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Alexander Lovegrove
@alexlovegrove.bsky.social
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Wildlife art and scientific illustration.

Occasional ecologist. Also growing cycads and conifers.
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Sharing some of my wildlife art here!
#sciart #wildlifeart #watercolour #animalart #artist
A gouache painting of a tub gurnard, a strange fish with colourful pectoral fins. The first three rays of the pectoral fins are modified, looking like small legs that the fish “walks” with on the seabed A gouache painting of a serval, a long legged cat from Africa, in front of a bank of tall grass. The cat has a spotted pattern as camouflage. A watercolour painting of a dwarf cassowary, a type of flightless bird from New Guinea. It has long black feathers and a bare blue and purple coloured face. An acrylic painting of an Amur Leopard, a big cat from north east Asia. It is walking along a forest path as the sun sets from behind.
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Greater Rhea - watercolour on paper #sciart #illustration #wildlifeart #watercolour
A watercolour painting of a greater rhea, an ostrich-like flightless bird of mostly grey colouration.
April 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Astonishingly fast germination of these Cycas panzhihuaensis seeds, less than a week! Hoping they put out a couple of leaves this growing season. #gardening #rareplants
A photo of a pot containing four marble sized cycad seeds. Small yellow shoots are emerging from the seeds.
April 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Macrorhizodus praecursor, extinct lamnid from the Eocene. #sharks #sciart #palaeoart
March 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A little attempt at a Triassic landscape in gouache. The two main trees are Voltzia heterophylla (L) and V. walchaeformis. Still researching these so forgive any inaccuracies!
#palaeoart #palaeobotany #paleobotany
A Triassic forest scene featuring two large trees similar to modern Araucaria. In the undergrowth are younger trees and ferns and unusual herbaceous conifers. A Temnospondyl amphibian is hiding in a stream in the foreground.
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Retrophyllum rospigliosii. Beautiful leaves on this tropical podocarp. No idea what I’m going to do when they get too big for the house! #houseplants
March 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A pair of Cycas simplicipinna, germinated from seed. Fascinating plants to watch grow. #cycads
March 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Wollemi pine successfully germinated! Hoping a few others come up
March 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM