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Little Beasts has abundant, detailed images and essays tracing European natural history’s evolution from the 15th–17th centuries. It highlights Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel’s influential work, showing how art helped document and disseminate knowledge of nature’s diversity during the Renaissance. Cover of Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World By Alexandra Libby,…
Welcome to the second edition of 2025! This issue highlights the breadth of contemporary natural science illustration—from personal sketchbook practice to anatomy education, climate-science communication, art history, and bioarchaeological reconstruction. Articles explore teaching comparative vertebrate anatomy online, creating effective climate visuals, understanding early natural-history…
Visuals as a Catalyst for Climate Science Communication - Part 1 /July 15, 2025 Speaker: Taina Litwak (featured) and Fiona Martin During the pandemic, five GNSI members (Kalliopi Monoyios, Kirsten Carlson, Taina Litwak, Tania Marien, and Fiona Martin) coauthored article about visual climate science communication, published in an open-access book by Springer. We’ll delve into our process behind the…
Visuals as a Catalyst for Climate Science Communication - Part 2 /July 15, 2025 Speaker: Taina Litwak (featured) and Fiona Martin During the pandemic, five GNSI members (Kalliopi Monoyios, Kirsten Carlson, Taina Litwak, Tania Marien, and Fiona Martin) coauthored article about visual climate science communication, published in an open-access book by Springer. We’ll delve into our process behind the…
We’ll introduce the fundamentals of generative AI, exploring the technology, terminology, and history. We’ll also examine the current legal landscape and address ethical issues, including privacy, copyright, and accountability.
Deb Haines. Portrait by Phil Snow-UTCVM medical photographer Those of us who have a love of science and art—and refuse to give up one for the other—eventually find the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI), or their compadres in Europe through AEIMS (1) . Those specializing in human medicine in North America gravitate to the AMI (2) , or in Europe to the IMI (3) and MAA (4) . I was…
Welcome to the first edition of 202 5! Welcome to the Journal of Natural Science Illustration Volume 57, Number 1, 2025. Bea Martin opens the issue with her reflections on sketching in Alaska’s Kootznoowoo Wilderness, blending sustainability and deep observation. Kalliopi Monoyios, along with Kirsten Carlson, Taina Litwak, Tania Marien, and Fiona Martin, delivers a compelling argument for the…
September 2024 marks the fifteenth year of the Yale Peabody Museum’s Natural Science Illustration Program. The program was launched in 2009 by four professional artists and members of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators: Cindy Gilbane, Susannah Graedel, Dorie Petrochko, and Jan Prentice. Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta). Watercolor. © 2024 Haley Grunloh Founders and instructors of…
The title seems to indicate this is yet another drawing instruction manual, but the author, Linda Miller Feltner, instead invites us to join her on a lifelong journey in artistic fulfillment through personal discovery. Cover of Drawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist, by Linda Miller Feltner. Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2024.…
Welcome to the second edition of 2024! The second 2024 issue of The Journal features a medical illustrator's journey into printmaking with step-by-step techniques, a review of Linda Feltner's book on her creative process, insights into Catherine Hu's mentorship of Scientific Illustration interns at the Field Museum, and an exploration of Yale Peabody's Natural Scientific Illustration program. Log…
