Lots of my Perpetual Journal entries lately seem to be of birds...here’s a Ladder-backed Woodpecker, found in deserts in the SW US. We observe them fairly regularly in our Tucson, AZ yard (we rarely see Red Crossbills though).

For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s woman in skull (2016), not a brain per se, but the part of the skull where the brain sits, imagined as an architectural space.

Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!

Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 1/n

Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,

Hello there !
Aujourd'hui le Méloé printanier ! Un insecte de la famille des coléoptères, dont les larves se développent en parasitant les colonies d' hyménoptères...
Ici il s'agit d'une femelle, avec l'abdomen plus gros que celui du mâle !
Connaissez-vous cet insecte ?
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#coleoptera #insects #insecte #coléoptère #macro #photonature #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #natureendeuil #EspècesMenacées #entomology #entomologie #sciencesnaturelles #sciart #MastoArt #smallartist #naturaliste #pnr #parcnaturel #reservenaturelle

Hello from Aurora Bear! Beneath the sky’s celestial flare, A bear is born from fire and air. Reds and greens in frozen flight, A whisper of the Northern Lights #art #ceramics #gaybear #furryart #sciart

From our recent raku firing, The Cosmic Forge Born of fire, veiled in night, Holding echoes, stars ignite. Embers dance in spectral hues, A vessel where the cosmos brews. #sciart #space #magic

For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s neuraesthenia (2017), a piece depicting the heaviness I feel during post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM often starts in my cognition then spreads out through my body.

Today for #MarshMadness I painted Kirby's backswimmer (Notonecta kirbyi). As the name implies, these guys swim on their backs, using long back legs as paddles. They can also dive underwater, carrying air bubbles with them on their butts.
#SciArt #InsectArt #watercolor

A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #WorldButterflyDay. It’s also #PiDay so I feel this the symmetries of this print which I laid out with a compass and some geometric tricks, seems apt.
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There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) in this #linocut kaleidoscope.⠀
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #typography #mastoart #insect

I think all the organs and such in the cephalothorax are done. Still working on the abdomen. (Spider internal organs 3d model. Hopefully will eventually be 3d printed.)

Spider people, how's it looking?

I’ve painted birds in my Perpetual Journal so many times recently that I started a blog mini-series entitled All About Birds. Here’s my latest blog post, the 1st in that series:

https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/all-about-birds-part-1

I painted a couple of smaller mitosis watercolors. One of each! Free US shipping
#sciart #art #science

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PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/seti-institute-announces-recipient-beyond-silos-steam-education-residency

The SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program announced Dominica Mediati as the recipient of its Beyond Silos #STEAM residency. The residency supports STEAM educators in developing more inclusive, interdisciplinary teaching approaches integrating #art and #science. Mediati is an intermedia artist and a sessional instructor in the Faculty of Education and School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.

Une nouvelle gravure avec la progression du travail !
1- Le brouillon
2- Le crayonné sur la plaque
3- la plaque gravée
4- le tirage (presque) final

Le biotope dépeint est celui de l'île de Hațeg, au crétacé supérieur. C'est aussi une référence au documentaire #PrehistoricPlanet

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my "Primeval Clevedon Bay" painting (2022), depicting fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods in an Early Carboniferous shallow sea. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.

Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).

This is my #linocut portrait of an #alchemist known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 1/n

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's a second painting of the Severn Estuary, this time during the Early Carboniferous. Called "Primeval Clevedon Bay," it features fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.

#WIPWednesday • I finished stitching my heart/vagus piece but need to wash and wet block it. I’ve only just started my next project so I’ll share that next week!

#SciArt #embroidery #MedSky