SciArt from the Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Bd. 4, Heft. 11, 13, 15 (1876-1881).
View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Library and Archives of the Natural History Museum, London for digitizing.
More insect architecture practice. It’s based on this pic I took a while ago. I don’t know what’s with the different-colored layers, but I suspect it has to do with the caterpillar’s growth and where it gets its building materials from, like a tree’s rings.
I haven’t done any personal work since December, which means it’s time to paint a bagworm. That’s what bored people do, right? I’ve been looking into insect architecture for a while, so maybe this will be a mini practice series.
That means the bird, Pelagornis chilensis had one of the longest wingspan ever recorded–a wingspan that was about as long as a giraffe is high, with 17 feet or 5 meters. It cruised the skies between 5 and 10 million years ago.
Pelargonis sandersi, boasted a 21-foot 6.1 meters wingspan, dwarfs that of today’s biggest flier, the royal albatross, whose span measures a “mere” 11.5 feet (3.5 meters). And it rivals that of the largest flying bird on record: Argentavis magnificens—a South American condor with a 23-foot (7-meter) wingspa
Pelargonis chilensis is still my fav fossil seabird
The start of my “ant eater” series of watercolor animals on twitch. Some tamanduas!
The northern tamandua (Tamanduamexicana) and the southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla). Also called lesser anteaters and collared anteaters. They are in the family Myrmecophagidae along with the giant anteater (Myrmecophagatridactyla).
This week’s twitch stream results are another set of mustelids. This week I painted a striped polecat (Ictonyx striatus) and a marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna).
The next set of mustelids, this time representing Mustelinae, we have the back-striped weasel (Mustelastrigidorsa) and the steppe polecat (Mustelaeversmanii).
