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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of Clouded Yellows on the heath. So pretty. 💛

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Karen Yumi 💚Vgen OPEN! @karenyumilusted.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A commission I’ve been working on recently. Been busy with several other projects that I can’t reveal yet but I’m still working on art! — #commission #watercolor #painting #wipart #watercolour #castle #roses #sleepingbeautycastle #イラスト

A WIP of a watercolor painting of a castle in the back and a thicket of rose bushes in the foreground.

A WIP of a watercolor painting rose bush and pink roses.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally finished this painting of the Ginger Garden 🌺✨ This painting was commissioned by the Ministry of Primary Resources and Tourism and is featured in their building #zingiberales #gingerplant #botanicalart #SciArt🐡

A watercolor and gouache painting of three ginger flowers, namely Torch Ginger (dark red petals lined in white with a very intricate inner core of pink petals), Shampoo Ginger (deep red, resembling pinecones) and banana trees in the background. Featured also are a Borneo Spiderhunter bird with its olive plumage and long beak, and some green-pink fruit doves in the background.

A photo showing a painting of ginger flowers along with a rather messy painting palette full of green, blue and red smudges of paint.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hello everyone! Back to posting on this account, I will try to keep consistent 🌱 Here is something different, a digital piece featuring Dendrobium Hassanal Saleha. I drew it in pencil, scanned it and coloured everything in CSP #botanicalart #botany #orchid #SciArt🐡

A digital illustration detailing a species of orchid (Dendrobium Hassanal Saleha), which has somewhat wavy ashy pink petals and a darker purple middle, surrounded by dark green leaves.

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did u know? Seed heads, not only look beautiful, they are essential to wildlife friendly gardens. They shelter small souls during cold, wet winter months & they feed birds, like goldfinches when other food is scarce. So don't lop 'em off, leave 'em in situ.....Believe in *brown*. 🤎🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦‍⬛🪲🕷️

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fab 1st day @royentsoc.bsky.social #Ento26, so busy, and I had such interesting chats with people about their research, & heard some fascinating presentations at the symposiums I loved teaching my insect drawing workshop, & was lucky enough to sell some originals and prints too. Come and say hi!

Cut to white #sciart #entomology #naturalhistoryilliustration of the Small #tortoiseshell butterfly #Aglais urticae

Cut to white #sciart #entomology #naturalhistoryilliustration of the Great green #bushcricket #Tettigonia viridissima

Cut to white #sciart #entomology #naturalhistoryilliustration of the Banded #demoiselle #Calopteryx splendens

Cut to white #sciart #entomology #naturalhistoryilliustration of the #Orange-tip #Anthocharis cardamines butterfly with #Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Dillenia suffruticosa "Simpor Air" or "Simpor Bini (Female Simpor)" as it is known by the Malays in Brunei Darussalam #botanicalart #pencilart #SciArt🐡

A detailed illustration of Dillenia suffruticosa flowers and leaves, done in graphite pencil.
The flowers each have five broad petals lightly crumpled like frilly fabric. The leaves are broad and somewhat oblong shaped.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Dillenia suffruticosa "Simpor Air" or "Simpor Bini (Female Simpor)" as it is known by the Malays in Brunei Darussalam #botanicalart #pencilart #SciArt🐡

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A quieter kind of day. I have a bit more painting to do but I just want to rest right now

Photo showing two botanical books, one about mushrooms and another showing a page on turmeric plants

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Karen Yumi 💚Vgen OPEN! @karenyumilusted.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I’m opening up slots for commissions! I’m looking forward to painting some of your pets! ko-fi.com/c/2f0760ce9a #watercolor #commissions #art #watercolour #aquarell #水彩 #artistsupport #イラスト

A watercolor painting of a brown, black and white cat, the text “Commissions” has a rainbow gradient and below that the text “swipe for more information” is against a green and pink gradient background. Around the text is a cat and dog sticker and a hand pointing to the right.

A watercolor painting of a black and white cat with the text: “10x7inch (24.4x17.7cm) Watercolor Painting of your pet!” in black fill with a white border is in front of the cat image.

