Calvin Mellow

Dear Everyone-We-Know,

The evolutionary legacy of an upright posture,
a clever mind
opposable thumbs,
acute visual sense,
a talent for pattern-finding
and a love of metaphor
Has been passed down through
an exploded star,
a planet,
life,
to chordates,
to mammals,
to apes,
to humans,
to Michelle and Glendon,
and finally, on December 28th 2010 at 1:06am to Calvin George Follett Mellow.

Calvin Mellow has entered the universe's history at 7lb 11oz , to the
delight of his family and has all the potential in the world to be a
tool-user, a thinker, a metaphor-maker, an artist, a scientist, a poet, and most likely a source of surprise.

Thanks to everyone online and off, for their words of support and enthusiasm.

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Science-Art Scumble #8: Super Holiday Special!

Scumble:

"A painting technique in which semi-opaque or thin opaque colors are loosely brushed over an underpainted area so that patches of the color beneath show through." 

From The Artist's Handbook, by Ray Smith.  


A weekly digest to highlight some of the posts I found most interesting, most provocative, or otherwise caught my eye from the Science Artists Feed, and other sources. Sit back, have a cinnamon-laced eggnog and enjoy.

There are enough Holiday pieces of science-based art out there, I hadda put them into one post!  Please enjoy this special edition of the Science-Art Scumble.

Click here for earlier scumbles.



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Holiday Card Candidate, Clever Girl.  Double does of holiday fun!  Jennifer Hall's Christmas card plus check out her blog banner. Does the Abominable Snowman proud, that does.

Tomorrow Night: "The Vast Santanic Conspiracy: Is St. Nick the Tool of a Plot too Monstrous To Mention?" With Cult-Author Mark Dery at Observatory, Morbid Anatomy.

Holiday Wish List 2010, Art Works.

Krismas Sketch, The Flying Trilobite.

Imagining Flower Fairies, Gurney Journey.  (My wife and I cover our Christmas tree in fairies, so this counts as holiday art in my book!)

Kroper's Guide to Holiday Shopping, Ataraxia Theatre.

Christmas Paleo-Art, Salaric.

Happy Holidays from Morbid Anatomy and Friends, Morbid Anatomy.

Happy Holidays, The Disillusioned Taxonomist.

Wintry Wishes from Witton, Love in the Time of the Chasmosaurs.

Forgotten Christmas Specials Part 1 and Part 2, Tricia's Obligatory Art Blog!  (Not necessarily science-y, but great clips!)

All the best of the holidays, everyone!  Merry Krismas!
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500th Flying Trilobite Post

Haldane's Precambrian Puzzle © Glendon Mellow 2010

This marks the 500th post here on the Flying Trilobite since I began blogging about my artwork back in March 2007.  Thank you so much to everyone for their support and comments and commissions over the past almost-4 years! I had no idea what I was getting into when I started blogging, but it has literally changed my life. 

I thought I'd mark this post by including some links to a few posts I consider noteworthy. 

Fossil Hunters at Pigeon Lake - April 2007

Just a spoonful of mamenchisaurus to help the medicine go down - July 2007

Dinosaurs as Art: Royal Tyrrell Museum - August 2007

"Making of" Darwin Took Steps - February 2008

Flying & Asthma - May 2008

Inspiration & Drugs - August 2008

part of Sowing Seeds and Fossils. © Glendon Mellow 2010

Haldane's Precambrian Puzzle - November 2008

Migrations banner concepts - May 2009

Gift from God?  I don't think so. - May 2009

Science vocabulary = better art - July 2009

Remembering my first time - July 2009

detail from Fossil Boy, Diatom Girl. © Glendon Mellow 2010

Sowing Seeds & Fossils - October 2009

Fossil Boy, Diatom Girl - December 2009

Final. Art. Project. *gasp* - April 2010

Glimpse at image credits on science blogs - October 2010

And again thank you to everyone who reads this blog, and to my wife Michelle for believing in my art since the first time she saw it.

Mythical Flying Trilobite Fossil I. © Glendon Mellow 2010

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Science-Art Scumble #7

Scumble:

"A painting technique in which semi-opaque or thin opaque colors are loosely brushed over an underpainted area so that patches of the color beneath show through." 

From The Artist's Handbook, by Ray Smith.  

A weekly digest to highlight some of the posts I found most interesting, most provocative, or otherwise caught my eye from the Science Artists Feed, and other sources. Sit back, have an espresso and enjoy.

This week, there are not only entries from deviantArt, but I've also added some photography and comics.

Note: the Scumble may stumble some time over the next couple of weeks - my wife and I are expecting our first child, and I may take a break so I can dress the newborn up like a reindeer.

Click here for earlier scumbles.
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The Mighty V-Rex, The Art of a Carbon-Based Lifeform.

Jungle Hunt, Scenes From A Multiverse.

Lunar Eclipse of the Blog, Biodiversity in Focus.  Morgan D. Jackson goes from photographing very small, up close insects to photographing something very big and far away! Stellar.

Stuff I like: Centrifuge Tubes, A Curious Bestiary.

Confetti Death, Street Anatomy.

Scientific Accuracy in Art, Scientific American Guest Blog, by yours truly. Comments on this post encouraged!

The Golden Ratio or Fibonacci Spiral, Darkstorm Creative: the works of Russell Dickerson.  An entertaining look at how Fibonacci sequences crop up in Dickerson's art.

Aquaephemera: slo-mo water sculpture, Bioephemera.

Galileo's Controversial Moon Drawings, Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing Boing.

Swill is here!  Swill is here! , Renaissance Oaf.

Scientists tackle graphic design, O'Reilly Science Art.

Tree Books for Kids, ArtPlantae Today.

Uncle Beazley, Love in the Time of the Chasmosaurs.

Elephant Live-Blogging Event, Art Evolved.  Two of Art Evolved's admins live blog making artwork about prehistoric elephants. Craig Dylke renders in 3D (start here) and Peter Bond starts off with traditional drawing (start here).

Member News: Hall Train featured in local radio "Dinosaur Phone-In", SONSI.


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Scientific American Guest Blog

Today on the Scientific American Guest Blog I have a post entitled, Scientific Accuracy in Art. 

In it, I touch on fossils, math, a crucifix and microscopic paint. It attempts to answer: what is science-art for?

Would love if Flying Trilobite readers could head there to comment - disagree, support or ask questions!

The burgeoning field of science-art is one I love to explore.  Recently, I was also on a podcast on Atheists Talk with science-artist Lynn Fellman and host Mike Haubrich, and I have been discussing science-art some more on my own blog as I gear up for ScienceOnline11 in North Carolina in January.

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Art Monday: Fossil Forms

Fossil Form 1 © Glendon Mellow 2010

Fossil Form 2 © Glendon Mellow 2010

These two original oil paintings on slate are for sale in my new Etsy store - not prints, the originals. [Crisp autumn leaves not included.]
They also appear in my Calendar Collection #3, new for 2011. Available in my print shop.

This type of painting is meditative and relaxing for me: just playing with forms, uncovering what I find. Well; as meditative and relaxing as listening to Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim can be, anyway. 
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