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On John James Audubon's birthday, check out a graphic novel that depicts the artist and naturalist like you've never seen him before. https://t.co/ToJZY8rozH

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Tropical canalifera illulstration 🐚
ca. 1800s
British naturalist George Sowerby (1788 – 1854)

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2019-04-20

We found this possum near the road one morning, it had been hit but waddled to safety on the edge of our property before passing away in a bed of pine needles as the sun rose.

https://t.co/dTen8Xdf1H

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2019-04-18

This past Monday we posted some owl illustrations by the noted British naturalist artist John Nash from the 1972 Limited Editions Club production of 'The Natural History of Selborne,' by the 18th-century English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White.

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2019-04-05

Flowers in a Chinese vase. And some insects. By Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist, who was born on this day in 1647.

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2019-04-03

"A Naturalist's Sketch Book" (1919) includes reproduced watercolor and pencil sketches by Scottish artist and animal painter Archibald Thorburn, produced over some 30 years. Explore the in via ➡️ https://t.co/qXXo9MLbCV

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2019-04-03

1647
Naturalist & Maria Sibylla Merian was in
"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."


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2019-04-02

Born on this day in 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

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Maria Sibylla Merian born 1647 was a self-taught naturalists and artist who created stunningly detailed illustrations of insects and plants. I was humbled to draw her portrait for the

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2019-04-02

And it was Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist, who documented Metamorphosis for the first time.
In 1799, she sailed to Suriname from Europe looking for insects - something no ladies were permitted to do back then.The results were a spectacular treasure for Science!

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2019-04-02

Un 29 de marzo, pero de 1629, moría el pintor y grabador holandés Jacob de Gheyn II. Se formó en el taller de y sus obras marcan la transición del manierismo de finales del S. XVI a un estilo más naturalista de principios del S. XVII en Holanda.

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2019-03-29

Another old favorite.
If you can’t tell, some of my favorite things to draw and paint are naturalistic and organic shapes. I find nature both fractally fascinating and genuinely frightening.
Also I like teeth, tongues and negative spaces.

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2019-03-27

messing with proportions for isometric humans. i wanted to do slightly exaggerated proportions but retain a naturalistic feel. less heroic than the norm, more weight in hips than shoulders.

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2019-03-19

Stephen Moss, naturalist, broadcaster and, author of 'Mrs Moreau's Warbler - How birds got their names' will be giving the fifth annual lecture on Tuesday in memory of Dr Mary Jacobs, who taught for 20 years. 7pm. Theatre 2. Book your place here> https://t.co/r5x5WHYPDf

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2019-03-18

Late because I was at a con yesterday. This week's is , who is adept at drawing lovely, curvy ladies in naturalistic environments. I especially like the focus on less-seen species!

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I spied this handsome Bedouin nomad in and just had to paint him. A year later Naturalist & returned to and presented Auda with a giclee of the painting.

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2019-03-16

Artist & naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian traveled the world and was the first to accurately depict insect metamorphosis.
🦋 A rare black butterfly was recently named after her by our scientist Shinichi Nakahara: https://t.co/NYPJPpWOt7

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2019-03-09

American artist, naturalist and teacher, born in Boston, Massachusetts ~ studied in New York at the Brooklyn Art School, the National Academy of Design and in Paris at the École des Beaux~Arts ~

Abbott Handerson Thayer ~ 1849~1921

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Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher.

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The iconographic collection gathered by the Dutch naturalist Johannes van Berkhey, was acquired in 1785 by the The collection intended to be a compilation of the natural world known until then, consisted of more than 9,000 plates

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