Art inspired by biology, created by a biologist
My latest pencil drawing is of a “Bateleur,” an African eagle, that I saw at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro. This drawing took me a lot longer than any of my previous recent drawings – I spent almost two weeks on it (2-3 hours a day here and there) just trying to get all the feather details as close to accurate as I could.
Just a snail I saw on a piece of quartz in Chapel Hill, NC.
I saw this rabbit chewing on some grass. When he saw me he turned his ear toward me in this funny pose and held it long enough for me to snap a photo.
This is a pencil drawing of a Beaverpond Clubtail dragonfly (Gomphus borealis) seen in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA in May 2012.
I’m still trying to figure out a better way to photograph my drawings without the weird dark unevenness on the paper. Compare this to more what it actually looks like (I laid it on top of my cat).
I owe a great debt of gratitude to Glendon Mellow, the excellent science artist, blogger at The Flying Trilobyte, and writer at the Scientific American science-art blog “Symbiartic“.
In his latest post at Symbiartic, he featured my recent work “Ocean Invasion #12: We’ve Got Crabs.”
So check it out, and check out Glendon’s work as well.
Thanks, Glendon!