Peter Shearer
prion42.bsky.social
Peter Shearer
@prion42.bsky.social
Traditional and digital artist, photographer. I am an artistic photographer, not an image reporter. # seabirds #birds #fungi #clouds #portrait #procreateartist #birdphotography #raptor #sciart
#marinelife #fish #newzealandbirds #digitalillustration
Karearea. New Zealand Falcon. Old colour pencil drawing done years ago. Scanned it into procreate and digitally finished it off. 😁 #falcon #raptors #Birds
#digitalillustration
#procreate #globalbirding
#SciArt #birdillustration #birdartist #newzealandbirds
April 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Took the cell phone for a walk up the hills behind home last nite. (Makara, Wellington) Comet C/2024 G3 Atlas made a brief appearance. #comet #astronomy #astrophotography
January 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A Tui at dusk (endemic to New Zealand) feeding on nectar from a flax plant. The orange on its forehead is pollen from the flax.

#birding
#naturephotography #birds #wildlifephotography #newzealandbirds
#Birds #birdphotogaphy #digitalillustration
#Tui
January 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
White-fronted Heron. Found a colour pencil drawing that I abandoned 10 or so years ago - got bogged down in the detail. So scanned it into procreate and “finished” it off, at last.😁 #heron #Birds
#digitalillustration
#procreate #globalbirding
#SciArt #birdillustration #birdartist #newzealandbirds
December 23, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Paralomis zealandica, a species of king crab. This one was caught and photographed from the Chatham Rise, New Zealand from approximately 600metres. #marinelife #crabs #crustateans #crustmas #SciArt #newzealand
December 17, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Starlings nesting in a fishing buoy hanging from my shed have fledged and are out and about the garden. Parents still on feeding duty. #starlings #fledgling #birds
December 16, 2024 at 9:50 PM
White-chinned Petrel. Drawn with Procreate in support of ABUN conservation campaign for Marion Island using a ref pic by Ben Dilley.
#Seabirds #birds #globalbirding #SciArt #birdillustration #birdartist #birdart #scientificillustration #petrel
December 14, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Red Moki - Cheilodactylus spectabilis
Colour pencil illustration (75x48cm) done in 2008.
#marinelife #fish #fishart #scientificillustration #SciArt #newzealand
December 11, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Oyster mushrooms and herbs from the garden for dinner. 😁🍄‍🟫
#fungi
#mushrooms
#oystermushroom
#fungifriends
#herbs #garden #organic
December 10, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Pot-bellied seahorse photographed off south coast, Wellington, NZ then digitally added to.
#marinelife #photoillustration #seahorse #SciArt
December 10, 2024 at 2:40 AM
December 10, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Home grown Grey Oyster mushrooms releasing spores. Pleurotus pulmonarius
#fungi
#mushrooms
#oystermushroom
#fungifriends
#mycology
#mushroomart
December 8, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Blackbird chick - I think. Drew this study with coloured pencil from a pic I took after finding it on the ground a couple of years ago. Put it back in the nest. Just the one chick. #birds #SciArt
#SciSketch
#scientificillustration
#birdillustration
#birdartist
December 6, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Swimming crab brought up from Chatham Rise, New Zealand, photographed + digital fluff😁
#crustmas #mairinelife
#fish #crabs #SciArt #photoillustration
December 5, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Starlings have set up home in a fishing buoy hanging from my shed. These chicks are about 9 days old. The reddish tinge in this phone pic is from the colour of the buoy. #starling #Birds #naturephotography
December 5, 2024 at 4:43 AM
King Crab - lithodes longispina. Brought up from the Chatham Rise off coast of New Zealand. From memory about 500metres.
#marinelife #crabs #fish #wildlifephotography
December 5, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Poster I made in 2000 of some of the deepwater sharks I photographed and reconstructed brought up in a trawl survey conducted on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand.
#marinelife #photoillustration #sciart #fish #sharks #deepwatersharks #newzealandsharks #newzealand
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 AM
The tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is a medium-sized bird native to New Zealand. It is blue, green, and bronze coloured with a distinctive white throat tuft (poi). It is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand.
#birdphotography #birds #newzealandbirds #photoillustration
November 29, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Dragon fish.
Brought up from about 600-1000metres in a fishing trawl. I photographed it and then ‘reconstructed’ it in Photoshop, from memory round about 2007. #marinelife #addOcean #photoillustration #sciart #marinelife #fish
November 27, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Australasian Harrier Hawk - Kahu. Wellington, New Zealand.
#birds #birdphotography #raptor
November 23, 2024 at 2:49 AM
New Zealand Falcon, Karearea. Endemic to New Zealand.
#AddRaptor #raptor #birds
November 21, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Northern Royal Albatross photographed off Dunedin, New Zealand.
#addBirder #birds #seabirds
November 21, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Northern Giant Petrel
Found a B/W pencil sketch I did of this bird in 2019 from a photo I took in 2014.
Have added colour and more details digitally in Procreate on iPad. #birds #seabirds #art #digitalart #ornithology #procreate #procreateart
November 20, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Thought I should post a pic of a prion given the word is in my handle😁 Fairy Prion taken in Cook Strait, New Zealand. #seabirds #birds
November 19, 2024 at 3:34 AM