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SciArt September, Day 23: Copper. This is a copper spear point from the Old Copper culture from the Archaic period of North America’s Great Lakes region. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #copper
An ink and marker drawing in brown and turquoise tones of an ancient spearpoint.
September 24, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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SciArt September, Day 16: Scallop. Scallop are a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve molluscs, which are found in all of the world’s oceans. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #scallops
September 17, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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SciArt September, Day 21: Kaolin is a clay mineral used for many things. QuikClot is a brand of wound dressing that is impregnated with kaolin which works as a hemostatic agent to stop hemorrhaging. 🎨🐡 #kaolin #sciartseptember2026
Ink and marker drawing of a square of gauze with a blue wavy line and close-up circle showing detailed lines and dots.
September 22, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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SciArt September, Day 19: Star. This is the nose of the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) which is a semi-aquatic mammal native to eastern North America. Its nose has 22 fleshy appendages to help detect prey in darkness. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #star #starnosedmole
Ink and marker drawing of the pink, fleshy, star-shaped nose of the mole.
September 20, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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SciArt September, Day 17: Eyelet. Eyelet shapes resembling small windows form in plant leaves like Monstera. These can influence photosynthesis by affecting light absorption and gas exchange. 🐡🎨🌱 #sciartseptember2026 #eyelet #monstera
Ink and marker drawing of a monstera leaf with several irregular holes. The marker is in three shades of green.
September 18, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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SciArt September, Day 3: Sanguine. I searched for several things and landed on this brilliant red bromeliad (Guzmania sanguinea) 🐡🎨🌱 #sciartseptember2026 #sanguine
3x4” white Bristol paper with an ink and marker drawing of a red bromeliad that has light green leaf tips.
September 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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SciArt September, Day 15: Honeycomb. Fossil coral often has a honeycomb-like pattern from the mineral replacement of the original, calcium carbonate skeletal structures over millions of years. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #fossilcoral #honeycomb
Ink and marker drawing of a chunk of fossil coral with many honeycomb-like hollows.
September 16, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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SciArt September, Day 13: Diamond. I thought of the diamond-shaped paper packaging that I have been playing with lately. The structure is very flexible and can be stretched as needed. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #diamond
Ink and marker drawing of expandable brown-paper packaging in a connected diamond structure.
September 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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SciArt September, Day 5: Saffron. I love a bright yellow bird! This is the Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola) which is a tanager native to South America. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #saffron
A 3x4” white Bristol paper with a bird facing left. It is in bright shades of yellow with a bit of orange on top of the head.
September 6, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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Sciart September has arrived! Day 1: Malachite. This made me think of the beautiful, metallic green and gold Common June Bug beetle (Cotinis nitida) I used various pens, including metallic bronze) to give a sense of the color. 🐡🎨 #junebeetle #sciartseptember2026 #sciart
3x4” Bristol smooth with a realistic drawing of a June Beetle in black, green and gold ink.
September 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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SciArt September, Day 7: Fawn. This is a Fawn or Deer Mushroom (Pluteus cervinus) found on rotten logs, roots and tree stumps in eastern North America and Europe. 🐡🍄🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #deermushroom #fawn
Ink drawing of a fawn mushroom that has shades of cream, reddish brown and darker brown shadows.
September 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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7 Feather #SciArtSeptember2026
Collected on daily dog walks over 1 week.
#feather #feathers #collection
Two rows of feathers arranged on a white background. Most of the feathers are black, grey or white ie it is a very neutral coloured arrangement. The exception are broadly striped or dotted - a little brown sneaks in.
September 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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SciArt September, Day 6: Coral. I thought of the sea and coral reefs and that led me to nudibranches. These are colorful, marine gastropods, and I knew I could find one in coral pinks. This is Verconia alboannulata. 🐡🎨 #sciart #coral #nudibranch #sciartseptember2026
3x4” Bristol paper with a pen illustration of a mud branch gastropod with wavy forms and a beautiful, bright coral pink with purple and white edges and markings.
September 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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SciArt September, Day 2: Violet. My mind was on dyes. This is the molecule for methyl violet or crystal violet. Often used for purples in textiles or deep violet inks and paints. It also has a range of other uses, including gram staining for bacteria. 🐡 🧪 #sciartseptember2026 #methylviolet #violet
3x4” Bristol smooth paper with chemical diagram of methyl violet in black ink. Several violet marker swatches indicate color.
September 3, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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SciArt September, Day 14: Crescent. Caulobacter vibrioides is a bacteria with a unique structure that forms a crescent. It is known for asymmetric cell division, producing two distinct daughter cells: a mobile “swarmer” cell and a stalked cell. 🐡🎨 #crescent #sciartseptember2026 #bacteria
An ink drawing of four oblong shapes that look like sausages linked.
September 15, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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SciArt September, Day 8: Ruby. This small bird is the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) Males have olive plumage and a bright red crest on top of the head, often concealed. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #ruby #kinglet
Ink and marker drawing from a top-down view of this small bird. A bright red crest in the center top of the head stands out among olive and cream plumage.
September 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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SciArt September, Day 4: Azure. A daily drawing challenge is sometimes just that - a challenge! Clouds are trickier than I thought! So, I invite you to focus on the brilliant azure sky 😂 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #azure
3x4” Bristol paper with upper half including a medium blue sky using marker and gray and white puffy clouds beneath.
September 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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SciArt September, Day 11: Heart. Both octopus and squid have not one, but three hearts! There is the main, systemic heart that pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body and two branchial hearts that pump blood to the gills to be oxygenated. 🐡🎨🦑 #sciartseptember2026 #heart #squid
Ink drawing of a squid showing where the three hearts reside. The branchial hearts are colored blue and the systemic heart is red.
September 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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1 Lichen #SciArtSeptember2026
Very much heightened colours!
Media: acrylic pen on gel print plus black carbon ink line work.
#botanicalart #lichen #gelprint #collage #acrylicpen #ink
A lichen covered twig drawn diagonally lower left corner to top right corner on brown paper. Very little of substrate visible. Blues, ochre, greens, white used to draw lichen, background filled with green acrylic pen. Black lines pull things together. Jaggedly cut piece of gel printed paper with drawing of vertical twig towards the left. The background print is a mixture of pink & green. The lichen covered twig is comprised of small areas of turquoise, lime green, orange, pale blue. Black ink used to add linear detail.
September 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM