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.
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 illustration through a review of Little Beasts , and using illustration, genetics, and 3D modeling to reconstruct a medieval skull. Log into your account to view the Journal: JNSI 2025 Vol. 57, No. 2 Not yet a subscriber? To view the issue for free, become a GNSI member today!
Deb Haines. Portrait by Phil Snow-UTCVM medical photographer
Deb Haines. Portrait by Phil Snow-UTCVM medical photographer
On a crisp Saturday afternoon, November 16th, a group of enthusiastic artists and nature lovers came together in Washington, D.C., for a long-awaited botanical sketching event.
Though scratchboard as a professional art began in the 1800s as black-and-white illustration reproduced for books and newspapers, many people have since experienced scratchboard in a grade school art class with black ink over crayons and a sharp tool scratching away differing amounts of ink, revealing portions of the colorful layer beneath. For children it was a memorable work of wonder!
Some insights into best practices with the actual printing of the models and how I look at 3D printing compared to illustration and 3D modeling...
Erin E. Hunter’s most ambitious piece yet is “Look Closer,” a large painting of California native bees and wildflowers that anchored a 2022 solo show at the San Francisco Botanical ...
Review of Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress Black®, as "the world's first black 100% cotton paper sized for watercolor."
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.
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.
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.