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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“As Autumn shows its golden hues And winds grow crisp with change The mountain tops and streams below Reveal their shimmering range” "Golden" - Just in time for Autumn! This moody painting is inspired by the cloudy skies and colors of the PNW as the trees begin to shift into gold. #dragons #art

A watercolor and gouache painting of a golden dragon perched on top of a steep rocky shoreline over dark waters, the trees turning from greens to golds behind it. Signed Katie Croonenberghs 2026, text reads kamakru.com

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

cormorants at rest (2022) #art #birds #wildart 🎨🐡

A pair of double-crested cormorant rest on some rocks in the water. The bird in the center looks over its shoulder toward the viewer, its wings spread out to dry, displaying the scale-like feathers across its back. The illustration is rendered in a limited palette of muted teals, creams, and warm browns.

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Malky @themalky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I drew the new weird cat

Cutesy drawing of a Leopardus tilcayo loafing with its tongue poking out. A short phrase in spanish wraps around its back: un michi tilcayo! (a tilcayo kitty!)

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"In the Ancient Hallowed Places" Ovenbird with Six-spotted Tiger Beetle 10"x24" oil painting on panel The beautiful conglomerate rocks of an ancient sea floor; buried and lifted and revealed and eroded, the life that once was and is again, complex and beautiful and interconnected across time. 🪶🐡

A long format oil painting showing a cropped rock formation of ancient conglomerate, cracked and looming in its current form by water, ice, and time. A wash of moss and lichens crawls across the surfaces that allowed it to grow, with stunted mountain laurel taking root in the mossy nursery, and large brownish rock tripe lichens clinging here and there. A few aged white oak leaves sit in the moss, bug eaten and worn, and near the center sits an Ovenbird, the tiny stripy warbler pausing in its day. On the rock closest to us on the right is a metallic green colored Six-spotted tiger beetle. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Save the Vaquita Week" Twitch Schedule is live!!! Check it out & save the dates: savethevaquitas.carrd.co Not a streamer? No problem! There are many ways to get involved this year! Join in and create something for the event! This card can help get you started! #SaveTheVaquita #Conservation

A post designed to encourage people to join in on Save The Vaquita Week!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Arctic Tern for a kind anon donor! Thank you for your #Waymakers contribution! I got a little experimental with this one, haha. 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt The Waymakers Challenge every September raises funds to help immigrant kids in the US! Donate by Sept. 30: youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi...

Arctic Tern illustration with its wings spread wide, showing its pale gray back, forked tail, black cap, and red beak. There's a dreamy, ethereal vibe to the image with glittering light bouncing off of the water and a hazy distant conifer-lined shoreline.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@diplotomodon.bsky.social has substantially increased the value of this post with a lengthy comment explaining the context. This is part of a larger pattern of Philadelphia cultural institutions getting shafted, and the interests of real estate developers are clearly in play. Please give it a read.

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bengal tiger and antelope. 🐅 From a photo by Tanishq Jain. - #SciArtSeptember Day 3: Sanguine

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Echoes • 16” x 30” • gouache & watercolor on paper Based on my 2024 residency in the wilderness of Minong (Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior)

greyscale painting of a sandhill crane among burned trees with fireweed silhouettes as silhouettes in the foreground

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

👑YOU COULD BE WEARING THIS BIRD👑 Yolo wants you to know our King Vulture pendant is *this* close to unlocking. Help us make sure this magnificent little weirdo (or well, a version of his magnificent future self) gets to join the flock! 🪶 👉 tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8

A graphic design featuring three banners of a king vulture pendant, hummingbird earrings and green cheeked conure pin for the Visionary Vultures crowdfunding project

A closeup of baby Yolo the king vulture, wings spread

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

another fat dragon

a fat little dragon sitting on a liana, in a jungle somewhere, with a hummingbird flying by

