𓃩 dominique vassie 𓆧

Pencil drawing of a microscopic clump of soil/dirt with a number of rotifers swimming around it feeding. floating around the soil are rod-shaped diatom algae cells.

pencil drawing of a clump of microscopic soil/dirt with a vorticella ciliate growing off it on a long thread. rod and oval shaped diatom algae cells are floating around the soil.

some microscope life drawings - monogonontan rotifers, vorticella ciliates and diatoms.

Gouache painting of an angry-looking raccoon dog standing on top of a huge bamboo shoot. A group of azure-winged magpies with long blue tails and blue wings are harassing the dog and flying all around.

severed bamboo shoots won’t grow.

drawing of a home i stayed in, shizuoka. I raced the sunset to finish it before getting too cold.

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Persimmon for my grandfather.

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drawings from life, 森町, december 2024.

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Laila after lunch.

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A caterpillar i rescued off the floor of a station twice in 20 minutes. Glad they didn’t get trampled 🌱

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Persimmons on the kitchen table soon prepared for drying in the winter mountain air last November.

Caran d'Ache Neocolor2 pastels on bristol.

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Gouache painting of a male and female fig wasp sitting ontop of a galled fig flower. The dark-coloured female wasp on top has a wedge-shaped head, long antennae, four wings and a long curved ovipositor coming from the end of her abdomen. The male below is light brown and has chunky legs, no wings and a long soft pale abdomen.

Gouache painting of a female (above) and male (below) fig waspCeratosolen fusciceps sitting on top of a galled flower within a Ficus racemosa fig.

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Pencil drawing of a border collie dog curled up in a small dog bed. She has long fur and long pointed ears and her front paws are just hanging over the edge of the bed beneath her head.

Commissions open✨

Hello! Cannot guarantee completion for christmas/holidays but still have space for some extra commissions. Pet pieces can be ordered through my online shop and other commission types please email me at niqvassie.art(at)gmail.com ❤️

Thanks for all the support always! Means a lot <3

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Pencil drawings of male fig wasps. They are drawn from above - with wedge-shaped heads, short chunky legs, tiny/no eyes and long fleshy abdomens.

Drawings of male fig wasps of the same two species as my last post, done as part of my masters thesis a few years 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 from the fig for the winged females. 🌱

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Pet Commissions

Hello! I’m going to take on 6 A4-sized pet portrait commissions to work on next week for anyone interested. Any animal species is fine, I just need high-quality photos of your lovely animal friends in good light. ✨

Can do pencil or coloured pastel and i always send along any pages of studies/sketches i make as well.

Please order via my online shop before Dec. 4th!

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Will send them by December 10th so hopefully will arrive in time for holidays/christmas but cannot be 100% sure <3

Feel free to message or email at niqvassie.art(at)gmail.com if you have any questions. Thank you! ❤️

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.

Collared pratincole in June on Wheldrake Ings, Yorkshire. Painted for the upcoming book ‘Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley’ by Craig Ralston.

I grew up next to the Lower Derwent Valley and do miss the smell of meadowsweet underfoot and skies full of noisy swifts.

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Pencil drawing of a female Ceratosolen solmsi fig wasp. She has a wedge-shaped head, large eyes and chunky antennae.

Pencil drawings of female Ceratosolen fusciceps fig wasps. The upper wasp has wings, chunky antennae and a relatively large abdomen. The lower wasp has lost her wings and half her antennae and her abdomen is tucked beneath her laying eggs.

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Drawings of female fig wasps done for my masters thesis a few years back - so tiny but such incredible animals!

Fig wasps pollinate the flowers within fig fruits, with the majority of the 800+ fig species being pollinated by a unique species of wasp. Female fig wasps are 1-2mm long and only live a few days but the furthest pollination distance found between two fig trees is over 160km (Ficus sycomorus and Ceratosolen arabicus in Namibia)! 🌸

(if you want to learn more about fig-fig wasp biology, my thesis film is on Figweb!)

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Updated my INPRNT with some more pieces and all currently 30% off ☀️

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