#SciArt
A miniature print of the tiny, fearsome sea slug Glaucus atlanticus, or the Blue angel nudibranch or Blue dragon.
The Glaucus atlanticus itself is no longer than 1.2" or 3 cm, but it floats upside down on the surface of pelagic waters hunting venomous siphonophores like the Portuguese man o' war & then uses their stinging nematocysts for its own protection. These wee beauties are some hardcore little sea slugs.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #seaSlug #glaucusAtlanticus #nudibranch #MastoArt
Last week, I gave an in-person presentation at the #VisionPlus conference by IIIDinfodesign. I used #dataviz, #informationdesign and #illustration to talk about #ChronicPain. It was strange to speak in front of an audience and not a computer. #rstats #sciart #infographic
Decided to try a "fun, quick experiment" with an old jumper and some felting wool. I had no idea how it would turn out. And now, I am now obsessed 😬 #needlefelting #sciart
TFW you sell the first two prints of your DART mission painting, think the buyer’s name seems vaguely familiar, and Google tells you they’re one of the co-investigators of the #DARTmission 😱😱😱
(Want your own? https://drose.studio/shop/dart-approaching-dimorphos-print/)
@nasa #jhuapl #spaceart #spaceartist #watercolor #watercolorart #nasa #asteroid #dimorphos #PlanetaryScience #PlanetaryArt #AstroArt #SciArt #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon #artistatwork
“How the Octopus 🐙 Came to Earth 🌎” - @mariapopova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/30/verany-mediterranean-mollusks/
🌱 International Nature Journaling Week is happening right now (June 1-7)! No need to register - just go to https://www.naturejournalingweek.com/program-2023 for free webinars (recorded for viewing later also) & links to tons of nature journaling related websites, videos, articles, journal prompts, etc.
#naturejournalingweek #SciArt #SciArtist #art #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature
I love creating art in series so in today’s blog post I go behind-the-scenes of 5 of my art series to show how I create a consistent look-and-feel for each.
https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/how-i-create-art-in-series
#SciArt #SciArtist #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #PerpetualJournal #Substack #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #cactus #wildflower #color #bird #hawk #lizard #reptile #GilaMonster #kiwi #NewZealand
I used to hype up “scientists who make music” a lot more than I do now. What happened? I learned about #publishing, #storytelling and audiences and I stopped caring so much about academia. Here’s the whole long tale about what happened, and for Substack subscribers there’s another big chunk about what I’ve shifted towards and some advice on what makes for an interesting story. #writing #sciart #music #science #newsletter https://mixture.substack.com/p/lessons-i-learned-from-failing-to
New cover for Journal Of Physical Chemistry B! Dr. Alexander Korotkevich and Dr. Carolyn Jil Moll from the group of Prof. Huib Bakker at AMOLF show how sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy can reveal the molecular orientation of anions at the water-air interface.
SFG is a powerful technique which can be used to analyze surfaces and interfaces. The cover represent the SFG generation process upon interaction of 800 nm and infrared light with carboxylate anions at the water–air interface. The background shows imaginary χ(2) spectra collected in SSP and SPS polarization combinations that reveal the molecular orientation of the anions.
Check out the paper at : https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08992
We saw our first Gila Monster 😍 of the season in our yard last week! They are soooo beautiful (so of course I had to paint it for my Perpetual Journal)!!! 🥰 Yes, they’re venomous, but they don’t attack humans unless really provoked.
#SciArt #SciArtist #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #lizard #reptile #GilaMonster
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 her reflection, as in the mirror, & the shocking result, that the reaction is not the mirror opposite.
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#linocut #sciart #physicist #womenInSTEM #histstm #quantum #MastoArt
One of our Ironwood trees was blooming recently but is mostly bloomed out by now. I love the pink-lavender color of these flowers and so I painted them for a recent Perpetual Journal entry!
#SciArt #SciArtist #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #tree #flower #Spring #TreeTuesday
Little Shop of Science comes to the Washington #Folk Festival June 3-4 at Glen Echo Park #sciart #folkmusic
Next weekend I'll be selling #sciart at a folk festival, so... let's see how that goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here's one of my Downloadable Adult Coloring Pages, inspired by Chemistry and Physics.
To create these, I develop a particle system that develops the image as it runs.
Thinking about spores while working on today's drawing.
It's Monday, so I'm creating new posts of my daily #inkyDays drawings for my supporters on Ko-fi and Patreon:
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-052923-T6T6LQR22
https://www.patreon.com/posts/83742894
I'll be sharing in-progress and finished drawings in these posts this week.
Petri dish artwork created by our award-winning, in-house animation team. We're using this as a backdrop for a lot of conferences this year.
🔴🧠🧬🔬
#MedicalAffairs #SciArt #medcomms #LifeSciences
🌿 Étude #botanique à l'#aquarelle de Reine-des-prés (Filipendula ulmaria), plante comestible commune utilisée pour ses propriétés ornementales, thérapeutiques & culinaires.
L'une de mes illustrations qui fête ses 10 ans cette année. Le temps passe vite. 😅
Happy #WhoopingCraneDay!
Here is “The Hooping Crane” in George Edwards’ A Natural History of Birds Pt. 3, 1750.
Yes, he illustrated it perching on an enlarged side view of its own giant beak. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BHL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/50912336722/
In case you haven't realized / I haven't said: I'm making 10 full solar systems, which will (hopefully) be for sale via my website in Jul/Aug. 🌏🪐
I might also offer preorders for individual planets if you're just after specific ones.
AND I'm planning to write up a tutorial for a couple of planets for the DIYers amongst you👍 #needlefelting #sciart #scicrafts
Saturn is busting my butt! After many prototypes, I'm now happy with this version, but It's by far the slowest planet to make. Zero chance I'll have these available to sell by the end of June (as I'd hoped). #needlefelting #crafts #sciart #scicrafts #space #saturn
I'm really enjoying this simple fractal pattern, and decided to try it out on fine watercolor paper.
New drawings and public posts on my Patreon and Ko-fo:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/83604984
https://ko-fi.com/Post/New-Drawings-I2I8LNJO6
#inkyDays #ink #drawing #art #SciArt #mastoart #GenerativeArt
Ah! I finally found it. It's there, but hidden. Took me a while to find it.
Not a good sign.
If you know a #SciArt community member who would like to join us here, please let me know.
Question: has twitter gotten rid of community groups altogether, or just hidden them?
Last time I checked in there, the #SciArt community group was still active. But not seeing a trace of it today.
My new cover art for the 4th edition of DINOSAURS, HOW THEY LIVED AND SURVIVED, by Darren Naish and Paul Barratt. For this one Darren and I chose Ceratosuchops, one of the Isle of Wight spinosaurids.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciCom #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology
I enjoy learning about other artists’ processes so in my latest blog post I included a process video showing how I created my Tucson Yard Journal ~ November (the art I tooted yesterday). https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/tucson-yard-journal-november
#SciArt #SciArtist #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Substack #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #environment #ecology #nature #flower #wildflower #Fall #Autumn #insect #butterfly #bird #birds #birding
The Little Shop of Science Art pops up in #Baltimore at the Sowebo Festival this Sunday #sciart https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/sowebo-arts-and-music-festival-celebrates-40th-anniversary/
Do I like the AquaBord surface..? 🤔 Paint sure does pick back up easily (maybe TOO easily, grr.) Time will tell. Enhanced color Jupiter as seen by #Hubble, #wip.
#inprogress #inprogressart #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Jupiter #hubbletelescope #jovian #watercolor #watercolorart @nasa
#MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon #artistatwork
Oh! Not sure if there are any spots left, but this looks fantastic! Scientific illustration seminar at Eagle Hill Institute in Maine this summer! Here’s more info in case anyone is interested: https://eaglehill.us/programs/sems-weeklong/flyers-weeklong-pdfs/2023-Santoliquido.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1foI29l3aSd92k29K47GY85Hxk4SNZX_c-N8sXgDA59Avi_WIO4s1WL4A_aem_th_AW_ImJAtbMnd-gxfjqbxJYfS-ilavIIAGyArTzYZn9j2g65jKq-GcrgIQQEViUP6P8E&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Maybe it starts with a low-energy feeling, or maybe you’re getting a little cranky. You might have a headache or difficulty concentrating. Your brain is sending you a message: You’re hungry. Find food.
Sound familiar?
Studies in mice have pinpointed a cluster of cells called AgRP neurons near the underside of the brain that may create this unpleasant hungry, even “hangry,” feeling.
🔗 Read more: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2023/neurons-that-make-us-feel-hangry
✍️ Amber Dance
🎨 Marina Muun
Here’s the 6th in my Tucson Yard Journal series: November, which boasts beautiful weather, continued avian visitors & a few plants still blooming & attracting butterflies.
