Everything about this is beautiful!! The texture?? The colour overlays??? The twisty branches??? The bulbous gay birds????? Truly one of the best things I have seen.

Second loving your reference posting, it was why I first followed you (and then stayed for the good opinions)! Real life is so cool and it makes me sad that people turn to using a broken amalgamation of it instead of taking a little more time and inspiration.

Cheerful is exactly the right word! I love art that brings joy 🐜

And with that big an eye you’d definitely be able to spot them if there were any! 👁️

Always snails.

It was great fun! So amazing to have access to very cool collections 🦤

Alongside countless animal encyclopaedias, I really loved Hunkin’s almost everything there is to know, which had little black and which cartoon panels explaining almost everything there is to know!