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My Raku-finished ceramic Crevalle Jack (Caranx hippos), made in a Raku firing workshop by masters Alan and Rosemary Bennett.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #tuna #ceramics #Raku #birdartists #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm
My ceramic sculture of a Crevalle Jack (more inspired by than a detailed illustration of), finished with a Raku glazing and firing technique.
October 29, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Something different: My Raku-finished ceramic Little Tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus), made in a Raku firing workshop by masters Alan and Rosemary Bennett.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #tuna #ceramics #Raku #birdartists #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm
My ceramic sculture of a Little Tunny (False Albacore) tuna, finished with a Raku firing.
October 29, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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The Night Hunters. A spread for my new book STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, coming in September, 2026 from Yale University Press.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #BirdArt #scicomm #birds #owls #herons
Book plate spread on the nocturnal owls and herons that are common in streams and smaller rivers of the eastern U.S.
October 29, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon, female). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #kingfisher #LongIslandSound
My illustration of a perched female kingfisher. Drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuos drawing tablet.
October 26, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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It will pick up the hashtag #scicomm as well, so there may be some false positives on occasion but I'm okay with it from scientists I know. 😁

All these hashtags will trigger a post to appear in the SciArt Feed:
3 columns of hashtags: #SciArt #LuxArt #Scientificillustration 🐡 #MedArt #SciVis #Afrofuturism #MedicalAnimation #SciViz #AnimalArt #Medicallllustration #SpaceArt #Animallllustration #NatureArt #SpecEvo #ArtSci #NatureJournal #SolarPunkArt #BioArt #Nature Journaling #STEAM #BirdArt #PalaeoArt #SundayFishSketch #BirdGlamour #PaleoArt #VisualSciComm #BotanicalArt #PaleoStream #WildlifeArt #DataViz #SciArtPortfolioWeek #Wildlifelllustration #Dinovember #SciArtSeptember #GraphicMedicine #SciComm #insectArt #ScienceComic #InverteFest #Sciencelnk
October 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Available now from Yale University Press: STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlifepainting #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #BirdArt #Streams #Rivers
Pages from my new book, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide. Pages from my new book, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide.
October 23, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Available now from Yale University Press: PONDS: An Illustrated Guide
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #lakes #freshwater
Pages from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide. Pages from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide. Pages from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide. Pages from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide.
October 23, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Learning oil painting, finally...
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🧪🐡🌿🌎 #scicomm #sciviz #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #OilPainting #Painting
Learning oil painting, finally...
Re-learning to see the world
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October 22, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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A compilation of my bird illustrations from my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #extinct #CapeCod
A collage of over a dozen bird species I illustrated for my book on Cape Cod.
October 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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North American River Otter illustration (head detail). From Yale University Press, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, Sept 2026.
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🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm
A close view of my illustration of a River Otter, drawn in Photoshop using a large Wacom drawing tablet.
October 21, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus). Illustration from my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds
My illustration of a male and female Grosbeak, perched on a flowering Apple branch.
October 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Avian musculature, pen & ink plate, ~12 x 10 in., 1985. From my book Manual of Ornithology yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #birds #birdart #birdartists #birdlife #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #scicomm
My pen & ink drawing of the muscles of a Common Pigeon, seen in side view.
October 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Northern Cardinals, from my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #wrens #birdart
My illustration of two Northern Cardinals, male and female.
October 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido, extinct). From my book A Field Guide to Cape Cod, Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #heathhen #extinct #capecod
Head detail of my illustration of the extinct Heath Hen, formerly of southeastern New England coastal areas.
October 13, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Atlantic Menhaden plate. From my book A Field Guide to The Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press, a.co/d/6rKgbMQ
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #seabirds #whales #menhaden
My illustration of an Atlantic Menhaden, "the most important fish in the sea," and much in the news these days because of over-harvesting of Menhaden by fish meal companies on the U.S. Atlantic Coast.
October 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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My left anterior oblique (LAO) view of human heart anatomy, created to explain LAO views in diagnostic imaging. An early (mid-1990s) digital piece.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #scientificillustration #MedicalIllustration #visualscicomm #visualscicomm #CardiacImaging 🐡 #medart #medart
My illustration of the human heart, demonstrating the anatomy as seen in left anterior oblique views, a common viewpoint in cardiac imaging.
October 12, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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My left anterior oblique (LAO) view of human heart anatomy, painted in gouache (1983), to explain LAO cardiac views in diagnostic imaging.
🐡🧪🌿🌎 #medart #MedicalIllustration #dailyart #scicomm #sciviz #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #cardiology #DiagnosticImaging
October 12, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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An early Mac-based 3D modeling project from (gulp) 30 years ago, illustrating nuclear SPECT functional imaging of the heart.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #medicalart #medicalillustration #cardiac
My 3D model of the human heart illustrating short-axis sections through the left ventricle, as seen in SPECT nuclear imaging.
October 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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Sunday painter... Oil sketch, 9 x 12 in. Edgerton Park, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #LandscapePainting #Painting
October 7, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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Sunday painter... Oil sketch, 9 x 12 in. Edgerton Park, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #LandscapePainting #Painting
Small, informal color landscape painting of a local park beginning to show autumn colors.
October 7, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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I've been donating hundreds of photos and illustrations to Wikimedia, CC-BY, at full rez.
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🧪🌿🌎🐡🦋 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #scicomm #Wikimedia
My illustration of a Rock Beauty (Holacanthus tricolor).
October 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide a.co/d/0e4XQE1J
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlifepainting #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #BirdArt #Streams #Rivers
Page spread from my new book, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide. Page spread from my new book, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide. Page spread from my new book, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide. Page spread from my new book, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide.
October 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Available now from Yale University Press: PONDS: An Illustrated Guide
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #lakes #freshwater
Page spread from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide. Page spread from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide. Page spread from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide. Page spread from my new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide.
October 1, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Available now: STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #freshwater
September 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM