There’s a lot of SciArt out there, as you can see by this Google Image search for the term “#sciart”.
A few weeks ago, a friend wrote and asked me: “What natural history illustrators/artist-scientists would you want to use to inspire youth/adults to love nature, art, and science?”
Oh, was I excited to answer the question!
Here are a handful of the natural history SciArtists I recommended:
Cathy Johnson - GREAT sketching advice on her blog and several helpful books
Jenny Keller – contributor to the book Field Notes on Science and Nature (see below)
Bernd Heinrich – see also this piece with commentary re all his books/sketches
John Muir Laws - hosts a huge repository of sketching advice on his blog (including articles and videos) and has several helpful books
Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) – see also this piece from The Atlantic; but see also this critique
Genevieve Jones – written about in America’s Other Audubon
And, here are a couple of books that can get you rolling with even more ideas & inspiring SciArtists:
Field Notes on Science and Nature -essays with field note examples from about 10 different people who do field work and use field journals/notebooks.
The Heyday of Natural History – great investigation of how the pursuit of natural history became a popular past time and then developed into specialized science
I want to read this one: Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists’ Books and the Natural World.
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