William's Tendrils

I've been transitioning to a new online persona, hence the new handle!

An illustration of two morpho butterflies on a large leafed anthurium plant. One butterfly has its wings spread out to showcase a vibrant iridescent dark blue, while the other one has its wings closed and shows a brown underside with red eye spots and subtle lighter brown and gray markings. The anthurium is a dark green plant with large heart shaped leaves and lighter leaf veins. It is illustrated on a teal blue background.

Blue morpho butterflies 🦋💙

blood ocean cosmic horror movie scene

Surprise Iron Lung fanart! (spoilers) #ironlung

springtrap drawing

Uguhh #springtrap #fnaf #fnaf3

character sketches

Been going wild again #williamafton

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Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "To Dream by the Sea No. 2508" 8"x8" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). An atmospheric textured seascape with white cloud formations over a dark blue sea with a rocky shore.

Day 5: #ArtAdventCalendar

Also, it's #scape day!

Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2508, oil on gessobord, 8"x8"

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#art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt #SciArt

little #williamafton photo bashing attempt.. was very fun 🐇

#WilliamAfton

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A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a black background.

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a white background.

Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 🍁

#SciArt #invertebrates

Invertober 2025 1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) 2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) 4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus) 5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor) 6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) 7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix) 9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi) 10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) 11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) 12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula) 13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus) 14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ‪16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬ 17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus) 18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium) 19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) 20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella) 21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) 22. Sea angel (Clione limacina) 23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima) 24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus) 25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) 26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva) 27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) 28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla) 29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) 30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) 31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)

The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025

Not the exact same species (I think), but close enough! (crawling up my kitchen window and being sassy about it)

Notice the past tense. For added context, it was one of the only fields presented to me whenever I was forced into online college prep by my high school guidance counsellor. It's not Graphic Designers fault that a program designed to push kids into college gave so few options for future artists.

A collection of replica banana slugs on hangable wooden plaques with visible slime trailing behind each slug

I made some banana slugs on hangable wooden plaques and put them up on savimade.ca/shop
#SciArt #NatureArt

One of the major reason I didn't even bother pursuing a career in art was because I didn't want to be shunted into a "graphic design" field where I was forced to waste my skill on web design. That was what they wanted artists for before Al. And I thought *that* was a soulless waste of my time..

An illustration of a red-banded leafhopper drawn on a canvas with acrylic paint pens. The insect is brightly colored with blue, orange, and yellow and has red bands on its body. It is illustrated on a turquoise background.

Little leafhopper on a tiny canvas!!

An illustration of two alligator gar on a teal background. The fish have a long alligator-like snout and are covered in armored scales. The fish are greenish-brown and have some speckled darker spots and markings on their fins and back.

gartastic

My Portuguese man o’ war linocut is printed in blues, turquoise, violet and pink on white 9.25” by 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. The float is above the water surface, the tentacles below.

Day 11 #SciArtSeptember prompt venomous: my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea. 🧪🐡

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many 🧵

A pair of Plumbeous water redstart illustration

Adorable Blueberry birbs🫐one male and one female!

#bluebirdart #birdillustration #patternedbird #cutebirdart #fantasybirb #tinybirds #colorfulcreatures #decorativeart #pastelpalette #whimsicalwildlife #birbart #avianstudy

They hang around like monkeys!!

Rain and rainbow

A banner image promoting the month-long art challenge, Sci Art September 2025. The banner features an animal illustration plus text describing a monthly theme, weekly themes, and daily prompt words. The month-long theme is conservation. In order, the weekly themes are: Lands, species, water, people, and a shared future. Finally, the list of daily words is as follows. Week one: Islet, canopy, jewel, riverbank, corridor, prairie, boreal. Week two: Niche, vanishing, tawny, venomous, wandering, bottleneck, mimic. Week 3: Spawning, rift, trawl, cenote, depths, glacial, reef. Week 4: Fellowship, scouting, numbered, tireless, forage, bounded, harvest. Week 5: Foresight, dream. The event is hosted by LizLagomorph and LucyGemArt.

✨Starting on Monday!✨

#SciArtSeptember is a month-long creative challenge inspired by natural sciences. 🌿

Post on your own schedule.
Post new work, old work, work-in-progress.
Post artwork, music, words - whatever you like to make. (Thematic baked goods?🤞)
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#SciArt #SciComm #Nature

Tiny green slug caterpillar with 4 large brown spiny tubercules front and rear growing like trees out of its back, roaming a board

Consider: Baby saddleback 💚

Front of the 2025 Canada Post fungus stamp set's Official First Day Cover, featuring images of 5 different fungus stamps against a background that includes larger-size cropped portions of the oyster fungus illustration.

Canada Post released this set of 5 #fungi #stamps last week. I'm so pleased to have had the opportunity to illustrate them!
Design by Joce Creative.
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#fungifriends #postagestamps #stampcollecting #philately #fungiart #mushrooms #lichens #SciArt

A photo of three different colorful tea towels folded next to each other. The vibrant patterns from left to right are: Redwood Forest Floor, North American Moths, and Nudibranchs.

A second photo of the tea towels folded next to each other, this time close up and at an angle to show the cotton fabric. The designs feature 1) small redwood forest critters like snakes, slugs, and salamanders, 2) various species of North American moths, and 3) sea slugs/Nudibranchs of vibrant colors and shapes

A photo of the same three tea towels, this time displayed folded horizontally and arranged top to bottom.

New tea towels just got added to the shop! Redwood Forest Floor, North American Moths, and Nudibranchs!! 🦋☘️🌊

Available here! shop.fossilforager.art

Christian Degn on Ampwall

Caroline Harrison on Ampwall

Priscilla Snow on Ampwall

Serpens Codex on Ampwall

Visual artists are an integral part of a music community

Artists can create pages on @ampwall.com just like music pages!

Read about the feature here ⬇️

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Examples here: @christiandegn.bsky.social, @carolinedraws.bsky.social, @ghoulnoise.com, Serpens Codex

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Just an incredible sight 🥹

Three species of corydoras swim in a school, creating a peaceful and happy atmosphere. Pygmy corydoras (corydoras pygmaeus), Salt and Pepper corydoras (corydoras habrosus), and Dwarf corydoras (corydoras hastatus)

Dwarf cory catfish🐟