A watercolor painting of a brown, black and white cat with the text: “Check out my bio - Ko-Fi Shop for more information” in black fill and a white border in front of the cat image. Below the text are images of a like button, laughing emote and heart emote.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This sweet young man made his way into my life last year and has been my painting companion since 🕊️ #botanicalart #paintings

A young pigeon with white and brown speckled plumage perched on a chair facing a painting of brightly colored tropical plants, featuring elephant ear yam and heliconias.

A sleepy young pigeon with white and brown speckled plumage perched on a chair facing a painting of brightly colored tropical plants, featuring elephant ear yam and heliconias.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year 2026✨ I've taken a long hiatus from this account to catch up with work, but I think it's time to start posting here again Starting off the new year with a new challenge, fungi! #fungi🍄 #mushrooms #SciArt🐡

A half-finished watercolor illustration of three different kinds of mushrooms: Oster mushrooms, shimeji mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Finished partial page illustration of simpor air (Dillenia suffruticosa) for my wip illustrated book, Barunai Botanica Vol.1 #botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡

A watercolor illustration of a flower with yellow and orange petals. The centre of the flower is a mass of white, stringy filaments bunched together around a single star-shaped white structure, which is the flower's stigma (female reproductive part of the flower)

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Finished partial page illustration of simpor air (Dillenia suffruticosa) for my wip illustrated book, Barunai Botanica Vol.1 #botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I've been busy working on the side, but have thoroughly neglected this account woops! I'm far more active on my Instagram Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated #botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡

Watercolor and pencil illustration of a torch ginger inflorescence. The inflorescence is covered in numerous overlapping 'petals'. The 'petals' (which are actually bracts) are rather dry and withered looking here, the usual vigorous red of the torch ginger turned ashy pink with age and dehydration

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This is the #Comma #butterfly, #Polygonia c-album, one of my favourite UK species. The latin name "c album" refers to the little white comma you see on the underside of the lower wings. I love the undulating wing margins which make it instantly recognizable. #sciart #naturalscienceillustration

Watercolour #naturalhistoryilliustration of the orange and brown comma butterfly. On the left is as adult with wings outstretched showing dark brown wavy wing margins and black and orange wing markings
On the right is the sane species with wings fded, facing right. The wing underside is dark brown and blacks with a very clear bright white comma on the bottom wing, hence the butterfly name, "comma"

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IKEI art studio @ikei.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Rose pendant 🌹✨ Handmade clay pendant with an impression of a stylized rose. I made the impression using a stamp I handcrafted myself. 🔗 shop.ikeiartstudio.com/product/rose-pendant #bsnm #handmadejewelry #ceramics.

A white clay pendant with a scalloped edge. The clay is impressed with the stylized image of a rose that is painted with red and pink. The pendant lies on a brown and dark grey rock.

A white clay pendant with a scalloped edge. The clay is impressed with the stylized image of a rose that is painted with red and pink. You see the pendant from the side, where the shine on the coloured parts is visible. The pendant leans against a brown and dark grey rock that lies on a wooden surface.

A white clay pendant with a scalloped edge. The clay is impressed with the stylized image of a rose that is painted with red and pink. The pendant is hanging on a fabric buste from a dark brown leather cord.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The unhinged amount of detail I'm going to be pouring into this wide format illustration (if it gets approved) #digitalpainting #SciArt🐡

Photo showing a screen with a sketchy drawing of two hornbills perching on a branch, surrounded by lush greenery

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Completely unrelated (sort of) but MHWilds' Scarlet Forest is so beautiful and inspires me a lot! ✨

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Still working on this massive painting, honestly it's been slow going simply because I procrastinated. But seeing the result from my previous, smaller painting keeps me going #botanicalart #painting

Photo of a two vibrant acrylic and gouache paintings, one of red flowers and greenish yellow flowers and another much larger painting of lush green leaves and drooping crimson and yellow flowers

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

More bird portraits 🐦✨ A crimson Sunbird amongst jade vine! I had a lot of fun painting with all those many colours

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

A piece commissioned by Universiti Brunei Darussalam Botanical Research Centre of select plants from their gardens. Bunga Simpor (Dillenia suffruticosa), Helmet Orchid (Corybas pictus), Bunga Kantan (E.elatior), pitcher plant (N.ampullaria) & Hoya flowers (H.imperialis) #SciArt🐡 #BotanicalArt

A watercolor illustration featuring a bright yellow simpor flower, dark purple helmet orchids, brown speckled green pitcher plants, glossy red Hoya flowers and a single light pink torch ginger flower

