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![Exhibition ‘Beautiful Maryland’]()
![Exhibition ‘Beautiful Maryland’]()
Along with local friend illustrators I participated in the exhibition Beautiful Maryland that showcased pieces of the greater Washington DC members of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Right by the Chesapeake Bay, at the Quiet Waters Park gallery, the show was on display from August 27th until October 12th and had a companion catalog.
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![Art Residency at the Huyck Preserve]()
![Art Residency at the Huyck Preserve]()
The Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station is one of the oldest in the state of New York and makes a significant contribution to the preservation and environmental awareness of the region. My application to Com.En.Art, a natural history artist-in-residency program dedicated to explore the preserve through scientific illustration, was accepted! It was an amazing week spent hiking, sketching and enjoying the wonderful natural and human resources at the preserve. One day out on the trails I came across this lovely fellow.
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![Science Illustration Meeting in Florianópolis]()
![Science Illustration Meeting in Florianópolis]()
![Science Illustration Meeting in Florianópolis]()
I was delighted with the invitation to participate in the southern Brazilian meeting for science illustration that took place on the beautiful island of Florianópolis. The exhibit “Anatomy of an Illustration” showcased my piece “Steller’s Sea Cow” and was accompanied by an educational catalog where each artist describes the piece on display and discusses its purpose and process. I also instructed a workshop on 3D digital techniques applied to scientific illustration.
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Who would know that every year there is a conference dedicated exclusively to bring together comic artists and public health professionals? It’s the result of the wonderful work done by Graphic Medicine that promotes the creation of materials for patients and physicians to communicate better. I attended the conference given my interest in the use of comics for communication in science and was greatly impressed by the initiative and presentations.
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![Visual Nature: Reconstructing Ourselves]()
![Visual Nature: Reconstructing Ourselves]()
![Visual Nature: Reconstructing Ourselves]()
![Visual Nature: Reconstructing Ourselves]()
A new post for the Visual Nature column at Visual Loop. Read it here and below.
Reconstructing Ourselves
A visit to the Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) makes us come across eight heads, each inside a display case. They are tridimensional reconstructions of hominid heads, eight different species that represent the current knowledge about human ancestry, from 6-7 million years ago to the first records of our own species. Each of them gaze at the viewer with a bone chilling liveness. (more…)
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![Visual Nature: a Passion for Insects]()
![Visual Nature: a Passion for Insects]()
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A new post for the Visual Nature column at Visual Loop. Read it here and below.
A Passion for Insects
One of the books I most cherish among my (seemingly) endless bookshelf holds the artwork of Bernard Durin. I find him to be the best illustrator ever to portray insects, one so talented that gave a new meaning to the representation of these animals with his passion and precision. (more…)
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![Visual Nature: Bare Bones]()
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A new post for the Visual Nature column at Visual Loop. Read it here and below.
Bare Bones
Organisms are the reflection of their inner structure, both at a micro and macro level. Scientific illustrators keep this in mind throughout their work, and among the most coveted items to look at while drawing vertebrate animals are their skeletons. Where do they get them? Well, museum collections, zoos, road kill, deceased house pets… you’d be surprised. (more…)
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Borboletário is the live butterfly house at the botanical garden of the University of Lisbon. For the third time, it hosted a 4-day science illustration workshop, this time I covered the use of watercolor as an illustration medium and as before the participants had access to the Borboletário’s educational collection and live specimens of adult butterflies and caterpillars. Don’t miss the trailer from the two last editions!
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![Anatomy of Sports Day]()
![Anatomy of Sports Day]()
![Anatomy of Sports Day]()
![Anatomy of Sports Day]()
The National Museum of Health and Medicine promoted an Anatomy of Sports Day where scientific illustrators painted the major muscle groups in the body of athletes specializing in different sports. It was so much fun to paint the back and leg muscles of Chris Draft, former NFL football player!
It was a great opportunity to write a post to Visual Nature. Read it online and below.
Visualizing the Body
Any kind of event that brings scientific illustrators and their work closer to the public is very rewarding. The praise and inquiries usually received on our end are guaranteed ego boosters to remember on grey days; but even better is the opportunity to bring understanding to the profession and to the messages of science it carries. (more…)
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London hosts annually the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Conference. In the 2013 edition I presented my doctoral research on the museum visitors’s experience with augmented reality technology. The paper for my presentation was published in the conference proceedings and it can be read online or at the Publications page.
