an incomplete field guide

reblogging (and occasionally making) art that makes me feel something about creatures, landscapes, and the long arc of living things. call me comet. 28

[eman-emm]

[technicallyclassyperfection]

MŒBIUS

[fleebites]

avian august: underrated birds edition

day 01: red winged blackbird

[drafthearse]

Opalised dinosaur femur. Registration no. P 208014.

[loreofcardigan]

I spent so long trying to remember the name of Telemachus's Detachment that I forgot why I wanted to post it in the end. Anyway, this may or may not be relevant to whatever joke was going around at the time,

[ceeejus]

ramiel

[gnoempire]

Run where they can't follow.

For decades, we've thought that pronghorns evolved for speed because of Miracynonix, or the American cheetah, which preyed on them extensively during the Pleistocene. However, in February, new fossil evidence suggested that ancestors of pronghorns began this process at least 5 million years before the appearance of Miracynonix. We typically think of predators as trailblazers, as shapers of the world -- but don't often consider that it may have been the prey that changed them.

Extinct animals from left to right: Miracynonix trumani, Chasmaporthetes ossifragus, and Titanis walleri

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[enchantedbook]

“Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon” (1832) by Utagawa Hiroshige

[pmamtraveller]

"Everything Appears as it is: Infinite" by Alex Dodge

[galaxinaa]

Giuseppe Festino

[dharmaart]

An older painting I never got around to posting. I've always really enjoyed painting golden hour lighting especially on grey or white horses.

[myselfandsomeotherbeing]

Ruth Robbins, illustrations from the first edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

[semolinaart]

All three of them

Moonwatcher in the panelka

Turtle in the elektrichka

Winter in Vorkuta

(I will block anyone who writes how terrible, depressing, etc. panelki are. I'm not kidding)

[sioltach]

I love being an animal I love that everything I am can only be because I am a recycled material sculpture sourced from the random but beautiful bullshit of planet earth

[sioltach]

How it feels when it's my turn with the oxygen, carbon and hydrogen + other trace elements (arranged in such a way to be a terrestrial mammal)

[spidergirl-fibula]

thin veil today isnt it

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

some dark, watercolour-ish cave art style horses.

and the gorgeous mix of glazes inside