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Sciartober 2022

In 2022, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators teamed up with Illustra Sciencia to create a bilingual English-Spanish prompts list that they called "IllustraINK".

An ink and watercolor illustration showing an assortment of geometric microscopic organisms. They are a variety of shapes and shades of green.

An ink and watercolor illustration of an elaborate red fungus. In the foreground is a spherical, egg-like structure that has split to reveal the unexpanded fruiting body. In the background is the mature fruiting body, which a bright red, oval lattice.

An ink and watercolor illustration of three dried snapdragon seed pods on a stem. Each gray pod has three holes that resemble the eye sockets and mouth of a skull.

And ink and watercolor illustration of two greenish orange moss capsules. One is nodding on a long stalk. The capsule is ovate with an opening at the end ringed by small teeth. The other capsules points straight up. It has the remains of the capsule lid stuck to the left side and a ring of orange teeth. Both capsules are shedding clouds of tiny black spores.

An ink and watercolor illustration of an odd alga that resembles a cluster of shiny, blue-green suction cups.

An ink, watercolor, and color pencil drawing of three nested wishbones. The bottom one is wide, with a very shallow curve. The middle one is narrow and flares outward. The top one is a narrow "v" shape.

Watercolor painting of a crumpled gray flower. It has amorphous petals and seven stamens. The background is a chunk of amber with orange streaks.

Watercolor painting of a small turtle with a pointed black tail and lumpy grey-brown shell.

A watercolor painting of a microscopic water bear. It is gray and wrinkly, with eight legs tipped with tiny claws. It has a circular mouth and no visible eyes. The tiny animal is floating behind a green moss leaf.

A watercolor painting of a cluster of blue bottle-shaped flowers. There are six flowers emerging from a pair of shiny green leaves with red edging.

Watercolor painting of a round seed with two curved wings. The narrow wings are attached to the seed at one end and curve upward in a "V" shape. They are bright red and yellow. The seed is dark brown.

An ink and watercolor illustration of a star-shaped gree alga made of a net-like array of cells.

A watercolor painting of a small, brightly colored fish. It has splotchy blue vertical stripes interspersed with bright red spots. The head is yellow with areas of blue and turquoise.

A watercolor painting of a wrinkled, orange, flesh-covered ginkgo seed with a bright green triangular leaf in the background.

A pile of spherical black seeds, each of which bears a white, heart-shaped scar.

Photo by Rosemary Glos on October 17, 2022.

A tiny watercolor painting of black and white mouse tracks.

A watercolor painting of a dark red butterfly with yellow wing edges and a row of bright blue windows along each wing.

A fragment of a pothos stem with two green and yellow streaked, heart-shaped leaves. At each node, two pointed, pinkish roots emerge.

A watercolor painting of a smooth-looking bird tossing a red berry into its beak. It has a brownish head with black eye markings, blue-grey wings and tail, and a yellow belly.

A tiny ink and watercolor illustration of a circular fish larvae with spines around its circumference. It is orange and brown with a circular blue-black eye.

A small black lizard with pale yellow stripes and a bright blue tail.

A watercolor and ink illustration of two mushrooms with blue-green crackled caps.

A bright blue, shiny beetle sitting on a fuzzy leaf.

Watercolor painting of the head of a small brown owl with a spray of feathers emerging from each cheek.

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