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Extinction Stories

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telling the tales of ghost species. 🦤 traditional artist with a fascination for extinct and endangered animals. extinctionstories.com

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Chantelle Chapman @chantellechapman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

‘Relocation (Lesser Prairie Chicken)’, from my Conservation Pieces series. Gouache on watercolor paper, 22x30 inches. #gouache #birdart #animalart #conservation #traditionalart

Realistic painting of a lesser prairie chicken flying out of a cardboard box. The box has postage stamps featuring Kansas, Colorado, and American flags.

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Chantelle Chapman @chantellechapman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

'Extinct in the Wild', my 11x14" #acrylicpainting. A piece inspired by the plight of species that survive only in captivity, their native habitats made unsafe by human action. Featured is a Spix's #macaw, a #bird currently in the process of restoration. #extinction #art #birdart #unicorn #animalart

A painting in traditional acrylic. A small animal pen stands on a clear-cut, polluted plain. in the background are factories pumping masses of green haze into the air. Inside the fence is one small tree, with a blue parrot perching in its branches, and a dejected-looking unicorn. There is a placard on the pen reading 'Extinct in the Wild'.

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Extinction Stories @extinctionstories.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

More context for this piece can be found on my blog, here: www.tumblr.com/extinctionst...

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Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth The Cerulean Warbler isn’t extinct. It isn’t even officially classified endangered. The species is, however, one of over 1000 different birds l…

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Chantelle Chapman @chantellechapman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#KirtlandsWarbler is a fire-dependent bird species, nesting only in the new jack pines that grow following a burn. With most fires suppressed nowadays, the #endangered birds rely on human intervention to survive. My #gouache painting is titled ‘Prescribed Burn’. #conservation #birdart #animalart

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Extinction Stories @extinctionstories.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Did you know the word ‘extinction’ existed for hundreds of years before it came to mean the loss of a species? It originally referred to the dousing of a candle. 🕯️ ‘The Etymology of Loss’ from my series ‘Parakeet Lost’, focusing on the extinct parrot of North America, the Carolina Parakeet. 🦜

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Extinction Stories @extinctionstories.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

For my first post, I’d like to share an old favorite: my thylacine diptych, titled ‘When They Are Frightened, They Show Their Teeth’. 36x48, oil on canvas. #thylacine #tasmaniantiger #traditionalpainting #extinction #extinctanimals #oilpainting #wildlifeartist #animalart

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