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Starting Tuesday! 🌟 Post in any media, on your own schedule, & use the prompt words any way that works for you. Natural science, formal science, social science, & divergent fields beyond - every interest is welcome! (I’ve even got a history post in my own queue…) #SciArtSeptember #SciArt #SciComm 🐡

A banner image promoting the art challenge Sci Art September. The image features text and a drawing of a leopard on an off-white background. The text includes the title, Sci Art September, month-long art challenge. The text also includes a list of weekly categories and daily prompts. The first category is colour. This category covers the first 10 words of the month. The daily words are: Malachite, violet, sanguine, azure, saffron, coral, fawn, ruby, ivory, woad. The second category is shape. It covers the 11th through 20th words. The daily words are: Heart, teardrop, diamond, crescent, honeycomb, scallop, eyelet, almond, star, meander. The third category is medium. This category covers the last 10 words of the month. The daily words are: Kaolin, silk, copper, down, jade, cedar, quill, linen, pelt, carbon. At the top of the image there is a description. It reads: Year 6, 2026; from nature; hosted by @LizLagomorph.

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Wolf Rocket 🏕️ Comms OPEN @wolventooth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🌻500 FOLLOWER RAFFLE!!🌻 Finally got around to organizing this! Thank you all so much for the support, it means the world! To enter: 1. Follow me 2. Repost this 3. Optional: comment your fav. bird! Winners get a painted bust of their OC (+decor) TWO winners drawn on Sept. 19✨ Good luck everyone!!

Painted portrait of Ningeko's OC Crystal. She is a young woman with tanned skin, and darker discoloration on her left side along with a diamond shaped scar on her fore head and a longer scar that goes from her left eye to her cheek. She has blue-grey hair cut short and choppy with a low ponytail in the back and long side burns. Her left eye is grey and her right eye is blue. She is smirking slightly towards the viewer. Crystal is wearing a black turtleneck and a wide yellow hoodie/cape. She is surrounded by rainbow-colored crystals on a dark grey background against a glowing orange square.

My sona Roe is painted here with an open-mouthed, wide smile on his face! He is an anthro fisher with a short shock of dark brown hair/bangs. He is the typical browns and beiges of a fisher except for his oak-leaf markings along his neck. He is wearing a green beanie and is set against a backdrop of the mountains, sun and spruce trees. The background is grey-green with a green square in front.

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the eider's the last one I did for this year; thank you for enjoying my coloured bird sketches

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For #BirdOfTheDay, this lovely #SunnyDayBirds illustration is of a singing female American Redstart done for @songbirding.com . Many female birds do sing, and yet we still know very little about it! #BirdArt #SciArt 🪶

Illustration of a singing female American Redstart on a bright sunny spring day. Her head is tipped back, beak open, while she is perched on a mottled brown branch. She is overall grayish on the body but has a patch of bright yellow at the side of the breast, and a black and yellow tail. Behind her are pale pastel well-lit dogwood flowers and soft green leaves.

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rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Day 21 - Golden-olive Woodpecker #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt

Marker drawing of a golden-olive woodpecker perched on a winding branch with wavy leaves growing out of it.

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Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

please keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times

an illustration of a whale skeleton inside shallow ocean waters. A cat sitting on a surfboard looks on

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I sketched a few days for avian august, but I won’t be able to finish them this month, so I decided to add some rough colour and post ‘em as-is; hopefully I can clean them up later 🙂

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Miniature birds 25 - Northern Flicker

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Northern gannet | drawn for Polar Lights 2 #art 🪶🦑🐡

Before a tempestuous ocean, a Northern gannet banks rightward, its long slender wings spread to their full length. A great wave crashes through the sky, framing the figure. Dark purple clouds begin to break as the sun crests the horizon in the beginnings of dawn.

