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Breast feather of Cockerel, showing orange colour and area of green glittering iridescence.

Holly Ilex aquifolium portriat of one leaf, with a focus on the prickles and shine

Nautilus pompilius pen and ink stippled illustration

Earwig Forficula auricularia quick sketch from above cut to white

Sarep sprite Pseudagrion sarepi male in side view cut to white

Emerald swallowtail Papilio Palinurus cut to white showing irridescent green spots and black wings

Sinodendron cylindricum Rhinoceros beetle showing texture and rough elytra, cut to white, dorsal view

Two spot Black ladybird Adalia 2-punctata dorsal view, sketch, cut to whtie

Blue bottle fly Calliphora vomitoria adult cut to whtie

Heterorrhina elegans flower chafer beetle dorsal view showing incredibly shiny bright green thorax and elytra

Rosemary beetle Chrysolina americana

Tropical beetle ventral view showing large hind legs and metallic red and green colouration

Buprestid metallic wood boring beetle cut to whtie showing its extraordinary rainbow colouration

Dung beetle Geotrupes stercorarius view from above dosal view

Shining cranesbill Geranium lucidum with scarlet leaves, flowers, and seedheds

Red currant Ribes rubrum showing the shiny red currants and birght green leaves and flowers

Lesser celendine Ficaria verna with yellow flowers and bulbous root appendages

Holly Ilex aquifolium leaves with a cluster of red berries at the centre

Ivy Hedera helix sprig and black berries

Ivy leaf Hedera helix one lone leaf

Creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens with rooting nodes, flowers, fruit, and the leaves shown

Crowberry Empetrum nigrum in fruit with individual leaf, flower, and leaf cross section which shows the inrolled leaf margin

Sketchbook page of studies of the Ivy Hedera helix with one leaf in full colour detail, a berry, a flowering leaf, a seedhead, and some stem examinations in full colour. Lots of line drawings and tonal pencil studies of other parts of the plant such as the seeds and flowers, line drawings and habit sketches […]

Rosemary beetles on rosemary showing metallic markings, cut to white