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

More work on kodop (Schizophyllum commune). The detailing of the gills is a challenging but worth the work! Also forgive the bad photography I'm no good at taking pics of my art #Fungi🍄 #SciArt🐡 #Botany

Pencil drawing of a fan shaped fungus with very fine frills, or gills

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Pencil study of Schizophyllum commune, known as "kadap" or "kulat sisir"(comb mushroom) in Malay. #mushroom🍄 #fungi #SciArt🐡

Detailed pencil illustration of the underside of a splitgill mushroom, shaped like an irregular scallop or fan. Its underside is covered in fine pleats or gill-like structures

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My #sciart #illustration of the #Orange-tip #Anthocharis cardamines #butterfly with the #Cuckoo-flower #Cardamine pratensis. Cuckoo flower is also called lady's smock and flowers in late spring. It's the host plant for the Orange tip's caterpillars. We can eat it too, rather delicious and mustardy.

Two Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterflies with a Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis in bloom. One butterfly has wings outspeed, the other has them folded as it perches on the four-petalked pale pink flowers. The cuckoo flower has leaves of paired leaflets with a terminal leaflet, and the illustratikn shows that these are larger and the leaflets are a bit broader lower down the plant. The orange only covers the top third of the upper wings and is edged with a darker margin. The rest of the wing is a greenish white, with clearly visible veins. The underside of the lower wing is blotched with an irregular yellowish green pattern.

#botanicalillustration #sciart #butterflypainting #entomology #naturalscienceillustration

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Pencil study of Schizophyllum commune, known as "kadap" or "kulat sisir"(comb mushroom) in Malay. #mushroom🍄 #fungi #SciArt🐡

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Recent #sciart #botanicalillustration of #ribwort #plantain #plantagolanceolata. What an obliging plant, with leaves to work with even in the depths of a wintery January! And if you crush the leaves, they smell just like mushrooms. I love to include tiny areas of leaf damage if I can sneak them in.

Watercolour #botanicalillustration of Ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata in progress. You can see the layer of paint druing is yellow green, and has been applied over the base layer of a darker green whcih shows the veins and leaf tecture. There are three leaves on the page, which I was workign with, and my paintbrush along with my paintbox. The paintbox has the yellow green in the palette. Under the page you can see some photo reference I was using. The plant has roots and a close up detail of one flower from the flowering spike on the right of the illustration.

Ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata. This photo shows the illustration before I add the scape and the flowering heads, its just a basal rosette of lanceolate leaves with their parallel veins, along with the simple roots. You can see the pencil drawing of the flowering beads (yet to be painted, so currently without colour) and my hand holding my paint brush. there are also the four leaves I was working with for colour reference in the photo.

Completed botanical illustration of Ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata. This time it's just a scan of the finished illustration, cut to white. There are three flowering heads, two are side on and one is pointing toward the vuewer, The sideways ones are differnt shapes (and ages), one blunter and more elongate as it's older. The stamens stick out from the flowers, and although they're cream, in the older flowering head they've turned brown. The stem is ridged and squared and you can see the basal rosette of leaves, immediately recognizable because of their parallel long veins. Roots, pale and simple, stretch to the left of the basal rosette. I've included a few yellowing spots of leaf damage, partly cause its fun, but also to show how damage on the leaves looks. The underside of the leaves are slightly paler, and one leaf is seen sideways on to show this. The close up of one flower, on the right of the illustration, shows one flower with four cream petals and the creamy anthers.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dendrobium crumenatum, also known as Anggerek Merpati or Pigeon Orchid. They'd grow in trees close to the roadsides, where when it's flowering time they look like cascading necklaces of white blooms #orchid #botanicalart

Pencil sketch of two blooming orchids, with unopened buds beside them. The buds look like resting doves with their wings tucked against their sides, little beaks pointed skyward. This is why it is called a pigeon orchid.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

More orchids! I'm planning to make a sticker sheet, if I can just arrange them nicely enough Featuring Bamboo Orchid (Arundinia graminifolia) and Helmet Orchid (Corybas pictus)

A photo showing a halfway done digital art drawing of two orchid species, one small and round (white and red) with a single heart-shaped leaf and another larger, with white and purple petals

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Karen Yumi 💚Vgen OPEN! @karenyumilusted.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is the piece I entered! I also have this as a sparkly print in my Ko-Fi shop!

