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Jess Taylor
@loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
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Textile artist and Illustrator in Portsmouth, UK. 🎨 Inspired by nature, books and coosplaying pigeons. 🐦 https://www.loadofolbobbins.co.uk/
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · Jan 22
I thought I’d do a proper intro post with links 👋 I’m Jess aka Loadofolbobbins a textile artist and illustrator inspired by nature, books and coosplaying pigeons. 🐦❤️

Shop: www.loadofolbobbins.co.uk
Birb Zine Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/loa...
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A flat lay of a selection of original bird illustration prints by Loadofolbobbins. They’re all muddled together overlapping to create a joyful mass of birds. The birds you can see as illustrations are a goldfinch, pukeko, white browed tit warbler, curl crested aracari, brown hooded kingfisher, Californian sage grouse, king penguin, red billed oxpecker, bluejay, harpy eagle, Bluethroat, white created helmetshrike and a red and yellow barbet. A selection of laser cut wooden jewellery featuring illustrations inspired by ivy and the wildlife it attracts. Working from left to right, a small vibrant variegated ivy necklace with a jersey tiger moth stuck to the leaf, a pair of ivy stud earrings (left one is variegated with lime green border & slightly darker green centre, right stud is dark green ivy leaf with light green veining), small wooden charm of an ivy mining bee, a swallowtail moth lapel pin on a illustrated ivy backing card, a large dark green veined ivy leaf necklace with red admiral butterfly stuck to bottom left, a jersey tiger moth lapel pin on a backing card full of ivy illustrations, pair of matching ivy mining bee stud earrings on a backing card, a small wooden charm of a golden hoverfly, a small vibrant variegated ivy necklace, a large dark green veined ivy leaf necklace with a golden hoverfly stuck to the bottom left and a red admiral butterfly lapel pin. Text says Ivy League by Loadofolbobbins An original digital illustration of a Cassowary bird by Loadofolbobbins. The illustration focuses on its neck and head. A very dinosaur looking bird the Cassowary has a bright reddish orange wrinkled neck and wattle that transitions to a bright intense blue face with sharp angles of the skull visible underneath its skin. It has a beak slightly elongated and pointed downwards. It has a large eye with a yellowy orange iris that is glistening in the sun. On top of its head is a casque, which is an enlargement of the bone from its upper skull and looks almost like a Mohawk and is an array of greens in colour. The background is a splash of light grey ink. A photo montage of pigeon themed product from Loadofolbobbins. Clockwise from top left a hardback book of illustrations called 100 days of Coosplay by Jessica Taylor and Fred the pigeon, a laser cut wooden necklace showing an illustration of a pigeon coosplaying as a unicorn, a series of three laser cut wooden pins showing illustrations of a pigeon coosplaying as Elizabeth the first, an artist and a roller derby player.
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Day 24 of @birbfest.challenge - New Holland Honeyeater
This dude has the best colour scheme!
Enjoying gouache more and more with each new piece. It's exciting seeing it come together - even though the first few layers look *rough*!
#birbfest2026 #birbfest#cutebird #birb #honeyeater
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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New Holland Honeyeater for #birbfest2026 🐦‍⬛
#birbfest #birds #birdart #honeyeater
A small black, white and yellow bird on a yellow flower
January 24, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Day 23 of #BirbFest2026 - Nuthatch

They look like they're wearing makeup.

Update: My PC repair process has begun. I made this on my phone in the meantime.
January 24, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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A New Holland Honeyeater for #birbfest. I always enjoy the angry bird effect that happens when you get a face-on picture of birds. Reference photo by user melissadoherty on inaturalist.

#BirbFest2026 #SciArt #BirdArt #birds
Digital painting of a New Holland Honeyeater perched on a branch among pointed green leaves. The bird is on the smaller side, its body in profile facing left with its head turned toward the viewer. It has white patches on its otherwise black face and white patches mixed with dark brown and beige on the rest of its body. There is a patch of bright yellow feathers on its wing.
January 24, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Another Australian mate for #birbfest2026 - the New Holland Honeyeater

#birbfest #BirdArt #SciArt
Drawing of a New Holland Honeyeater perched on a small branch in front of a green background. The bird is tessellated into triangles and coloured so that no two adjacent areas are in the same hues. Polychromos coloured pencils and black fine liner on white paper, 10x15cm
January 24, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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faridazaman.bsky.social
Today is day 25 of the #birbfest2026 and the prompt is:
NEW HOLLAND HONEY EATER
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#birbfest #illustration #procreate #illustrator
January 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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sophmobile.bsky.social
day 24 of #birbfest2026 with a new holland honeyeater 🐦 #birbfest #art #digitalart #birdart #sciart
painting of a new holland honeyeater
January 24, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Day 24 of #birbfest2026 with a study of the New Holland Honeyeater

#birds #sciart #wildlife #art #illustration #sketchbook
January 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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day 23 of #birbfest2026 with a nuthatch. He's a little guy, he wants to hop on your shoulder and keep you company 🐦 #birbfest #art #digitalart #birdart #sciart
digital painting of a nuthatch
January 23, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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gravity? what gravity?

Day 23 of #Birbfest2026 - Nuthatch

#SciArt #birds 🪶
digital drawing of a Nuthatch, sitting on the left side of a grey backround, looking to the left, a tiny bird with a blue top, orange belly, and a stripe across their eye making them look like a little bandit.
January 23, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Day 23 of #birbfest2026 with the Nuthatch. I ended up drawing 3 of them, he's a cute little birb.

#art #sketchbook #illustration #birds #wildlife #sciart
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
Utterly magical!
doodlebeth.com Beth W @doodlebeth.com · 1d
Excuse the shaky video and wind noises. We had the most wonderful experience at Clevedon sea wall today. Thousands and thousands of mostly dunlin. The sound of them flying past was incredible. The way the colour changes as they turn around. It was hypnotising. #AvonBirds
January 23, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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day 22 of #birbfest2026 with a Galah Cockatoo (a day late opps 🐦) #birbfest #sciart #birdart #art #cockatoo
digital painting of a Galah cockatoo
January 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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kathryngarner.co.uk
It's been an incredible first day for Pintopia! $1 million pledged across 228 projects in the first 12 hours!!

If you haven't had a look yet, here is the link to my project. You can explore the other projects from there

#sciart #artsky #illustration #scicomm

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
Attack of the Crenelated Mutants
You've heard about the origins of animal and plant cells? When one big single-celled organism engulfed a smaller one? Well this is like that, only it involves a castle and a bacterium and a whole truc...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Nuthatch goes on and on about how beautiful the tree is across the path, never been.

#birbfest2026 #leightonbuzzardartist
It really wants to travel, but it doesn't
January 23, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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suncatrune.bsky.social
Day 18 - Tufted Jay

This crazy looking bird deserves a slightly unhinged drawing. Quick one tonight as I catch up.

#birbfest #BirbFest2026
A black and white bird sporting a messy crest with wings held high.
January 23, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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[Day 22: Galah Cockatoo 🪶

Felt brave enough today to ink

of course I still took a picture of each step just to be careful haha

But I think it turned out ok, so maybe I’ll start inking more]
#birbfest #birbfest2026
January 23, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

The Nuthatch for day 23 of #birbfest2026

Oil paint sketch over acrylic on A5 paper #birbfest #birdart #oilpaint
Oil paint sketch on green background. Small brown and grey bird perched on a twig.
January 23, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Day 22 of birbfest!
I posted to Instagram and completely forgot to post this anywhere else so here it is a day late🩷 The Galah Cockatoo! #birbfest2026
A digital illustration of a Galah Cockatoo. It is mostly pink, with a paler pink on the top of its head, light grey beak, grey wings and tail, and dark grey feet. It has a pinkish red eye, the background is a blur of greens and the cockatoo is perched on a branch. There is also a branch behind it.
January 23, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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Nuthatch #watercolor #birbfest2026
January 23, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Day 22 of #BirbFest2026 - Galah Cockatoo

Strawberry birb 🍓😋

#birbfest #coloredpencil #birds #birdart
January 23, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Nuthatches are cool because with their go-faster-stripes and them constantly being upside down for some reason they always look like they're Very Seriously Going Somewhere. #Birbfest, day 23.

#Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds
Digital illustration of a little nuthatch on a branch. It's got a peach-coloured belly and blue-grey back and wings, a dark grey beak and black stripe going over its eyes.
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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Happy #Birbfest2026! 🐦‍⬛

Here is a Common Ground Dove (Rolita) from my sketchbook last year 🖤

#Birbfest #BirdArt #ArtSky #SciArt #illustration #PuertoRico
Blue, pink, and tan illustration of standing and sitting doves with a color palette and handwritten text "Rolita"
January 23, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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cthonicyouth.bsky.social
Nuthatch for #birbfest2026 🐦‍⬛
#birbfest #birds #birdart #nuthatch
A little black, grey, and white bird on a mossy surgace
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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faridazaman.bsky.social
Today is day 22 of the #birbfest2026 and the prompt is:
GALAH COCKATOO
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#sketchbookart #illustration #procreate #illustrator
January 22, 2026 at 3:59 PM