Bonnie Koopmans

@confuzzledpigeon.bsky.social

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Scientific illustrator and natural history artist! Constantly obsessing over birds and insects 🐦🐞🐧🐝

A sketchy pen and watercolour drawing of house mice, in a variety of postures
A pen and watercolour illustration of three species of cormorant/shag from the Subantarctic. Three portraits are in colour, with some black and white full-body sketches around them
Me in front of the Sandy Bay King Penguin colony on Macquarie Island
Watercolour sketches of a soldier beetle and water dragon, with a pocket palette sitting on the page
Purple ink sketches of Buff-rumped thornbills
A very dry bottle of masking fluid, held upside down
Six of the beautiful and colourful cockroach species that live in Australia
Some of the penguins from the Australian/New Zealand Subantarctic, lined up and to scale with each other
A yellow Christmas Beetle on my hand, with hundreds of other beetles on a light sheet in the background