Still getting the hang of this new shop platform. I was really spoiled by how easy etsy made everything, until they didn't.

Oh well. Here's another sticker in my shop. This one is inspired by Chemistry, and I programmed a particle system to create the image.

https://www.artatomic.io/product/sticker-blue-boxes/19

This is my #linocut of New Brunswick, a province I have visited many times. Its provincial bird, the black-capped chickadee and its tree, the balsam fir cover the hand-carved map of New Brunswick. The block was inked ‘à la poupée’ (with different colours, black, gold and green, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A small spot illustration of Spicomellus (2022), for a book not yet published.

I haven't been wanting to post any of my art for sale in the past months. I keep waiting for 'better timing'. But it's unlikely to be better for a while.

So, I'm going to start with stickers made from my hand drawn pieces. This one is a bit bigger than I expected, but I still love it. It's bundled with a set of my Chemistry inspired art postcards.

https://www.artatomic.io/product/mushroom-sticker-bundle/62

I finally took a proper photo of my summer-themed mitosis sampler (2024). I’m writing a pattern for this one in four season colourways so watch for that in a few months!

#SciArt #embroidery #MedSky

#MarshMadness today I painted a marsh imp, Pyractomena lucifera, which can be found in two distinct sub populations in the northeast and southeast US. Like most fireflies, they are threatened by wetland habitat loss and light pollution.

For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s woman in skull (2016), not a brain per se, but the part of the skull where the brain sits, imagined as an architectural space.

Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!

Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 1/n

Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,

WIP "Vetulicola sp." #sciart #art #vetulicola #vetulicolida #vetulicolidae #chengjiangfauna

Hello there !
Aujourd'hui le Méloé printanier ! Un insecte de la famille des coléoptères, dont les larves se développent en parasitant les colonies d' hyménoptères...
Ici il s'agit d'une femelle, avec l'abdomen plus gros que celui du mâle !
Connaissez-vous cet insecte ?
Vous pouvez retrouver toutes mes illustrations disponibles ici : https://clairemotzart.etsy.com
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#coleoptera #insects #insecte #coléoptère #macro #photonature #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #natureendeuil #EspècesMenacées #entomology #entomologie #sciencesnaturelles #sciart #MastoArt #smallartist #naturaliste #pnr #parcnaturel #reservenaturelle

Hello from Aurora Bear! Beneath the sky’s celestial flare, A bear is born from fire and air. Reds and greens in frozen flight, A whisper of the Northern Lights #art #ceramics #gaybear #furryart #sciart

Tomorrow is Long Covid Awareness day, and I'll be performing this poem for the LC Awareness even in downtown Vancouver, outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. Sometime just after 11am, March 15. It's not over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvR7uEjNxk
#art #longcovid #contemporaryart #sciart #performanceart

From our recent raku firing, The Cosmic Forge Born of fire, veiled in night, Holding echoes, stars ignite. Embers dance in spectral hues, A vessel where the cosmos brews. #sciart #space #magic

Hello Mastodon!
I'm Diane, an illustrator specializing in the medical and scientific fields ​

I draw anatomical pictures for doctors, diagrams for biomed companies, animals and plants for museums, and lots of other things...

But I also have my own little universe, somewhere between fantasy and science fiction, and a desire to experiment with traditional techniques.

Lots of things I can't wait to share with you! Here's just a sample...

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, & equisetids.

A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #WorldButterflyDay. It’s also #PiDay so I feel this the symmetries of this print which I laid out with a compass and some geometric tricks, seems apt.
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There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) in this #linocut kaleidoscope.⠀
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #typography #mastoart #insect

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, & others.