Greetings, GNSI!
More news comes with December. Enjoy!
Dulce
Nascimento`s 2013 15th/16th/17th and Scientific illustration
trips in the Amazon
Three trips available: May 16th to 26th - May 29 to June 8th -
June 10th to 20th, 2013
The great success of the scientific illustration trips was the incentive for Dulce to do them in 2013, not just one but three 11 days & 10 nights trips - the first from May 16th to May 26th, the second from May 29th to June 8th, and the third from June 10th to 20th, 2013.
Explore the Amazonian environment, observe it in close proximity, and learn to draw and paint (in watercolors) the landscape, and the terrestrial and aquatic vegetation. These are trips programmed with scientific illustrator Dulce Nascimento - who graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro, and studied at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as a scholar of the Margaret Mee Foundation...
EXHIBIT
CALL- GNSI Great Lakes
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 14, 2013 - Open to ALL
GNSI Members in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan
EXHIBIT DATES: February 28 -April 14, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, March 3, 3:30-5:50 pm
LOCATION: Fernwood
Botanical Gardens, Niles, MI
The GNSI Great Lakes Chapter invites all GNSI members residing in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to join their exhibit at the Fernwood Botanical Garden in Niles, Michigan. The title of the exhibit is Great Lakes Chapter of the Guild of Natural Scientific Illustrators Exhibit: Spring Botanicals.
ANNE
RUNYON Exhibit
EXHIBIT DATES: February 1- 24, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION: February 1, 6:30-9 p.m.
LOCATION: The Nature Gallery, North Carolina Museum of Natural
Sciences
GNSI member Anne Runyon will have her illustrations and paper sculptures on exhibit at The Nature Gallery for the month of February, 2013.
DIANE
DORIGAN Exhibit
OPENING RECEPTION: December 8, 6-9 pm
EXHIBIT DATES: December 8- 31, 2012
LOCATIONS: Morpho Gallery in Winnetka, IL / Blink Contemporary
Art Gallery in Michigan City, IN.
GNSI member and Great Lakes Chapter President Diane Dorigan will have her art on exhibit in two galleries this December, the Morpho Gallery in Winnetka, and Blink Contemporary Art Gallery in Michigan City, IN. Both galleries will feature Diane's work along with several other area artists, and both are her personal art (non-scientific).
Images of Nature: The Art of the First Fleet
1787 "Two Naval Ships, the HMS Sirius and HMS Supply, three store ships and six convict transports set sail from Portsmouth bound for Botany Bay," 'the First Fleet' as defined by colonial Australian historians. The brief but poignant introduction by Lisa Di Tommaso, the assistant Librarian of the Natural History Museum in London, sets the stage for a series of images that portray the earliest encounters between European commerce and Australian aboriginal natives...
GNSI
Member Marjorie Leggitt given ASBA Award of Excellence
The ASBA (American Society of Botanical Illustrators) recognizes
artists who have made significant contributions to science
through botanical art. These artist's work must meet the
requirements of scientific accuracy, technical proficiency, and
aesthetics. In addition, the artist must have compiled a body of
work that shows significant accomplishment in the field of
scientific illustration. The recipient of this year's biennial
award, "ASBA Botanical Illustrator Award for Excellence in
Scientific Botanical Art", is our very own Marjorie Leggitt,
Treasurer of the GNSI....
Award
Winning Birds
GNSI members have many interests - and connections for the
expression of their art. It isn't all nematodes and insect
setae! So congratulations to GNSI member Linda Feltner for both
a people's choice award at the GNSI Members Exhibit this past
summer and now two new awards for the same image! Linda has
received "The Ethology Award for the Best Depiction of Natural
Behavior in Any Medium", and also the "Western Art Collector's
Magazine Editor's Choice Award", both for "A Mischief of Jays",
and both are given by the Society of Animal Artists (SAA).
The GNSI website forums offer interesting
discussions on a variety of topics related to science-art. Have
a question or advice to offer?:
Requesting
general advice on a career in science illustration
Mac OS question
Copyright
questions (Members only forum)
Job
Posting: Education and Outreach Specialist
How
does one start freelancing in natural science illustration?
Reports on recent Chapter Events:
Draw-In
at the Osteology Hall - Greater DC Chapter
The GNSI-DC Chapter met on October 9th for a special Draw-In
evening. We started with some great food contributed by the
attendees. Everyone caught up on what everyone was doing as we
waited for people to arrive for the main event. Then we all
hiked upstairs to the Osteology Hall in the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History, a collection of over 300
skeletons of modern vertebrates. We had a great turnout of about
40 people. Some came to draw and some to hear our speakers...
Interpreting
the Landscape Through the Eyes of Birds - GNSI Oregon Group.
The GNSI-Oregon Group met September 22 & 23, 2012 at the
Tryon Creek State Natural Area/Portland, OR. We opened the day
with a short business meeting. Saturday morning Barbara Gleason
gave a very informative talk and demonstration about drawing
birds (plumage and the anatomy and structure of the bird). In
the afternoon Rebecca Brown-Thompson gave a presentation on Sign
Interpretation Principles. We made concept maps of Tryon Park
focusing on various topics from birds adapting to human
structures to birds inhabiting Tyron's habitat areas.
Sunday Rebecca gave a demonstration on the use of proportional dividers and showed us her field sketching gear. The rest of the day was spent sketching and hiking Tryon Park. We closed this day with a sharing of our sketches.
Download the
2011 Financial Report.
Copies of Guild of Natural Science Illustrators' Financial and
Annual reports can be requested from our GNSI office:
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
PO Box 652
Ben Franklin Station
Washington, DC 20044
Tel/Fax: 301.309.1514
The Fall 2012 issue of the GNSI Journal of Natural Science Illustration is now available for download. We have a large amount of content in this issue - a few of the items are available to look at by clicking on the linked items in publication description on the web site. The full printed version has been shipped! It should arrive in mailboxes in early December (for those with non-electronic memberships.)
The Journal Digital download is FREE to GNSI
members when they login to the GNSI
website. Others may download it for $12.
Journal
download instructions
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
Gail Guth
GNSI Membership Secretary/Communications Director
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