Ligus
@greyauk.bsky.social
she/they 🌈 introverted nature nerd
artist
#sciart
https://ko-fi.com/ligus , Insta: grey8auk
@ligus-doodles.bsky.social (sketchbook & art)
artist
#sciart
https://ko-fi.com/ligus , Insta: grey8auk
@ligus-doodles.bsky.social (sketchbook & art)
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Ligus
@greyauk.bsky.social
· Oct 26
reintroduction
Hi I'm Ligus,
I'm a traditional artist from Berlin.
#SundayFishSketch made me start painting again and I fell in love with fish and marine biology.
I'm also trying to boost other #sciart .
Sometimes there will be some dog and crow posts ;)
Hi I'm Ligus,
I'm a traditional artist from Berlin.
#SundayFishSketch made me start painting again and I fell in love with fish and marine biology.
I'm also trying to boost other #sciart .
Sometimes there will be some dog and crow posts ;)
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#SciArtSeptember 10: Woad
Convergent evolution can produce similar body shapes from different starting points, when animals adapt to the same ways of life independently. These are four iterations of otter: a true otter, rakali or water rat, otter civet, and giant otter shrew, related to tenrecs.
Convergent evolution can produce similar body shapes from different starting points, when animals adapt to the same ways of life independently. These are four iterations of otter: a true otter, rakali or water rat, otter civet, and giant otter shrew, related to tenrecs.
September 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
#SciArtSeptember 10: Woad
Convergent evolution can produce similar body shapes from different starting points, when animals adapt to the same ways of life independently. These are four iterations of otter: a true otter, rakali or water rat, otter civet, and giant otter shrew, related to tenrecs.
Convergent evolution can produce similar body shapes from different starting points, when animals adapt to the same ways of life independently. These are four iterations of otter: a true otter, rakali or water rat, otter civet, and giant otter shrew, related to tenrecs.
#sciart very inspiring
Rebecca Howard, painting changes to land management - even (especially?) where that involves woody decay. Huge, immersive canvasses here exploring the shifted aesthetics of rewilded landscapes - I've wanted to visit Knepp for years, and would love to see this exhib. Good time to go! #GoodGreenNews
Artist delights in beautiful ‘mess’ and dead trees of England’s rewilding sites
Rebecca Howard spent two years visiting projects and painting landscapes that feature in West Sussex exhibition
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:18 AM
#sciart very inspiring
It is so rare to see this kind of fish paleo art 🎉🐡.
Makes me want to create some too ... but breathing life into fish fossiles is scary 🫠
Makes me want to create some too ... but breathing life into fish fossiles is scary 🫠
#SundayFishSketch
🐠Second page completed!
Top row: Tahnaichthys magnuserrata, Scalacurvichthys naishi, Flagellipinna rhomboides
Bottom row: Nursallia tethysensis, Sigmapycnodus giganteum, Hensodon spinosus
#paleoart
🐠Second page completed!
Top row: Tahnaichthys magnuserrata, Scalacurvichthys naishi, Flagellipinna rhomboides
Bottom row: Nursallia tethysensis, Sigmapycnodus giganteum, Hensodon spinosus
#paleoart
September 13, 2026 at 12:13 PM
It is so rare to see this kind of fish paleo art 🎉🐡.
Makes me want to create some too ... but breathing life into fish fossiles is scary 🫠
Makes me want to create some too ... but breathing life into fish fossiles is scary 🫠
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(slightly) new #origami #nudibranch design. If you're in Glasgow, come by Doors Open Days at The Briggait for many more! waspsstudios.org.uk/open-studios...
background: an Anna Atkins cyanotype, as seen recently in the @lrb.co.uk. (Algal cyanotypes are critical habitat for origami nudibranchs.)
background: an Anna Atkins cyanotype, as seen recently in the @lrb.co.uk. (Algal cyanotypes are critical habitat for origami nudibranchs.)
September 10, 2026 at 8:11 PM
(slightly) new #origami #nudibranch design. If you're in Glasgow, come by Doors Open Days at The Briggait for many more! waspsstudios.org.uk/open-studios...
background: an Anna Atkins cyanotype, as seen recently in the @lrb.co.uk. (Algal cyanotypes are critical habitat for origami nudibranchs.)
background: an Anna Atkins cyanotype, as seen recently in the @lrb.co.uk. (Algal cyanotypes are critical habitat for origami nudibranchs.)
