ludwig 🦴

art share!!! I like to draw horses and dogs and creatures in general

#ludsart

If things had gone differently.

Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, one of the several elephants that used to live on Mediterranean islands, greeting a baby in an Ancient Greek vase. Small island elephants around the world went extinct around the time of human arrival, but I wonder, what if they didn’t.

A somewhat-unfinished drawing of two brine shrimp circling each-other. They are pink and yellow with a purple circle behind them.

As an extra- I originally set out to do Brine Shrimp, but after much more struggle than I'd anticipated with the animal I ended up tossing the drawing in the end and replacing the prompt. For anyone who enjoys pink-colored brine shrimp, enjoy

Brine Shrimp (Artemia monica)

What did Carolingian kings know about the Roman army? A new blog post.
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drawing inspired by cave paintings and #zooarcheology

#ludsart

A digital painting of a large, round, glass observatory. Out the windows we see whale sharks and manta rays, covered in golden/orange star. In the foreground, a girl is seen painting the whale sharks, and a small orange dog looks up at the scene from the other side of the room

The Observatory 🐋🌟

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social Follow • Bluesky Elder a decent article from the dreaded noah on how a blut und boden nationalism has come to cloak itself in the language of "decolonization" and "indigenous land" www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are… No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups. www.noahpinion.blog

Landback is about governance and stewardship, not European and capitalist notions of ownership.

Comparing it to Naziism is the height of settler anxiety, propaganda, and bullshit. Nobody wants to sink to your level guys. Stop projecting.

How to Buy a Medieval Warhorse - Medievalists.net Owning a warhorse was more than a necessity for medieval knights—it was a symbol of their status and a critical asset in battle. England’s warrior aristocracy had multiple avenues to secure these priz...

#horsehistory

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tower of blue horses - Franz Marc

1913 #horseart

A Cushendall pony with a turf creel on a travoise. The harness and traces are all made of straw, plaited. There is an elderly woman standing with a very cute dog, outside a thatched cottage. 19th century photo of the NMNI

Anyway.
An archaeology break with a thread !
I want you to look at this lovely photo which belongs to the National Museums Northern Ireland. It's a turf travois up in 19th c Glendun. Now zoom on the harness ( welcome to my life ). Notice anything ? It's all straw

The smallest of horses...and the biggest.
Left: Holotype lower jaw of Minippus index.
Right: Holotype of of Equus giganteus, a single upper molar nearly 4cm across(!!).
Pictured with skulls of their (less extreme) relatives. #FossilFriday

Well, don't think I already had enough coffee this morning to comment on Neolithic Snake Wrestling™, but these loincloths (side note: among the figurines known from GöbekliTepe & vicinity, mostly male individuals seem depicted wearing belts) may well be inspired by those #Catalyhöyük murals, fwiw. 🏺

A book cover that is designed to resemble a vintage orange Penguin Pocket Book. The title is "The Desire to be an Archaeologist: And OtherDiseasesof the Brian" by Antique Christie.

This one never gets old

🏺 #archaeology

A two headed calf skull, part of the baker and brothwell collection held at the University of York

The condition is known as polycephaly and is incredibly rare.

🦴🐮 #zooarchaeology

#Archaeology🏺 isn't about dusty old objects in museum showcases - it's about reconstructing and understanding the past people's lives.

But to really bring those people back to life, sometimes it takes the pencil, the brush and the virtuosity of a real illustrator.

Pole Pair with a Trace Horse at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, 1852 #horseart

Foal (1903)
Nils Kreuger (Swedish, 1858-1930) #horseart

Downtown Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

XIX

yippeeee

Amazing fossil alert.

Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach…

🧪 #evolution #paleontology

um segundo macaco atingiu as torres

had an amazing 4-hour lecture about food archeology today!

will you run with me

Style very inspired by @oceansatedogs.bsky.social

rocket and jerome just being bros ! #gingadesentsuweed #silverfang #gdw #ludsart

David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (Swedish, 1628–1698), "Karl XI's Lifeguard Horse Pegasus", 1684

#horseart

even here I can’t escape arcane spoilers :/

India has the greatest units the rest of the world doesnt hear enough about. Nilgai is nice, but the great grand daddy of the genre is the scariest cow on the planet.

meet the Gaur. It rhymes with power and it rhymes with sour.

Yes that is a full sized tourist bus.

Two bird-like animals leap at one another. Their chests and wings are orange, their necks orange-brown, and their legs white. Feather fans project from their tail base and tail tips. They are surrounded by the bases of trees and framed against a hazy blue-green backdrop. Leaf-litter occupies the base of the image.

Leaping Balaur bondoc #paleoart for #FossilFriday. This image follows the interpretation that Balaur was an omnivorous bird, not a "double-clawed" dromaeosaur. The skull is unknown, so the head is based on Sapeornis. Originally created for the first @palaeogames.bsky.social book. #sciart