confuzzledpigeon

A lil spotted dove painting to get back into drawing more (especially digitally!)

Please check it out if you can, and let me know if you have any suggestions!

New profile picture! Gotta keep it consistent across platforms, if nothing else :P And I still love my messenger-pigeon lino stamp 💛🐦💛

I drew a bearded vulture because they are amazing bone-munching dragon-birds and who WOULDN’T WANT TO DRAW THAT

Sidenote but when I realised that the morpho butterfly in life is strange is blue on both recto and verso sides I was instantly like !!! I have to draw it properly!

For uni I had to draw a dinosaur-ish-thingo based only on a written description, and this was the outcome! It was a bit of a weird assignment, but eel-snake-manta boi is alright anyway.

A commission piece I completed earlier in the year! Mr Pelican was a lot of fun to work on and a nice change of pace from my super-intense-and-meticulous artwork for uni.

It has been an actual age since I drew a pigeon, so here is a lil watercolour doodle of A Good Pidge.

In a gruesome display of how brutal nature can be, female spider wasps paralyse hunstman spiders and drag it back to a burrow. Once there, a single egg is laid into the body of the still-alive host and the burrow is sealed up, so the larva can feast on the spider from the inside out.

Shield bugs are plant suckers that inject digestive enzyme into a plant and suck out the resulting liquid. Sometimes mistaken for beetles, they can be distinguished by their sucking mouthparts and continuous ‘shield’ (whereas a beetle’s shell would be divided in two to protect the wings).

This was my first time using acrylics and I didn’t love it (totally not related to the fact that I left it kinda last-minute which... doesn’t really work for paintings). I like his beak and eye and face but the rest was rushed.

I’m opening holiday commissions! If you’re after a unique gift for this Christmas, a personalised artwork could be the way to go! I’m offering A5 pet portrait commissions for $25AUD, plus postage, however I am also open to whatever ideas you may have for the perfect gift 🎁 Email me at [email protected] for details 🙂

This day-flying moth, completely harmless itself, mimics wasps with their black and orange striped bodies and translucent orange panes in their wings. This mechanism is called Batesian mimicry, where an edible or harmless creature mimics a more dangerous one in order to deter predators.

This cockroach is a little different to your standard indoor pest: they’re bush cockroaches who scavenge on plants during the daytime, and have this beautiful dead-leaf texture and colouration.

I feel incredibly lucky to have seen this bee out in the wild, as it a native Australian bee which now only exists on Kangaroo Island and around Sydney due to habitat loss. This is a male, which can be distinguished from the darker female by yellow hairs on his abdomen, which gives him the vibrant lime-green appearance compared to the female’s emerald colouration.

My hair is now PINK which requires a gratuitous new icon to commemorate the occasion