Chantelle James

@tinystart.bsky.social

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Canadian. Sometime artist. Love flowers, bees and other pollinators, birds, and wildlife. Active on Reddit's SketchDaily as OldestSisterAIiMH.

An American Robin nestling looking like it's fledging, but really it's just testing its wings while its nestling sibling looks on.

Watercolour painting of a male ruby-throated hummingbird hovering while drinking from a reddish-orange flower on the viewer's left.

Soft pastel interpretation of a photo of a sunrise photo over water with gorgeous magentas and oranges and purples. 17.5cm x 22cm.

Soft pastel portrait of the head of a black and white dog with brown eyes, a white forehead blaze, and white muzzle. Her ears, eyes, and cheeks are black. Her head is tilted to the viewer's right and she's looking at the viewer. Her name was Gozer and she was a very special girl and very much loved.

Cropped screenshot of NYTimes Connections result. Categories were guessed in Green, Yellow, Blue, and Purple order with no mistakes. Circled, and the point of the image because it's proof of the accomplishment (sort of, because there's no date on the image), are the Current Streak and Max Streak, both of which are 36. That may not seem like a lot to many people, but I'm proud of it.

Watercolour portrait of a Blue Jay on a brown branch and against a white background. Its back is to the viewer and its head is turned so the right eye faces the viewer.

Water-based marker portrait of a flying California Condor from below, the way most of us might see one. It's such a huge bird, with a 3m wingspan - imagine seeing one! All you would really see are the wings outstretched, as shown here, as it looks for food. This bird is shown against a white background.

Water-based marker portrait of an Acorn Woodpecker to the left of a vertical tree, about to plunge its beak into the tree to create holes for acorns and other nuts and seeds. On a white background.

Watercolour portrait of a male Olive Warbler. His right side faces the viewer and he is standing on a brown branch against a creamy white background.

Watercolour and gouache portrait of a Tree Swallow in flight from above, with its wings outstretched and the sun highlighting its iridescent feathers.

Water-based markers portrait of a European Golden Plover with its left side facing the viewer. It is standing on a greenish brown ground against a white background.

Water-based marker portrait of a red crowned parrot facing the viewer, perched on a stick, against a white background. Its head is turned to the viewer's right and is tilted a little.

Water-based marker portrait of a great grey owl in three-quarter view with its body facing the viewer's right and face turned to the viewer, on a white background.

Fineliners side portrait of a pygmy nuthatch upside down on a branch, facing the viewer's left, against a white background.

Side portrait of a female Ringed Kingfisher facing the viewer's left, standing on a hazy brown branch against a white background.

Watercolour portrait of a male Costa's Hummingbird in flight, on a white background. The bird faces the viewer's left.

Water-based marker portrait of a grey heron launching itself up to the viewer's left. Its wings rise and bend above it to gain lift, its head learns forward, and its legs are full of the tension of the launch. On a white background.

Portrait of a white Gyrfalcon in flight, wings and tail extended, mouth open and head turned to its left, from above on a white background.

Graphite pencil drawing of an Arctic Tern flying overhead, from below, on a white background. The bird's wings are outstretched and its head is tilted slightly to its left.

Water-based markers portrait of the left side of a male Kalij Pheasant on a white background.

Conte portrait of a White Crested Helmetshrike with its back to the viewer and its head turned so its left eye is looking at the viewer.

Water-based marker portrait of a Diamond Firetail Finch on a brown branch. The bird is facing towards the viewer's right.

Water-based marker portrait of a common loon on water, with its right side facing the viewer and looking to the right.

Watercolour and gouache painting of a Javan Green Magpie with its back to the viewer and its head turned to look at the viewer. It's sitting on a branch of sorts, against a white background.

Water-based marker portrait of silver-laced Wyandotte Chicken. The chicken is in three-quarter view with her head on the viewer's left.

Conte portrait of a Boreal Chickadee facing the viewer and looking to its right on top of a brown branch and against a green background.

Image of Venezuelan Troupial facing the viewer and turned slightly to its left, with its head tilting slightly down. Created with water-based markers on ohuhu marker paper which is very very smooth and allows the colours to be layered and the pigment to be moved around.

Black fineliner drawing of a Magellanic Banded Penguin (also known as the Jackass Penguin for its call) facing the viewer and looking to its left, on a white background.

Pencil drawing of a crow standing on an indistinct rock with the feet pointing to the left and the head turned right and upwards.

Landscape of distant low mountains, blue water, and a green rolling hill in the foreground with a tall pine to the left. The sky is blue with a few wispy clouds and the sun is almost overhead.

Picture taken at Galiano Island, British Columbia, in 2019.

Pink saucer magnolia tree in full bloom against a partly cloudy blue sky and green grass. In the lower left us an ornamental weeping spruce tree.

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Black and white fineliner sketch of coneflowers (echinacea) and black-eyed Susans in bloom. It is a composition study, to check the relative positions and angles of the flower heads.

Snoopy, the dog from Peanuts, wearing sunglasses and a red long-sleeved top, stands on the right side of the image facing right. He is standing on his left hind leg with his right hind leg crossed over so that his right foot is on the other side of his left. His right arm is extended to the left and rests against the words "ROCK THE VOTE", one word per line, aligned vertically to the right. The text is in a black font except for the V in vote, which is red and stylized as a check mark with the left vertical leg extending from the bottom of the R in rock to the bottom of the O in vote. The angled leg of the V extends from the bottom of the O in vote behind the T in the and the O in rock, ending at the top of the image.

American Robin sitting on a nest facing away from the viewer with head turned so that its left eye is visible.

The nest is located on top of bronze-coloured lights affixed to a pale pinky-beige brick background. Grasses and other nest materials dangle below the light fixture.

Watercolour painting of a single daffodil flower on a stem, on white watercolour paper.

A grey and snowy day. Tall snowbank on the left from shoveling the driveway on the right. A 1.4m blue-bladed shovel is posed upright in front of the snowbank to show how tall it is; it appears to be over 2m tall.

Picture of an ice pillar that has frozen below a white furnace outlet pipe coming out of the light brick side of a house. The pillar extends from the edge of the pipe to the snow at least 15cm below, and is at least 10cm in diameter.

Watercolour painting of a Boerboel on a white background standing in a three quarter pose with the hind end to the left and the front end to the right. The head faces the viewer but is turned slightly towards the hind end.

Watercolour painting of a soft coated wheaten terrier standing, facing right, and looking up, on a white background.

Watercolour painting of white Tenterfield Terrier with black and tan head, lying down facing the viewer with right front foot crossed over left front foot, and head tilted to the left.

Watercolour painting of white and tan short-haired Chihuahua sitting and facing the viewer, head tilted to the left, with left paw held slightly up.

Red Borzoi dog, seated, with front legs to the left of the image and body over back haunches. Head is slightly turned to the left of the viewer. Painted in watercolour on a white background.

Front view of black Schipperke dog on white background.

Watercolour painting of standing Komondor dog facing left.