#SciArtSeptember

Teresa Robeson 何顥思

My first time with #SciArtSeptember

I made some new friends on Bluesky and stumbled across the #SciArtSeptember challenge. I liked the idea because I'm a science fan, of course, and also it doesn't require that you draw new things every day; you can use old drawings. So, I managed pretty well with loose interpretations and some old art. Here are a bunch for your enjoyment!

https://teresarobeson.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/my-first-time-with-sciartseptember/

I'm late for day 30 of #SciArtSeptember, because I was travelling and didn't have wifi. Hence I couldn't post my drawing although it was ready on time...

Anyway. The prompt for day 30 of #SciArtSeptember is "rebirth". In komodo dragons, parthenogenesis has bee reported, which is a form of asexual reproduction. The hatchlings are genetically identical to their mother, which I interpreted as " rebirth" of the mother for this prompt.
Reference photo: Chandler Cruttenden from unsplash.
#MastoArt

Ink illustration of the head of a komodo dragon.

30 Rebirth for the final day of #SciArtSeptember Bet you thought I was gonna do a phoenix! And ok yeah I considered flamingos, but instead I did this lil Guy! This is a Wood frog (Rana sylvatica)! Now this guy freezes solid every winter, and because its blood is made of antifreeze, it doesn’t die, survives the winter and defrosts, literally coming back to life!

A painting of a wood frog extremely up close! Mostly greens and browns, looks moist!

Paula Borchardt

For today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt “Rebirth”: my art of Desert Willow seedpods titled Hope. In the background I’ve written words including patience, await, anticipate, recover, renew, reawaken, regenerate, germinate, rejuvenate, restore, revitalize, flourish, thrive (& more)

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #tree #willow #seedpod #Summer #hope

My watercolor, colored pencil & graphite art titled "Hope", of Desert Willow seedpods, with words that are synonyms of, or similar to, the word hope, written in the background.

Kristin (vis.social Admin)

It's the last day of #SciArtSeptember, and I felt like drawing a cell. The orange ink was calling to me.

Tomorrow is the beginning of #inktober, the challenge that got me started on these daily #inkyDays drawings six years ago.

#ink #drawing #art #SciArt #MastArt #Science

Hand drawn diagram of a cell and it's major organelles in orange ink on an open page of my sketchbook.

Paula Borchardt

For #Caturday, here’s my Perpetual Journal art of a Bobcat we saw lounging on the short brick wall lining the front walkway of our Tucson, AZ, USA house. Bobcats are sooo beautiful 🥰 (obviously a fact; not an opinion! 😉)!

#SciArt #SciArtSeptember #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #bobcat #cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon

My Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Bobcat lounging on the short brick wall lining our front walkway, Tucson, AZ, USA

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt rebirth it’s my immortal jellyfish!

Turritopsis dohrnii mis the only known animal to be able to revert to its younger colonial stage after having reached maturity. The full-grown T. dohrnii jellyfish medusa, if it gets stressed, or old & sick, can revert back to the polyp stage, form a new polyp colony & start all over.

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#sciArt #linocut #printmaking #jellyfish #invertebrate #typography #lettering #immortalJellyfish #MastoArt

My linocut print of the so-called 'immortal jellyfish' reads, "I wanna live forever!" The jellyfish is transparent with a red-orange area inside a bell shape with many tentacles. Each print is 11" by 14" (27.9 cm by 35.6 cm), inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, blue-black and rosy scarlett in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

29 Tale for #SciArtSeptember I went mythical with this one, many tales of foxes being well, foxes!

A painting of a red fox. They’re against a backdrop of light and dark, standing in the middle. The light side has sunshine, the dark, stars. But aren’t they both the same thing in the end?

Yeah, I got featured in the Project Mushroom Newsletter!
Thank you @crimini !

https://newsletters.projectmushroom.xyz/mastodon-art/

In addition, they're talking about #SciArtSeptember which blends #art and #science, as well as all the new features of #Mastodon v4.2, including full search text.
Also, an important reminder about how to use hashtags best. Remember people #Hashtags are Mastodon's superpower, both to find new people and to be found by new people.

#ProjectMushroom #Newsletter

Paula Borchardt

For a few days recently we had a Coyote napping in the shade of our (Tucson, AZ, USA) house, right near my studio window. Coincidentally (or not?!) we also had a Coyote napping in the exact same spot a number of days last September!

#SciArt #SciArtSeptember #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #coyote

My Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Coyote, napping in the shade of our Tucson, AZ, USA house.

Kristin (vis.social Admin)

The #SciArtSeptember prompt for today is "Tale", so I'm going with an abstract illustration for an imaginary tale of a turkey tail mushroom.

Here's a work-in-progress shot.

#inkyDays #ink #drawing #art #wip #GenerativeArt #MastoArt

Hand drawn generative art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern is inspired by turkey tail mushrooms.

#SciArtSeptember day 29 (already?!) Theme is Tale. And this is my favorite #insect pest tale.

The Colorado potato #beetle is a pretty destructive pest against (you guessed it) potatoes! It's native to (you guessed it) Colorado!

The beetle was already widespread through Europe by the 20th century, but Germany was hit particularly hard during WWII and the USSR was hit particularly hard during the Cold War. Various pieces of propaganda from the time warn of the "Amikäfer" - American beetle - being dropped from the sky by American balloons and planes. In response to the accusations, West Germany airdropped little cardboard cutouts of the Colorado potato beetle, each stamped with "F" for "Freiheit" (freedom).

Small painting of a yellow and black striped Colorado potato beetle, with d20 for scale.

The prompt for day 29 of #SciArtSeptember is "tale". My #illustration is referring to Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", which was one of my favourite books as a child.

Good to know: Beatrix Potter was also a very talented (scientific) illustrator!

My illustration is based on a reference photo by 12019 from pixabay.

#ink #penandink #sketchbook #rabbit

Ink illustration of the head if a rabbit.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt tale: Kepler’s Somnium. This #linocut illustrates astronomer & mathematician Johannes Kepler's sci-fi story Somnium, or "The Dream". Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, & circulated it amongst friends, with the intention of eventually publishing it but he died before that could could happen. (It escaped his control & contributed to allegations his mother was a witch).
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#printmaking #histsci #sciart #Kepler #MastoArt #moon #astronomy

Linocut print of Kepler’s Somnium (or Dream) in darkest blue on white with chine collé collaged papers for aliens. It shows the Earth in space viewed from the mountainous moon where a boy and daemon in a cave view the giant serpent like creature (on marbled paper in swirling pink, orange and blue) and three pinecone shaped creatures on pink, peach and turquoise paper.

28 Monumental for #SciArtSeptember This is not lava! It’s the Colorado river at sunset! Earth made its own monument!

A painting of a river in a canyon at sunset. The river looks like it’s made of fire winding through purple and gold canyon.

Paula Borchardt

In today’s blog post I shared my Perpetual Journal art of a Bobcat & a Coyote, plus described a standoff between a Bobcat & 2 Coyotes that we saw in our Tucson, AZ yard!

https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/bobcats-and-coyotes

#SciArt #SciArtSeptember #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Substack #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #bobcat #coyote

This is for day 28 of #SciArtSeptember (prompt: "monumental"). Reference photo by Carsten Ruthemann from pexels.

#ink #penandink #sketchbook #MastoArt

Ink illustration of a big tree.

@playinprogress I would love to do inktober. Ink is my main and favourite medium at the moment. I tried inktober before, but never finished it.
However, now I'm just finishing #SciArtSeptember, which has been great, but I also feel a bit exhausted from the pressure of daily posting. But I'm also worried that a relaxed approach (e.g. do inktober every other day) will result in doing it not at all... Ahhhrgh, it's complicated...

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt monumental: Hilbert’s Grand Hotel. This linocut print illustrates the paradox of Hilbert's Grand Hotel, a thought experiment conceived by the great mathematician David Hilbert (1862-1943) in 1924 to show the paradox of infinite sets. If you imagine a regular hotel with a finite number of rooms, if they are all filled you can't add more guests.

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#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #mathArt #Hilbert #MastoArt #infinity #mathematics #math #maths

Linocut print of Hilbert’s Grand Hotel. It’s a purple Art Nouveau style grand hotel at night viewed from below and it stretches upward to an infinity sign above the pale green roof, shining in the starry sky. There’s a small portrait of David Hilbert in a hat and the words “Hilbert Grand Hotel ♾ No vacancy! Check in now! ♾” and two flags with the aleph-nought symbol.

Today's #SciArtSeptember was amethyst but instead I made these tiny mushrooms out of sculpey (which is the worst material)

Various mushrooms modelled in air dry clay

27 Amethyst for #SciArtSeptember it’s a type of quartz!

A painting of amethyst crystal up close. All the tones of purple!

Kristin (vis.social Admin)

Today's prompt for #SciArtSeptember is "Amethyst". I'm going to take that as a color, an share one of my early #SciArt pieces.

For this piece, I took my illustrations for cell organelles, and took them in an abstract geometric direction. One of the first I really had fun with.

I called these 'Kaleidoscopic Cells'. I created them with a combination of illustrations and code.

#art #Science #GenerativeArt

abstract art created with code and using diagrams of cell organelles.

For day 27 of #SciArtSeptember (prompt: "amethyst") I drew an amethyst laccaria, based on a reference photo by FotoRieth from #pixabay.

I didn't have much time for this one, hence the #illustration is rather clumsy. But I consider sharing it anyway a part of the drawing challenge.

#sciart #MastoArt #ink #penandink #sketchbook

Ink illustration if an amethyst laccaria (a mushroom).

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt amethyst, a violet variety of quartz, it’s my small linocut representing the chemical element Silicon with its diamond cubic crystal structure shown in silver. Its symbol, atomic number & a couple of its forms are shown in lilac. Silicon is common in the Earth's crust in, especially in silicate minerals like the quartz crystals shown.
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/174963051

#linocut #printmaking #PeriodicTableOfPrintmaking #MastoArt #Silicon #quartz #radiolarians #sciArt

As described, my Silicon print is a small linocut Silicon’s diamond cubic crystal structure shown in silver. Its symbol, atomic number and a couple of its forms are shown in lilac: silicate minerals like the quartz crystals shown in each corner and 4 radialarians, circle the symbol for Silicon on the periodic table. The print is one of an edition of 14, each 6" x 6" (15.2 cm x 15.2 cm) printed on Japanese kozo paper.

26 Threads for #SciArtSeptember A spider web! Did Charlotte’s Web change your view of spiders like it did me?

A painting of a dewy spiderweb against a green background.

For day 26 of #SciArtSeptember (prompt: "threads") I drew the flower of Coptis trifolia, which is commonly known as " threeleaf goldthread".

#ink #penandink #sketchbook #MastoArt

Ink illustration of a threeleaf goldthread flower.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

The whisker barrels are the focus of the majority of barrel cortex research, and 'barrel cortex' is often used to refer primarily to the whisker barrels.

I’m going to interpret today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt: threads more figuratively to mean whiskers and the links between them and the barrel cortex.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1319719313

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This is for day 25 of #SciArtSeptember (prompt: "alchemical"). Due to time constraints, I did just the line work this time.
My #illustration is based on a reference photo by Ekaterina Bolovtsova from #pexels.

#ink #penandink #MastoArt #sketchbook

Ink illustration of an ancient pair of scales.

Kristin (vis.social Admin)

Today's #SciArtSeptember prompt is "Alchemical", so I'm going to share some of my Chemistry inspired experiments with my art and textiles.

The patterns for these scarves come from my particle systems that I've created over the years.

#SciArt #Textile #art #wearableArt

Silk scarves with my abstract Generative art inspired by chemistry and physics.

