Presentations:

Presentations:

Monday August 13:

This presentation describes the methods she uses to produce full colordigital habitus illustrations of insects using Adobe Photoshop. Tainawill demonstratethe use of some of Adobe Photoshop's tools, including layers, channels,and creation of custom brushes. Beginning with a microscope andcamera lucida drawing and proceeding through the refining, scanning andelectronic painting process, this presentation is a step-by-step walkthrough the production of a full color, dorsal view of a fly.

-Introduction
-Quick presentation of the tools: Adobe Golive, PageMill, ImageStyler, ImageReady, Illustrator, Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash (Shockwave), Fireworks. (5 mns)
- The pictures and illustrations. Several useful formats : GIF89a (216 colors and not 256), JPG, Raster formats (Illustrator and Flash), Quicktime 5 movies, critical point of view about Flash technology. (6 mns)
- Examples of scientific digital illustrations. How to create illustrations fully compatible for both Macromedia and Adobe products. (4 mns)
- Main differences between Adobe and Macromedia generated html codes structure, necessity to include easily understandable comments lines, how to clean and purge the html code, how to include properly Java applets compatible for the most known available browsers. (10 mns)
- Example: How to prepare a translation and how to operate it, transformation of a website from Adobe softwares (PageMill, GoLive) to Macromedia (DreamWeaver, Flash) ones. Use of an html editor. Add of a graphic Java applet. Add of a QT movie. (10 mns)
- Conclusion, Comments and Questions. (5 mns

There are many interesting aspects of the project besides the subject itself. The most exciting part is the participants which include three professors from the University of Georgia, and multiple graduate students of Entomology and undergraduates from natural science illustration. The management of the project is a presentation in itself and certainly something that Eugene will touch on as part of his presentation. Other interesting topics are the funding, dynamics of its use, the process, the formative review, and the intended audience.

"How to use elements of Adobe Illustrator (vector program) combined with the best elements of Adobe Photoshop (raster program) to create realistic natural science images"
Since Illustrator is a vector based program it is best to draw in......not best to colorize or render realistic objects, this is better done in a raster program such as Adobe Photoshop. Pixels blend in a way that can create the illusion of 3D objects. It is best in our line of business to use the correct program that will give the best and most reliable results in the least amount of time. By combining the two programs the users can achieve the best of both worlds in their illustrations.

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful Postscript drawing program with applications in illustration, graphic design, fine art, and technical drawings, able to include photos, scans, and typography. This demonstration will explore the tools, menu items, and floating palettes, such as the Styles and Brushes palette, and how you can customize them for your particular needs, effects, or the *look* that you want. You will also see how to create and edit objects using transformation tools, object alignment, grouping, gradients and how easy it is to use and edit typography. Additionally, we will see how to start with a scanned image or sketch, and import it into Illustrator for use a s a tracing template, as well as incorporating it as finished art into our illustration.

Join Britt Griswold for an demonstration of proper techniques for optimizing your art images for use on the web. This will be a synopsis of the process that will be used in Britt's Image preparation workshop, plus a big plug for Science-art.com!

Traditional Media Presentations:

In addition to communicating information effectively, a well-designed illustration can also appeal to our aesthetic senses. This presentation will identify and examine basic design principles, such as line, shape, color, contrast, balance, etc. We will look at how artwork can be enhanced by applying these basic principles. Examples of scientific and non-scientific art will be discussed.

Karen Ackoff has an MFA in Medical Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a BFA in illustration from the Philadelphia College of Art. From 1987 & 1997 she worked as Scientific Illustrator for the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She presently teaches and coordinates the Graphic Design Program at Indiana University South Bend.

The accurate color required by our specialized work need not be dull: hue is just a starting point. Simple, neurologically-based color theory principles will allow our work to vibrate with color while actually increasing accuracy. The use of the "Radiating Triad," the creation of interesting grays, and different approaches to mixing and glazing color will be discussed. Watercolor will be demonstrated, but the principles apply to all media, traditional and digital.

Marlene Hill Donnelly received a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Illinois and a degree in Graphic Arts from the American Academy of Art. She has taught scientific illustration and botanical painting at the Field Museum, the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Morton Arboretum. Her clients include the Field Museum (where she is a staff artist), HarperCollins, Scholastic, Encyclopedia Britannica, the Shedd Aquarium, the Brookfield Zoo and the Honolulu Zoo. Marlene's work has been honored by an Award of Excellence from the American Society of Botanical Artists, the "Best of Children's Illustration" from the Society of Illustrators and a "Best Children's Book" from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Charlie is the owner and chief salesman of Downeast Graphics, a local modern printing plant. Its rather small size is made up for by its reputation for quality. He will be taking us through a typical job as it goes through the various steps in his shop. He is planning on bringing along two of his technicians who will be able to field any questions you may have regarding the best way of preparing work for reproduction. This is a must see for any of us preparing work for the printer either traditionally or electronically, in this computer age.

Precious Metal Clay® (PMC), developed by Mitsubishi Materials, Inc. in 1995,has opened many new design possibilities for metalworking. GNSI members should note that this material has some interesting applications to scientific illustration. Because PMC can perfectly preserve an impression of any sample - a feather, a leaf, an insect, etc. - it can be usedeffectively in the studio or in the field for accurate depiction of even transitory specimens. It can also be used like clay for modeling.

In 1999 Cathy Gaber became one of the first 30 certified PMC instructors in the United States. She has taught PMC at the Wildacres Retreat in LittleSwitzerland, OR and the Gem Cutters Guild in Baltimore, MD. An article about PMC by Ms. Gaber has appeared in the autumn, 2001 issue of the Australian magazine Metal, Stone and Glass.

Artists have long been associated with the formation of National Parks.Through their words and images they have introduced the American public to the country's inaccessible wilderness. Today's Artists-in-Residencecontinue this tradition of connecting the public to our national treasures.

Shirley Beccue is the Assistant Chief of Interpretation at Acadia National Park. She has worked for the National Park Service for 22 years. Prior tocoming to Acadia she worked at Everglades National Park. Shirley manages thepark Artist-in-Residence program and a variety of interpretive projects. Her special interests away from the job are oil painting and birdwatching.

We tend to associate the word "fruit" with the succulent products we buy in the supermarket produce department. Botanically "fruit" has a much wider definition, referring to the mature ovary and its associated parts. Apples, oranges, tomatoes and their ilk are termed "fleshy fruits" but there is another whole spectrum of "dry fruits", such as nuts, that also employ the transformed floral ovary to enclose, protect and finally disperse the seeds.Some of them bear unfamiliar names like achenes, follicles, capsules and samaras, but all come under the general heading "dry fruit." Not only will we look at various fruits, but touch and taste them, and find out that mostof what we call berries, or nuts, aren't!

Dick Rauh has been teaching the required science course in the BotanicalIllustration Program at the New York Botanical Garden for the past seven years, and will be teaching a one-week intensive in Floral Morphology at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. More focused on science than art at themoment, Dick's current research is in the area of morphogenesis. Working with the Gesneriad Streptocarpus (the plant that sounds like a disease) hehas been able to induce changes in the early growth pattern by interfering with some of the normal chemical processes. If you're interested ask himabout it - if you have an hour or so to listen!

This presentation will provide an overview of Mr. Male's professional practice, including the broad and varied contexts to which the work of a natural science illustrator can be applied. Examples will include illustrating prehistory for scientific research papers, designing and illustrating children's natural history books, producing images for advertising campaigns and creating illustrations for reference books and encyclopedias. Case studies will focus on issues of context and subject matter, clients and audiences, processes and methods.

Alan Male holds a Master of Philosophy Higher Degree from the Royal College of Art in London and has 27 years of experience as a professional illustrator, with clients from the UK, USA and Europe. He has illustrated 28 complete books. His clients include Scholastic, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Little Brown, and Discover magazine. He is represented in New York by American Artists, Inc. He has exhibited the Royal College of Art and the Society of Illustrators in New York (where he is a member.) Currently, Mr. Male is Head of Illustration at the Falmouth College of Arts in England.

Amy will show slides of her daily progress while painting a 1,200 square foot mural of one continuous habitat (including wildlife) in wrap-aroundscenery --four walls! -- at Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford, MA. How aspects of scientific illustration apply to large paintings and how toquickly transfer a small preliminary drawing to scale on a wall will be discussed.

Amy Bartlett Wright has been a scientific illustrator for over 20 years and also paints murals for public educational facilities. Her clients include the National Geographic Society, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Buttonwood Park Zoo.

Mr. Zilz will define "fine art" and "illustration", in both historical and contemporary contexts, and examine the pricing results of such categorization. As references for his presentation, Mr. Zilz consulted archival, university departments and commercial organizations as well as individual artists, illustrators and artisans.

Mr. Zilz received B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from New York University and has pursued studies in art at the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Botanical Garden. Until retirement, Mr. Zilz was an active member of several commodity and stock exchanges - spending the greater part of his career as a specialist on the American Stock Exchange, where he retains a membership.

- he will talk about his work as an animal sculptor

Lauretta Jones will chair an informal round table for educators and all those interested.

Annual Trips to Malaysia - including a discussion of organizing and operating an international rain forest workshop for artists and scientists.

Accurate three-dimensional models of plants are important elements in museum wildlife displays. However, they can also serve as valuable references for the natural science illustrator. Using slides, finished andpartially-completed models and plaster and rubber molds, methods of producing realistic plants, fruits, vegetables and nuts will be discussed.

B. Gary Hoyle has worked as a curator and exhibits artist for 28 years atthe Maine State Museum. He has designed and constructed numerous exhibits ranging in size from a 750 square foot wildlife coastal display to anintimate underground scene of burrowing creatures. In 1990, shortly after completing a permanent exhibit of edible plants, Gary was invited todocument his work in the International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, published in Oxford, England. Gary also works as an exhibit consultant and contractor for museums and corporations across the northernUnited States.

Photographic images of the 275 huge waterfalls at Iguazú, Argentina, the most beautiful of natural tropical paradises, will be accompanied by music of the Argentine. This presentation will thus constitute a "right-brained"break from the traditional lecture format!

John Cody was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He received his training in medical illustration at the Johns Hopkins University, and practiced for sixyears as head of the medical art department at the University of Arkansas Medical Center. As staff artist for the New York Zoological Society, Johnaccompanied Dr. William Beebe on a 6-month expedition to Trinidad, where he painted everything from hummingbirds to the retina of a boa constrictor. Hereceived his MD in 1960, but retired from the practice of medicine in 1986. Since that time he has focused his energies on a passion held since childhood: drawing and painting the Saturniid moths. John's watercolors have been reproduced in the book Wings of Paradise: The Giant Saturniid Moths, and clearly establishes his reputation as "the Audubon of moths."