Dr Ele Willoughbyさんのイラストまとめ

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt “yielding”: my portrait of Indian #botanist E.K. Janaki Ammal with plants she bred and researched including sugarcane, magnolia and eggplant. By breeding genetic crosses she worked to increase yield of food crops and combat the risk of famine.

For #SciArtSeptember prompt “branching” I’m returning to the mathematical neuroscience piece I made for #mathyear. This is a more metaphorical image, combining 2 linocuts: neurons & a flow-chart to illustrate science at the intersection of the brain and computation.⁠

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt “scaled” - This is a handprinted Wiwaxia, a half billion year old soft-bodied animal covered in scales and spines. These animals lived in the early and middle Cambrian period and fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada's Burgess Shale.

The #SciArtSeptember prompt is “monstrous” so I’m sharing my Opabinia. I might not have thought of a 7 cm, long-extinct creature as monstrous, but a friend saw my sketch & asked nervously about it, so I imagine being smaller and meeting the 5-eyed critter with a clawed proboscis!

It’s #SciArtSeptember and the first prompt is survivor - so here’s the virtually indestructible tardigrade! Linocut print of everyone's favorite extraordinary, micro-animal who can survive extremes: the tardigrade, also known as the water bear, also known as the moss piglet.

A moose lino block print is hand printed on delicate, translucent, handmade Japanese paper with a deckle edge. Each print is 9.5" tall and 12" wide (24.1 cm by 30.5 cm). This is a North American bull moose (Alces alces), which, confusingly is called an elk in British English.

Oh nuts 🌰 Chipmunk 🐿 linocut

He really did make that gesture with his paw!

#linocut #printmaking #chipmunk

Happy birthday to mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in

This is a series of handprinted linoblock prints of the 36-foot-9-inch (11.20 m) oyster sloop The Spray on ivory, Japanese mulberry paper with collaged maps & nautical charts for the sails. Each of the prints has a unique combination of sails & is 8" x 8” . Canadian-born American

British Columbia. Opabinia likely caught prey with the grasping claws on the end of its long tubular proboscis (like an elephant's trunk). Even more astounding are the five eyes on stalks!