Author: edamstra
The Mottled Duskywing life cycle, revised
Back in 2014, I wrote about a commission by a local scientist to illustrate the life cycle of the Mottled Duskywing butterfly. At the time, the pupa stage (chrysalis) was …
American Innovation: The Trustee’s Garden
The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Quarter
Etymology and Stippling
Since last summer, I’ve been working on a series of 21 black and white line and stipple illustrations for a book about scientific names as tributes to people. This month, …
Honoring the contributions of Native Americans to the U.S. Space Program
Since 2009, The United States Mint has annually minted a new one dollar coin honouring a Native American or group of Native Americans. The reverse of the 2019 Native American …
Colorful new coins; shark, grizzly, wolf, and maples
In the last month or so, the Royal Canadian Mint has released four different nature-themed coins that I designed. This Great White shark swimming through a school of Atlantic mackerel …
On the radio!
Swallowtails and counted scales
This fall, Kloepfer Gallery right here in my city of residence—Guelph, Ontario—hosts an exhibit of my work from October 2 through 30. The show will include about 15 of my …
2018 Exhibit of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
The 2018 Conference of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
During the week of July 15 to 22, I was in Washington DC for the 2018 Conference of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. It happened to be the 50th …
Syndicated on Science Borealis
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