Stop by and see my latest illustration "Protect" on public display for the first time. It's my first piece to incorporate text as part of the illustration and a bit of a departure from my normal science illustration style. This piece features endangered, threatened and species of concern within Washington. An added bonus is that all of the organisms featured are placed within their actual Washington county.
Also look for my other piece "Squirrel Line-up" that is also part of the group GNSI-NW art show.
Large orca sculptures are swimming to Richmond Beach's Strawberry Festival on May 13th and will be later be displayed around the city of Shoreline (specific locations to come)
I was selected to participate with 21 other artists to decorate a large fiberglass orca sponsored by the city of Shoreline. My orca,Who's for dinner, wears its insides on its outside. I wanted to show the diet range of Pacific Northwest Orcas so I painted translucent layers of acrylic for the orca's vertebrate, and its consumed prey of a Pacific sleeper shark, a harbor seal, and a Chinook salmon. Hope you can check out my orca and the other marvelous mammals in Shoreline!
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MORE INFORMATION ON THE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
You're invited to visit the Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island on August 8th!
WMSC is celebrating their 50th Anniversary and is inviting the public to take a tour of their campus. And just in time for the celebrations, three out of six of my illustrated interpretive signs have been installed out on the island. Check out the Marine Protected Area, Geology of Catalina, and Natives and Non-natives of Catalina signs if you're out there.
MORE INFORMATION ON VISITING WMSC
Experts are In: So You Think You’re a Moth and Butterfly Scientist or Illustrator?
Did you know that it is National Moth Week? Come talk to David Adamski (Entomologist, NMNH) and Emily M. Eng (Illustrator, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators) to learn how they use various observation techniques to document moths and butterflies. In this hands on program, test your observation skills with live specimens from the NMNH Collection and use scientific illustration techniques to create your own drawings.
My painted fish Chinook Migration from Kirkland's Fish Frolic has found a permenant home at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in South Lake Union. I hope that others enjoy it as much as I enjoyed painting my fish.
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