CassWArt 🌴

Image of Animal Day Awareness Calendar for March 2026, There is a URL link for a web page view for easy text to speech. This is an ongoing project of digital sketches featuring a wide variety of animals using the Animal Day Awareness Calendar as a prompt and guide. It's a way for me to take time to explore their anatomy and deepen an understanding of different fauna while also highlighting conservation efforts. ► * days that fall on different days from year to year ► Days highlighted in green, yellow, purple are highly recommended to participate

Animal Awareness Days for March and 2026! 🍀🌷🌸

Def going to try and make new ones for 🕷️🐸🐼🐻
As always, Mark your calendars! Plan accordingly.

📑Google Sheets Link: tinyurl.com/52svzknm
📅Google Calendar Add on Link: tinyurl.com/bdzhycfn

#AnimaCal

We finally got some hopeful news about vaquita last fall, but now Mexico is considering re-introducing gillnets into their habitat. This would ensure eventual extinction, we can't let this happen.

Please share and send emails, letters, etc to Mexican representatives to stop this.

#SaveTheVaquita

A deadly wildlife disease is spreading, but could season and habitat determine which snakes survive? In this episode, grad student Catherine Hanks reveals how indigo snakes may fight Snake Fungal Disease, and what her research could mean for conservation.

www.oriannesociety.org/snake-talk/

Graphite drawing of a polar bear’s head coming out of the water.

With International Polar Bear Day today…a throwback drawing to highlight these beautiful, vulnerable sea bears.

#polarbearday #endangered #climate #protectwildlife #polarbear #wildlifeart
#pencildrawing

Right! I just really woke up 😅🥴

daw thank you! always not sure how far to push the reference with the sketching😅 Sat there tweaking this for some time. Appreciate the notice.

I was fortunate to see polar bears swim once at the San Diego Zoo, they're so graceful underwater. I could sit and watch them for hours.

Got to work on this again today. Almost there. 24 x 36 inch oil painting on canvas. #oilpainting #polarbear

"Nanuq. The ever-wandering one".
I'm wrapping this print ready for its journey to the USA, today!
Archival quality giclee print of my pastel & pencil drawing. Holds a lot of meaning for me.
tabithamacbethart.etsy.com/listing/5587... & folksy.com/find/item/75...

#craftbizparty #polarbear #drawing

Sketchbook page of 5 drawings of Polar Bears in blue ink. At the top of the page is the text Polar Bear and 8/4/25. The top of the page are drawings of hearts and a close up of a Polar Bear's head under water and the word Boop! To the left is a standing Polar Bear. To the right is a drawing of a very fat Polar Bear looking at the viewer and the word Chonk. At the bottom are drawings of a mama Polar Bear and a cub sleeping.

Detox Doodles!

These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-...

This page is all about Polar Bears!

#art #PolarBear #bear #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

“Swag in the Hood”
Hooded Merganser
8” x 7”
Really enjoyed working in the “black” range on this one .. only used a bit of black on the pupil .. otherwise using combinations to pickup the veridian and purples .. def a learning work
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano Artistico HP

#birdart #sciart 🦉🐡

Digital sketch study sketch of 2 polar bears swimming towards the screen, a symbolic way of saying the species is swimming towards an uncertain future. Their world is melting. We don't see the changes like they do.

It's International #polarbearday 🎉🐻‍❄️🧊

I couldn't in good faith draw them on land, their world is melting. These 2 polar bears are swimming towards an uncertain future.

#PolarBear #Internationalpolarbearday #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt #SciArt

Omg, it's all the birds, and the legendary feathers! 🪶

Pure genius 👏

A small wood carving of a tiny bird in golden brown perched on a branch, looking from right to left. There is a small branch protruding from that branch with two carved leaves. Above the bird are two further branches, one behind with four leaves, and one in front with two leaves. All of it is held between two scrolls of light wood, that form an oval around it. Held at the bottom by a finger and thumb. With a grey slate background.

Well it's done. So many hours gone. It's been the bane of my life for the last two weeks. So many broken branches! Hand carved from boxwood (bird and leaves) walnut (branches) and oak (scrolls).

#carving #woodcarving #miniature #birdart #miniaturecarving #tinyart #art #sculpture #wood #woodart

that little dot of pick on the bill! Wonderful! 💗

a Dunkin Ducks duck study 🦆

#birdart #illustration

Ballpoint pen sketch of two lovebirds, sitting on a branch

The bird of February is the
Black-cheeked lovebird / Schwarzwangen-Lovebird (Agapornis nigrigenis)
for @birdwhisperers.bsky.social

#ballpointpendrawing
#penandink
#birds 🪶 #BirdWhisperer
#sciart
#art #animalart #birdart
#kleineKunstklasse

A watercolour painting I did for the February 2026 Bird Whisperer challenge of two black-cheeked lovebirds sitting side by side on a branch. The lovebird on the right side of the photo has its beak slightly open and is nuzzling the lovebird on the left. The birds have mostly bright green plumage with yellow/orange necks and darker cheeks while red/brown on their crowns. Beaks are red and white at the top and hooked. The background is a mixture of soft bright yellows, pinks and greens representing the love between the pair.

