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Digital watercolor-style drawing of a Hooded Crow

Hooded Crow

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Let me post some art since I haven't done that in a while. 🫠 It's spooky season so how about an illustration of some cranky old lady ghosts?

Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...

If you see this, post your #yellow #art! 🍋🍋🍋

#lemonshark

illustration from a children’s book of animal poems, sloth hanging from flowery foliage, brown-red/lime green/black on white background, vintage mid century modern style Accompanying poem by Theodore Roethke: The Sloth In moving-slow he has no Peer, You ask him something in his Ear; He thinks about it for a Year; And, then, before he says a Word There, upside down (unlike a Bird), He will assume that you have Heard -- A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug. But should you call his manner Smug, He'll sign and give his Branch a Hug; Then off again to Sleep he goes, Still swaying gently by his Toes, And you just know he knows he knows.

Happy #InternationalSlothDay 🦥
The #Sloth, 1968
from _A Paper Zoo: A Collection of Animal Poems by Modern American Poets_ selected by Renee Karol Weiss, illustrations by Ellen Raskin.
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Also, some alternate colorways I did on the way to the final version!

Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris) Roadside Hawk from 86049 Tab., México on October 12, 2025 at 03:55 PM by Braxton Berttolini. Inmediaciones del Aeropuerto de Villahermosa, Tabasco.

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Digital drawing of a Roadside Hawk. Along the bottom it is captioned with “Rupornis magnitostris”, the bird’s Latin name.

Best cure for art block is to just draw whatever the most recent bird uploaded to inaturalist is, in this case it’s a roadside hawk

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lammergeier 🦴🔥

bold hand-drawn text reading “BETTER A PIG THAN A FASCIST” over a drawing of porco rosso giving a thumbs up in his red plane

laws don’t apply to pigs

🐷 #art #ghibli

Sketchbook drawing of sunflowers

Sketchbook doodles of trees, trucks, landscapes, and birds

Kansas

A stylised illustration of a White-headed Vulture against a blue sky.

Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar: White-headed Vulture!

#birds #digitalart

Happy international vulture awareness day everybody 🪶

Two Chinese geese in a cage at a state fair competition, with a sign that says “champion goose” behind them

The geese in question

Two Chinese geese on a purple background with some stars around them

Portrait of the champion Chinese geese I saw at the state fair

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I loved your series of birds so much! Such good form simplifications while keeping so much personality

Look at all those chickens

#AvianAugust #AvianAugust2025 #birds

Compilation of all the birds I drew for Avian August 2025.

#Avianaugust2025 wrap up of all 31 birds 🦉🦜🪿

I learned so much about so many species I didn't know about, especially all the honeycreepers! Thanks to @cookiedoves.bsky.social for the list <3

If you are interested in prints you can find them here:
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One photo couldn’t contain her fluff so here’s 4

Drawing of a light Hawaiian rail holding a leafy vine. The vine has 1884 written on it, referring to the year the bird was last seen. The rail is brown with a yellow and grey beak, pink feet, and a red eye.

Hawaiian Rail, last seen in 1884. This bird had two types, one with dark and one with light feathers (this drawing shows the light form).

Today is the final day of #avianaugust - I will be doing a wrap up post tomorrow, as well as some info about buying prints for anyone interested!

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Last bird for avian august is the Moloka'i creeper and with it All of the birds are done! Only background left
#avianaugust #birdart #birds #art #watercolorart

I loved your birds! The zebra dove was my favorite, I think.

🪶 I’ve completed Avian August 2025! I hope all the conservation programs will go well and they live long and prosper.
🌺 鳥類月間2025〜ハワイ編〜　完走しました！　今夏も毎日TLで大勢の鳥を観測できて楽しかったです。また来年！
#AvianAugust #Birds

Drawing of a male Kākāwahie perched on a winding gold branch, engraved with the year 1963 (the last year the bird was seen in the wild). The Kākāwahie is bright orange/red, with dark wings and tail feathers.

Kākāwahie - last seen in 1963, and declared extinct in 2023.

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A digital colour pencil illustration of a Palila with its head sticking out of a hot pink wooden frame (with a blue background sheet), looking at you curiously, one claw on the frame.

Day 29 - Palila 🪶
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After days of extinct birds, it's a nice change to draw a species still with us (though critically endangered), so this one is saying: I'm still kicking!

Drawing of a Palila perched on a branch with a few leaves. It is grey and white with a yellow head and yellow/black wings and tail feathers.

Palila

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Drawing of an ʻUla-ʻai-hāwane perched on a long coiling branch. The branch is engraved with “1892”, the year the bird went extinct.

ʻUla-ʻai-hāwane - extinct since 1892.

There are only 5 surviving museum specimens of this bird, and a few 19th-early 20th century renderings of it, most of which were made after the bird was already gone.

#avianaugust #birdart 🪶

a small black kitten looks very chill on a mousepad. he is EXTREMELY adorable.

hey do you need your own personal mousepad inspector? you should adopt Winsor! he is a purrmaster. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ljx...

Balcha indica, a massive (10mm!) eupelmid parasitoid of Agrilus jewel beetles. Third one I've found in Oregon so far

A character standing, with the head of a black bird coming out of a monk's frock, holding a stick with both their hands. Their feet are those of a bird, and a knife is hanging at their belt

Birdfolk pilgrim

Drawing of an ʻŌʻū on a dark green background. It had a yellow head and grey body, with a pinkish beak and legs. It’s perched on a long swirling branch, engraved with “1989”—the year the bird was las sighted.

ʻŌʻū - last seen in 1989, declared extinct in 2024.

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