Catie Michel

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art | science illustration | murals | platinum prints catiemichel.com pay attention ✹ be astonished

The artist stands on the ground next to a huge red-winged blackbird flying through blades of grass against a pink background. A notebook is visible behind the artist, showing notes written in both Spanish and English about the blackbird.
A black egret in the midst of its umbrella/canopy feeding behavior, surrounded by a circle of flora and fauna of the Chobe River.
Ballpoint pen and charcoal drawing on grey toned paper of an American dipper standing in splashing flowing river water having just caught a caddisfly.
A Great Cormorant perching on rock is drawn in pen and charcoal on grey paper.
A common squirrel cuckoo is drawn perched on a branch with a whorl of leaves.
A flying black-billed magpie is drawn with ballpoint pen and charcoal on grey-tones paper.
Bright red flowers adorn four scarlet hedgehog X fishhook cacti hybrids. A male Broad-tailed hummingbird perches atop one bloom, and a female flies towards one. A female, male, and three Gambel quail chicks trot around the base of the cacti. All is painted on a birch wood panel; the grain of the wood is visible in the background.
Full view of the mural. Three magpies and a mule deer.
A full spread depicting garlic and its features in both ink and watercolor.
Oval framing of Pacific sardines.
I am wearing a grey jumpsuit and am standing on my tiptoes to paint the hummingbird’s gorget (colorful throat feathers).
An open notebook laying on the sand with a mechanical pencil resting on top shows sketches from my field notebook of fish, marine algae, and sea stars seen while snorkeling survey sights in Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja CA, MX. I was a research assistant for a college marine biology course and this was my field notebook.
A ladder-backed woodpecker perches atop a murex shell. Both painted with acrylic on a raw birch wood panel.
A Eurasian hoopoe is perched atop a nautilus shell, both painted in acrylic on a raw birch wooden panel.
A branch of western hemlock with golden-crowned kinglets hangs over an adult common loon with two chicks riding on its back. Two chinook salmon fry swim below.
A violet-eared hummingbird is perched atop a large abalone shell. Painted with acrylic on raw birch wood panel. The iridescence of hummingbird as well as its colors resemble the mother-of-pearl shimmer and color of the abalone shell.
A Cactus Wren perched on a cactus is drawn on grey-toned paper with ballpoint pen, white charcoal, and white gel pen.