✨️ My first exhibition ever ✨️
Exhibiting my sciart has been a (very very) far dream but it actually happened!! And what a chance to bring some biodiversity into the train station of Zurich!! Was pretty impressive but I feel very lucky 🤭
SwissArtExpo ends tomorrow!
#biodiversity #ink #zurich 🐡🐨🍄🟫
Exhibiting my sciart has been a (very very) far dream but it actually happened!! And what a chance to bring some biodiversity into the train station of Zurich!! Was pretty impressive but I feel very lucky 🤭
SwissArtExpo ends tomorrow!
#biodiversity #ink #zurich 🐡🐨🍄🟫
September 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
🐡 #sciart
‘Try to Love the Questions’
block print, gold ink and graphite on old geologic map
An anatomical valentine for #SciArtSeptember day 11 : #heart
#maps #printmaking
block print, gold ink and graphite on old geologic map
An anatomical valentine for #SciArtSeptember day 11 : #heart
#maps #printmaking
September 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
🐡 #sciart
Reposted by Ligus
September 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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I’m back! My first new piece since my daughter was born!
This one is all about chitosan: a versatile biopolymer derived from chitin found in crustacean shells, including lobster. The structures represent 90% deacetylation. Used in everything from packaging to drug delivery #sciart
This one is all about chitosan: a versatile biopolymer derived from chitin found in crustacean shells, including lobster. The structures represent 90% deacetylation. Used in everything from packaging to drug delivery #sciart
September 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I’m back! My first new piece since my daughter was born!
This one is all about chitosan: a versatile biopolymer derived from chitin found in crustacean shells, including lobster. The structures represent 90% deacetylation. Used in everything from packaging to drug delivery #sciart
This one is all about chitosan: a versatile biopolymer derived from chitin found in crustacean shells, including lobster. The structures represent 90% deacetylation. Used in everything from packaging to drug delivery #sciart
Reposted by Ligus
Fab 1st day @royentsoc.bsky.social #Ento26, so busy, and I had such interesting chats with people about their research, & heard some fascinating presentations at the symposiums
I loved teaching my insect drawing workshop, & was lucky enough to sell some originals and prints too.
Come and say hi!
I loved teaching my insect drawing workshop, & was lucky enough to sell some originals and prints too.
Come and say hi!
September 8, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Fab 1st day @royentsoc.bsky.social #Ento26, so busy, and I had such interesting chats with people about their research, & heard some fascinating presentations at the symposiums
I loved teaching my insect drawing workshop, & was lucky enough to sell some originals and prints too.
Come and say hi!
I loved teaching my insect drawing workshop, & was lucky enough to sell some originals and prints too.
Come and say hi!
Reposted by Ligus
September 7 is Threatened Species Day in Australia so I thought I would share this hard-carved and hand-printed linocut print of a little semi-transparent, white amphipod crustacean in the Neoniphargidae group from the Pilbara. 🧪🐡 This is a large, dry, sparsely populated region in northern part of
September 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
September 7 is Threatened Species Day in Australia so I thought I would share this hard-carved and hand-printed linocut print of a little semi-transparent, white amphipod crustacean in the Neoniphargidae group from the Pilbara. 🧪🐡 This is a large, dry, sparsely populated region in northern part of
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June 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Same issue here ... at least something is happening about a EU restriction ( www.face.eu/2026/07/euro... )
I'm not against hunting but lead bullets should have been forbitten ages ago.
I'm not against hunting but lead bullets should have been forbitten ages ago.
Happy International Vulture Awareness Day!! ☠️ The California Condor population is about 607. It’s not because they are being shot but because they get lead poisoning from eating bullets in their scavenged meals.
#internationalvultureawarenessday #vultures #birdart #sciart
#internationalvultureawarenessday #vultures #birdart #sciart
September 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Same issue here ... at least something is happening about a EU restriction ( www.face.eu/2026/07/euro... )
I'm not against hunting but lead bullets should have been forbitten ages ago.
I'm not against hunting but lead bullets should have been forbitten ages ago.
vulture love 🖤🪶
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It's International Vulture Awareness Day! Here are my pieces featuring vultures. They are such incredible creatures! My local Turkey Vultures have a special place in my heart, and I feel so lucky to have seen California Condors!
#BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #AnimalArt
#BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #AnimalArt
September 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
vulture love 🖤🪶
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🐡 #sciart
September 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
🐡 #sciart
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If the title isn’t enough to make you click the link, the delightful pics of people having fun examining rotted underpants in Fig 1 definitely should be.
#ecology #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #SoilEcology
#ecology #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #SoilEcology
September 1, 2026 at 4:32 AM
If the title isn’t enough to make you click the link, the delightful pics of people having fun examining rotted underpants in Fig 1 definitely should be.
#ecology #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #SoilEcology
#ecology #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #SoilEcology
just stumbled over an adorable stamp
September 3, 2026 at 12:10 AM
just stumbled over an adorable stamp
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Every illustration in Pterosaurs: The Field Guide was painted by humans. Every word was written by Pete Buchholz. No generative AI, and none ever.
If you've seen AI paleoart, you already know the difference.
https://fossi.ls/ks
If you've seen AI paleoart, you already know the difference.
https://fossi.ls/ks
August 1, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Every illustration in Pterosaurs: The Field Guide was painted by humans. Every word was written by Pete Buchholz. No generative AI, and none ever.
If you've seen AI paleoart, you already know the difference.
https://fossi.ls/ks
If you've seen AI paleoart, you already know the difference.
https://fossi.ls/ks
Reposted by Ligus
#weeklyNJ
„Muscheln, die ich gesammelt habe“
Die erste Seite mit Muscheln vom letzten Nordsee-Aufenthalt: jeweils Zeichnungen & Models.
#NatureJournaling #NatureJournal
„Muscheln, die ich gesammelt habe“
Die erste Seite mit Muscheln vom letzten Nordsee-Aufenthalt: jeweils Zeichnungen & Models.
#NatureJournaling #NatureJournal
August 31, 2026 at 12:57 PM
#weeklyNJ
„Muscheln, die ich gesammelt habe“
Die erste Seite mit Muscheln vom letzten Nordsee-Aufenthalt: jeweils Zeichnungen & Models.
#NatureJournaling #NatureJournal
„Muscheln, die ich gesammelt habe“
Die erste Seite mit Muscheln vom letzten Nordsee-Aufenthalt: jeweils Zeichnungen & Models.
#NatureJournaling #NatureJournal
Two extremely different pieces of art you’ve made
September 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Two extremely different pieces of art you’ve made
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Out on the RV Tom Crean and had a bit of a landmark day. Technically not my first angler, but this extraordinary, beautiful animal made me genuinely emotional. It’s an absolute privilege to get to meet these animals that I’ve adored for so long!
(She’s a triplewart seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii)
(She’s a triplewart seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii)
July 25, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Out on the RV Tom Crean and had a bit of a landmark day. Technically not my first angler, but this extraordinary, beautiful animal made me genuinely emotional. It’s an absolute privilege to get to meet these animals that I’ve adored for so long!
(She’s a triplewart seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii)
(She’s a triplewart seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii)
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Starting Tuesday! 🌟 Post in any media, on your own schedule, & use the prompt words any way that works for you. Natural science, formal science, social science, & divergent fields beyond - every interest is welcome! (I’ve even got a history post in my own queue…) #SciArtSeptember #SciArt #SciComm 🐡
August 30, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Starting Tuesday! 🌟 Post in any media, on your own schedule, & use the prompt words any way that works for you. Natural science, formal science, social science, & divergent fields beyond - every interest is welcome! (I’ve even got a history post in my own queue…) #SciArtSeptember #SciArt #SciComm 🐡
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Wasps are great wee things. They are accidental pollinators who play an important part in their ecosystem. #wasps #pollinators #ecosystem #biodiversity #sketchbook
July 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Wasps are great wee things. They are accidental pollinators who play an important part in their ecosystem. #wasps #pollinators #ecosystem #biodiversity #sketchbook
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Sturgeon doodling #SundayFishSketch #sciart
August 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Sturgeon doodling #SundayFishSketch #sciart
work in process #sundayfishsketch
still printing deep sea fish
(I'm going for their real size ... so tiny)
still printing deep sea fish
(I'm going for their real size ... so tiny)
August 31, 2026 at 1:51 AM
work in process #sundayfishsketch
still printing deep sea fish
(I'm going for their real size ... so tiny)
still printing deep sea fish
(I'm going for their real size ... so tiny)