A black cat floating among pink carnation flowers and decorated with gold leaf patterns.

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Emily S. Damstra @emilydamstra.com · 31/01/2025

Lichens! I illustrated these as Artist-in-Residence @ Glacier Nat'l Park & Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park. One isn't allowed to collect specimens in a NP, so I noted the exact placement of the rocks bearing these specimens, brought them to my cabin to paint, then carefully returned them to their home. #sciart

Detailed colored pencil drawing of The Elegant Sunburst Lichen; Xanthoria elegans.

Detailed color painting of lichens from Rocky Point in Glacier National Park, Montana.
Acarospora fuscata, Aspicilia ceasiocinerea, Rhizocarpum geographicum

Detailed color painting of Lichens on pink granite from Rocky Mountain National Park.
Rhizoplaca melanophthalma, Dimelaena oreina, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca

Detailed color painting of Lichens on pink granite at Rocky Mountain National Park.
Aspicilia sp., Rhizoplaca melanophthalma, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca

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Santiago Jaume, Dr. rer. nat. @santijaumes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I have a bunch of pictures of tiny tiny wasps. They are very cool and they come in alm sorts of shapes and colors, but they are very hard to photograph, mainly because of their size, but also because they move around a lot haha. #macro #hymenoptera #insects #parasitoids

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Center of our galaxy, Sgr C. NIRCam image. Processing: @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

A NIRCam image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, a complex star-forming region near the Galactic Center. The image reveals a dense concentration of stars, bright nebulae, and dark dust clouds obscuring parts of the region. The strong presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is indicated by the strong emission in specific infrared wavelengths.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Can anyone help me identify this bracket fungi? It's called 'kodop' or 'kadap' here in Brunei and is edible. I haven't been able to correctly identify the species #fungi #mushroom 🍄

Photo showing a white paper plate of small scallop-shaped fungi/mushroom, grey-white on the top side and brown below. The underside of the mushroom has numerous, pleated frills.

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Kirsten Neil @kirstenneil.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Fini. A colourful heart in blooms. 🌺♥️ #art #januarty #artsky #flowersky #watercolour

A progress photo of ‘Heart in Blooms,’ a watercolour painting of assorted flowers in the shape of a heart.

A photo of ‘Heart in Blooms,’ a watercolour painting by Kirsten Neil. The piece is an assortment of flowers in the shape of a heart.

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The workshop went great today! I'm teaching a starter class on botanical illustration & we drew roses ✨ It's a special day for the class because camera crew for Radio Television Brunei came to record the session

Paper showing a halfway done watercolor illustration of a soft pink rose with a yellow centre, framed by pastel pink roses, orchids and paints

Photo showing a classroom full of students studying how to paint using watercolors. They are busy looking down on their papers and paints. A spray of soft orange roses in a vase sits on one of the tables, a lovely specimen the students are using as reference. In the background, TV crew holding video cameras are recording the whole thing

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I have an illustration class to teach tomorrow and my mind and guts are in knots ahaha I'm no stranger to teaching, but I still get very anxious to do well

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Barunai Botanica @barunaibotanica.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I love wild grasses with their little blooms. I don't know what these are yet, but they're very lovely

Photo of a small, vibrant green grass with yellow flowers nestled among brown leaf litter

Photo of a small species of grass with star-shaped white flowers

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🌌 GalaxyGallimaufry @galaxygallimaufry.pckt.cafe · 23/01/2025

After faithfully observing her shadow on earth for 10 years, Beatrice the groundhog ascended and became ✨Beatrice the Skyhog✨ And now she floats in the clouds, casting a large shadow on earth in the moonlight 🌕✨ #art #illustration #starrysky #paintmarkers #cuteart #groundhogday #pinkleap

Artwork of a groundhog sitting in some pink clouds, floating in a dark blue sky filled with a full moon and some stars. Beatrice the Skyhog looks very serene and has a halo of stars around her head.

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Karen Yumi 💚Vgen OPEN! @karenyumilusted.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

QRT with your sketch and final ✨🔥

A female mermaid with long curly, flowing hair, a sweeping tail with curls, draped in a flowing shawl, sitting on rocks surrounded by coral and seaweed.

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