#SciArt #SciArtist #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #seedpod #flower #wildflower #Fall #Autumn #insect #butterfly #bird #birds #birding #roadrunner #owl
Listed some new #phage #ink #paintings today. I know you like a pretty virus https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/ #art #sciart
For #WorldTurtleDay I’m sharing my ‘Turtles all the way down’ #linocut. Made for an exhibition about #cosmology I also took the opportunity to highlight the #biodiversity of #turtles. This hint of an infinite stack includes from the top down: …
#printmaking #sciart #turtles #biodiversity #conservation #cosmology #turtlesallthewaydown #MastoArt
Happy Monday!
Starting a new week of daily #inkyDays drawings with a pair of dancing sea-stars.
Here's where I'll be posting this week for my supporters on ko-fi and patreon:
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-052223-G2G3LJI5B
https://www.patreon.com/posts/83397166
I just finished the contract and get paid by Dr. Brian Curtice. It was such an unexpected connection. But eventually, I will keep working on more artwork for the Fossil Crates. The Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry Artwork is not the end. Stay tuned! #Sciart #Paleoart #Dinosaur #MorrisonFormation
Today, I wanted to play with bringing back the squirmy worms...and weave them as a loose textile. Here's a work-in-progress photo.
And that's a wrap for this week of daily #inkyDays generative art drawings. They're all posted for my supporters on Ko-fi and Patreon:
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-051523-I2I2LBSIU
https://www.patreon.com/posts/83045675
For International Tea Day, my Green Tea Chemistry print. This linocut illustrates green tea and its chemistry. There's a tea pot, two cups of tea and a tea plant (Camellia sinensis) on a tray, and in the steam, you can see some of the organic chemicals found in green tea. Up to 27% of the composition of green tea can be a …
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#MastoArt
#tea #greenTea #chemistry #analyticChemistry #teaPlant #teapot #linocut #sciart #printmaking #InternationalTeaDay
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 many thought the Earth was a mere few 1000 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.
#linocut #sciart #womenInSTEM #printmaking #MastoArt
NASA #eclipse posters, and a reflection on some of the many many many "vintage travel style" space posters. By me on Forbes. #WroteThis #science #sciart #scicomm #art https://www.forbes.com/sites/evaamsen/2023/05/19/new-nasa-posters-highlight-eclipse-viewing/?sh=1e6194e46a3a
Happy birthday to #philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) who, amongst other things speculated about a teapot orbiting in space.
This lino block print of Russell's Teapot is part of my series of Imaginary Friends of Science of charismatic thought experiments. In this case, the alledged china teapot, in orbit between Earth and Mars is an analogy….
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#linocut #printmaking #SciArt #RussellsTeapot #CelestialTeapot #teapot #space #planets #philosophy #skepticism #Imaginary #MastoArt
Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, …
vitenskap og kunst er ikke en dikotomi
New ink brain scan #painting in indigo and black - very dramatic
#art #inkpainting #sciart #neuroscience https://etsy.me/3MsKKdv
Happy birthday to Danish #seismologist Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993) who demonstrated that the Earth's core is not a single molten sphere, but contained an inner solid core, in ‘36. She was a pioneer #womanInScience, a brilliant seismologist & lived to be 105.
As she first postulated, the #earth has roughly 3 equal concentric sections: mantle, liquid outer core & solid inner core.
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#printmakimg #sciArt #geophysics #histstm #seismology #MastoArt
Edward Lear was born (12 May 1812 - 29 Jan 1888). His gorgeous #parrot paintings are exceptional not just for their scientific accuracy and vivid color, but for their infusion of individual personality, a result of him making a point of sketching living #birds whenever possible.
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots; Macrocercus Aracanga (Red and Yellow Macaw), 1832 [now Ara macao = Scarlet Macaw] https://tinyurl.com/4hz6ztzm
Working on today's drawing, I was thinking about roots and nerves and moving molecules around.
Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator & writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!
Nightingale earned the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her as a “ministering angel” making her solitary rounds of the hospital at night with “a little lamp in her hand”. 1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #datavis #nursing #statistics #mathart #mastoArt
Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, 1 of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in "the dynamics & geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".
#sciart #mathart #linocut #printmaking #womeninSTEM #histstm #sciart #mathart #MastoArt
Hello from the Eurostar! I just finished writing tomorrow's Mixture and it's one of my favourite issues so far, about turning #science data into #music (and other #sciart links). It's scheduled for tomorrow but I might not be online to remind you, so make sure you're subscribed to get it in your inbox. #mixture #newsletter #substack https://mixture.substack.com
I usually photograph my daily #inkyDays drawings and post them for my supporters on Ko-fi and Patreon. Today, on a whim, I also took a quick shot of my drawing space. It's messier than usual, and needs a little bit of tidying up...but not to much.
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-050823-A0A6L4DF1
https://www.patreon.com/posts/82700533