Here is my entry for the #BirdWhisperer February 2026 art challenge. These two black-cheeked lovebirds found only in South-west Zambia are classified as vulnerable due to loss of habitat.
#art #watercolour #painting #sketch #drawnfreehand #lovebirds #birds #birdlover #africanbirds #nature

Digital painting of two black-cheeked lovebirds snuggling together on a branch. The birds have mostly bright green feathers with rusty red and khaki green on head, dark feathers along cheeks and under chin, and hints of orange and turquoise blue here and there. Their feet are gray and short curved beaks are red at tip transitioning through pink to white near their heads. The background is a blurred green suggesting tree leaves.

Who has two thumbs & was unprepared for it already being the last Wednesday of the month? (Hint: it's me!)

Anyway, here's a down and dirty version of this month's #BirdWhisperer subject Black-Cheeked Lovebirds. Would have loved to do more detail as their feather pattern is spectacular but no time😂

a digital painting of a pair of lovebirds, sitting on a branch against a purple background. They are facing the viewer, with faces in profile. Their bodies are mostly bright green, with a yellow collar and a reddish-black face, and bright red beak. one is grooming the other, both look very content.

This month's #BirdWhisperer is a pair of black-cheeked lovebirds, of course! Look at them, whispering and plotting their little crimes.

(ref photo by Bernhard Jaeck)
#art #birds 🦢🐡

Two Black-cheeked Lovebirds perched on a thin branch against a green background. They have mostly green plumage, although the tops of their heads are red, their cheeks are black and they have a bright orange patch just below their throats. They have vibrant red beaks. They're nestled against each other and one is nibbling at the other's beak.

15x15cm gouache painting of a pair of Black-Cheeked Lovebirds for the February 2026 #BirdWhisperer challenge.

Reference photo credit: Bernhard Jaeck

#gouache #BirdArt #Art

Watercolor of two lovebirds perched on a branch against a bright pink background

lack Cheeked Lovebirds for February's #BirdWhisperer

Oh gosh, I was super charmed by these two and their little kissy face pose! I may have enhanced the Valentine's mood just a little bit because how could I not?

#art #watercolor #birds #birdart 🦉

such cuties patooties
#Birdwhisperer
#birdart #art

The watercolor creates such a softness touch to these lovebirds. Lovely balance to the hard and soft lines. You've captured how tender they are with each other in such an amazing way ^^

Weee welcome to the project Annie ^^ Stunning work as always 💚

Detailed watercolor painting of a pair of Black-cheeked Lovebirds based on the provided reference photo from the Bird Whisperer Project. Two green parrots with red beaks and dark brown faces are perched on a horizontal branch grooming each other. The background is a gentle green wash.

My first time participating in the #BirdWhisperer project! I experimented with a looser watercolor style on rough grain paper with these adorable Black-cheeked Lovebirds.

#BirdArt #SciArt #FineArt #AnimalArt #ArtSky

Marker & color pencil drawing of a pair of black-cheeked lovebirds sitting side-to-side while one preens the side of the other's face with its beak. Both have word balloons with hearts in thisem, and there's text reading "#birdwhisperer project February 2026".

The recent snowstorm gave me a little extra time and space to FINALLY properly participate in the monthly @birdwhisperers.bsky.social #birdart challenge! I mostly tend to draw local species; these black-cheeked lovebirds were such a fun departure, with their gorgeously bright & varied coloration. 💕

a watercolor painting of a two lovebirds snuggling together.

Here is a sweet pair of a Black-cheeked Lovebirds for this month @birdwhisperers.bsky.social 🥺🦜🦜🧡

#BirdArt #SciArt #sketchbook #art #TraditionalArt #watercolor #watercolour #BirdWhisperer #Bird #birdartist #ornithology #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #bskyart

dawe, I love this for you and your mom! ^^ Family activity! 💚 I love seeing both. Its amazing how many styles can come from one reference. Each of these are so precious!

Digital drawing. Black-cheeked Lovebirds are a small endangered parrot from Zambia. It is mainly green and has a brown head, red beak, and white eyerings. Our pair sitting on a branch together. The bird on the right has their beak open “kissing” their partner.

Traditional watercolor painting. Black-cheeked Lovebirds are a small endangered parrot from Zambia. It is mainly green and has a brown head, red beak, and white eyerings. Our pair sitting on a branch together. The bird on the right has their beak open “kissing” their partner.

It is that time of month again. Me and my mom drew the monthly #BirdWhisperer This month’s bird is the Black-cheeked Lovebird.
Mine on the left, hers on the right.
#Birds #Birdart #Art
@birdwhisperers.bsky.social