Grandpa's Plant Fossil- Watercolor

We always thought it looked like a feather.... 

The message on the back reads, "Fossil from Jurassic Shales which outcrop on the north flank of the Cleveland Hills in Yorkshire UK. 140,000,000 years old. To Alexis and Stefanie from Grandpa, July 1993."

Thumb Piano- Watercolor

Article Illustrations

For this project I created two illustrations for an article of my choice. The first one shows a katydid (not the same kind as in the article, because there are no reference photos) on a bamboo shoot, and the second shows a cutaway of a guadua bamboo stalk with a few of its inhabitants. The end of the article repeats itself because I needed to fill up the space. 

Life Inside Peruvian Guadua Bamboo

Weston Price Trompe L'oeil- gouache

This piece is inspired by Dr. Weston Price's travels to New Zealand. He found that the Maori living on their traditional diet were in particularly excellent health (only 1 in 2,000 teeth showing signs of decay, and no dental deformities). The diet was heavily based on shellfish and dried seaweed. The map and photographs are from his book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration".