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Natee (they/them)
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Natee Himmapaan (Puttapipat). Illustrator.
Art, literature, history, natural history, food, handwriting.
Depression, anxiety, & all that jazz.
Fatigued and extremely bitter about social media.
Non-binary (they/them). 🏳️‍🌈

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · May 6
An older piece but a perennial favourite.

'La même histoire'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, approximately 127 × 208 mm, 2018.

#MerMay
Ink drawing of a mermaid sitting atop a perpendicular, tree trunk-like rock in the water. Her long hair trails right down to her seat and obscures her face entirely. Her head is bowed, and there is a strong suggestion that she may be weeping.
himmapaan.bsky.social
I want the rustman's head on a spike. Prominently displayed. Left there to the savagery of the elements and creatures until it has been picked clean of every last tissue.
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Just before midnight, Clara woke with a start. By the light of the moon, she softly tiptoed downstairs to find her wooden prince.

Then she heard a rustling & scuttling coming from upstairs. She looked up, and a thousand pairs of eyes glared back at her... mice! 2/

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#NHPNutcracker
2st spread of The Nutcracker, illustrated by me, published by Walker Books, 2015. Ink, watercolour, and gouache on Arches hot pressed paper. Silhouette illustration with elements in colour. In a spacious hallway with a sweeping staircase and a grandfather clock surmounted by an owl carving, a huge Christmas tree dripping with ornaments towers over a startled young girl, confronted by a huge rodent wearing a crown at the head of a swarm of mice streaming down the stairs.
December 22, 2023 at 10:11 PM
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Fritz eyed the nutcracker enviously.
"That's a boy's toy," he said -- & he snatched it & threw it to the ground. There was a sickening CRACK.
Clara cradled the broken nutcracker, angry tears in her eyes. "Please, Dr Drosselmeyer -- can you fix him?"

1/

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#NHPNutcracker
1st spread of The Nutcracker, illustrated by me, published by Walker Books, 2015. Ink, watercolour, and gouache on Arches hot pressed paper. Silhouette illustration with elements in colour. A scene in an elegant drawing room set in 1818, festively decorated for Christmas. Part of a Christmas tree can be glimpsed through a door. In front of a fireplace hung with stockings, a young boy stands sulking with his hands behind his back. His kneeling sister cries as she looks at a broken nutcracker, shaped like a soldier, lying on the rug before her. The children's parents and godfather stand around them, concerned.
December 22, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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dinodadreviews.bsky.social
New book review!
TedRechlin’s “T. REX” is a fantastic look at the tyrant lizard king. From the scientific discoveries to its pop culture legacy, this comic book comprehensively details all things Tyrannosaurus. 🦖 @rextooth.bsky.social

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T. REX (Rextooth Studios)
A fantastic comic book that covers all things T. rex!
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December 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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neurosnowflake.bsky.social
I bought this book in 2008 at a Borders in Pennsylvania . It’s one of my children’s most prized possessions. I read it to them every year ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The night before Christmas
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
The first spread from The Night Before Christmas (Walker Books, 2005), the first of my Christmas books.

The right-hand side of the house exterior (top) is a flap which lifts to reveal interior scenes of the family having 'settled our brains for a long winter's nap' (bottom).

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Silhouette illustration in primarily black ink with touches of red and green. An elegant Georgian house facade opens to reveal rooms in the interior, showing its inhabitants readying themselves for bed. Notable elements in the house include a Christmas tree in the hallway and a festively decorated fireplace hung with stockings.
December 21, 2023 at 6:33 PM
himmapaan.bsky.social
Good heavens. The sun has made an appearance.
December 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
A personal favourite and another from my work for Katie Melua's 'In Winter' album, 2016. Illustration for Katie's version of Joni Mitchell's 'River.' Watercolour, ink & gouache, 305 mm square.

Incidentally, Natee (นที) means 'river' or a body of water.

#ArtAdventCalendar
In a square composition of dark blues and black, a young woman in a coat and a windblown scarf stands beneath a bare wintry tree on a snowy river bank. A forest on the opposite bank is reflected in the frozen river as a cityscape.
December 20, 2023 at 3:13 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
From 2014, the 1st spread of Jingle Bells, the 2nd of my silhouette Christmas books published by Walker Books. The book illustrates the first verse and chorus of the now famous 1857 song composed by James Lord Pierpont and ends with a pop-up. Ink and gouache.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Silhouette illustration primarily in black ink of a wintry scene, reminiscent of the New England countryside. In the centre stands a one-horse open sleigh loaded with a Christmas tree in green gouache and a sack of gifts in red. A lady in mid-19th century clothing is just settling down in the sleigh, observed by a gentleman standing beside it. American robins and cardinals hop about for berries on a snow-covered Bush in the right foreground.
December 19, 2023 at 1:33 PM
himmapaan.bsky.social
Why, yes, I _am_ eating these croissants with yet more butter. I needs the extra fat, m'kay? Leemelone.
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
'…the Mariner walked out of his mouth'

Illustration for How the Whale got his Throat, in Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012.

Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, 255 x 180mm.

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Watercolour illustration of a humpback whale approaching a shore lined with white cliffs and opening its mouth to allow a mariner to disembark from within.
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
A very small, 1" square reindeer from September 2019. Part of a set of thirty animals, one for each day of the month, all 1" square. Pencil on marker paper.

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Pencil drawing of a reindeer's head, facing right.
December 18, 2023 at 10:36 AM
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#ArtAdventCalender Day 11
A gouache painting of a Raven in front of a red lunar eclipse surrounded by patterns and autumn leaves in reds, browns, oranges, pinks and purples
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
himmapaan.bsky.social
I seem to be having another of my periodic episodes of Covid-induced malaise. All the symptoms of half-sickness without anything detectable.

I would like very much to not feel constantly cold and unwell. The weather itself is not even _that_ cold. I just can't get warm or comfortable.
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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dghaskell.bsky.social
If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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❄ Winter Unicorn 🦄

Art by Elisabeth Alba
watercolor + acryla gouache
Painting of a palomino unicorn leaping in fresh snow at night.
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
himmapaan.bsky.social
'…the Mariner walked out of his mouth'

Illustration for How the Whale got his Throat, in Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012.

Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, 255 x 180mm.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Watercolour illustration of a humpback whale approaching a shore lined with white cliffs and opening its mouth to allow a mariner to disembark from within.
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Another old ink & gouache piece from 2006, approximately 420 × 297 mm. This was made into a 3-panel concertina Christmas card.

The Coventry Carol tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents, and its mournful, minor key lullaby makes it a favourite of mine.

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Hand drawn musical staves with the words of the Coventry Carol, illustrated with silhouette drawings and ornamental marginalia reminiscent of medieval manuscripts.
December 17, 2023 at 3:53 PM
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lexiconmood.bsky.social
look at how gorgeous this is
himmapaan.bsky.social Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 8d
Blue Betta. Watercolour, approximately 115 × 110 mm. From 2019.

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Watercolour painting of an ornamental blue Betta splendens, with especially long, flowing fins resembling underwater drapery.
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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jkhsquonk.bsky.social
Wow, there's so much going on in this one, all of it fascinating. And you still got the flowing, underwater feeling surrounding it all.
himmapaan.bsky.social Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 6d
'Two Sirens'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020.

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In an underwater scene, a sailfish, a mola, a mermaid whose flowing hair recalls marine algae, a dugong, and several golden trevally are grouped together in a vertically-oriented composition with some kelp against a black background. The illustration is drawn with intricate linework, with an emphasis on contours and varying line weight, and with areas of solid black ink.
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Absolutely beautiful!!
himmapaan.bsky.social Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 8d
Blue Betta. Watercolour, approximately 115 × 110 mm. From 2019.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Watercolour painting of an ornamental blue Betta splendens, with especially long, flowing fins resembling underwater drapery.
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Prints etc available.

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Two Sirens by Himmapaan | Redbubble
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm. The sirenian is meant to be a dugong, though as none of its distinguishing features are visible, you could be forgiven for guessing it was a manatee.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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'Two Sirens'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020.

#ArtAdventCalendar
In an underwater scene, a sailfish, a mola, a mermaid whose flowing hair recalls marine algae, a dugong, and several golden trevally are grouped together in a vertically-oriented composition with some kelp against a black background. The illustration is drawn with intricate linework, with an emphasis on contours and varying line weight, and with areas of solid black ink.
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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‘La souris (anatomie et dissection): planches coloriées à feuillets découpés et superposés’ by Jules Philippe Louis Anglas, 1916.
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM