I consider myself a mostly self-taught artist, though I have taken some formal art classes in college (including 2 semesters of glassblowing, printmaking, and lithography). Most of my artistic endeavors focus on natural history and scientific illustration. I regularly guest-lecture in SIO 145 (Field Methods in Biological Oceanography) on scientific illustration/drawing from lab and field observations. This includes sketching on a research cruise collecting mesopelagic organisms. I also incorporate drawing in my Petrology & Petrography (SIO 152) class.
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Scientific Illustration class: marine life, San Diego & Scripps Institution of Oceanography scenes, petrography. Various media: pen/ink stippling, fountain pen & watercolor, colored pencil
Works in colored pencil on Stonehenge Legion paper (all 11x14 inches)
Pencil drawings
Technical pen & marker drawings
