#nature illustration
Marc Hanson | February Moon Set’ - oil - 16x20 © Marc R. Hanson ‘11 |
s o u r c e : @visualmooddiary
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My patreon monthly plants combined - made between August 2020 - August 2021. These are the ‘extra’ dark variant rewards.
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Two years of my patreon monthly plants combined - from September 2019 to August 2021. Looking at these together is an amazing reminder of all the wonderful support and enthusiasm my patreon supporters give me. So, anyone who’s ever supported me on patreon (or my shop!) - you helped me get here. Thank you so much for being apart of this plant filled journey, I’m extremely thankful and couldn’t have done it without you!
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Drew this around the same time last year, digitally colored it this week
A piece from 2017, around this same time of year. On a hike through the redwoods, there were so many ladybugs crawling over each other it looked like a shifting, solid mass, and it was (quietly) audible! One of the most surreal things I’ve witnessed (on a third date with my current partner, no less.) Today I happened to do the same hike, and there was a modest few piles of ladybugs, which brought me back to this piece.
The pose is borrowed from Klimt, one of his figure drawing sketches from a secondhand book I found (but I replaced clothing with nature!)
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Hedera helix, common ivy is a very important plant for the ecosystem: it flowers in late autumn, when only few flowers are in bloom, the bees love it. Also it have berries for almost all the winter, when food is scarce, and many birds, like blackbird, eat them.
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the holding of fragile things in strong hands
[ID: a badger illustrated against blue milkweed and green bramble. it holds a chrysalis - to its left a caterpillar climbs one of the brambles, to its right is a newly emerged butterfly, and above it is an adult monarch butterfly, wings spread out. The placement of the butterflies follows a life cycle surrounding the badger. End.]
Sounding the trumpets
[ID: three swans in profile illustrated in a blocky style. they are flapping their wings, but there are more wings than there should be, and much of their bodies are obscured. End.]
Strange fishes
[ID: lots of fish, including a koi, rockfish, goldfish, pike, bluegill, catfish, oscar, and more real and invented species, arranged in profile, illustrated with a limited color palette of mainly orange and teal. End.]
Some regular bird feeder visitors :-)
[ID: an illustration of various songbird species, bird-watching equipment including a camera and binoculars, and various plants against a teal background. End.]
I felt like painting something different, so I made this new piece recently, and I really like the result ^^I hope you guys like it too!
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Fever Dream by Lydia Guadagnoli
This is my piece for the Light Grey Art Lab Midnight Show. You can purchase prints and check out the other amazing works here!
“Awhile ago I had the flu along with a high fever. I managed to drift off to sleep and found myself in a chaotic dream where I was staring down into a pond with koi fish swimming in it. After some time I began to notice the patterns on the koi fish were beginning to depict familiar silhouettes such as flowers and animals. But the one that stuck out to me the most was a very graphic skull. I was so startled that I woke up and couldn’t fall back asleep for the rest of the night.”
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100 Weird Birds
Hey friends, I fell behind on posting a weird bird a day on tumblr, so here are some of them in one big post.
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100 Weird Birds: Day 16
The Hooded Warbler lives in eastern North America. They nest in low areas of bush in woodlands. Hooded Warblers are often the victim of brood parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird. This means that a cowbird will lay an egg in a warbler nest and the warbler will raise the chick as if it were its own.
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100 Weird Birds: Day 15
Day 15: The Little Green Bee-eater for my 100 Weird Birds project. This bird is prone to seasonal movements and is widely distributed across Africa and Asia. Green Bee-eaters are not morning birds as they are somewhat sluggish and huddle in groups to block out sunlight from their faces.
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100 Weird Birds: Day 14
The Bali Myna for day 14 of my 100 Weird Birds project. This bird is critically endangered and it is assumed that less than 100 adults exist in the wild. It can only be found on the island of Bali in Indonesia. The Bali Myna is the national bird of Bali and appears on their currency.
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