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CassWArt 🌴
@casswart.bsky.social
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Game Dev 15yr+, Production Artist, Traditional / Digital trained Illustrator, Foodie, Chalk + Mural Artist. Focusing on Art, Science and Life! Good vibes! 🌞🎨🐦☕

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🌳: linktr.ee/casswart
📺: https://www.twitch.tv/casswart
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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hey #PortfolioDay! 🎉

I'm Cass, an indie Dev Production Artist, and a traditional / digitally trained illustrator. I like focusing on nature ( birds especially ) and science-related artworks.

Looking for more science illustration publication work in 2025

🧵 of work
For more: linktr.ee/casswart
African lion digital render portrait Peahen and Peachick digital portrait. Red Panda Digital portrait African Crown Crane digital portrait
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peppermintbubble.com
Happy World Whale Day!
A good excuse to repost this small thing from my "animal rainbow" mini project from 2020. I love aquatic animals!

#art #animalart
A small circular colored pencil drawing of a blue whale. It's posed mid-swim, with head ilted upwards and tail pointed up, about to move back down, has a thin circular outline around it, and a white background.
February 15, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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whaletalesorg.bsky.social
Happy #WorldWhaleDay Storytellers! Did you know there are 15 species of Baleen Whales and 77 species of toothed whales (including dolphins and porpoises)? We have #WhaleTales of over 60 of them🐳🐬🐋
Read them all on our website
🎨: Peppermint Narwhal Creative
#WhaleStory
February 16, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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1birder2.bsky.social
#birdart

Because I consider my carved birds to be art, not craft. Here is a life-sized male Prothonotary Warbler, carved out of Tupelo wood, painted with acrylics, on a small wood base, eyeing an epoxy caterpillar.
February 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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jjlockwood.bsky.social
🎨
Sketchbook Sunday

I think drawing is a great distraction and good therapy. I found the reference photos for these beauties online.

1) Southern Ground Hornbill

2)Victoria Crowned Pigeon

9”x12”
Pastel Drawings

#Art #Sketchbook #Sketch #Drawing #BirdArt #BirdDrawings #PastelDrawing #BlueskyArt
Pastel Drawing of a Southern Ground Hornbill Pastel Drawing of a Victoria Crowned Pigeon
February 15, 2026 at 7:34 PM
casswart.bsky.social
💙 Feb 14 is also #WorldBonoboDay !

I've always wanted to study more swinging poses, the anatomy of this was really fun to explore.

#bonoboDay #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt #SciArt #bonobo
Bonobo, aka a pygmy chimpanzee, sketch study of a bonobo swinging through tree limbs with one close up bonobo for a portrait study.
February 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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vantid.bsky.social
It’s #LoveHornbillsDay, so I gotta post my rhinoceros hornbill character, Reyliss
A rhinoceros hornbill with blue eyes wearing a necklace with dangling orange cabochons. He is backlit so his casque glows with rich subsurface scattering.
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
This valentine's day, take some courting tips from these Gunnison Sage Grouse. Go to the club, puff out your chest, dance, and give a complex series of booms, pops, and whistles. 🪶🎨🐡🧪 (for @instbirdpop.bsky.social annual report, 2021)
Digital illustration of Gunnison Sage-Grouse at a lek, where males display for choosy females by dancing and inflating their bright yellow chest sacs. The ground in early spring is still covered in snow.
February 14, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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blueappaloosa.bsky.social
Sales are way down this month (not just for me, but for everyone). So maybe I should promote my new stuff!

3d Printed Eothyris Skulls are now available in my Etsy shop!

(ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#PaleoArt #BSNM #SciComm #ArtShop
Two 3d printed Eothyris skulls. Eothyris was a smallish, lizard-like creature with a rounded snout and two upper fangs. The skull on the left is white and has the mouth propped open with a US penny. The skull on the right is tan, with a closed mouth. Watermark reads: Blue Appaloosa
February 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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ghostofthesea.bsky.social
❤️ Happy #LoveHornbillsDay ! ❤️

#art #watercolor #animalart #birdart #birds #natureart #hornbill
Photo of a painting of a red billed hornbill perched on a branch, with it's natural colours of white, dark brown, yellow and orange. Drips and splatters of paint almost make it look like the colours are melting off the bird
February 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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cascoclauda.bsky.social
given that it's #hornbillsday, it feels appropriate to share this link to flora & fauna's page on the critically endangered helmeted hornbill
www.fauna-flora.org/appeals/save...
Please help save hornbills
Helmeted hornbills are in a desperate situation - with their headgear being turned into grim ornaments. We have to act now or we'll lose them.
www.fauna-flora.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
2026 Great Backyard Bird Count is on! Feb 13-16. Report your sightings on eBird or just follow along and watch sightings accumulate around the globe in real time. It’s getting birdy! #birds www.birdcount.org
Great Backyard Bird Count – Join us each February when the world comes together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds.
Each year people from around the world come together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds. Join us in February!
www.birdcount.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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miartsix.bsky.social
Assignment for school.
I'm always happy when I get an excuse to draw birds. This is inspired by hornbills we drew at a local ZOO, and a video which talked about a mating ritual where they test each other's beaks. :)

