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Dominique Vassie

@niqvassie.bsky.social

𓆧 artist, biologist and bug-fan 🌱 𓃵 yorkshire ⇒ tokyo 𓃦 https://linktr.ee/niqvassie

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Dominique Vassie@niqvassie.bsky.social · last mo.

For those in/around Yorkshire, I'll have some books, originals and prints at this event! Come say hello and see some lovely moths, birds and meadows 🌼

LDV_NNR@ldvnnr.bsky.social · last mo.

Date for your diary! On Saturday 4th July our team will be at Aughton Church between 10am-3pm to celebrate #NationalMeadowsDay 🌻🌿 Join us for a day of meadows, wildlife, history, conservation and community (more information can be found on our Facebook page 👀) @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Dominique Vassie@niqvassie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

a little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by. I've spent a lot of time peering down a microscope in the last few years, enjoyed taking inspiration from the real tiny organisms to make one of my own.

Watercolour and pencil illustration of a microscopic dragon sitting on a plant root. It's body is transparent and it has two rounded wings covered in beating cilia hairs. It has a long neck and blunt snout with long whiskers. Inside its neck, large jaws are visible and it has tiny black eyes. The dragon has large claws on its feet, like a water bear, and a long segmented tail hangs down and splitting into a fork at the end. From the root, golden diatoms are growing, and sun animalcules creep along it as a group of rotifers swims past.
LDV_NNR@ldvnnr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to #LDV volunteer and artist @niqvassie.bsky.social for the fabulous sketch below - one of many to be featured in the soon to be published 'Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley' 📖 @yorkbirding.bsky.social

LDV_NNR@ldvnnr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Brilliant to see a male Smew at Wheldrake Ings last week, which was then joined by a female (red-head) over the weekend - more information on Smew trends throughout the UK & in the #LDV can be found in our recent Facebook post - www.facebook.com/LDVNNR/ @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Dominique Vassie@niqvassie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Collared pratincole in June on Wheldrake Ings, Yorkshire. Painted for the upcoming book 'Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley'. I grew up next to this nature reserve and do miss the smell of meadowsweet underfoot and skies full of noisy swifts. ☀️

Digital painting of a collared pratincole bird flying. In the background are swallows, swifts and sand martins flying too. Behind them are dark clouds and a pale bird-hide lit by the evening sun besides a pool surrounded by lush plants such as bulrush, willow and meadowsweet.
Dominique Vassie@niqvassie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Male fig wasps generally look entirely different to the females with most having no wings, vestigial/no eyes and tiny antennae. They cannot survive long outside the fig - their only role being to mate and then chew an exit for the winged females. 🌱

Pencil drawings of male fig wasps. Two are drawn from above - they have wedge-shaped heads, short chunky legs, tiny/no eyes and long fleshy abdomens. In the bottom right corner there is a drawing of one with his abdomen curled beneath his legs.