Day 22 of #SciArtSeptember the prompt is silk. 🧪🦋

This is a hand-printed lino block print of the endangered Bogbean Buckmoth (Hemileuca sp.).

A day flying silk moth & the only buckmoth (Hemileuca) in eastern Canada, the Bogbean Buckmoth is very distinct with its black & white wings with eyespots &

Day 22 - #silk

A quick pencil sketch of a Silky Anteater. The smallest extant anteater coming in at less than 45 cm/400g.

Muzzle isn’t right, but so it goes!

Graphite on toned paper.

#SciArtSeptember #mammalart

#Sciartseptember 21 kaolin
(although I am going with chalk as a replacement)

Calandria grande / chalk-browed mockingbird

Mimus saturninus

0.5 mechanical pencil in Brugge Artista Pocket Sketchbook.
#sciart

#SciArtSeptember Day 22 Silk is the silk moth! It is very hard to make things look fluffy with pen but trust me he is very fluffy

22. Silk. Silky shark.

#SciArt #SciArtSeptember

Lots of butterflies have a meandering flight but Archeoprepona meander also has it in the name!
#SciArtSeptember #meander

I have to admit that my contributions to #sciartseptember are more successful here than in the insta thingie

#Sciartseptember Prompt: Hydrophobic

Tried to incorporate a hydrophobic ground in a conversation CA @todepond.com - style. It kind of worked I guess...

#SciArtSeptember

19 star

Cassiopea Andromeda

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopea_andromeda

#kleinekunstklasse
#gouache
#ink

#sciartseptember 19 star,
Picaflor de barbijo/ Blue-tufted starthroat

Heliomaster furcifer

Colored ballpoint pens in Brugge Artista Pocket Sketchbook.
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The next category for #sciArtSeptember is category, starting with kaolin, a mineral which appears in several papers of US geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945). 👩🏼‍🔬⚒️🧪 #histsci She championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks

Day 21 - #kaolin

A Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Aru ararauna) on a kaolin clay lick in the Amazon.

Not super pleased with this one, but -
Macaws eat kaolin to detoxify alkaloids & tannins in their diet + as a mineral supplement.

Watercolor + colored pencil.

#SciArtSeptember #birdart #watercolor

For Day 21 of #SciArtSeptember #Kaolin did you know that "K.B.T."—a commonly prescribed pill here in Taiwan for tummy bugs—is literally:

Kaolin 167mg
Bismuth subcarbonate 167mg
Albumin Tannate 167mg
Scopolia Extract 3mg

The kaolin provides absorptive and coating properties within this mix. 🦑🐡🧪

ICB
#Art in #Bio celebrating #SciArtSeptember with @lizlagomorph.bsky.social & crew with this latest on
Massimiliano Mandas
"#Nature ,is not only something I represent, but also something that influences the way I construct an image."
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/fine-art-ame...

#SciArtSeptember Day 21 is Kaolin. This is a side view of a clay deposit!

#sciartseptember 20 meander

Anhinga
Anhinga anhinga

0.7 mechanical pencil in Brugge Artista Pocket Sketchbook (and some digital lights and darks).
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21. Kaolin. Soft coral porcelain crab.

#SciArt #SciArtSeptember

A star-nosed mole sketch for #sciartseptember
I’d have gone with tentacle nose 🤔

#nature #art #BskyArt #penandink #coloredpencils #illustration #mole