#art #birds #hornbill #love #illustration #nature #howdoitagwithoutbeingcringe
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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npaothongphoto.bsky.social
At Khao Yai NP, my group and I were lucky to see three hornbill species—Great, Wreathed, and Oriental Pied. Incredible to watch and photograph, especially seeing the male bring food to the female during courtship. Moments like this make the trip special. #BirdsofThailand #Hornbill #KhaoYai
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 PM
casswart.bsky.social
Today is I ❤️ #HornbillsDay !

This year I'm studying the endangered Wrinkled Hornbill found in the forests of Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

They primarily eat fruit, like figs, but will consume small prey like frogs.

#BirdArt #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt #SciArt #Hornbills #Hornbill
Image depicts a male and female Wrinkled Hornbill resting on a tree limb. The male has is wings open on display, he has pale yellowish throat and a yellow and red bill and casque. Female has a plain yellow bill and casque and bare blue skin around the eyes and on the neck pouch. This year I'm studying the endangered Wrinkled Hornbill found in the forests of Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. They primarily eat fruit, like figs, but will consume small prey like frogs. Loss of habitat and deforestation is likely the main cause of their endangered status. Sketch study art work, indented for learning purposes.
February 13, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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auroraw777.bsky.social
I'm so pleased with how this quail turned out! He was done in colored pencils. The reference photo was taken from my back yard in the spring when little white flowers were springing up making the perfect shot!This beauty is up for sale on Ebay. #art #bird #coloredpencil #originalart #quail 🐡🦜🎨
February 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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astrapionte.bsky.social
Assortment of creatures - extinct & extant- flat style (Approximately to scale)!

#paleoart
February 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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dandythistle.bsky.social
#funguary found out about ghoul fungus and just loved some of the visuals while I was looking for inspo
Drawing of a contorted sheep skeleton in some grass with orange-brown mushrooms sprouting
February 6, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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doedryadart.bsky.social
Weathered King

Recently finished portrait of a Great Hornbill
9x12" oil painting
#birds #sciart
Painted portrait of a Great Hornbill with a muted green backdrop. A striking yellow and black bird with a large bill and casque. The bill is weathered and textured, and the eyes are a deep red.
February 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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kaylaskritterz.bsky.social
Ive finished 3 adorable Luv Bug plushies just in time for Valentines day! They're so soft and adorable. Would anyone like to adopt one? They're a simple 60 to your door! A beautiful mix of applique and embroidery.

This white minky is extra silky soft - like mochi minky without the stretch!
February 11, 2026 at 11:30 PM
casswart.bsky.social
I received a suggestion to make the Animal Day Awareness Cal a more prominent link on my profile for easier access on mobile devices.

Not add link clutter, I did add them to my linktree linktr.ee/casswart

Also added OneZoom for research purposes. Not associated with the site. I like it a lot.
A screen shot of my Linktree profile with links showing the the google sheets Animal Awareness Day Cal, add on link and the OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer for easy access for those on mobile who have limited search options.
February 11, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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turtlesoup.bsky.social
In the spirit of Weird Duck Time, finding a little joy and silliness even in the face of the horrors, and even that silly Hallmark romance holiday, I drew a hooded merganser doing his best to impress. #birdart
Mixed media drawing (color pencil and artist marker) of a male hooded merganser mid-courtship display, body raised a little out of the water and tilted back, bill open, crest full. Above his head in pink letters it reads " ... LADIES."
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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charzea.bsky.social
Duck studies during @kaseysnow.bsky.social 's art gym stream!
#birds #ducks #art #digitalart #photostudy #sketchart #TheArtGym #addBirder
January 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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mikehendley.com
Gave this pangolin 45 mins last night. Been avoiding it for months--was saving it for oils. But I needed to draw, even if it was quick. One pencil (4B), no erasing, no blending, no glasses. Just marks and motion. Sometimes the sketch is the real piece. The oil will come. #sciart #pencil
Detailed graphite sketch of a pangolin in grass, drawn in a pocket sketchbook with a Pentel Graphgear 1000 .5mm mechanical pencil. No erasing or blending.
February 11, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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tstld.bsky.social
Work in progress

Little sparrow
Graphite on paper

#art #birds #nature #sciart
Work in progress of a sparrow made with graphite pencils on paper.
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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orcasketcher.bsky.social
Sometimes you just have to draw a friendly Mammoth.
#sciart
A pencil drawing of a friendly Woolly Mammoth.
February 11, 2026 at 1:59 PM