r/ScientificArt

A solid month of full-time stabbing (and a VERY sore arm), and I've completed by far my largest piece ever: this 5'x11' wool "mural" depicts a soil profile found in Massachusetts (it's actually our state soil profile, the Paxton!) The bones (rabbit) are needle felted and covered with felters wax, then given depth with pastel pigment. The worms are felted, stitched, waxed, and pigmented. The ants are beaded and embroidered. The wool used for the B and C horizons was all from one sheep!

Full materials list: Wool, beeswax, glass beads, freshwater pearl beads, thread, pastel pigment.

This was made to be a companion piece to "My Roots Are Deeper Than They Can Dig" (shown in the last few images) which shows the incredible depths a dandelion taproot can grow to. The root in that piece is also felted (a combination of needle and wet) and covered in felters wax, and the mole is needle felted. I aspire to such resilience as the dandelion!

Note: The last image is a photoshopped composite of the root piece with the wool mural, as it was too difficult to find a place to install them together to photograph 

Hi everyone!!! I recently created a website called Medillustrate.com which is a collaborative digital library for scientific and medical illustrations. If anyone is interested in contributing please reach out or fill out the form on the website! I have attached some of my own artwork below. :)

Cross stitch is done on a grid. So I stitched one coming apart in the triangle sections not stitched yet. I majored in pure mathematics in college so maybe that is why I stitch geometric objects when practicing my stitches

I'm about to update this piece to 150 breeds (about 25 added in the past year). This is roughly 3 years' worth of work (off and on) and a process where I reuse nearly everything (rib cages, skulls, femurs, and even pieces of fur) across breeds - rarely starting anything from scratch. All work is done in Illustrator, and many bones are on separate layers (which makes it easy to move things around and/or create new breeds from old ones). The breeds aren't entirely to scale, but that was a decision made to keep the largest breeds from interfering with those in the rows above and to keep the smallest breeds from disappearing entirely. :)

This is technically entomology which is sub-discipline of zoology. Pattern source is in the second picture.