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    Showcase of themed natural history illustrations

    A showcase of natural history illustrations will be organised according to a theme. These blogs are like little galleries, or separate showcase blogs, of illustrations based around one subject.  You’ll find a showcase of fish natural history illustrations, a showcase of butterflies, a mossy showcase, lots of bees in a blog about saving pollinators…and many other themed blogs.

    Scientific Illustration: Parasites

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    Natural history illustration involves learning about the animals and plants you draw; and recently I drew a parasite.  This got me thinking about parasites in general.   What a  diverse group of plants and animals practice this form of feeding! Looking through my files I can’t find many parasitic plants or animals illustrated.  This interests me. […] Read more
    Heterorrhina elegans beetle (Portrait)

    Natural Science Illustration: Beetles

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    Natural history illustrators have passions for their subject matter, and we also tend to have “favourites.”  Without a shadow of a doubt, one of my favourite subjects to illustrate is insects.  I’m especially fond the beetles (Coleoptera). A Passion for Beetles Chrysochroa buqueti rugicollis I’m not sure where my passion for beetles sprung from.  I […] Read more
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    Botanical Illustration: Late flowering plants

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    Winter closes in, and many of the plants I need to illustrate for The Cultivated Forager (follow up to The Hedgerow Handbook, also by Adele Nozedar) are no longer much use as they are bearing neither flowers nor berries. Flowers which are still in bloom However, I was surprised to notice various plants which are most definitely in flower, […] Read more
    Grey heron Ardea cinerea natural history illustration by Lizzie Harper

    Illustrating Birds on the River Wye

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    Bird illustrations Over the years I’ve done bird paintings, natural history illustrations, ornithological illustrations, scientific illustrations; call them what you will, but I’ve painted loads of British bird species. It’s always a joy to see the birds I’ve depicted in the flesh (in the feather), and this often happens by the river Wye. I go […] Read more
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    Natural History Illustration: Butterflies gallery

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    Before they disappear for another year, I thought it might be worth putting up a collection of my illustrations of some of the more common British butterfly species. These have mostly been commissioned privately, or by the Wildlife Trusts. For a really good guide to the commoner British butterfly species, you should get The Butterflies of Britian […] Read more
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    Christmas botanical illustrations

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    I’ve not been working this week, it’s the holidays.  There are five illustrations outstanding for the Whipsnade Zoo commission, but the deadline isn’t for a fortnight so I’ll have plenty of time to complete them ahead of schedule. Instead, I’ve assembled a variety of seasonal illustrations, done over the years. Christmas plants There are lots […] Read more
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    Lizzie Harper