#WatercolorWednesday:
“A monkey or bear of N. S. Wales” - aka an attempt to depict a #koala - in William Govett’s notes and sketches taken during a surveying Expedition in N. South Wales and Blue Mountains Road 1830-5.
The State Library of New South Wales:
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaApV5Y/ZEN0OzgzDvePm#viewer

#watercolor #WatercolorWednesday

For #InternationalFlamingoDay + #WatercolorWednesday: Ernst Eck (Austrian, 1879-1941), #Flamingos, n.d., watercolor and opaque white on paper. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Eck_Flamingos.jpg
#birdsinart

Since it's also #WatercolorWednesday, here are two more of Yayoi Kusama's #butterflies, from a series made in 1979-80 with watercolor & felt tip pen:
Butterfly, 1979, 24 x 27 cm https://artnet.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/butterfly-T8lULm-6dmfDPEF_dOg6Nw2
Butterfly, 1980, 23.7 x 26.5 cm https://artnet.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/butterfly-T7JbxW5njr-tw3dmQsyIeg2

#WatercolorWednesday: when #taxidermy goes wrong 😬
This super stuffed #beaver was in Sir Ashton Lever's collection, later the Leverian Museum in London. He commissioned Sarah Stone to paint watercolors of his specimens, including this one from c. 1781-5. Now in London's Natural History Museum collection: https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NHM_INST/16ehpmm/alma9925788002081 #WomenArtists #TaxidermyFails

For #WatercolorWednesday: Illustrated page from The Queenslander annual, November 4, 1935, p. 29, reproducing Wilfred Morden's watercolor "A coral pool of Queensland's Barrier Reef." Pretty!
Digitized by State Library of Queensland: https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1145375

For #WatercolorWednesday:
Samuel Daniell (British, 1775–1811)
A Landscape in Ceylon, With Barking Deer and Fawn and a Pair of Paradise Fly-Catchers
c. 1808-11
Yale Center for British Art: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54345

Species depicted are the Southern Red Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) and white morph Indian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi).

For #WatercolorWednesday: #Peacock and Peacock #Butterfly, 1917, by Scottish wildlife artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935). Species are the Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) and European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archibald_Thorburn,_Peacock_and_Peacock_Butterfly,_At_87.5_x_111.5cm._Bonhams..jpg

#WatercolorWednesday + #WombatWednesday
Ferdinand Bauer (Austrian, 1760-1826)
Plate 8 | Vombatus ursinus (Common #Wombat)
from Forty-nine original watercolour drawings of animals which were collected when accompanying the voyage under Capt. M. Flinders to #Australia.
Natural History Museum London collection: https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/44NHM_INST:44NHM_V1/12198255990002081

#naturalhistoryart #scientificillustration

#WatercolorWednesday:
1727 picture of a Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans). "[It] was brought to Paris from New Orleans by a Capuchin priest who...gave it to the queen. According to the note...the small animal aroused much curiosity and amusement at the French court, where 'its favorite thing was to jump onto the ladies' necks and hide.'...'He would fly from one end of the room to the other, and could not fly further than that. His tail was the most peculiar.'" https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15511/

One more for #WatercolorWednesday: Twee Exotische Vogels [Two Exotic Birds] by Aert Schouman (Dutch, 1710-1792), 1762. L: Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola rupicola) from South America; R: Orange-breasted Bunting (Passerina leclancherii) from Mexico. Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-T-1898-A-3707

For #WatercolorWednesday: Palmatogecko rangei [now Pachydactylus rangei = Namib Sand Gecko] by Joan Beauchamp Procter (British, 1897-1931), 1928. Painted to illustrate her own published paper on the species! A multitalented herpetologist, she was also the London Zoo’s first female curator of reptiles and designed their reptile house, the first of its kind in any zoo (and still in use today). ZSL Library collection: https://library.zsl.org/Z10300UK/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=8868918

For #WatercolorWednesday: Palmatogecko rangei [now Pachydactylus rangei = Namib Sand Gecko] by Joan Beauchamp Procter (British, 1897-1931), 1928. Painted to illustrate her own published paper on the species! A multitalented herpetologist, she was also the London Zoo’s first female curator of reptiles and designed their reptile house, the first of its kind in any zoo (and still in use today). ZSL Library collection: https://library.zsl.org/Z10300UK/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=8868918

Inspo from #SktchyApp for #WatercolourWednesday
#WatercolorWednesday #WatercolourPortrait #Sktchy #SktchyMuseum

Did someone say #WatercolourWednesday?? No. But never mind.

Here's a sketch I was very excited to do in 2020 when lockdown restrictions were lifted and I was able to go out urban sketching again. It's Oliver Cromwell's House in Ely. I think my main activity in the months before this had been acquiring a collection of Daniel Smith granulating watercolours.

#WatercolorWednesday #WatercolourSketch #WatercolorSketch #Ely #OliverCromwellHouse #UrbanSketching

It's Watercolour Wednesday! (I've decided).

Don't usually paint well-known faces, but was inspired to do this one by Raechel Leigh Carter, who wrote wonderfully about the meeting of #TheJaneGang at JB's July concert at the Barbican in issue 3 of her fanzine, "My Chérie Jane".

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