Louise

The hedgehog that lives under the shed in the garden had 4 babies this year. I set up a feeding station for them & decided to install a little camera. The footage has been fantastic!! 🦔 @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social
#wildlife #nature #hedgehog

The owl of judgment! 🦉😄
Cute burrowing owl painted with @procreate.com

#art #animalart #digitally #procreate

Beautiful words, thank you!

The use of light/dark to emphasise/hide areas of a horse's body in chiaroscuro photography is simply stunning.

Here's my practice piece, painted digitally. There's something satisfying about holding back on the detail & letting the blank spaces fill in the gaps.
#art #animalart #digitalart #horse

The mesmerising power & beauty of a wave 🌊

#nature #ocean #sunday
🎥Philip Thurston

Been trying to figure out the best way to create depth of field in @procreate.com, by bluring certain layers. Kinda seeing what works & learning as i go! This highland cow was a good practice piece!
#art #digitalart #nature #wildlife

The adorable 'puff & roll' dance of the White-browed bushchat!! The purpose of this behaviour remains a mystery.

🎥? #birds #nature #wildlife

Meet the world's smallest reptile!!

Measuring just 13.5mm/0.53 inches long (the size of a sunflower seed!), the nano-chameleon, named 'Brookesia nana', was only discovered in a rainforest in northern Madagascar in 2021!!

📷Frank Glaw #nature #wildlife #reptile

Cirrothauma magna is a species of deep-sea octopus found in the Indian, Atlantic, & Pacific oceans.

The species is poorly understood but is the largest known cirrate octopod, with well developed eyes, delicate webbed body & a fascinating locomotion!

🎥deepseauwa #nature #wildlife

This magnificent 53 year old elephant, known as 'Craig', lives in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.

His huge tusks are reminiscent of a bygone era, a time before ivory poaching. Today, he is one of only 25 big tuskers left in the wild.

🎥pixayialel #nature #wildlife #elephant

The Chinese water deer is one of only two species of deer where the male lacks antlers & instead is armed with long, sharp upper canine teeth that protrude from the mouth!

This solitary species feed on lush vegetation that grows in marshy habitats.

📷Daniel Mason #nature #wildlife #deer

Loved digitally painting this super cute East African antelope called a gerenuk.

Think it's a mixture of that wonderful facial expression & those marvellous ears that makes them so adorable!

#art #digitalart #animalart #nature #wildlife #procreate

The fearsome, yet absolutely harmless, Thorny Devil, a reptile superbly adapted to life in Australia's harsh interior.

Using their specialised skin like a straw, capillary action channels water from anywhere on their body into their mouth!

📷Damian Duffy #nature #wildlife #reptile

Like mother, like daughter! 😄Happy #caturday!!

Ig:Miyavlikedicikler #cats

The Leaf sheep! The only organism in the entire world that is not a plant yet is able to photosynthesize!

Absorbing chloroplasts from Avrainvillea, a fuzzy algae that they eat, enables the sea slug to supplement its diet through photosynthesis!

🎥oceansnation #nature #wildlife #seaslug

The leggy wild cat that roams sub-Saharan Africa.

With the longest legs of any cat relative to its body size, elongated neck & excellent hearing, the Serval is a master hunter among the marshes, reedbeds & grasslands of its optimal habitat.

📷michel_zoghzoghi #nature #wildlife #cat #serval

Venturing into a new area ~ digital landscape painting! Learning lots from amazing procreate artist James Julier. This one is based on his YT tutorial called Sun River!

Went a little off script with it in the end but pretty happy how it turned out! 🌞

#art #digitalart #landscapeart #nature

Think of a hyena & most will have an image of the large, brown spotted hyena that roams the African Plains but there is a mysterious cousin called the striped hyena!

Seldom seen & poorly understood, striped hyenas are almost exclusively scavengers.

🎥Khalid Bagwan #nature #wildlife #hyena

To all UK bird lovers, there's still time to take part in the RSPB's #BigGardenBirdWatch, which helps track the health of our feathered friends!

Be part of one the largest citizen science projects in the world...get counting!🐦

The Leaf-mimic katydids ~an extrodinary family of insects!

These guys have evolved such an unbelievable likeness to leaves, that some mimic the veins, nibble marks & signs of disease that are found on real leaves!

📷Laurent Hesemans/ Norbert Schmoll/ Brian Lee/ Don Taylor #nature #wildlife #insects

Razorbills are undoubtedly THE most furturistic-looking of any bird out there!

But that sleek aesthetic & aerodynamic body is built for pure speed & a life in the harsh ocean environment they call home.

🎥Fabiano Roggio #nature #wildlife #birds

Adorable little kitty soaking up the sun! 😭🤗 Happy #Caturday!

🎥Fortuneisacat #cats

My first digital painting of 2025! 🐯

#procreate #art #digitalart #animalart

The back & forth rocking walk of the Chameleon may look bizarre but it serves an important purpose!

They're actually mimicing a moving leaf & when among trees or bushes, they're really hard to spot! A clever defense against predators & a stealthy way to suprise prey!

🎥Ross Couper #nature #wildlife

The brown/grey plumage of the Eastern screech owl is patterned with complex bands & spots. This provides an excellent camouflage against tree bark!

📷Graham McGeorge #nature #wildlife #birds #owl

Merry Christmas! Here's a Bohemian waxwing feeding on rowan berries.

Berries are vital for waxwings during winter, as they migrate westwards from Scandinavia in search of them. They typically eat 800-1000 berries a day, twice their body weight!

📷Jukka Risikko #nature #wildlife #birds #christmas

Dominant male western grey kangaroos frequently strike poses to display their size & muscularity, not only to warn off other males but to attract females!

In fact, the bulkier the bicep (specifically), the more attractive he is to a potential mate!

🎥? #nature #wildlife #kangaroo

Behold the camouflage of this amazing little forest goblin!

The Malayan leaf frog inhabits the forest floors & shallow streams of Southeast Asia's tropical rainforests & avoids predators by mimicing leaf litter!

🎥unknown #nature #wildlife #frogs

Just hanging out!

Ravens are very intelligent creatures that learn & challenge themselves through play!

🎥Marcin Nawrocki #nature #wildlife #birds