#NaturalhistoryIllustration
I'm often asked how I got to be a #botanicalillustrator, & how to start out.

youtu.be/KALAt7xaiE8

This film explains this, my work, passions, how I got here, and how I promote myself.

(Its just me talking to the camera)

#illustration #naturalhistoryillustration #sciart #illustrator
How I became a Botanical & Natural history Illustrator
YouTube video by Lizzie Harper
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January 30, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Red belly piranha painting…being done digitally 🖌️✨
#NaturalHistoryIllustration #DigitalArt
January 30, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This is the Lettuce #seaslug #Elysia crispata, found in the #Caribbean. Completed #sciart #illustration for Montserrat national trust, one version in watercolour, one in pen and ink.

Blue is unusual in nature, so working on such an insanely glorious animal was, of course, a massive treat.
January 23, 2026 at 9:46 AM
A WIP of a swallowtail butterfly illustration. Watercolor on paper.

Un travail en cours d’une illustration de papillon machaon. Aquarelle sur papier.

#SciArt #swallowtail #watercolor #painting #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #butterfly
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is the #Bloody-nosedbeetle, #Timarchatenebricosa.

When threatened it exudes a red drop of liquid from its mouth

It has distinctive beaded antennae.Unlike most #beetles, it's flightless

Completed in watercolour for use on #interp & information materials.
#sciart #naturalhistoryillustration
January 9, 2026 at 11:39 AM
New blog out, on #Orchids

lizzieharper.co.uk/2026/01/wild...

It's one of a series I've been doing on wildflower families. Hope it helps!

#naturalhistoryillustration #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #orchidlovers #orchidaceae #wildflowers
January 4, 2026 at 12:18 PM
December 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Heliconia rostrata with visitor. Colored pencil on hot-pressed watercolor paper.
#botanicalart #botanicalillustration #naturalhistoryillustration #coloredpencil #tropicalplants
December 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Wonderful collaboration from fellow artists, happy to be a small contributor in this brilliant art book via @franzanth.bsky.social

Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima) Study!

#sciArt #InverteFest #art #illustration #ink #naturalhistoryillustration #collaboration #penandink
December 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM
I did this one 2011-2012 ; I've loved the the background (Still). however the killer whale back then not so much, so I decided last year the orca needed a redo, but kept the BG.

#orca #killerwhale #cetacean #marinewildlife #marinemammals #illustration #wildlifeart #naturalhistoryillustration
December 2, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Not dark yet, but it’s getting there…

• Northern Cardinal, one minute after sunset, January 4, 2025.

#birds
#birdart
#raptor
#flight
#cardinal
#birdwatching
#birding
#birdsinflight
#naturalhistoryillustration
#natureartist
#naturephotography
January 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
An illustration I created a few months back of a little Curlew family as a entry for
@CurlewAction World Curlew Day art competition, it was a super fun piece to create.
#illustration #art #painting #sketch #curlew #bird #naturalhistoryillustration #visdev #design #kidlit #kidlitart #characterdesign
July 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
1 of 3 small paintings in the works. I keep thinking of them as a tiny triptych, just little coyote portraits.

2's almost done and then it'll be onto 3.

#wildlifeart #art #coyote #naturalhistoryillustration #mojavedesert
August 12, 2023 at 6:13 PM
1/3 Hump-backed mahseer (Tor remadevii) from Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. It is always an overwhelming experience to work live and and
#SundayFishSketch #fishmas #Art #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar #traditionalart #indianwildlifeartist #naturalhistoryillustration #endangeredspecies #artforconservation
December 22, 2024 at 9:12 AM
“Finger Bones” ~ 2019 | watercolour on Arches paper

Curiosity Cabinet - Dancing Falanges

Painted in 2019 for a college assignment.

#naturedrawing #watercolour #drawing #scientificillustration #naturalhistoryillustration #gothic #boneart #illustrationwork #curiositycabinet
January 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Heading out for my sketching event with participants at Kokkare Belluru Bird Sanctuary.
Page from my Sketchbook
1/2 Black-crowned night heron
#art #nature #birds #illustration #sciart #indianwildlifeartist #ink #illustration #artforconservation #naturalhistoryillustration #sketchbook #birdart
January 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This African #Malaria #mosquito #Anopheles gambiae #lifecycle #naturalhistoryillustration is my offering for #artadventcalendar day 23.

Self initiated project illustrating one of the most common vectors of malaria in Africa. I love the change between unfed and fed mosquitoes. Amazing.

#sciart #🐡
December 23, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Few in-progress images and details for your reference of the Eurasian thick-knee. Feel free to share!
#SciArt #birds #pen #ink #birdart #wildlife #ornithology #penandink #endangeredspecies #naturalhistoryillustration #india #inprogress
November 27, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Chromolithograph and wood engravings of bats from the 1882-84 edition of the German natural history series ‘Brehms Thierleben.’

#chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sometimes one of these visits my studio. Harmless and always very welcome😌
Evening's couch sketch.

Common rough woodlouse (Porcellio scaber)

#naturalhistory #drawinganimals #naturalhistoryillustration
February 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Beetles from ‘Zoologischer Hand-Atlas zum Schulgebrauch und Selbstunterricht’ by German Zoologist Hermann Burmeister. Second edition. Published in Berlin, Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1860. From my personal collection.

#naturalhistoryillustration #beetles #coleoptera #insectart
March 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Kicking off the old art posting with a linocut piece I did in 2022! It's a sand mullet (Myxus elongatus), a common species in the area where my mum lives!

#art #artistonbsky #linocut #printmaking #naturalhistoryillustration #sciart #natureart #animalart #fishart
October 22, 2024 at 3:47 PM
While visiting the UK, I saw this adorable young Canada goose, so I made a watercolor study in my @steamline journal
www.esthervanhulsen.com

#watercolorbirds #naturejournal #animalart #wildlifeart #animalpainting #steamline #birdart #naturalhistoryillustration #naturalhistoryart #birdsketches
June 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) in breeding plumage from Hoskote Lake, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
1/3 Throwback: Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill Magazine: April–June 2016
#sciart #birds #watercolor #illustration #birdart #artforconservation #naturalhistoryillustration #art #bird
January 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Mauve Flower” ~ 2018 | watercolour on Arches paper

Painted in 2018 for a course assignment.

#botanicalart #flowerpainting #botanicalartist #herbarium #mauve #natureart #watercolour #naturalhistoryillustration
January 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM