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i can't play a happy tune on my own,

#kauai o’o

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Downright chuffed about this oarfish bookmark I bought years ago in Japan and just rediscovered in my drawer. It’s made of shiny metal and the head crest is soft ribbon.

#oarfish #deep sea #bookmark #personal

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little one

#pterosaurs

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The Isabella Quagga | Charles Hamilton Smith | Yale Center for British Art | rawpixel

#quagga

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Remember these guys? I had the whole collection back in 538 Million BC 💜🦑

#cambrian #anomalocaris

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some birds declared extinct this year

bachman's warbler | bridled white-eye | kauai akialoa

#bachman’s warbler #bridled white eye #kauai akialoa

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[ID: Photos of a painted clay sculpture of two Przewalski's horses leaning against one another in an embrace with their eyes closed. The sculpture is from the shoulders up. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

This was an older Embrace piece that wasn't up to scratch, was going to recycle it, instead reworked the faces and manes, and used it as an opportunity to practice painting with acrylics. One of the faces has the more “plastic” look that I've been trying to avoid with acrylics (lower left photo). Watering the paint down and then gradually layering seems to keep the matte look I was getting with gouache.

Available on my Etsy

#przewalski's horse

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Golden toads with eggs By: Michael & Patricia Fogden From: Natural History Magazine 1984

#golden toad

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I see himb

Does Ivory Bill 2024 is spotted???? The rumor come out

#ivory billed woodpecker #shitposting

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Norfolk Kākā (bottom) and Great Auk!

Project for one of my classes. Gouache on aquabord.

#great auk #norfolk kaka

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Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)

Photo by Juan Carlos Munoz

#golden headed lion tamarin

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We know little about the deep sea environments of the Mesozoic but one place where we can get a glimpse into this world is the Münsterland basin. We have here several localities that preserved shallow and deep water animals side by side, caused by underwater landslides. These carried stuff from the rim of the basin and buried them in the deep with other material that was down there.

Tachynectes here is a very early lanternfish. Flattened lanternfishes are no longer a thing these days and we actually have lanternfishes from these localities that show their photophores preserved. We know where they glowed!

#mesozoic

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Lost Americans wheel. Watercolor and ink.

#extinct birds #great auk #carolina parakeet #passenger pigeon #eskimo curlew #labrador duck #ivory billed woodpecker #heath hen #dusky seaside sparrow #bachman’s warbler #spectacled cormorant

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Just launched my newest project, Extinct Critters: Wooden Pins!

Like it says in the title, I'll be creating up to 108 different 2-inch wooden pin designs depicting a variety of extinct creatures from the deep and more recent past, drawn in my favorite geometric vector style. Vinyl stickers are also available as an add-on! The campaign will run until April 14th, 2024. Come check it out! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diantimony/extinct-critters-wooden-pins

#kickstarter

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Scottish Wildcat and Scottish Wildkittens. Once widespread across Great Britain, this population of European wildcats is now only found in northern and eastern Scotland. They’re threatened by habitat loss, hunting, and hybridized with domestic cats.

This is gonna be the postcard for February’s Creature Mail!

[ID: an illustration of a serious-looking wildcat on a fallen log. Two kittens are cuddling in the crook of a branch below her. The background is a field at night, with snow falling. End.]

#scottish wildcat #critically endangered

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“Goodbye Queen of the Yangtze River” by Denise Monaghan. Oil and 22K gold leaf on canvas. [x]

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And Then There Were... a miniature counting book that I illustrated and bound by hand. The book is 5 1/2 x 3 inches, and features the extinct Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Heath Hen, Eskimo Curlew, Labrador Duck, Great Auk, Dusky Seaside Sparrow, Bachman's Warbler, Ivory Billed Woodpecker, and Kauai ʻōʻō. Illustrated in traditional pen & ink and watercolor. Like Grasping at Feathers, this book also includes cut-out elements. The concertina-style pages fold out to form one continuous spread. Created as an edition of 5, but I have plans to do another larger run.

#extinct birds