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Celestial Whale Studio
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👩‍🔬 Erica Flores, MS
🔬 Research Scientist & Freelance Artist 🎨
💌 Commissions: erica@celestialwhale.studio
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celestialwhale.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! Here is a favorite of mine, "Pumpkin Spice" 🎃 #pumpkinspice #halloween #digitalart #pumpkinart
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
celestialwhale.bsky.social
This little orca is on the way to a forever home! 🥰🐋 #sciart #whalemail #smallbusiness
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵
My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
celestialwhale.bsky.social
I was gifted this incredible shirt yesterday and had to share! I literally cried with joy 😭🥰🐟🌊 @sulkypup.bsky.social #sciart #fishart #wearingart
October 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025
Invertober 2025 1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) 2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) 4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus) 5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor) 6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) 7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix) 9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi) 10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) 11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) 12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula) 13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus) 14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ‪16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬ 17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus) 18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium) 19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) 20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella) 21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) 22. Sea angel (Clione limacina) 23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima) 24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus) 25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) 26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva) 27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) 28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla) 29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) 30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) 31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
celestialwhale.bsky.social
Sharing some cephalopod love for World Octopus Day! 💜🐙
'Purple Tentacles' (Ink & Watercolor)
#sciart #worldoctopusday #octopusart #cephalopods #watercolor
A giant purple tentacle curls around into a spiral within the rectangular frame.
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social
One of the OG. This Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) was one of the very first sharks I illustrated in this style waaaaaaay back in 1994. I love the way she turned out! 🦈💙🤙

#shark #greatwhite #sharkweek #marinelife #sciart #nature #fish #fishart #animal #animalart #ArtYear #bskyart #art
Marker and Prismacolor illustration of a Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) on gray Canson charcoal paper.
July 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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achiegamedev.bsky.social
🧵 Space art thread 🪐

I recently got inspired by @dyamode.bsky.social to draw mobile background and always wanted to explore space as a theme, so here we go, some space themed mobile backgrounds. (soon on Ko-fi for free).

108x184, palette: bittersweet lospec

#pixelart #space #digitalart
Space art cuz my recent fascination of art backgrounds for phones. A lonely spaceship cruising between a double ringed planet and one that is illuminated by a bright white/pink star behind it. Edge lighting and dithering into the background color to help sell the empty darkness as well. Some space jellyfish on the bottom right swimming out of a fluffy space cloud. Dim stars illuminating from parsecs away.
July 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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fiery.bsky.social
Happy World Whale and Dolphin Day!
A light colored narwhal, with de-saturated indigo instead of the more natural darker gray seen in the wild, faces to the viewer's left and seemed to make eye contact. It has an upward-curving mouth that makes it seem friendly. The larger amount of white speckles makes it appear somewhere between a narwhal and a beluga in color. Its tail is curved slightly downward, mid-swim. Unlike many other whales, the narwhal does not have a dorsal fin. It has a long spiraling tusk emerging from the front of its face. The glowing white silhouettes of 3 narwhals emerge from the ocean to the surface, their tusks reaching towards the sky. The sky is a watercolor painting with blending pinks, blues, and green, referencing the enhanced photos of nebula taken by deep space telescopes. White opaque splatters imitate stars and distant galaxies. A single bright star in the upper right quadrant appears brighter and clearer than the rest. The choppy ocean surface reflects the sky's colors. Icebergs float off in the distance but the water around the 3 narwhals is open. Digital painting featuring two orcas spyhopping through a break in the ice, seeming to look at an aurora-filled starry sky.
July 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
celestialwhale.bsky.social
A spyhopping orca for World Whale and Dolphin Day! #sciart #gouache #orca #whaleanddolphinday 🐋🐬💙
July 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
celestialwhale.bsky.social
Sharing an older postcard for World Snake Day! 🐍 #watercolor #sciart #postcardart #worldsnakeday
July 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Happy 50th Anniversary to one of my lifelong favorite movies, JAWS! 💙 Time for my annual viewing! 🎥🎬🏖️🎆🦈 #jawsmovie #jaws50th #fourthofjuly #yearlyritual #sharks
July 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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My booth at anime expo Q41! 🦈🦈🦈
Mahoukarps booth at anime expo artists alley Q41
July 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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stevengawoski.bsky.social
Tiny Green 6/2019 6.5 X 6.5 inches [16.5 X 16.5 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper. #sciart #gawoski #pollen
June 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
celestialwhale.bsky.social
For Throwback Thursday I'm sharing a favorite from the past!

"Otters in Love" 8x10 Digital Illustration ❤️🦦❤️ #tbt #sciart #otters #otterart
June 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
Chinese sturgeon and red algae 🐡🦑 #sundayfishsketch
Digital scratchpad drawing of a fish with red plants and squiggles
June 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Tonight at 8:30 US east coast time, let's watch David Attenborough's new documentary Ocean and chat about it! Everyone push play at the same time (on Hulu/Disney+) and use #OceanChat on Bluesky to discuss! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 #SciComm

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David Attenborough’s Ocean is on Hulu and Disney+. Let’s watch together and discuss it!
The new David Attenborough documentary “Ocean” is now streaming on Hulu and Disney+. On Thursday, June 26th, watch it with me and a panel of ocean science and conservation experts! Here…
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June 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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lampichthys.bsky.social
Are you looking for a #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme to fill up your weekend? I've got one for you! We have an excessive heat warning in Nebraska, and extreme weather always makes me think of 'extremophile fishes.' Sketch those hot or cold loving, salinity or acidity loving, etc. fishes! #sciart 🦑
a woman is standing in front of a fire with the words `` the ring of fire '' written above her .
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a fire with the words `` the ring of fire '' written above her .
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June 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Join me and a panel of ocean science and conservation experts as we watch the new David Attenborough Ocean movie and post thoughts in real time!

8:30 P.M. eastern on 6/26, use #OceanChat

I'll make a starter pack of participating experts, and I'll repost anyone sharing on the hashtag 🧪🦑🌎
June 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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stevengawoski.bsky.social
Rhizaria and the Blue Hole 11/2023 22 X 32 inchers [55.9 X 81.3 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #plankton
June 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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robertgustavo.bsky.social
#sundayfishsketch — it’s not off theme, I was personally bioluminescing while I was sketching.
Very flat drawings of sea creatures, with monoline linework, and a rust/yellow/green color palette on a blue background. There’s a squid, a ray, a starfish, a nautaloid, a seahorse, a lobster, an eel, a frog fish, a shrimp, maybe two Ribbonfish, and one more generic fish. They aren’t interacting or anything like that, there’s just a bunch of little drawings of varying shapes and colors. I’m not sure this text helps anyone. Sorry about that.
June 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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vendipixels.bsky.social
Quintana atrizona

#pixelart #SundayFishSketch #sciart #fishart
A pixel art image of a fish. It's grey with a dark yellow line on its side.
June 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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lampichthys.bsky.social
Tempted to have every #fishytheme this month just be all sorts of colorful, wonderful, #PrideMonth related #SundayFishSketch themes. Thoughts?! 🌈🐠🦑 #sciart
June 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I've been camping almost every weekend as of late so haven't been able to post #SundayFishSketch, but here is an edited version of my Rainbow Trout illustration with altered coloring in honor of #PrideMonth.
An illustration of a Rainbow Trout, but instead of the realistic coloring on the body, the colors make a rainbow in honor of Pride month.
June 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
celestialwhale.bsky.social
Boesemani Rainbowfish 🌈 #SundayFishSketch #Pride #sciart #digitalillustration
June 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM