more deep sea sketches later this month.
For now, here are some old paintings/sketches.
#DeepSeaDecember 🐡

Added in the shiny reflections and he is pretty much done. I'd like to touch up certain areas after resting for a bit, but I may as well show him off early.

This is "Regal", a male Australian blue swimmer crab that took nearly 250 hours to paint, spanning over 3 years

#sciart #crustmas 🦀

crab illustration seen from above. the body is rounded in the rear, three pronged like a crown in the front. the claws are short and robust. most importantly, two pairs of its legs are obnoxiously oversized, maybe 3 times the length of the body. the other 2 leg pairs are weirdly shorter than the body.

On the second day of #Crustmas, my true love gave to me
Two Telamonocarcinus, Cretaceous leggy bois from Lebanon

A scary grey and red fish - Aidachar.

Another one of those scary wet things (fish artists, I don't know how you do it) from the Kem Kem waterways - Aidachar. While not very well known, it is part of the same order as the much more famous Xiphactinus.

Size comparison below ⬇️

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