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While working on my project on ecological concepts in picture books, I’ve come across some fascinating research about using picture books...

Cross-posted on ESA SciComm Section blog #sketchyourscience at #ESA100 settled it. This will be an #ESASciComm tradition for years to...

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...

Lots of data indicate drawing skills are: a) good for scientists, b) good for science, and c) something anyone can learn. A few months...

Cross-posted on www.drawntothewest.com For the past decade, I’ve taken special delight in looking at, and drawing, insects. It all...

Cross-posted on www.drawntothewest.com The other weekend, I was out hiking in an area of southwest Wyoming resplendent with big...

focuses on seeing the world anew. Click image to view January 2015 newsletter. This Month’s Table of Contents: Sketching tip: Museum...

“Dear Digit, there are so many terms and technicalities associated with digital images, I’m lost. Do I need to know the difference...

*Images are from the ‘drawing for scientists’ section I led in a scicomm workshop at ESA’s 2014 annual meeting. Sketching in the field to...

“Dear Digit, I am not an artist or photographer, but I need attractive images for my communications. Since there are lots of images on...

Sometimes, it takes a screeching mob of crows to remind me to look up. #lifelessons #makingsciencematter #photography #Canada #ecocomm...

Here are a few shots from two spring prescribed burns I recently documented for Prince Albert National Park’s fire management team.  Read...

Meet Aldo.  He’s an urban donkey, at least half of every year.  He winters in the Bishop’s garden at the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy...