Today, for #BrainAwarenessWeek I want to share this brainy map commissioned by The Brain Observatory for last Summer's Brain Explorer Camp.
If you pass by San Diego, make sure to check out this little hidden gem of a museum: www.thebrainobservatory.org 
For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s neuraesthenia (2017), a piece depicting the heaviness I feel during post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM often starts in my cognition then spreads out through my body.
Hello Mastodon!
I'm Diane, an illustrator specializing in the medical and scientific fields 
I draw anatomical pictures for doctors, diagrams for biomed companies, animals and plants for museums, and lots of other things...
But I also have my own little universe, somewhere between fantasy and science fiction, and a desire to experiment with traditional techniques.
Lots of things I can't wait to share with you! Here's just a sample...
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, & equisetids.
Today for #MarshMadness I painted Kirby's backswimmer (Notonecta kirbyi). As the name implies, these guys swim on their backs, using long back legs as paddles. They can also dive underwater, carrying air bubbles with them on their butts.
#SciArt #InsectArt #watercolor
A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #WorldButterflyDay. It’s also #PiDay so I feel this the symmetries of this print which I laid out with a compass and some geometric tricks, seems apt.
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There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) in this #linocut kaleidoscope.⠀
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #typography #mastoart #insect
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, & others.
I think all the organs and such in the cephalothorax are done. Still working on the abdomen. (Spider internal organs 3d model. Hopefully will eventually be 3d printed.)
Spider people, how's it looking?
I’ve painted birds in my Perpetual Journal so many times recently that I started a blog mini-series entitled All About Birds. Here’s my latest blog post, the 1st in that series:
https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/all-about-birds-part-1
PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/seti-institute-announces-recipient-beyond-silos-steam-education-residency
The SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program announced Dominica Mediati as the recipient of its Beyond Silos #STEAM residency. The residency supports STEAM educators in developing more inclusive, interdisciplinary teaching approaches integrating #art and #science. Mediati is an intermedia artist and a sessional instructor in the Faculty of Education and School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.
Une nouvelle gravure avec la progression du travail !
1- Le brouillon
2- Le crayonné sur la plaque
3- la plaque gravée
4- le tirage (presque) final
Le biotope dépeint est celui de l'île de Hațeg, au crétacé supérieur. C'est aussi une référence au documentaire #PrehistoricPlanet
The map of life has been devoid of snakes! I cannot let this injustice stand any longer, so I'll just deposit a sidewinder into the Order Squamata. Snakes and legless lizards may be different things, but snakes are lizards without legs; they just aren't closely related to legless lizards.
Taxonomy; it really is as clear as mud. I love it!
#evolution #sciart #snakes #biology
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "Primeval Clevedon Bay" painting (2022), depicting fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods in an Early Carboniferous shallow sea. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.
Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).
This is my #linocut portrait of an #alchemist known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a second painting of the Severn Estuary, this time during the Early Carboniferous. Called "Primeval Clevedon Bay," it features fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.
#WIPWednesday • I finished stitching my heart/vagus piece but need to wash and wet block it. I’ve only just started my next project so I’ll share that next week!
For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s a detail from the wandering ghost (2024), my piece about the vagus nerve and my experiences with polyvagal theory.
You can read more about this piece here: https://liapas.com/2024/10/15/the-wandering-ghost/
This #MarshMadness critter is a crimson marsh glider (Trithemis aurora). Dragonflies are some of the most effective predators on the planet, snatching prey right out of the air with an up to 97% success rate. Each of their four wings can operate independently, making them strong, agile fliers. They also utilize a trick called "motion camouflage." Instead of flying straight towards their target, they keep in line with its path (even anticipating future moves), making them appear stationary even as they approach.
Born of fire, veiled in night,
Holding echoes, stars ignite.
Embers dance in spectral hues,
A vessel where the cosmos brews.
