Author: edamstra
An Early Jurassic ammonoid
This past April I completed a commission for amateur paleontologist W.C. (Cory) Brimblecombe, who asked me to create a painting of an Early Jurassic ammonoid fossil. (Ammonoids are extinct relatives …
Illustrating grassland birds in their habitat
The Coin World Podcast
Ocean sunfish tattoo tribute
Once in awhile, people seek my permission to use one of my illustrations as the basis for their tattoo. Most recently, Shumpei Maruyama asked about using my illustration of the …
Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider
As someone who enjoys any compelling story that’s well told, I’m a fan of Stephen B. Heard‘s new book Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider; How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, …
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 …
Syndicated on Science Borealis
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