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In one month! #SciArtSeptember returns for a 6th year. Open to all who are curious about the places where art and science connect. Make new work, post works in progress, or share old favourites. Post when and what you like. 🐡 #SciArt #SciComm

A banner image promoting the art challenge Sci Art September. The image features text and a drawing of a trout on an off-white background. The text includes the title, Sci Art September, month-long art challenge. The text also includes a list of weekly categories and daily prompts. The first category is colour. This category covers the first 10 words of the month. The daily words are: Malachite, violet, sanguine, azure, saffron, coral, fawn, ruby, ivory, woad. The second category is shape. It covers the 11th through 20th words. The daily words are: Heart, teardrop, diamond, crescent, honeycomb, scallop, eyelet, almond, star, meander. The third category is medium. This category covers the last 10 words of the month. The daily words are: Kaolin, silk, copper, down, jade, cedar, quill, linen, pelt, carbon. At the bottom of the image there is a description. It reads: Year 6, 2026; from nature; hosted by @LizLagomorph.

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

eventide (Polar Lights 4, 2026) #art #sciArt 🎨🦑🦊

Illustration of an orca leaping from the ocean beneath a starry sunset sky. Water droplets trailing from its fins and body mimic the stars overhead.

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

birthday was yesterday and I spent it having a nice time in Seattle/Ballard ✌️ saw harbor seals at the locks, but no salmon </3

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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 23/07/2026

those sunny summer days 🌼 #art

Digital painting of a wildflower field on a warm summer day. The sky is a searing teal, there are massive puffy clouds, and an anthro rabbit watches a dragon soar overhead.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This was a fun one - a Hoopoe and Wren in an Orchard! I feel like these make a great pair Prints up on my store - www.inprnt.com/gallery/thom...

An angular Eurasian Hoopoe, a bird with a pointed beak, an orange head with a tall crest and striped black and white wings, and a Wren, a small round brown bird. Both birds are perched on a branch and surrounded by apple blossoms, white flowers

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Rosanna P. Brost (she/her/them) 🐾🐺 @copperbora.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm REALLY behind on posting art! Here are my contributions to this year's Polar Lights zine which is absolutely wonderful & full of art from folks who are absolutely epic.❤️❤️❤️ ⚠️🦭UPDATE: sadly, since I finished the infocomic about them, bearded seals are now classed as Endangered by the ICUN. 😵‍💫

A digital painting of a mountainous arctic vista in Tombstone Territorial Park; it is dominated by alpenglow hues of purple and orange with a moody grey sky in the background.

Page 1 of an infocomic about bearded seals reading:

Behold! The bearded seal! The biggest seal in the arctic! (Not to be confused with walruses, which, while related to seals, are not considered seals themselves.)

(A bearded seal on an ice flow says "'sup." in greeting to the viewer.)

Taxonomic name: Erignathus barbatus
ICUN Status: Near Threatened (correction: they are now classed as Endangered.)
Weight: 261/363 kg or 575/800 lbs

Bearded seals are named for their voluminous whiskers.

Male bearded seals attract their bearded ladies by singing! Their otherworldly songs can be heard as far away as 20 km/12.4 miles. Males also sing to defend their territories.

(A male bearded seal sings "Ooooooooo...." to which a female on an iceflow responds "I'm STILL not interested, Harold." Poor Harold is sad about this.

Page 2 of my bearded seal infocomic reads:

Unlike most seal pups, which may take weeks to even months to approach the water much less swim in it, bearded seal pups can swim within mere hours of birth, and they are weaned after only 24 days!

(A glaring mama bearded seal floats between her baby pup in the water and a heavily disappointed polar bear on an iceflow, exclaiming "Take that, stupid bear! My baby ain't no helpless snack!")

Bearded seals are also faster swimmers than polar bears.

Except for moms with pups, bearded seals are solitary, and sleep either lounging on ice flows or fliating vertically in the water like a buoy... which probably creeps out other arctic wildlife.

(Two arctic foxes perched on an iceflow look super leery of a nearby floating bearded seal. One of the foxes wonders "Is... is it asleep?!" to which the other fox replies "I can't tell!"

In another panel we see the bearded seal's peaceful, apparently sleeping face. In the bext, he winks and sticks out his tongue, proving that he was pranking the poor foxes all along.)