Silk scarf with my abstract Generative art inspired by chemistry and physics.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For #SciArtSeptember prompt “alchemical” my new #linocut portrait of the earliest recorded #alchemist: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). Alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE), cites her research & innovations & several scholars suspect she lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos relates that she wrote a treatise called "On Furnaces and Apparatuses" & she invented, or at least described … 🧵1/n

#womenInSTEM #printmaking #reliefPrint #alchemy #histsci

My linocut portrait ‘Mary the Jewess, Mother of Alchemy’ with 3 devices attributed to her: the bain-marie (essentially a double boiler, shown as a large round brick furnace complete with orange flames, water bath and vessels), the kerotakis (which allowed one to heat items while collecting vapors, shown as a diagram with tube, with orange flames, below a heated substance, grill and a dome on top) and the tribikos (a kind of alembic with three arms that was used to obtain substances purified by distillation, here like a smaller bain-marie complete with orange flames in furnace, heated vessel and 3 arms to 3 alembics). Mary herself is printed in a gradient of purple to bronze to purple (top to bottom) on ivory paper. She is a Hellenistic Jew, dressed in a draped Classical style dress and wears a veil over her long hair. Her clothing was the frescos of the Dura-Europos synagogue built in Syria in 244 CE.

Kristin (vis.social Admin)

For today's #inkyDays drawing, inspiration came from some little fungi, of the Aspergillus genus.

And that's a wrap for this week of daily drawings. All of my in-progress and finished drawings are now posted for my supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/89475470
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-091823-S6S4PCBVV

#ink #drawing #SciArtSeptember #art #MastoArt #fungi #SciArt

Hand drawn generative art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern is inspired by the shape of aspergillus fungi.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt “metallic” my linocut Osmia lignaria, the metallic blue orchard mason bee.

We think of bees as living in hives, but these bees live in reeds or natural holes which they divide into chambers with mud walls. We also tend to picture yellow and black stripes, but this small bee is blue to blue-green. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #washi #masonBee #Osmia #insect #sciArt #nativeBees #pollinators

This is an important local bee, Osmia Lignaria, known as the orchard mason bee, or blue orchard bee, in my lino block print on Japanese kozo (mulberry) paper with gorgeous, irridecent, translucent non-woven blue and gossamer-like white silk tissue washi chine collé (collaged fine Japanese paper). Each print is 20.3 cm (8 inches) square.

23 Adornment for #SciArtSeptember This is not a peacock, it’s actually a pretty pigeon!

A painting of a Victoria crowned pigeon. A bird with a blue head, red back, and dark belly. Its eyes look like they’re winged black mascara. The head is crowned by peacock like feathers.

My watercolors of Indigo & Carmine's chemical structures are now available as a notebook, mug, or vinyl sticker!

Find them in my Spring Shop!
https://karinwandererart.creator-spring.com/

#mastoArt #SciArt #SciArtSeptember #ShopSmall #Stickers #FediArt #FediGiftShop #CreativeToots #Watercolor #Watercolour #Art #Painting #Artwork

A white mug with a handle is adorned with the chemical structure of carminic acid, the main ingredient in carmine pigment. It is labeled "carminic acid."

A deep blue notebook is adorned with the chemical structure of indigo. It is labeled "indigo."

Ele Willoughby, PhD

The #SciArtSeptember prompt adornment made me think of fashion, “mauve madness” & William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)’s serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine.

Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 at 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann who hired him as his assistant in 1855 & had him working on a series of experiments to try & synthesize quinine, used to treat malaria.
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#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #chemistry #histsci

Linocut print of Perkins in grey, a suited, bearded Victorian, at a wooden lab bench covered in glassware and chemical apparatus. He holds a flask at eye level with bright mauve fluid. Wide bright mauve lines radiate outward from it in the background.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt nocturnal my linocut print of an eclipse of moths! Isn’t that a great #termOfVenery for a group of #moths? It’s the moon at lunar eclipse in oranges and brown against a very dark sky behind 5 Ontario moths: the gorgeous green Luna moth (Actias luna), the yellow and purplish-pink Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), …

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#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #moon #entomology #insects #MastoArt

My linocut print of moon at lunar eclipse in oranges and brown against a very dark sky behind 5 moths: the gorgeous green Luna moth (Actias luna), the yellow and purplish-pink Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Five-spotted Hawk Moth in brown with orange spots (Manduca quinquemaculata), the red-orange, black and cream Virgin Tiger Moth (Apantesis virgo), and the black and white White Underwing (Catocala relicta).

In white it reads “An eclipse of” above and “moths” below. I designed the typefaces to suggest the meaning of the words. "Eclipse" is full of crescent moon shapes. "Moths" is written in moth shapes.

For day 21 of #SciArtSeptember (prompt: "misty") I cheated a bit and made "misty" a "mistle thrush". Just because of a lack of other ideas...
My #illustration is based on a reference photo by TheOtherKev from #pixabay.

#sciart #MastoArt #bird #ink #penandink

Ink illustration of a mistle thrush sitting on a twig, looking to the left.

A sweet octopus for today! #sciart #SciArtSeptember

Octopus on green with blue brain. Grungie bungie.

Kristin (vis.social Admin)

Since Patreon is adding the ability to sell downloadable digital products, I figure I'll give it a try.

Here is one of my Generative Art Coloring Pages inspired by Chemistry and Physics.

https://www.patreon.com/KristinHenry/shop/coloring-page-floralstars-9k-12686

#GenerativeArt #SciArt #SciArtSeptember #art #MastoArt #ArtForSale

This is for day 20 of #SciArtSeptember (prompt: "sweet"). Reference photo by quaritsch photography from #unsplash.

#MastoArt #ink #penandink #sketchbook

Ink illustration of a cherry.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #SciArtSeptember theme sweet, my dance of the honeybees.

This is a linocut showing one of the ways the honeybee communicates through dance. A worker bee can return to the hive & through the way it aligns itself with respect to the sun & the honeycomb, the waggles & loops of its movement convey information on the location in terms of distance & direction of tasty flower pollen sources to its fellow bees. #MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #honeybee #sciart #insect

My linocut honeycomb pattern of hexagons in a gradient of dark to light honey yellow overprinted with 5 honeybees in black with red curving and zigzagging arrows between them to indicate their motions during a waggle dance (the honeybees bees in fact indicate a single bee at 5 points during its dance).

For day 19 of #SciArtSeptember (prompt: "charcoal") I tried to render (in #ink) the structure of charcoal as the result of "charcoal burning" (heating wood with minimum of oxygen).

#penandink #sketchbook #MastoArt

Ink illustration of the surface of burned charcoal, showing the cracks and fibres of the charcoal.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

While Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & #crystallographer is now remembered because her x-ray diffraction images which were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, I am posting her for #SciArtSeptember theme charcoal, because of her important contributions to #carbon research.

⁠She made invaluable contributions across physics, chemistry & biology, working to determining the structure of #RNA,

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#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histstm #sciart⁠ #MastoArt

My linocut portrait of Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), in a gradient of magenta from her shoulders up through dark blue to her hair. Her necklace is a double helix of DNA. Her brooch is the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. The pattern on her jacket is based on her publication of the structure of non-graphitizing carbon.
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Behind her in shades of robin’s egg blue is an image of the famous X-ray crystallographic Photo 51, produced by her grad student Gosling and important to deducing the structure of DNA.

Kristin (vis.social Admin)

Continuing from the Chemistry inspired piece I shared yesterday, I have been playing with creating art with particles systems since that first piece.

I also love experimenting with creating textiles.

These scarves are made with my artwork, and I wear them all the time. I'd love to create more, but they're expensive to produce.

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt #art #GenerativeArt #Textiles #WearableArt

Scarves hanging from a branch, against a wooden fence.