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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.

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 into your account to view the Journal: JNSI 2024 Vol. 56, No. 2 Not yet a subscriber? To view the issue for free, become a GNSI member today!

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!

Welcome to the first edition of 2024! The Journal Team is happy to present this first issue of 2024! Enjoy Rhonda Nass' step-by-step introduction to scratchboard, Paul A. Krieger's experience transforming his modular anatomical and physiological books to interactive web-based books, and Taina Litwak's transformation of a space with discarded plastic and paint to make a powerful statement about climate change. Log into your account to view the Journal: JNSI 2024 Vol. 56, No. 1 Not yet a subscriber? To view the issue for free, become a GNSI member today!

I call myself a botanical artist, but in truth I’m trained in neither botany nor art. When I first started out, about eight years ago, I was barely aware of the genre’s existence. I just wanted to paint plants. 

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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...

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Building Science Graphics is a new practical guide written and designed by science communicator Jen Christiansen, Senior Graphics Editor at Scientific American ...

A look at Sarah Lynn Cramb's career and project work. Sara can often be found drawing in her studio with some tea, lazy cats dozing nearby, with a view of the Alaska Range...

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Robin Lee Carlson’s book is an up–close–and–very–personal study of fire’s relationship with Stebbins Cold Canyon ecosystems. Her familiarity with this canyon grew through ...

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 ...

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The Finger Lakes Chapter of GNSI created a group project to develop species identification decals for use Cayuga Lake aboard an educational touring boat ...

For the most part, scientific illustration is a comparatively conservative field.

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