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@dani-vw77.bsky.social
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Aaron, 14 😊 Budding naturalist, wildlife conservationist, 💚🌎 aspiring zoologist 🐾 and keen artist who loves books & comics ✍🏼 (acc. run by mum Dani & me!)
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Hiding in plain sight… you don’t have to go far, awesome nature finds are all around if you take the time to notice… beautiful orbweaver (pumpkin?) on way home from school 🕷️
Orbweaver spider with bright orange colouring and beige markings climbing up turquoise coloured wooden fence
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final! 🚂 #arttrain #artshare #fantasticbeasts
Sketch on canvas to plan composition with the head of Newt Scamander started to appear, painted in acrylic Finished painting in acrylic of Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts surrounded by his creatures from his suitcase: niffler, occamy, Erumpent and Pickett
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Art v. Artist ✍🏼💚
‘Refuge’ Self portrait in pencil on hand-made paper, illustrating how I am interconnected to the natural and creative world with a tree trunk as my core and the branches and roots expressing my passions and ideas with a variety of animals and creatures depicted throughout Photo of me at David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s Wildlife Artist of the year 2025 holding a small print version of my Global Canvas winning artwork ‘a lasting mark’ — a fingerprint highlighting the need for coexistence made up from a variety of different animals whose habitats have been affected by human development
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds … an oldie but hopefully still a goodie 💚 🪶 🎨
Paint studies of a goldcrest on a tree branch and a dunnock on the ground on acrylic from a few years ago
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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One of my favourites… I love rhinoceros beetles and even dressed up as Darkus a few years ago for #WorldBookDay 📚 💚 🪲
Photo of me dressed as Darkus from the “Beetle Boy” series in an orange jumper with freckles painted on my face, holding “The Beetle Collectors handbook” in one hand and a rhino beetle figure in the other
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Wow! That’s so cool 🦉🧡🎃… Happy Halloween and Happy Samhain to you too… my joint effort with mum was more manga inspired this year ✍🏼
November 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Happy Halloween 🎃👻🧡 #Sandland #pumpkindecor
Photo of two carved pumpkins on a table with some witches brooms and a cauldron in the background. The smaller pumpkin has a carving of Anime character Beelzebub from Sandland and the larger pumpkin has a carving of the Giji Dragon Photo of two carved pumpkins in the dark lit up. The smaller pumpkin has a carving of Anime character Beelzebub from Sandland and the larger pumpkin has a carving of the Giji Dragon Photo of a small pumpkin in the dark lit up which has a carving of Anime character Beelzebub from Sandland Photo of a large pumpkin lit up in the dark which has a carving of the Giji Dragon from Anime program Sandland
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Hardback green cloth cover with gold blocking for “Woodland Wisdom: a miscellany of forest facts, fiction and folklore” by Nick Pierce, featuring a beautiful woodland pattern around the edges surrounding the title with creatures such as a fox, owl and deer in the artwork
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Gorgeous autumnal colours @rbgkew.bsky.social 🍂 🍁 💚
View across main lake at Kew Gardens with autumnal trees and the Botanical Brasserie building in the horizon Glorious burgundy red acer tree with various shades of yellow and green trees around it with green grass on the foreground covered in yellowy leaves Water Lily Pond at Kew Gardens with various trees around it of every shade of autumnal colours, also reflected in the water Stunning red/brown/orange tree amongst other trees of shades of yellow, green and brown, against a cloudy blue sky
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Brilliant autumn day @rbgkew.bsky.social fungi spotting 🍄… @lukaslarge.bsky.social I might need your help identifying the various types to add to alt text! 🙏🏼 My natural history knowledge is more animal-based but always eager to learn 👀 💚
Orangey mushrooms in a cluster growing on green grass Clusters of grey/white small mushrooms growing from cracks in a log Large white textured mushroom amongst the leaf litter Various orangey mushroom clusters among the leaf litter running in a line along the edge of a natural fence
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Hardback light green cover for Welcome to the Museum “Arboretum”, curated by Katie Scott and Tony Kirkham featuring various types of colourful and textured tree leaves, seeds and flowers
October 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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#naturebookchallenge
Hardback cover for Welcome to the Museum “Fungarium”, curated by Katie Scott and Ester Gayá featuring various different types and colours of fungi filling the cover
October 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Happy #internationalartistsday 💚✍🏼
Photo of me watercolour painting at Kew Gardens “A lasting Mark” fingerprint ink pen drawing of a variety of different animals surviving in different habitat affected by human development “Refuge” self portrait of myself as an interconnected tree showing my creative thoughts through with a variety of different animals, nature and creatures living within Landscape painting of an African Savanna with animals such as an ostrich, rhino, elephant and warthog against a golden yellow background
October 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Congratulations 🥳… I finally got a Hisuian version today! 🙌🏼
Pokémon go screenshot showing Hisuian Zorua information screen
October 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Paperback green cover for “On the necessity of Gardening: an ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation” with some ornate lettering for ABC and an abstract outline of a flower motif
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Soooo excited!!! 😆📚 #Asterix
Hardback cover for new comic “Asterix in Lusitania” featuring Asterix and Obelix carrying Dogmatix walking through a traditional Portuguese street, with the sea and a ship visible in the background Photo of me sitting in a coffee shop reading the new Asterix comic
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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If you see this, post your #yellow #art!
WIP of creature that looks like an eel with legs painted in watercolour yellow for the main body, orange crest along its back and red for the blood spluttering from its mouth and red eyes
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Dust jacket cover for “Field Guide to the Birds of Australia: a book of identification” by Simpson & Day, featuring ‘760 birds in colour’ with an illustration of a variety of colourful birds flying, on branches and on the ground on the front
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#naturebookchallenge
Hardback illustrated cover for “Dwell” by Simon Armitage (Poet Laureate), illustrated by Beth Munro. Featuring a beautiful scene of foliage and natural forms full of greens, blues, pinks and purples with a silhouette of a flying bird above the title
October 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Poster design for a new nature club I’m hoping to set up and run at my school 💚 🌎 🐾 🌳 🐛 🍄 #conservation #biodiversity #ecosystems #mentalhealth #restorenature #rewild #replant #defendnature
Drawing in green coloured pencils of a tree growing out of a school building, the branches and roots reclaiming the landscape, with a variety of animals, plants and habitats returning to the natural environment. The main message: “Sign up! Join Our Nature Club… Restore, Replant, Rewild”
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Paperback dark yellow cover for “Wordsworth’s Birds” by Stanley Finch, featuring a black and white portrait in the middle right with 2 bird black and white engravings at the bottom of the cover
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Paperback cover for “The Neighbours an Animal Anthology” compiled and illustrated by Fougasse, featuring a row of illustrated brown mice on a ledge facing away with their backs turned, with their tails intertwined to spell out “The Neighbours”
October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Cover for “A Geography of Hope: Saving the Last Primary Forests / Geografía de la Esperanza: Salvando los Últimos Bosques Primarios” By: Cyril F Kormos, Russell A Mittermeier, Tilman Jaeger, Brendan Mackey. Foreword by Peter A Seligmann, Harrison Ford. Features a lush green forest full cover photo with waterfalls and an abundance of green foliage
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Hardback cover for “Animal Super Powers: the most amazing ways animals have evolved”, by Dr Nick Crumpton, illustrated by Viola Wang; featuring a variety of colour illustrations of animals such as the slender loris, panther chameleon and flamingo
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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#naturebookchallenge
Hardback for “Natural Wonders of the World”, with foreword by Chris Packham, featuring a photo of a landscape with the northern lights on a third of the cover
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM