Thread of wildlife/nature/animal art that I find inspiring. I would love if people shared some of theirs in the comments!
#sciart
Check out Pieter van Oort's portrait paintings of hornbills
May 10, 2025 23:14Oil sketch of palm trees, 1865 (Frederic Church)
Muntjac (Rodger McPhail)
Joris Hoefnagel, Animalia Rationalia et Insecta (Ignis) - c. 1575-1580
Cactus (Dixie Friend Gay)
Butterfly eggs illustration (Peggy Macnamara)
Arctic Fox illustration (Ron Kingswood)
Ca. 1870 watercolored lithograph of Yellow-billed toucanets (Aulacorhynchus sulcatus calorhynchus)
Within, Kalorama, 2017 (Mary Tonkin)
Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles (James de Carle Sowerby and Edward Lear, 1872)
Northern Andean or grey-throated toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta or griseigularis) illustration [William Matthew Hart / John Gould, ca. 1870]
Night-Blowing Cereus illustration, 1807 (Philip Reinagle)
Male lion portrait illustration (Wilhelm Kuhnert)
Jellies (DannyLaiLai)
Cephalopods of the Gulf of Napoli plate (R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1896)
Black vulture illustration from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon
A slow moving passive giant, this enigmatic character is the 2nd largest fish on earth, after the whale shark, and has captured the imagination of Ireland’s coastal residents for centuries (Julian Friers)
"Bored to Tears" - red fox illustration (Bob Kuhn)
"Sea Grass Meadow" - green turtle w/ dugongs in background of Persian Gulf (Julian Friers)
"Smile" - horse muzzle illustration (Zsófia Gyükér)
A giant Atlantic bluefin tuna falls prey to an orca (Stanley Meltzoff)
Endangered Primates of Vietnam (Dao Hoang)
Austroberyx affinis illustration (Louis Thomas Griffin)
Wolffish(?) portrait illustration (Kiyosuzuki)
Mucsade (Myristica fragrans) illustration [Julian Norwood]
Hoary marmot (Arctomys pruinosus) from the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (John James Audubon, 1845)
Bluefin 34 - Bluefin Tuna Pushing, Victory Cay (Stanley Meltzoff)