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Barunai Botanica
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The Art of Sarah Halim. Botany and bird enthusiast, lover of coffee ☕🩷

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Finished partial page illustration of simpor air (Dillenia suffruticosa) for my wip illustrated book, Barunai Botanica Vol.1
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
A watercolor illustration of a flower with yellow and orange petals. The centre of the flower is a mass of white, stringy filaments bunched together around a single star-shaped white structure, which is the flower's stigma (female reproductive part of the flower)
April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Finished partial page illustration of simpor air (Dillenia suffruticosa) for my wip illustrated book, Barunai Botanica Vol.1
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
A watercolor illustration of a flower with yellow and orange petals. The centre of the flower is a mass of white, stringy filaments bunched together around a single star-shaped white structure, which is the flower's stigma (female reproductive part of the flower)
April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I've been busy working on the side, but have thoroughly neglected this account woops! I'm far more active on my Instagram

Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
Watercolor and pencil illustration of a torch ginger inflorescence. The inflorescence is covered in numerous overlapping 'petals'. The 'petals' (which are actually bracts) are rather dry and withered looking here, the usual vigorous red of the torch ginger turned ashy pink with age and dehydration
April 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Hello #Portfolioday 🌼
I'm an oil painter inspired by nature, and I especially like painting animals and plants. I have a wildlife biology degree and enjoy detailed work. I sell originals and prints and am interested in illustration!
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An 11x14" oil painting of a mossy forest, viewed from the shadow of a large tree. Painting of a bighorn sheep perched at the edge of a cliff overlooking a vast canyon landscape. Painted turtle sunning itself on a worn branch in the middle of a swamp. Hare hiding in the undergrowth surrounded by detailed foliage.
April 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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I've been busy working on the side, but have thoroughly neglected this account woops! I'm far more active on my Instagram

Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
Watercolor and pencil illustration of a torch ginger inflorescence. The inflorescence is covered in numerous overlapping 'petals'. The 'petals' (which are actually bracts) are rather dry and withered looking here, the usual vigorous red of the torch ginger turned ashy pink with age and dehydration
April 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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This is the #Comma #butterfly, #Polygonia c-album, one of my favourite UK species.

The latin name "c album" refers to the little white comma you see on the underside of the lower wings.

I love the undulating wing margins which make it instantly recognizable.

#sciart #naturalscienceillustration
Watercolour #naturalhistoryilliustration of the orange and brown comma butterfly. On the left is as adult with wings outstretched showing dark brown wavy wing margins and black and orange wing markings On the right is the sane species with wings fded, facing right. The wing underside is dark brown and blacks with a very clear bright white comma on the bottom wing, hence the butterfly name, "comma"
March 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Rose pendant 🌹✨

Handmade clay pendant with an impression of a stylized rose. I made the impression using a stamp I handcrafted myself.

🔗 shop.ikeiartstudio.com/product/rose-pendant

#bsnm #handmadejewelry #ceramics.
A white clay pendant with a scalloped edge. The clay is impressed with the stylized image of a rose that is painted with red and pink. The pendant lies on a brown and dark grey rock. A white clay pendant with a scalloped edge. The clay is impressed with the stylized image of a rose that is painted with red and pink. You see the pendant from the side, where the shine on the coloured parts is visible. The pendant leans against a brown and dark grey rock that lies on a wooden surface. A white clay pendant with a scalloped edge. The clay is impressed with the stylized image of a rose that is painted with red and pink. The pendant is hanging on a fabric buste from a dark brown leather cord.
March 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The unhinged amount of detail I'm going to be pouring into this wide format illustration (if it gets approved)
#digitalpainting #SciArt🐡
Photo showing a screen with a sketchy drawing of two hornbills perching on a branch, surrounded by lush greenery
March 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Completely unrelated (sort of) but MHWilds' Scarlet Forest is so beautiful and inspires me a lot! ✨
March 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Still working on this massive painting, honestly it's been slow going simply because I procrastinated. But seeing the result from my previous, smaller painting keeps me going
#botanicalart #painting
Photo of a two vibrant acrylic and gouache paintings, one of red flowers and greenish yellow flowers and another much larger painting of lush green leaves and drooping crimson and yellow flowers
March 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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More bird portraits 🐦✨

A crimson Sunbird amongst jade vine! I had a lot of fun painting with all those many colours
October 27, 2023 at 1:22 PM
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A piece commissioned by Universiti Brunei Darussalam Botanical Research Centre of select plants from their gardens.

