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Liz Butler
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Illustrator and future museum ghost.
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Protecting parrotfish works but not quickly. New Blog: Why Saving Parrotfish Takes Time #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife
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January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Snowy Ptarmigans!
Flat illustration of a Willow Ptarmigan perched in wintry trees with 3 camouflaged in the snowy background. (From 2025)
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Some watercolor fish studies I did back in 2024 when I decided to learn how to use watercolors again. 🐠 :3
🎨🖼️ #TraditionalArt #SciArt #SketchBook
Various kinds of fish painted in watercolors. (The O.P. can't remember all the names of the fish and like a fool didn't write them down...) (One is of a Betta fish, though.) Various kinds of fish painted in watercolors. (The O.P. can't remember all the names of the fish and like a fool didn't write them down...) (One is of a chunky goldfish though.)
January 26, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Beetle zines! 🖌️🪲🐞 #invert #insects #zine

The wings open to reveal different faces. The halves can be aligned in any combination, making it look like mid-flight.

These were made as January rewards for Patreon members. Pledge $8 or more by January 31st to receive one
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Three paper beetle zines facing each other. The orange and purple ones have their wings closed, and "Exquisite Beetle" is visible across their shells. The blue beetle's wings are open, as if mid-flight Purple beetle zine with its wings open to reveal two halves of a face. It is very geometric and crying Neon yellow beetle zine with its wings open to reveal two mismatched face halves. The left half is scowling, while the right half is grinning slyly
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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In the dark depths of Lake Superior, it's the Kiyi. #SundayFishSketch
Ink sketch of a small fish.
January 26, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Being from Minneapolis, these past few weeks have been especially heavy. I’ve been painting fish again to calm my nerves. Here is a tangerine darter in breeding colors for my first #SundayFishSketch in a while.
Watercolor painting of a side view of a fish facing to the right. The fish has a green top and an orange belly with green and orange fins.
January 26, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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Early #SundayFishSketch in the heatwave. New pens
(Oblique banded sweetlips)
A paint pen drawing of a black and white striped fish with yellow fins and face.
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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#SundayFishSketch
#Fish #FishArt
#Parrotfish #QueenParrotfish
#Scarusvetula
Sketch of a male Queen Parrotfish in color pencil and water marker
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Here is a watercolor painting of a Roundhead Parrotfish, intermediate phase, Chlorurus strongylocephalas, for my #sundayfishsketch
#sciart #marinelife #coralreefs
#parrotfish #spanglersscuba
Here is a watercolor painting of a Roundhead Parrotfish, intermediate phase, Chlorurus strongylocephalas. Reference photo(s) by Stephen Spangler
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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Another belated (for my time zone) #SundayFishSketch. Here is シロギス Sillago japonica, whose slang in Taiwanese Hokkien 台語 Tâi-gí is 沙腸仔 or "sand intestines" for its slender shape and sandy substrate preferences. Tried it for the first time as sashimi recently, lovely! #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 🦑🐡🧪
Photo of a crayon sketch of a Japanese sillago fish, which is slender and has an elongated snout with a petite mouth
January 25, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Shovel-tuskers! Ancient elephants like Amebelodon are an evolutionary success story, and we’re only just starting to understand how they used their exceptional jaws. I’ll tell you more at Smithsonian. 🧪
Strange, Shovel-Tusked Elephants Puzzled Paleontologists, Until Experts Took a Closer Look at Their Teeth
The animals' extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they could do a lot more than initially expected
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January 26, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #visualscicomm #sciviz #dinosaurs
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The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs
My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced
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January 26, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Microraptor. Nine years old and still one of my favourite paintings I have ever made. #sciart
January 23, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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OK so it's Monday here but it's still Sunday the other half of the world. Here's my late #SundayFishSketch of an arapaima, inspired by a fun reel that my friend @seaofglitter shared, giving me a #SciComm chance to say "hey, that's a real fish actually!" 😄🦑🐡🧪
Photo of a crayon sketch of an arapaima fish, long and majestic
January 19, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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My girlfriend and I had another paint night this weekend. This time we painted some 3D-printed Redside Dace! #SciArt #NatureArt 🐟
A couple of goofballs posting with their realistically painted Redside Dace A couple of goofballs posting with their realistically painted Redside Dace A couple of goofballs posting with their realistically painted Redside Dace A fully painted Redside Dace model next to a completed untouched 3D printed Redside Dace. Both were printed in clear resin.
January 19, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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The Monster clay horse is done, now to pour the plaster mold. Wish me luck, if something goes wrong it could ruin the original and I’ll have to start over!

#yearofthehorse #lunarnewyear
Monster Clay horse sculpted in relief on a clear acrylic backer. Based on ceramics from China for a Lunar New Year artwork. Monster Clay horse sculpted in relief on a clear acrylic backer. Based on ceramics from China for a Lunar New Year artwork. Monster Clay horse sculpted in relief on a clear acrylic backer. Based on ceramics from China for a Lunar New Year artwork.
January 18, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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Pleistocene steppe bison Bison Priscus. It inhabited Europe, Asia, and North America until the early Holocene and is the ancestor of modern European bison and American bison.
I'm not sure if it's noticeable, but I was inspired by ancient images of bison and Altamira and other caves.
Pleistocene steppe bison Bison Priscus. Ancestor of modern bisons.
January 18, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Going thru the archives cont’d —
Horse Stable [Breath of the Wild]
made in 2022 for AGDQ2023
bristol paper, cardstock, floral wire, tea grounds, microLEDs
January 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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betterknowafish.bsky.social
Ringing in the new year with a new species for #SundayFishSketch! Introducing Rhinogobius chongkangensis, a newly described #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 from 中港溪 Chongkang watershed in 苗栗縣 Miaoli County in western Taiwan. In #Zootaxa authored by Chen I-Shiung 陳義雄 at National Taiwan Ocean University. 🦑🐡🧪
Photo of a crayon sketch of a Rhinogobius chongkangensis goby
January 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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And the crab effigy vessel is mostly done !

There will be some fine tuning, and adding white slip, but normally no larger change.
I think it is too triangular in the back, and the legs are improvised, but I only had pictures from the front.

#SciArt, #pottery, #ceramics
Grey clay crab with a stirrup shaped spout on its back viewed from the front Grey clay crab with a stirrup shaped spout on its back viewed from above. The edge of the shell is in zigzag, the whole is a very rounded triangle
January 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Digital painting of an opossum
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Further paper tests allow further wizardry - this time in a more contemplative mode, though.
A wizard with red cape and hat over a blue robe, holding a gnarled staff and sitting perched on a white column on a rocky hill overlooking a mountain range against a sky full of dramatic white clouds.
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A very quick #SundayFishSketch of the dwarf topminnow (much better name than "least killifish")
a photo of a sketchbook showing an ink and watercolour sketch of a fish its name (heterandria formosa) is written underneath the fish is mostly colourless with a black strip running down its body On the sketchbook lies a nip pen
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Sunday was the last day for the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF) in their awesome temporary downtown space. I wanted to go back and sketch the awesome art installations, and then it turned out they were also holding a holiday gift boutique...
Sketches from the ICASF, December 7, 2025. Featuring the "Elsewhere" fashion & gift boutique, an installation by Tau Lewis, and group portraits by David Antonio Cruz. Sketches from the ICASF, December 7, 2025. "Midnight March" by Masako Miki, which took up the entire basement level of the gallery.
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Blue Betta. Watercolour, approximately 115 × 110 mm. From 2019.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Watercolour painting of an ornamental blue Betta splendens, with especially long, flowing fins resembling underwater drapery.
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM