Raccoons Recycle
It's been a while since I shared a view of my artwork from start to finish: this is a proposal I made for an annual program where an artist from…
Coming Soon: Invertebrate Prints!
I am printing four of my favorite illustrations from the Invertober series I did last October. From top to bottom they are the Dragon-headed Caterpillar, Glasswing Butterfly, Fuzzy Golden Nautilus,…
Jewel Caterpillar (Acraga coa)
Here is the last illustration or sketch for the Invertober series, where I painted a different invertebrate every day in the month of October (most of it!) This already feels…
Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)
I was excited to see one of these when I was a kid, only in the summertime if I was away from the city. This sketch gave me some trouble…
Arizona Bark Scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus)
At first I wasn't very enthusiastic about painting this scorpion— it looked pretty drab. But the longer I stared at the reference photo and layered timid washes of ink over…
Fuzzy Golden Nautilus (Allonautilus scrobiculatis)
The Fuzzy or Crusty Golden Nautilus looks like most other nautiluses I've seen, except for the layer of thick yellow slime coating about half of its shell, so from what…
Dragon-head Caterpillar (Polyura athamas)
This pudgy little dragon-headed caterpillar will grow up to be a Common Nawab Butterfly someday. See a photo of their future self here. I'm definitely coloring this one in, with…
Common Buckeye Butterfly (Junonia coenia)
Another butterfly in colored ink for Invertober! See the reference photo I used here.
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