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Emil L’Amour

@vireosy.bsky.social

30s ⟡ nonbinary ⟡ they/them ⟡ PNW ⟡ Hobby artist and nature enthusiast with a love for fantasy, water, and palæontology. #art

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2d ago

European bee-eater #AvianAugust

A rough colored sketch of a rusty red, yellow, and teal bird. It has a long beak and black face mask.

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 3d ago

horned sungem #AvianAugust

A rough colored sketch of a hummingbird with a white body; black bib, wings, and tail; and green back. Its head is capped with iridescent blues and emerald green, and it has fiery feather horns above its eyes.

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 4d ago

lesser flamingo #AvianAugust

A rough colored sketch of a light pink flamingo stretching its leg and wings.

rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · 4d ago

Day 16 - Canary #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt

Marker drawing of a gray and yellow canary in front of a cream-colored circle. Around the circle, there is a medieval-style floral border with smaller canaries of different colors perched on the vines.

Deb JJ Lee @ ANYC R06 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

please keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times

an illustration of a whale skeleton inside shallow ocean waters. A cat sitting on a surfboard looks on

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 5d ago

spotted shag #AvianAugust

A rough colored sketch of a cormorant with black, white, and grey feathers. Its grey wings and back are covered in spots, and a white stripe runs along the side of its otherwise black head and neck. A bright teal patch of exposed skin frames its eye.

Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Crow

A crow perched on a mossy stump in a pine forest with colourful bushy foliage

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 6d ago

common bronzewing #AvianAugust

Rough colored sketch of a mostly brown pigeon with iridescent feathers on its wings.

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 6d ago

I sketched a few days for avian august, but I won’t be able to finish them this month, so I decided to add some rough colour and post ‘em as-is; hopefully I can clean them up later 🙂

Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · last wk.

Miniature birds 25 - Northern Flicker

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Northern gannet | drawn for Polar Lights 2 #art 🪶🦑🐡

Before a tempestuous ocean, a Northern gannet banks rightward, its long slender wings spread to their full length. A great wave crashes through the sky, framing the figure. Dark purple clouds begin to break as the sun crests the horizon in the beginnings of dawn.

Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 3w ago

In one month! #SciArtSeptember returns for a 6th year. Open to all who are curious about the places where art and science connect. Make new work, post works in progress, or share old favourites. Post when and what you like. 🐡 #SciArt #SciComm

A banner image promoting the art challenge Sci Art September. The image features text and a drawing of a trout on an off-white background. The text includes the title, Sci Art September, month-long art challenge. The text also includes a list of weekly categories and daily prompts. The first category is colour. This category covers the first 10 words of the month. The daily words are: Malachite, violet, sanguine, azure, saffron, coral, fawn, ruby, ivory, woad. The second category is shape. It covers the 11th through 20th words. The daily words are: Heart, teardrop, diamond, crescent, honeycomb, scallop, eyelet, almond, star, meander. The third category is medium. This category covers the last 10 words of the month. The daily words are: Kaolin, silk, copper, down, jade, cedar, quill, linen, pelt, carbon. At the bottom of the image there is a description. It reads: Year 6, 2026; from nature; hosted by @LizLagomorph.

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 3w ago

eventide (Polar Lights 4, 2026) #art #sciArt 🎨🦑🦊

Illustration of an orca leaping from the ocean beneath a starry sunset sky. Water droplets trailing from its fins and body mimic the stars overhead.

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 4w ago

birthday was yesterday and I spent it having a nice time in Seattle/Ballard ✌️ saw harbor seals at the locks, but no salmon </3

Arlen! 🐗@ratwednesday.art · 4w ago

those sunny summer days 🌼 #art

Digital painting of a wildflower field on a warm summer day. The sky is a searing teal, there are massive puffy clouds, and an anthro rabbit watches a dragon soar overhead.

Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · last mo.

This was a fun one - a Hoopoe and Wren in an Orchard! I feel like these make a great pair Prints up on my store - www.inprnt.com/gallery/thom...

An angular Eurasian Hoopoe, a bird with a pointed beak, an orange head with a tall crest and striped black and white wings, and a Wren, a small round brown bird. Both birds are perched on a branch and surrounded by apple blossoms, white flowers

Rosanna P. Brost (she/her/them) 🐾🐺@copperbora.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm REALLY behind on posting art! Here are my contributions to this year's Polar Lights zine which is absolutely wonderful & full of art from folks who are absolutely epic.❤️❤️❤️ ⚠️🦭UPDATE: sadly, since I finished the infocomic about them, bearded seals are now classed as Endangered by the ICUN. 😵‍💫

A digital painting of a mountainous arctic vista in Tombstone Territorial Park; it is dominated by alpenglow hues of purple and orange with a moody grey sky in the background.

Page 1 of an infocomic about bearded seals reading:

Behold! The bearded seal! The biggest seal in the arctic! (Not to be confused with walruses, which, while related to seals, are not considered seals themselves.)

(A bearded seal on an ice flow says "'sup." in greeting to the viewer.)

Taxonomic name: Erignathus barbatus
ICUN Status: Near Threatened (correction: they are now classed as Endangered.)
Weight: 261/363 kg or 575/800 lbs

Bearded seals are named for their voluminous whiskers.

Male bearded seals attract their bearded ladies by singing! Their otherworldly songs can be heard as far away as 20 km/12.4 miles. Males also sing to defend their territories.

(A male bearded seal sings "Ooooooooo...." to which a female on an iceflow responds "I'm STILL not interested, Harold." Poor Harold is sad about this.

Page 2 of my bearded seal infocomic reads:

Unlike most seal pups, which may take weeks to even months to approach the water much less swim in it, bearded seal pups can swim within mere hours of birth, and they are weaned after only 24 days!

(A glaring mama bearded seal floats between her baby pup in the water and a heavily disappointed polar bear on an iceflow, exclaiming "Take that, stupid bear! My baby ain't no helpless snack!")

Bearded seals are also faster swimmers than polar bears.

Except for moms with pups, bearded seals are solitary, and sleep either lounging on ice flows or fliating vertically in the water like a buoy... which probably creeps out other arctic wildlife.

(Two arctic foxes perched on an iceflow look super leery of a nearby floating bearded seal. One of the foxes wonders "Is... is it asleep?!" to which the other fox replies "I can't tell!"

In another panel we see the bearded seal's peaceful, apparently sleeping face. In the bext, he winks and sticks out his tongue, proving that he was pranking the poor foxes all along.)

Fin!

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · last mo.

Along with everything else, today is World Orca Day! I drew orca for this year’s cover of POLAR LIGHTS (and normally would have posted the full piece, but I haven’t had the brain space to write an image description…)

Emil L’Amour@vireosy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

POLAR LIGHTS 4 now live! POLAR LIGHTS 4: EVENTIDE is a digital charity anthology featuring original art and writing from 73 creators. All proceeds benefit the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition. Grab the zine for as little as $2 here: polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-4

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · last yr.

midnight sun drawn for Polar Lights: Midnight #art #sciart 🎨🐾🦊

A moose in velvet stands in a field of fireweed before a smooth lake, mountains receding in the far distance. It looks directly toward the viewer, a midnight sun situated low in the sky as if held between its antlers. The illustration is tinted with a vintage yellow hue.

Maddy Bellwoar @maddybellwoar.com · 2mo ago

Summer and gouache, two of my favorite things! 😊🌿💖

Photo of a sketchbook open on a wooden desk, surrounded by painting supplies. The page shows a gouache painting of a pathway through green foliage, with light shining down on the path and illuminating some of the plants on either side.

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

somewhat accidentally put off posting a few pieces, so I’ll try to sprinkle those out over the course of the month 🫡

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2y ago

cormorants at rest (2022) #art #birds #wildart 🎨🐡

A pair of double-crested cormorant rest on some rocks in the water. The bird in the center looks over its shoulder toward the viewer, its wings spread out to dry, displaying the scale-like feathers across its back. The illustration is rendered in a limited palette of muted teals, creams, and warm browns.

Big Hippo 🇮🇪@bighippoart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy #Worldseabirdday 🦤

An underwater illustration featuring a pack of diving gannets in a hunting spree.

Bark's Bog @EF30 @barksbog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have two trans-pride crocodiles up in my shop right now! These are 75cm/2.5ft long, made from shannon 3mm and star embossed minky, have holographic eyes, a weighted belly, as well as jointed arms and legs! barks-bog.com

a crocodile plush in the colors of the trans pride flag lying on sandy ground before grass.

a crocodile plush in the colors of the trans pride flag lying river pebbles

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy International Horseshoe Crab Day! #art #sciArt 🎨🦑

Drawing of a horseshoe crab rendered in warm browns and cool shadows on a pale teal background. It has a smooth horseshoe-shaped carapace with occasional spiked protrusions along subtle ridges of its shell and the edge of its abdomen. Its long tail is angled sharply to the right as if in motion.

Shey @strflr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rainbow Trout 🌈

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey here’s a preview of the piece I drew for this year’s @seaunseenzine.bsky.social 🌊🦎 Grab a copy for $1 and support the Australian Marine Conservation Society 🐡 seaunseenzine.itch.io/sea-unseen-2...

Cropped preview of a marine iguana sunning with water in the background. The Sea Unseen 2026. Updates at SeaUnseenZine.carrd.co

Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊 #art 🐡🦑

A colossal squid floating in a black ocean, lit as if by spotlight. One of its tentacles reaches toward the screen, affording a view of the swiveling hooks in its suckers. Splashes of green frame lit sections of the squid, contrasting with its reddish orange body.

A California sea lion rendered in rich brown and orange tones rests upon a rock in teal shore waters below a softly glowing orange sky. Its slender head is raised to look over its back and to the right while a large crest of white sea foam frames its figure.

Rendered in a rough painterly style, a shortfin mako shark leaps from a calm ocean tail over head, sea foam trailing its body in a loose arc. The shark, looking nearly metallic, is rimmed with orange light as a pale yellow sun hangs in a hazy orange sky, framing its streamlined figure.