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My needle felted Red Panda! When they're threatened, they rise up and try to look scary. Yep. super scary!

#RedPanda #NeedleFelting #felting #art #CuteAnimal #sciart

Four different views of a needle felted sculpture of a Red Panda making a scary expression. It is standing with its paws up and has a scary face.

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At last, this year's Mastodon #SciArtSeptember prompt list! Create new works, share older works, just have fun with Art inspired by Science.

Take inspiration from these or any #SciArt challenges. Do it every day, or every week, or any pace that works for you.

Have fun!

#SciArt #art #SciArtSeptember2026

List of creative prompts for SciArtSeptember 2026:
Lichen
Toxic
Migration
Flock
Orbit
Fractal
Feather
Synapse
Flagalla
Coral
Symbiosis
Vector
Translation
Protease
Innoculum
Hydrophobic
Respiration
Bacteria
Tessellation
Mitosis
Virus
Mitochondria
Vesicle
Diffusion
Fungi
Budding
Algae
Lipid
Bone
Mutation

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Our upcoming #SETILive interviews look at a new #LaserSETI exhibit and observatory location, the stunning artwork created in honor of this year's #DrakeAward recipients, and new science that reveals how #Ceres froze. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for notifications: https://www.youtube.com/SETIInstitute

#science #sciart #scicomm

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Detox Doodles!

This is a habit of drawing something every time I feel the urge to scroll unnecessarily. It helps stop the bad habit and start a new good habit of sketching daily!

This page is all about ducks, who are just silly!

#art #duck #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

Photo of a sketchbook page of duck drawings in pink pen ink. There are 9 duck drawings on the page. The top of the page has the text 5/24/25 and DUCKS. Top left has a sleeping baby duck, then a duck with its butt in the air in water, and two drawings of ducklings. Below them is a huge round duck, and another duck with its legs in the air. On the bottom right is a long Indian Runner Duck (labeled), a flying duck, and a duck sticking its face up to the viewer.

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Duo Detox Doodles!

This is a habit of drawing to replace the urge to scroll unnecessarily. It helps stop the bad habit and start a new good habit of sketching daily!

Love those potoos, frogmouths, and fennec/red foxes!

#art #bird #fox #animal #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #inkart

Two sets of 2 page spreads in a sketchbook with blue pen drawings of potoos and tawny frogmouths at the top, and fennec foxes and red foxes at the bottom.

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Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.⁠
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#sciart #mathart #linocut #printmaking #womeninSTEM #histsci

Linocut portrait on 11”x14” white washi paper of Maryam Mirzakhani in a gradient of deep red at the bottom to dark blue at the top, 3/4 view from the top of her shoulders up. She has short hair, wears a tshirt and looks at the viewer. She is surrounded by mathematical doodles and diagrams in light blue.

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It's December, so it's time for #DecembArt!

Today, I'm sharing one of my favorite drawings from this year. It's ink on watercolor paper, and is inspired by atomic bonding angles.

If you'd like to join in for #DecembArt:
1. Only post your own work (new or old)
2. Any medium (but no AI-slop)
3. Have fun!

#art #SciArt #drawing #ArtAdventCalendar

Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on watercolor paper. The abstract pattern looks a bit like networked lilipads with little fish.

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Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠
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Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histstm #sciart⁠

My linocut portrait of Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), in a gradient of magenta from her shoulders up through dark blue to her hair. Her necklace is a double helix of DNA. Her brooch is the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. The pattern on her jacket is based on her publication of the structure of non-graphitizing carbon. ⁠ Behind her in shades of robin’s egg blue is an image of the famous X-ray crystallographic Photo 51, produced by her grad student Gosling and important to deducing the structure of DNA.

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Ah! I see it's #PortfolioDay! I'm an artist working with code, data, mixed media, and ink on watercolor paper.

Much of my inspiration comes from Science, Math, and Nature.

#SciArt #DataViz #DataArt #art #CreativeCoding

Abstract art that looks like nerve cells.

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"When frogs dream, lichens smile. Ecological connections were explored anew. Artists recorded conversations of small creatures. People sat fascinated in flower meadows. Children laughed in the forest with knobbly mosses and chatty ants."

Disover my virtual exhibit of #BiodiversityShrines - about finds in a fictional future: https://www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/
It was a real exhibit, now saved online.

#biodiversity #sciArt #archaeology #solarpunk #sporespondence #lichen #ecology #reconnectWithNature #art

A hanging collage in green, white and orange tones with natural finds. The most important parts of this abstract collage are wooden sticks (one with a bright orange lichen), a real lichen with embroidery stitches in silk yarn, a small porcellaine frog and a historic illustration of water plants.

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The zoom on the abstract collage shows the two wooden sticks and the embroidered real grey lichen on a background of textile scraps and intuitive embroidery. One stick is lemon tree without bark, the stick with bark is cobered with a bright orange lichen. This colour is repeated in the stitches on the real grey lichen.

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This Friday's zine post discusses wetland formation, getting a little further into why carnivorous plants need to eat. Next week I go into more of the other species that inhabit wetlands :).

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/fridays-mean-zine-day/

#sciArt #carnivorousPlants #zine #humanMadeArt

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Coming soon...#sciart

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Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠
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Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart⁠

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So, why do Venus flytraps need to eat? Someone asked me this, after seeing a page of the zine. Turns out that even though my project isn't finished, that question has been answered :). It's just that a ton of more fascinating stuff is coming.

#sciArt #carnivorousPlants #zine #venusFlytrap #humanMadeArt

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/

A page illustrating photosynthesis, using a Venus flytrap, asking "So, why do they need to eat?" and explaining that like other plants, they can get energy from the sun, so it's not to get energy. Illustrated to the cellular level with ink lines and colored pencil.

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New to drawing or coming back to it? Join me in Stittsville, Ontario. 5 Tuesdays, Jan 13 to Feb 10, 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Learn to see shapes, measure, and shade with simple tools. Supplies included. Waitlist: https://shop.mikehendley.com/products/studio-sessions-drawing-1-seeing-and-sketching #sciart

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Detox Doodles!

These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: https://www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-doodles

This page is about silly and cute Corgis!

#art #dog #corgi #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

Sketchbook page of 6 drawings of Corgis in orange pen. The top of the page has the text Corgi and 6/17/25. The top left drawing is of a puppy with its tongue out smiling and a heart. To the right is a derpy face. Below is a drawing of a Corgi butt and the word Juicy, and to the right is a Corgi running and smiling. At the bottom is a closeup of a Corgi face smiling and to the right is a drawing from the top of a Corgi lying down and the word Sploot.

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I love the locally owned print shop I found. I can take my bristol paper to them to print on, and the ink does not smudge. Finally was able to test it with watercolor last night, and yeah, I can totally use them as a basis for multimedia experiments :). Now it's time to clean my scans.

#sciArt #carnivorousPlants

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/

Page one of my zine about carnivorous plants and wetland ecology. A Venus flytrap sits in a pink pot with a dog collar on it reading "Fido", but spelled p h y d e a x. I can't believe I've gotten this far without realizing I left out the u that was in my cat's name, to have an ending like bordeaux. All this time. Sigh. It stays. Anyway, bright and sunny light framed by a blue window curtain with yellow polka dots, and purple carpet. Pen and ink on Bristol paper, with colored pencil, altered just a tad digitally. The added words read:
Ah, Dionaea muscipula, the Venus flytrap. One of the most delightful plants one could ever meet. Leaves reach out with blushing traps open like baby birds in a nest, rewarding you with a toothy grin when you offer a snack. They seem more like pets than plants, with just enough darkness to be exciting, and enough science to be fascinating.

But, why do they eat? Is it really like eating? Is it only simple bloodthirst? Or something more?

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Zine page! Getting further into the nitty gritty of why carnivorous plants need to eat.

#art #humanMadeArt #zine #sciArt #gardening #nature #amWriting

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/new-zine-page/

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Y'all liked those baby turtles so much, well here's the zine page with them! I love this part 'cause it's got 🎵 propaganda! I'm doin' a wetland propaganda! 🎶

Bog Monsters zine:
https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/

#sciArt #humanMadeArt #zine #carnivorousPlants #amWriting

Box turtle under fern leaves with a yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava) and the words:

Bogs are not the only wetlands that exist. Pocasins, also called evergreen shrub bogs, are bogs on hills. They might not have standing water, but will have a shallow water table that keeps the soil saturated most of the year. There are also tidal marshes, non-tidal marshes, swamps, and fens. Each has unique conditions that can affect what species live there, such as salt content or how acidic the water is.

Unique conditions can lead to unique species, many of them fascinating and beautiful. The long-leaf pine savannas of the Carolinas are filled with orchids, sundews, and pitcher plants as well as the Venus Flytraps, and many other species found nowhere else in the world. They are a valuable part of the ecology of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the United states, which reaches from southern Virginia to northern Florida.

Peatlands are difficult for humans to build upon, therefore are becoming more and more necessary to wildlife fleeing urban sprawl. Many species of birds have adapted to living in peatlands. They offer a variety of habitats from open grass to shrubs and trees, and can shelter everything from forest dwelling birds to waterfowl, who can feed on shrimp, clams, crab, and oysters. Not only birds fleeing urban sprawl can shelter here, but migrating birds often make wetlands a regular rest stop.

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Zine day! More wetland babies :). Next week we take a break and I show you what I've learned in about my new baby snake, and some stuff about worms, and maybe grubs and slugs.

Full zine: https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/

#wetlands #sciArt #carnivorousPlants #ecology #pollinators

Colored pencil drawing of a firefly, a monarch on milkweed, a salamander, and a violet with information that reads:

The acidity of the water means not many amphibians like them, with a few exceptions such as the leopard frog, spotted salamander, and wood frogs. A few turtles and snake species can be found as well. These wetlands are full of insects though, and they thrive. This is good news for breeding birds, even seed eating species need insects for protein to feed to their young.

Wetlands benefit humans as well. They can prevent flooding inland, provide a reservoir that filters water into local aquifers for our well and city water, cleaning it of pollutants for our consumption, and clean the water coming from the land of silt, pollutants, and debris that can damage river and ocean ecosystems.

Unfortunately, wetlands are on the decline. Some are drained for agricultural use and commercial property, and many companies want to get their hands on peat and don’t worry about how long it took the wetland above the peat to form, or what a valuable resource the wetlands themselves are.

With urban sprawl pushing wildlife into these areas already, the shrinking habitat means fierce competition for food and breeding space. Native species are getting crowded out. Many wetland species are at risk, including several species of carnivorous plants.

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Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci

Linocut of Sophie Germain (a young woman in with a collar with bow, under a dark dress, with a ribbon tied around her neck, long hair with centre part, half tied up with a ribbon in her hair). She is printed in dark blue with her own words about Fermat's Last Theorem in her own script carved into her hair and dress). Behind her in lavender is a grid of Chladni figures.

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I made a video of the #carnivorousPlant zine! It's got #art and some of the prettiest photos I could find in my hoard. Also there's a couple of printables, a carnivorous plant word search and printable care sheet for Venus flytraps.

#sciArt #illustration #humanMadeArt

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/

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And it's live! I've set up a #Kickstarter to help cover some expenses for taking my #SciArt to the Bay Area Maker Faire

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/KristinHenry/artatomic-art-inspired-by-science-and-mathematics

#art #ink #drawing #ProceduralArt

Screenshot of the preview of my Kickstarter page. It shows a print of one of my hand drawn artworks.

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My advice as a science illustrator is that if you ever get a chance to draw the Cambrian explosion, you should go all in and spend hours researching every single one of these insane animals. 🦞🐙🦀🦑

Evolution is such a trip. I'm so grateful to have briefly existed on this gorgeous planet. 🤯

#sciart

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Okay, so I've decided how I'm going to balance my needs with my desire to hold this specific zine as a finished book in my hands, though I know it may take years. Behold, my passion project and general updates.

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/formal-decision-on-carnivorous-plant-zine-coloring-book/

#sciArt #carnivorousPlants #amWriting #zine

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