Bunga Simpor (Dillenia suffruticosa), Helmet Orchid (Corybas pictus), Bunga Kantan (E.elatior), pitcher plant (N.ampullaria) & Hoya flowers (H.imperialis)
#SciArt🐡 #BotanicalArt
A watercolor illustration featuring a bright yellow simpor flower, dark purple helmet orchids, brown speckled green pitcher plants, glossy red Hoya flowers and a single light pink torch ginger flower
October 7, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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More work on kodop (Schizophyllum commune). The detailing of the gills is a challenging but worth the work!
Also forgive the bad photography I'm no good at taking pics of my art
#Fungi🍄 #SciArt🐡 #Botany
Pencil drawing of a fan shaped fungus with very fine frills, or gills
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Have this cute raptor pair for Valentine's Day 💕
(Oil painting)
Raptors cuddling in an open patch of jungle with a rainbow in the sky.
February 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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More work on kodop (Schizophyllum commune). The detailing of the gills is a challenging but worth the work!
Also forgive the bad photography I'm no good at taking pics of my art
#Fungi🍄 #SciArt🐡 #Botany
Pencil drawing of a fan shaped fungus with very fine frills, or gills
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Pencil study of Schizophyllum commune, known as "kadap" or "kulat sisir"(comb mushroom) in Malay.
#mushroom🍄 #fungi #SciArt🐡
Detailed pencil illustration of the underside of a splitgill mushroom, shaped like an irregular scallop or fan. Its underside is covered in fine pleats or gill-like structures
February 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I made a Ko-fi! Not entirely sure what to do with it, but I'll at least update the gallery to have another place for my art.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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My #sciart #illustration of the #Orange-tip #Anthocharis cardamines #butterfly with the #Cuckoo-flower #Cardamine pratensis.

Cuckoo flower is also called lady's smock and flowers in late spring. It's the host plant for the Orange tip's caterpillars. We can eat it too, rather delicious and mustardy.
Two Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterflies with a Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis in bloom. One butterfly has wings outspeed, the other has them folded as it perches on the four-petalked pale pink flowers. The cuckoo flower has leaves of paired leaflets with a terminal leaflet, and the illustratikn shows that these are larger and the leaflets are a bit broader lower down the plant. The orange only covers the top third of the upper wings and is edged with a darker margin. The rest of the wing is a greenish white, with clearly visible veins. The underside of the lower wing is blotched with an irregular yellowish green pattern. #botanicalillustration #sciart #butterflypainting #entomology #naturalscienceillustration
February 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Pencil study of Schizophyllum commune, known as "kadap" or "kulat sisir"(comb mushroom) in Malay.
#mushroom🍄 #fungi #SciArt🐡
Detailed pencil illustration of the underside of a splitgill mushroom, shaped like an irregular scallop or fan. Its underside is covered in fine pleats or gill-like structures
February 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Recent #sciart #botanicalillustration of #ribwort #plantain #plantagolanceolata. What an obliging plant, with leaves to work with even in the depths of a wintery January! And if you crush the leaves, they smell just like mushrooms. I love to include tiny areas of leaf damage if I can sneak them in.
Watercolour #botanicalillustration of Ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata in progress. You can see the layer of paint druing is yellow green, and has been applied over the base layer of a darker green whcih shows the veins and leaf tecture. There are three leaves on the page, which I was workign with, and my paintbrush along with my paintbox. The paintbox has the yellow green in the palette. Under the page you can see some photo reference I was using. The plant has roots and a close up detail of one flower from the flowering spike on the right of the illustration. Ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata. This photo shows the illustration before I add the scape and the flowering heads, its just a basal rosette of lanceolate leaves with their parallel veins, along with the simple roots. You can see the pencil drawing of the flowering beads (yet to be painted, so currently without colour) and my hand holding my paint brush. there are also the four leaves I was working with for colour reference in the photo. Completed botanical illustration of Ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata. This time it's just a scan of the finished illustration, cut to white. There are three flowering heads, two are side on and one is pointing toward the vuewer, The sideways ones are differnt shapes (and ages), one blunter and more elongate as it's older. The stamens stick out from the flowers, and although they're cream, in the older flowering head they've turned brown. The stem is ridged and squared and you can see the basal rosette of leaves, immediately recognizable because of their parallel long veins. Roots, pale and simple, stretch to the left of the basal rosette. I've included a few yellowing spots of leaf damage, partly cause its fun, but also to show how damage on the leaves looks. The underside of the leaves are slightly paler, and one leaf is seen sideways on to show this. The close up of one flower, on the right of the illustration, shows one flower with four cream petals and the creamy anthers.
February 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Dendrobium crumenatum, also known as Anggerek Merpati or Pigeon Orchid. They'd grow in trees close to the roadsides, where when it's flowering time they look like cascading necklaces of white blooms
#orchid #botanicalart
Pencil sketch of two blooming orchids, with unopened buds beside them. The buds look like resting doves with their wings tucked against their sides, little beaks pointed skyward. This is why it is called a pigeon orchid.
February 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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More orchids! I'm planning to make a sticker sheet, if I can just arrange them nicely enough
Featuring Bamboo Orchid (Arundinia graminifolia) and Helmet Orchid (Corybas pictus)
A photo showing a halfway done digital art drawing of two orchid species, one small and round (white and red) with a single heart-shaped leaf and another larger, with white and purple petals
February 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Dendrobium crumenatum, also known as Anggerek Merpati or Pigeon Orchid. They'd grow in trees close to the roadsides, where when it's flowering time they look like cascading necklaces of white blooms
#orchid #botanicalart
Pencil sketch of two blooming orchids, with unopened buds beside them. The buds look like resting doves with their wings tucked against their sides, little beaks pointed skyward. This is why it is called a pigeon orchid.
February 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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This is the piece I entered! I also have this as a sparkly print in my Ko-Fi shop!
A black cat floating among pink carnation flowers and decorated with gold leaf patterns.
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM