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minouette, 19 days ago to random

Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 –1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. 🧵1/
#linocut #sciart #womenInSTEM #printmaking

bluerehn, 20 days ago to SciComm

New resource! 📣 Science is more than lab coats and beakers, so I've illustrated 18 science objects for you to use in your presentations and social media

You can pay what you want for this resource, from as little as $2! Get it here: https://ko-fi.com/s/5282440b90

And happy National Archaeology Week!

#2024NAW #sciencecommunication #digitaldownload #resource #scicomm #illustration

bluerehn, 2 months ago to SciComm

Just published: How can art effectively deliver environmental messages?

I interviewed my colleague Dr Robyn Glade-Wright about her environmental art practice and her 2023 exhibition 'Falling from the Sky' at James Cook University Cairns, where I was an exhibiting artist(-scientist)

Read online in w/k Science & Art Journal: https://between-science-and-art.com/robyn-glade-wright-and-emma-rehn-environmental-art-and-falling-from-the-sky/

#sciart #scicomm #environment #interview

bluerehn, 4 months ago to SciComm

Last week, I spoke about the power of art / science connections for the closing event of a Masters solo exhibition 'Beauty & Blemish' - I also learnt a lot about lichen in the process (did you know lichen is a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi?)

The exhibition forms part of Leanne Shead's Masters in Creative Arts at JCU - lichen is embedded in every artwork, exploring notions of beauty and blemish

#SciComm #SciArt #lichen #lichensubscribe

A photograph taken inside an art gallery, with red couches in the foreground and art hanging on the wall in the background incorporating lichen and doilies, lit from above
A photograph of two artworks hanging on a wall of an art gallery. Each work is a portrait-oriented rectangle of wood with a textured surface incorporating lichen and doilies

elizabethtasker, 5 months ago to random

Casper be like… where is my Christmas Eve chicken?!

(He did get a meaty breakfast and has dry food 😄 But dislikes the different schedule of the weekend!)

#CatsOfTheBalcony

Same view of the balcony with the cat looking dissatisfied at the food bowl (not empty).

bluerehn, 5 months ago to random

My final post for #ArtAdventCalendar: a small painting from earlier this year of the rainforest not far from here, going for a calm vibe

Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24cm

#acrylicpainting #rainforest #Artstodon #artwork

bluerehn, 5 months ago to random

#ArtAdventCalendar - one of my paintings features on the cover of a science-art journal, just released! It shows palaeoecology as an Australian landscape made up of fragments of time

Mosaic (2020) - acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90cm

Read about my artwork concept (and the science) here: https://www.consilience-journal.com/conciliarte-issue-13-x/mosaic

Read issue 15: https://consilience-journal.com/issue-15

#SciArt #acrylicpainting #Artstodon #originalart #traditionalart #palaeoecology #palaeofire

bluerehn, 5 months ago to DigitalArt

#ArtAdventCalendar - this is last year's Pint of Science Australia artwork that I designed for their promo materials and merch (super proud to wear my frog drawings on a t-shirt)

I'm lucky to have friends like @michcampbell who encouraged me to submit a design for the festival!

'Jump In!' (2022) - digital

Details of the concept here: https://pintofscience.com.au/artwork/2022/

#SciArt #PintofScience #frogs #digitalart #Artstodon

bluerehn, 5 months ago to random

#ArtAdventCalendar - a selection of drawings from my Charcoal in Charcoal series. These are charcoal drawings of some of the magnified fossil charcoal particles I studied from the lake cores in my PhD, to reconstruct ancient fire histories

Some of these are 8,000 years old!

#SciArt #charcoalart #charcoal #palaeofire

bluerehn, 5 months ago to Archaeology

Last year, I did an Instagram story takeover for Letters to a Pre-Scientist (http://www.prescientist.org/) and I introduced some key concepts in archaeology and related geosciences - here's the two-part cartoon I drew to introduce stratigraphy! #ArtAdventCalendar

#cartoon #stratigraphy #SciArt #archaeology #geoscience

bluerehn, 5 months ago to queer

#ArtAdventCalendar - one from last year for Pride month and World Oceans Day. A lovely reason to draw colourful jellies

Pride Jellyfish (2022) - pen and markers on A4 paper

#jellyfish #LGBTQIA #Artstodon #traditionalart #marinelife

bluerehn, 5 months ago to crochet

For National Archaeology Week (Australia) each year I usually crochet something new, and this year it was a mini trowel! #ArtAdventCalendar

It's loosely based on a full-sized trowel pattern I designed last year. My free archaeological crochet patterns are here: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/e-rehn

#crochet #archaeology

bluerehn, 5 months ago to Geology

Time for a comic for #ArtAdventCalendar! Bringing back this one from the start of 2023, from a random idea I had that made me laugh (typically how all my comics begin)

One for the #geology and #geoscience fans

#comic #cartoon #sciart #sciencecomic #sciencecartoons

bluerehn, 5 months ago to random

More botanical watercolour for #ArtAdventCalendar!

This is a little carnivorous pitcher plant (genus Nepenthes) I saw near one of the lakes I sampled for my PhD

These tend to thrive in places where soils are low on nutrients, by supplementing their diet with insects

#PitcherPlant #BotanicalArt #watercolour

bluerehn, 6 months ago to lotr

Some fanart for today's #ArtAdventCalendar, from a rewatch of the Lord of the Rings trilogy last year

Hobbitses (2022) - graphite and ink sketch, digital colour

#LordoftheRings #LoTR #hobbit #fanart

bluerehn, 6 months ago to random

As summer heats up and the wet season builds, my favourite towering cumulus clouds are reappearing, so it's a great time to revisit these cloud studies from last year for the #ArtAdventCalendar

Postcards of Clouds, parts 1 and 2 (2022) - acrylic on A6 paper

#clouds #acrylicpainting #artwork

Two portrait-oriented acrylic paintings of clouds, resembling rectangular postcards, on a desaturated purple background. Both paintings feature towering fluffy white cumulus clouds in blue skies. The clouds in the painting on the left are mostly in shadow, with sunlight shining at the uppermost edge of the clouds. The painting on the left shows brightly lit clouds taking up the background, with a shadowed cloud in the foreground on the right obscuring some of the more distant clouds

bluerehn, 6 months ago to random

For today's #ArtAdventCalendar - some black bean pods from my neighbourhood park, drawn in watercolour pencil earlier this year

#BotanicalArt #watercolour

elizabethtasker, 6 months ago to random

I’ve just spotted the black and white cat who normally sneaks onto my balcony at 3am! I set the trap for #TNR but accidentally left the scissors out which reveal that I cut the tie that holds the trap open. WILL HE CLUE IN?

Also strong possibility that Casper appears instead and walks right inside 🤦🏼‍♀️

#CatRescue

bluerehn, 6 months ago to random

My latest crochet project, made as a gift for a colleague 🐙

This is based on a fab existing pattern (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/realistic-octopus), but I modified the underside to match my illustrated mascot for the OCTOPUS database (https://bit.ly/cabahoctopus)

A photograph of a crochet orange octopus, facing the viewer, with pink visible under its arms curled around it. The background is dark blue fabric
A photograph of a crocheted orange octopus, viewed side-on, with one arm curled around just under its eye in a stylish pose. The underside of its arms are pink. The background is dark blue fabric

bluerehn, 7 months ago to SciComm

Science talks drawn in real time!

I spent the last 2 days at a local conference on tropical environmental & sustainability science, cartooning every talk as it happened (except my own!)

It was an interesting challenge, and even more interesting was that it improved my focus and helped me stay engaged

#SciArt #SciComm #sciencecartoons #academia

bluerehn, 7 months ago to random

This week is Open Access Week! 🔓

A lot of researchers have to contend with paywalls, but there's more than one way to make your research open access, including
🟢 Self-archiving your author-accepted version (Green OA)
🟡 Paying a journal's OA fee (Gold OA)
each with different benefits

Read more: https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/openaccess

#OAWeek #OAWeek23 @sparc #openacess

bluerehn, 10 months ago to random

A fun game for #CharcoalTuesday: when reading charcoal diagrams, look for hidden cats

(I've added facial features here for ease of identification 🐱)

bluerehn, 1 year ago to random

This week is National Archaeology Week in Australia (https://archaeologyweek.org/) and each year people get creative with baking or making archaeology-themed creations

Since 2020, each year I've designed crochet creations. This year, a friend and I decided to bake a massive archaeological excavation cake! We shared it at work today and there's still more than half left

Here's this year's cake, plus my 2020 (Sahul) and 2021 (shell mound) crochet projects

A photograph of a crochet version of Sahul (Australia and New Guinea in green wool, with brown wool for the continental shelf connecting them) between two balls of wool. Text in the bottom left corner reads: "E. Rehn #2020NAW"
Three photographs showing different angles of a crocheted shell mound, made up of cockle shells in different tones of grey, pieces of black charcoal, and a small crochet tree. The background is grass. Text in the bottom left corner reads: '#2021NAW E. Rehn (@BlueRehn)"

elizabethtasker, 1 year ago to random

I dropped my phone sideways on my foot. It’s in a tough (cassify) case and is unharmed. However, I may lose at least three toes 😩