Sketching Tip: Sketching Techniques Toolkit
Student practicing simplifying a complex image into essential line work (at a Sketching for Scientists workshop I taught at Harvard...
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Canadian Science Publishing interviews me about creative ways of doing science communication and sha
I was invited to serve as the People’s Choice Judge for Canadian Science Publishing*’s 2021 Visualizing Science contest (which you can...
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Article: Using collages & surveys to understand public opinion about managing agricultural lands
Screenshot of article I was fascinated and delighted to join a group of researchers who used art (collages made by community members) to...
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Drawing Science: An Interview with Interalia Magazine
In March 2019, Richard Bright of Interalia Magazine interviewed me for the journal’s Drawing Thoughts series. Drawing Thoughts explores...
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Public Radio covers poetry+science paper
In an audio interview and this edited transcript, Wyoming Public Radio reporter London Homer-Wambeam interviewed me about an art-science...
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I don’t usually post selfies, but that’s about to change. OR, some things #scientistswho
Me (left) teaching a #sketchingforscientists workshop in Laramie, Wyoming I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent Science op-ed that...
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Sketching Tip: Sketching your notes at conferences, meetings & in class
Notes from a training I did in preparation to volunteer for an amphibian monitoring citizen science project in Wyoming. These tips are...
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Teaching teachers to integrate cichlid phylogeny, resin sculptures, and drawing in k12+ classrooms
The longer I am involved with art-science integration, the more time I get to spend teaching teachers — teaching them how to use drawing...
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SciArt illustration contracts for your science communication project (Using Images-A Best Practices
This article is the fifth in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicommand #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do so...
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Getting the most out of working with an illustrator for your science communication project (Using Im
This article is the fourth in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicommand #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do so...
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Finding great scicomm & presentation images for free (Using Images-A Best Practices Primer, Part
This article is the second in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicomm and #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do...
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Tips for ethical and legal use of images in science presentations and other science communication (U
When you are looking for great images to communicate about science, the internet is a treasure trove. But it is easy to overstep legal...
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Sketching Tip: Solvent Transfers
Reproducing or presenting an image in an artistic way can help you catch the attention of a wider or different-from-usual audience. One...
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Suggestions for integrating drawing into university-level biology courses
This post has been updated (2021) to point to two more recent publications in which I detail the drawing-science integration approach I...
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News: SciArt for Children
For almost a year now, I’ve been contributing natural history and science illustrations+text to a gorgeous children’s magazine called...
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Sketchbook Snapshot: illustrating tortoises and hares
“Too much importance cannot be given to drawing, as it is not only an excellent device for securing close observation, but it is also a...
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Workshop: Drawn to Wildlife
Drawn to Wildlife: Sketching for Scientists Cody, Wyoming 11/17/2016 ● 12:30-4:00 pm ● Lab, Draper Natural History Museum● limited to 25...
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Artful Science: Creativity Research
There’s a lot of research into creativity and critical thinking. What’s particularly relevant are studies looking at how arts integration...
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September 2016 Newsletter: Making Connections through SciArt
Click image to view full newsletter. I spent much of the summer contributing to/planning two summer teaching institutes at the University...
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August 2016 Newsletter: Taste of Summer
Click on image to view full newsletter. August Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Shading with color Artful Science: Summer in a Glass...
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