At the end of 2008 I decided to leave the two illustration agencies I was signed up to. I wanted a change of pace & I knew the next artwork I created needed to be a career milestone. Enter Leviathan...
There's something so satisfying about coloring a floral pattern. This is one of my most popular Chemistry inspired coloring pages. The inspiration is abstract, and more in the process than the results.
This is a #linocut of French #mathematician & #physicist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) remembered for his work on Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Fourier’s law of conduction, Fourier analysis & harmonic analysis & their use to solve heat transfer problems & credited with proposing the greenhouse effect as early as 1824.
Being a commoner he could not seek a commission in the scientific corps of the army but took a military lectureship in #math. 🧵1/n
Nearly done with 2008. Last few posts before there is a gear change and a milestone in my career. For today, a stylistic look at the development of Iguanodon, which was created for a Discoverology book.
This is the last day of illustrations from the 2008 book A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS (by Top That!). Here is Hypacrosaurus.
Inspired by a serene moment this frog was enjoying by our pond, I drew him in my Leuchtturm 1917 sketchbook using colored pencils. Green frogs can jump up to 3 feet and their tadpoles can take up to two years to become adults! 🐸🌿 #sciart
A 2008 piece depicting Corosaurus. The only purpose for this was playing around in Photoshop and learning how to create painting and photo composite art.
I captured the beauty of a green scarab beetle in watercolor in a coffee shop. These beetles symbolize renewal in Egyptian culture and play a key role in nature. I might create a small coloring card for kids who are curious but too shy to ask questions. Art should inspire curiosity! #sciart
Happy birthday #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of her experiment. On the right I show her reflection, as in the mirror, & the mirror reflection of the experimental set-up & the shocking result, that 🧵1/n #linocut#sciart#womenInSTEM#histsci#MastoArt#quantum
#WIPWednesday • I finished the burgundy roiling and added small black French knots to the abdomen area and am now extending the nerve endings of the diaphragm. This might be the last section of this #VagusNerve#embroidery! #SciArt#MastoArt
Here's a painting (acrylic on card) of a Carboniferous coal forest, for a publisher back in 2008. Apart from the Hibbertopterus, which is wrong in a variety of ways, I think it still works okay.