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rubylith@rubylith-art· 5d

Day 7 - Painted Bunting #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #Birdart

Marker drawing of a male painted bunting perched on a winding tree branch. There are star shaped leaves on the branch, and pink stars and yellow sparkles surrounding the bird.

rubylith@rubylith-art· 6d

Day 6 - Purple Glossy Starling #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #Birdart

Two purple starlings stand on long spindly legs, staring pointedly at the viewer. They have yellow starbursts behind their heads, and are surrounded by stars on a purple background.

rubylith@rubylith-art· 7d

Day 5 - Scarlet Macaw #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #Birdart

Marker drawing of a scarlet macaw looking up at the viewer. Its tail is twisted to fit into the square picture. There are stars, berries, and sparkles around the macaw.

rubylith@rubylith-art· 8d

Day 4 - Common Bronzewing #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt

Marker drawing of a common bronzewing, a species of pigeon found in Australia. She is perched on a tree branch with leaves cascading behind her.

rubylith@rubylith-art· 9d

Day 3 - Flame Bowerbird #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt

Marker drawing of a flame bowerbird standing among stylized twigs that he has been arranging into his bower. The bird is a bright gradient of red to yellow, with black tailfeathers.

rubylith@rubylith-art· 10d

Day 2 - Rainbow-Bearded Thornbill #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt

Marker drawing of a rainbow-bearded thornbill perched on a branch with lime green leaves and pink tips. More branches twist around in the background.

rubylith@rubylith-art· 11d

AVIAN AUGUST TIME!! I've decided to go traditional this year, so all my drawings are gonna be marker and colored pencil instead of digital. Day 1 - Northern Lapwing You can see the full list of birds on @cookiedoves.bsky.social's profile! #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt

Marker drawing of a Northern Lapwing on a lime green background surrounded by grass and sparkles.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jun 12

Happy Pride have some Gilbert Baker-inspired flowers 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

Drawing of a bouquet of poppies, marigolds, pansies, carnations, nemophila, violets, lavender, and hydrangeas

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jun 11

More nice plant photography I found today, from "Trees and shrubs throughout the year" by Blanche Henrey, 1947

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jun 11

I enjoy the St. Paul flag quite a bit

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jun 6

Got a really cool book today! Published in 1890 with a handwritten flower record from 1902, and even some pressed leaves that I assume are from about that time. It’s meant to be a botanical guide for children. So many great illustrations in it.

Book cover for “The Fairyland of Flowers” by Mara L. Pratt

Interior of book with a very old leaf pressed within the pages. The page is slightly discolored where the leaf has been.

Flower record for 1902, handwritten one one of the pages, noting April and May bloom times.

rubylith@rubylith-art· May 27

First time participating in the #BirdWhisperer project! Vermilion Flycatcher for May 🪶

Colorful digital painting of a male Vermilion Flycatcher perched on a winding branch on a bluish purple background. There are leaves, stars, and swirls surrounding the bird.

rubylith@rubylith-art· May 6

Love to draw a bird!

rubylith@rubylith-art· May 1

Goose progress

rubylith@rubylith-art· Apr 27

Geese!! #wip 🪶

rubylith@rubylith-art· Apr 17

It was so nice out today! I spent some time with our bloodroot flowers

Marker drawing in a sketchbook of bloodroot flowers and leaves, sitting on mulch among real bloodroot flowers and leaves

rubylith@rubylith-art· Apr 16

Northern Flickers with chokecherries 🪶 🐡

Drawing of two Northern Flickers, one red-shafted and one yellow-shafted, perched on a twisting branch of chokecherry leaves and berries. Floating white flowers and starbursts are around them, as well as a ribbon that intertwines with them and the branch, and changes from red to yellow.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Apr 10

Bird

Marker drawing of a Eurasian Nuthatch next to a sketch of some plants on a shelf

rubylith@rubylith-art· Mar 3

Heartleaf Skullcap 💕 🌿 🐡

rubylith@rubylith-art· Feb 24

Thinking about THE GREEN KNIGHT recently

Digital artwork based off Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a headless rider clad in green and red rides a rearing horse. He is holding a large axe wedged in the ground with a crown hanging from it. There are decorative winding leaves coming from the armor and horse.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Feb 15

Today I have found more nice plant photography, this time from a 1926 catalog called "Our Glory Bloom the Peony" that waxes poetic about Mother Nature's greatest gift, the peony, for 8 pages, complete with poems, before finally listing their available varieties. I'm very charmed by this.

Black and white photo of a Solange peony

Black and white photo of a Mons. Martin Cahuzac peony (I really like how the petals extend past the image frame)

Black and white photo of a Mons. Jules Elie peony

Final page of the catalog: "I felt as if the heavens had opened and showed me a glimpse of the glories within" - Mrs Pleas

rubylith@rubylith-art· Feb 14

Happened upon the photography of Karl Blossfeldt today when I was looking for old botanical illustrations on the Internet Archive and I cannot get over how beautiful these images are

Black and white close up photograph of twigs

Black and white close up photograph of fern fiddlehead

Black and white close up photograph of a very twisty leaf (I think)

Black and white close up photograph of a leaf.
Photos are from Art Forms in Nature:
https://archive.org/details/b31360336/mode/2up

rubylith@rubylith-art· Feb 8

Another receipt!

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jan 29

If you see this, post your orange art 🦊

Illustration of a fox leaping in the air, on a background of fall oak branches. Border of flame and smoke.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jan 22

Was able to do another round of donations due to a second surge of orders.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jan 14

Thank you to everyone who has bought prints in the last couple days!! If you want your own loon, you can get them at my BigCartel shop: rubylith.bigcartel.com/product/abol... All proceeds are being donated to Neighborhood House on the West Side of St. Paul.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Jan 3

Gotta keep making art so here are some Mia drawings + a pheasant

Sketchbook spread, left page has drawings from art found at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the right page has an acrylic marker drawing of a pheasant.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Dec 31

#ArtvsArtist2025 🌿🪿✨

9 images, 8 of which are drawings of birds and other animals. The center is a photo of the artist.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Dec 29

Cetti's Warbler #birdart 🪶🐡

Drawing of a Cetti's Warbler: a small brown bird perched on an abstract thorny branch with red berries, with a moon behind its head.

rubylith@rubylith-art· Dec 27

Car doodles from holiday travel