Fin!

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Along with everything else, today is World Orca Day! I drew orca for this year’s cover of POLAR LIGHTS (and normally would have posted the full piece, but I haven’t had the brain space to write an image description…)

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

midnight sun drawn for Polar Lights: Midnight #art #sciart 🎨🐾🦊

A moose in velvet stands in a field of fireweed before a smooth lake, mountains receding in the far distance. It looks directly toward the viewer, a midnight sun situated low in the sky as if held between its antlers. The illustration is tinted with a vintage yellow hue.

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Maddy Bellwoar @maddybellwoar.com · 05/07/2026

Summer and gouache, two of my favorite things! 😊🌿💖

Photo of a sketchbook open on a wooden desk, surrounded by painting supplies. The page shows a gouache painting of a pathway through green foliage, with light shining down on the path and illuminating some of the plants on either side.

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

somewhat accidentally put off posting a few pieces, so I’ll try to sprinkle those out over the course of the month 🫡

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Bark's Bog @barksbog.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I have two trans-pride crocodiles up in my shop right now! These are 75cm/2.5ft long, made from shannon 3mm and star embossed minky, have holographic eyes, a weighted belly, as well as jointed arms and legs! barks-bog.com

a crocodile plush in the colors of the trans pride flag lying on sandy ground before grass.

a crocodile plush in the colors of the trans pride flag lying river pebbles

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy International Horseshoe Crab Day! #art #sciArt 🎨🦑

Drawing of a horseshoe crab rendered in warm browns and cool shadows on a pale teal background. It has a smooth horseshoe-shaped carapace with occasional spiked protrusions along subtle ridges of its shell and the edge of its abdomen. Its long tail is angled sharply to the right as if in motion.

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Shey @strflr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Rainbow Trout 🌈

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

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rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Happy Pride have some Gilbert Baker-inspired flowers 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

Drawing of a bouquet of poppies, marigolds, pansies, carnations, nemophila, violets, lavender, and hydrangeas

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hey here’s a preview of the piece I drew for this year’s @seaunseenzine.bsky.social 🌊🦎 Grab a copy for $1 and support the Australian Marine Conservation Society 🐡 seaunseenzine.itch.io/sea-unseen-2...

Cropped preview of a marine iguana sunning with water in the background. The Sea Unseen 2026. Updates at SeaUnseenZine.carrd.co

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊 #art 🐡🦑

A colossal squid floating in a black ocean, lit as if by spotlight. One of its tentacles reaches toward the screen, affording a view of the swiveling hooks in its suckers. Splashes of green frame lit sections of the squid, contrasting with its reddish orange body.

A California sea lion rendered in rich brown and orange tones rests upon a rock in teal shore waters below a softly glowing orange sky. Its slender head is raised to look over its back and to the right while a large crest of white sea foam frames its figure.

Rendered in a rough painterly style, a shortfin mako shark leaps from a calm ocean tail over head, sea foam trailing its body in a loose arc. The shark, looking nearly metallic, is rimmed with orange light as a pale yellow sun hangs in a hazy orange sky, framing its streamlined figure.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I've contributed short stories to volumes 3 and 4 of Polar Lights and I'm so happy to see the donation totals go up year over year. You can still get a copy here~ 🩵❄️ polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-4

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The Sea Unseen: A Marine Zine @seaunseenzine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Happy World Ocean Day 🌊 OUT NOW: The Sea Unseen, A Marine Zine. Featuring 81 jaw-dropping works of marine art 😮 Come pick up a copy for $1 or more and support the Australian Marine Conservation Society! 🦑🦐 seaunseenzine.itch.io/sea-unseen-2026 🐳🐠 #marineart#zine#atozines#zinepromo#zineshop

A collage of 12 marine art pieces with the zine cover overlaid on top.

Text reads: "The Sea Unseen: Experience 81 works of marine art! Out now at seaunseenzine.itch.io. Past editions @ seaunseenzine.carrd.co"

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