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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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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Sketching Tip: Reproducibility & DIY Stickers
Reproducible methods (and results) are a key part of rigorous science. And reproducing art has been part of doing art for centuries. So...
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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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July 2016 Newsletter: Getting buggy
Click image to view full newsletter! July Table of Contents Sketching Tip: 4 insect sketching tips Artful Science: Biomimicry illustrated...
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Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises & Hares in Tanzania
“There’s so much of everything! All of it inextricably tangled together […] To describe is to select – and to select only a microscopic...
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May 2016 newsletter: Choosing between words & sketches?
Click image to view full newsletter.* May Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Words worth (when sketching isn’t an option) Artful Science:...
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Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises and Hares in the Kenyan Highlands
This is my first trip to Kenya, and to Africa more generally. So far, it has been a fascinating blend of rural and urban, English and...
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April 2016 newsletter: “Drawing enhances memory” + summer reading ideas
Click image to view full newsletter. April Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Plan ahead Artful Science: Research article-drawing improves...
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What do science writing and sketching have to do with each other? Wyoming EPSCoR asked me…
I was recently interviewed for the Wyoming EPSCoR program’s blog. In addition to a number of questions specific to the nature of...
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Mini-workshop: Using Analog Technology (Art!) to Teach Science
I’ll be teaching a mini-workshop/crash course/ intro session on Wednesday at the University of Wyoming. We don’t have enough time to get...
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December 2016 newsletter: “Sketching in” the New Year
Click here to subscribe!<< Click the image to view the newsletter. December Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Highlights from 2015 Artful...
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November 2015 newsletter: Sketching Landscapes, Holiday Cards & E.O. Wilson on drawing for scien
>>Click here to subscribe!<< Click image to view newsletter. #teacherresources #sciart #artintheclassroom #illustration #STEAM #sketch...
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September/October 2015 newsletter: Autumnal sketching tips and drawing-to-learn inspiration
>>Click here to subscribe!<< Click the image to view the newsletter. Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Sketching leaves Artful Science:...
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August newsletter: Sketching in professional settings
August was full of workshops and trainings, nearly all of which focused on sketching in professional settings such as conferences,...
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Could #sketchyourscience be key to increasing appreciation of SciArt among ecologists?
Cross-posted on ESA SciComm Section blog #sketchyourscience at #ESA100 settled it. This will be an #ESASciComm tradition for years to...
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Drawn to…conferences? How sketching can enhance your science conference experience
A version of this article is cross-posted on the ESA SciComm Section’s site. Everyone can learn to sketch. Even you. And there are plenty...
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A quick sketch, because National Moth Week isn’t quite over
Moths to the left, butterflies on the right It’s National Moth Week! Since moths outnumber butterflies 11-to-1 in North America, there’s...
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