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Lauren
@tinylongwing.bsky.social
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Biologist + Scientific Illustrator @ birdpop.org
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🏠 Oregon, USA
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Seriously it took me several hours of almost good enough angles and lots of trial and error to figure out this arrangement and it's still not *quite* right 😭
Crop from work in progress showing the back of a tall wading bird (Sandhill Crane) with its butt pointed straight at the viewer.
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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My fandom mission is to give faces to the World Enders that do not officially have faces I guess. Anyway Rigo is probably a very fun guy. Gotta love the rock and roll drummer who mysteriously vanishes (will he ever be back???)

🎨 #fanart #LordHuron
Three simple gray and tan headshot sketches of Rigo Sandoval. In the upper left he is looking to the right with a pensive, thoughtful expression. In the upper right, he is looking left with a smug smirk of an expression and his hand in a fist, thumb against his lip. In the bottom center, he's holding forward a horned hand gesture while sticking his tongue out, and his hair looks messy and windblown.
November 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Every Sharp-shinned Hawk I've ever seen looked like it was worried it left the stove on.

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Rough digital drawing of a Sharp-shinned Hawk bust. The hawk is in profile. It is a complex mottled color of browns and grays, with a small hooked beak, round head, rufous tinting to the auriculars, and a huge bright yellow eye that makes it look worried. Its feathers are slicked back tight to the body indicating it is alert.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Quote post with your favorite thing you've made lately!

#art #birdart 🪶
Illustration of a male American Kestrel perched on the dead stalk of a sunflower, golden and dry. He fans his rufous tail as he sits alert and watchful, head extended, as if looking for prey. He has a blue-gray brow with a dark reddish crown, white cheeks with black vertical bars, and lightly spotted orange and cream belly. Behind him is blue sky and the blurred remains of more dried sunflowers.
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️
A pair of Pine Grosbeaks forage in the sunlit tops of snow-covered conifers. The male, above, is mostly red, while the female, below, is muted yellow and gray. For The Institute for Bird Populations, 2022.
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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2003-2025

Fuck 🖕 AI
Ancient art from me (2003), a 3D rendered landscape with a mountain and soft grassy hills, and some flat granite and slate-looking rocks in the foreground with a digitally painted big blue dragon asleep on the rocks. It has golden spines and corkscrew horns. Digital illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco, a dark brown sparrow with a pink beak, looking down from the background at a patch of red clover. The clover is covered in a variety of insects from Graham's work, including Harmonia axyridis (Asian ladybeetle), Scaptomyza terminalis (a small fly), Altica sp. flea beetles (tiny iridescent green beetles), Forcipata loca (pale yellow small leafhopper), Evacanthus interruptus (yellow and black leafhopper), and Anaspis rufa (small golden-brown false flower beetles).
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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"Hey vato, you good? You look like you saw a ghost."

"Yeah... I'm good. Wasn't anything, man."

"You wanna call it a night? It's almost two AM, we can get this tomorrow -"

"One more take. On three."

🎨 #fanart #lordhuron
Digital illustration of Dale Redmayne in grayscale, outlined in white. He has headphones on and is holding onto a microphone, while his guitar strap crosses his chest. He is wearing a t-shirt, which shows the tattoos on his arms. He is looking away from the mic, not singing, but has paused as if stopped mid-lyric by something we can't see. His hair looks unruly and his eyes are tired.
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Morning portrait practice, testing out a different technique from my usual with a study from Vide Noir. 🎨 #fanart #LordHuron
Digital illustration of Johnnie Redmayne with a rough pastel sketching look to the brushwork. This is a study from Vide Noir. Johnnie is looking toward the viewer's right, illuminated by greenish light. His expression is upset, a touch angry.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Happy Halloween from the best of Lord Huron's fictional in-universe bands!! 🎃🧛🏽‍♂️🦇🧟🐺💀

#fanart #LordHuron
Fictional poster for the Phantom Riders playing a Halloween gig. Top left, Cid is dressed like a skeleton with skull face paint; top right, Rigo has a wolf ear headband, glue on muttonchops, a painted nose and fake paws to make him into a werewolf. Bottom left, Johnnie has makeup and a torn up shirt to make him into a zombie, and bottom right, Dale is dressed like a menacing vampire with a grin showing off his fangs. There is a torn paper effect around the margin and at the bottom of the poster. The text reads "THIS HALLOWEEN! Rise from your graves with the PHANTOM RIDERS"
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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QRP with your dark art 🖤

#art #darkart #fanart #lordhuron
Digital painting of a young man (Johnnie Redmayne from the Lord Huron universe) over an abstract black and yellow background. He has black hair slicked back, and is grinning at something to the right. Across his cheek is a strange black streaky gash - and it glitters with stars and strange distortion. Illustration of Tubbs Tarbell (left), an old man, holding Frankie's portrait (taken from the shrine in her remembrance) and reminiscing about her and the people he lost who used to record at the Whispering Pines studio. The background transitions from the red of the studio basement room where the shrine is, to a dark jagged forest with pale swirling snow. From here, the ghost of Frankie reaches out in desperation to try and reach Tubbs, but she cannot. Digital illustration of a man about to be hanged at a gallows - but the hangman has fled, his hand a blurred dark shape in the foreground. Cobb Avery, founder of the street gang the World Enders, calls his followers to action as he shows his true skeletal form and flames engulf the scene. He could never have been hanged for his crimes - he was already dead. Very rough sketch study from Vide Noir showing Frankie, dead in her car, hand covered in dripping black vide noir after her murder.
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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For oddincense on tumblr, and for their partner who also donated, two birds! Chimney Swift, and Hooded Warbler. Phew! Thanks to both of you, and to everyone else, for #Waymakers 2025! That's 37 birds done to raise funds for @theyoungcenter.bsky.social - you're all incredible! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a fast-flying Chimney Swift cruising low over a misty meadow of grass and flowers. This bird is a smooth gray-brown with a stubby body and long pointed wings, perfect for fast flight to catch up with flying insects. Illustration of a male Hooded Warbler, a shining yellow sunbeam of a bird in a dark leafy woodland. He is very round and very yellow, with a black "hood" of feathers encircling his face, and cute little pink feet.
October 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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QRP with your skull #art 💀

This was a fun project! I snagged a skull from a dollar store and painted it sugar skull-style to reflect the things in my area that I love this time of year - sunflowers and scrub-jays! Now I want to find time for one with blanketflowers and goldfinches too.

🪶 #BirdArt
Front on view of the skull where the blazing yellow and orange of the sunflower petals around each orbit are easily visible. Profile view of a painted skull (acrylic and sharpie) showing the wing of a scrub-jay and an eye surrounded by sunflower petals, plus lots of other minor decorative elements. Top view showing the back, spread wings and tail of the jay surrounded by decorative green vining leaves and red ribbons. The jay's back is a soft fluffy blue-gray, while the wings and tail are a much richer vibrant blue.
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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A European Robin for @purpzie.com , thank you for your #Waymakers donation! And for a super fun bird choice, I've actually never done one of these before I think? they're so dang cute, here's one looking ahead to winter! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a European Robin perched on a snowy log looking skyward with its head slightly tilted to the side. Snowflakes fall through the air over a pale grayish background, making the bird's bright orange throat and chest stand out.
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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For xayhra on tumblr, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak pair! Such gorgeous birds. Thank you for the #Waymakers donation!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a pair of rose-breasted Grosbeaks over mottled green blurred foliage. The male, above, has a black head, deep red chest, white belly, and mottled black and white wings with a single red feather poking out from under his wrist. The female, below, is brown and white and cream with a streaked belly. Both have the enormous beaks that their species is named for.
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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3 pieces to get to know me 🪶 🔥⚡🦅

#BirdArt #SciArt #Paleoart #LordHuron #fanart
An Archaeopteryx glides above the viewer through a forest of ginkgo. The dramatic black and white and rufous patterns of this new adult contrast with its old retained black juvenile feathers, now worn heavily so that they look brown next to the fresh black feathers that have molted in. California Condors using a cavity in a burned giant sequoia as a nest site. Left is an adult flying out of the nest in a forest, right is an adult incubating on the nest in the inset. For Siegel and Wilkerson 2022, A Giant Loss, in The Wildlife Professional. Fanart for the Lord Huron song "Let the Devil Come", featuring their character Johnnie Redmayne on his motorcycle, arms spread wide in delight as he rides headfirst on a long desert highway toward an enormous dark thunderstorm. A lightning bolt strikes downward ahead.
October 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Common Loon for Elizabeth M, who I don't have a social media handle for, so I hope you see this! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation - every bit counts when it comes to helping immigrant kids in the US!

🪶🎨 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a Common Loon in alternate plumage rising up out of misty blue water to flap its wings, sending spots of shimmering water in every direction. The bird is lit by early morning yellow sunlight from the front. It has a black back and wings, white belly, white spots on the back, a fine white-striped collar on the neck, and dark red eyes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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For sashabarkov on tumblr, a male American Kestrel! Here he is, scouring the field of dead sunflowers for mice feeding on the fallen seeds. Thanks for the #Waymakers donation!

The 2025 Waymakers Challenge ended Sept. 30 - check back next year if you missed your chance to donate! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a male American Kestrel perched on the dead stalk of a sunflower, golden and dry. He fans his rufous tail as he sits alert and watchful, head extended, as if looking for prey. He has a blue-gray brow with a dark reddish crown, white cheeks with black vertical bars, and lightly spotted orange and cream belly. Behind him is blue sky and the blurred remains of more dried sunflowers.
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Anna's Hummingbird, for @aro-frog.bsky.social - thanks for your #Waymakers donation! I love these dramatic little guys haha, always so full of fight. 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a male Anna's Hummingbird, wings spread and beating fast as he flies straight toward the viewer. He has a shiny magenta head and a dull gray-green body, and tiny tiny little black feet. The background is dark with implied vegetation.
October 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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At some point I'll get around to posting photos from Korea that are less shitposty than this but for now, this will do.
Photo of a storefront in Insadong, Seoul. Above the door and windows is text in English that reads "m'store" and "GALLERY MEME".
October 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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It's flicker season in my yard again! This week I've seen both of these two back at the suet feeder in addition to a RSFL-type non-intergrade male. 🎨🪶
Crop from the full chart of flickers showing an intergrade female with a bright tan face and grayish crown, with red underwing. I first saw her in my yard in December of 2024. Crop from the full chart of flickers showing an intergrade female with a mostly gray face and brownish crown, but a bright tan malar stripe, faint red nape chevron, and orange underwings. She has been seen in my yard since January of this year.
October 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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For oaky-dokey on tumblr, another #Waymakers donor, a Red-winged Blackbird! This female has herself a cotton candy wonderland in the form of downy white cattails in autumn, lucky her!

Thanks all for your patience as I wrap these up! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt
Illustration of a female Red-winged Blackbird perched sideways on the top stalk of a cattail, with the bottom covered in white fluff. She has a pointy gray beak, orange-tinted face, streaked belly, and dark tail. Similar to the males, the wrists of her wings are red, but otherwise this bird could be mistaken for a different species entirely by the unaware!
October 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Digital painting of a Least Bittern clinging to green reeds as it aims downward, watching the water carefully for movement. It has yellow eyes, a very sharp pointy beak, and a mottled gray-yellow-reddish back. The water surface is murky and covered in little green duckweed leaves.
October 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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A Gray Catbird, for aurorawest on tumblr! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation!

For info, to donate + request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds help unaccompanied immigrant children in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Ends Sept. 30 - one week left! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a Gray Catbird perched upright on a long stick, with a mottled abstract purple and gold foliage background. The bird is mostly gray with a dark cap and red undertail coverts, highlighted in gold with rim lighting implying late afternoon.
September 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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For @kslivensky.bsky.social (GOT IT RIGHT this time sorry!!) a fledgling Chipping Sparrow! So fluffy, so round! Thank you for your #Waymakers donation!

For info + to donate & request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds support immigrant kids in the US! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a fledgling Chipping Sparrow on a branch over a mottled woodland background with warm summer lighting. The bird has a rufous cap and cheek, a streaky breast, and a floppy yellow gape ("baby lips" for helping demand food from parents). It is very round, with fluffy loosely-textured juvenile feathers, and little pink feet.
September 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Yellow-billed Magpie for @kslivensky.bsky.social , thank you for your #Waymakers donation!

For info, to donate & request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds assist unaccompanied immigrant children in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Ends Sept. 30! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Digital illustration of a Yellow-billed Magpie in a field of yellow grass. Like most magpies it has a black head, white belly, white wing patch, and iridescent blue wing feathers. This one also has a yellow beak and bare yellow skin around the eye. It stands alert.
September 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM