Catie Michel

Song: The Fox (Yup Yup Yup) by Twain.

New mural complete in Arvada, CO, created by many hands! It has been a longtime dream to host nature walks, incorporate the community’s observations into the design, and invite volunteers to kick off the mural for community paint days.
#publicart #mural #natureart #commission #colorado #painting 🪶

Nigh Flight: Blackpoll Warblers
Platinum of ink and charcoal
12 x 12 inches

#platinumprint #migratorybirds #blackpoll #alternativeprocess #birdart 🪶

Thank you!!

Details of “Good Warm Light”
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#acrylicpainting #pitcherplant #steelhead #pupfish #mushrooms #sciart #fishart 🪶

“Good Warm Light”

Named after Frida Kahlo’s description of the color green 💚

18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on birch

#acrylicpainting #hummingbird #birdart #snakeart #sciart #plantart #ferns #frog #serpentine #moths 🪶

Preview of a new painting “Good Warm Light” named after Frida Kahlo’s description of the color green from her person writings in 1957. 18x24 acrylic on birch
#green #hummingbird #lunamoth #ferns #acrylic #painting #natureart

Chambered nautilus, white pens and acrylic on board. 4 ft x 3 ft.

#nautilus #oceanart #marinelife #sciart #scientificillustration #cephalopod #marineart

Aww thank you so much!!

A giant Pacific octopus, white pens and acrylic on board. 4 ft x 3 ft. Inspired by 18th century Lord Bodner’s copper plate engraving. #sciart #marineart #octopus #oceanart #marinelife #scienceart #cephalopod

Will collect both the audio book and hard copy!!

Full view of the mural. Three magpies and a mule deer.

Image of me painting the mule deer.

Close up of a magpie wing.

Magpies and mule deer mural for Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater and the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Greenwood Village, CO!
Acrylic and latex, 15 x 8ft. 🪶

#birdart #deer #mural #publicart #handpainted #colorado #wildlife #magpie #muralartist #acrylic #sciart #conservation

A full spread depicting garlic and its features in both ink and watercolor.

The same full spread of garlic and its features in ink and watercolor, but labeled with hand-written notes.

One of three spreads for Mad! Agriculture Journal issue 12, recently published. Watercolor and ink.

#botanicalillustration #sciart #garlic #botany #plants #scientificillustration #agriculture

Oval framing of Pacific sardines.

Close up of Pacific sardines, some reflecting the sunlight.

Platinum-palladium of Pacific sardines at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in CA.

#sardines #marinelife #platinum #printmaking #fishart #alternativeprocess

A platinum-palladium artwork of Meca’Ayo and a screech owl for today’s #SuperbOwl 🪶

Part of an ongoing series of portraits/interviews of women+nonbinary individuals.

30x22 in, platinum, graphite, watercolor on paper

#platinumpalladium #alternativeprinting #portrait #birdart #owl

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I am wearing a grey jumpsuit and am standing on my tiptoes to paint the hummingbird’s gorget (colorful throat feathers).

A full view of the mural and the conference room tables.

This mural was such a joy to create for Art Gym Denver’s conference room last spring. It features four local hummingbird species darting across a wall of paint strokes. 22 x 9 ft, latex house paint and acrylic.

#birds #mural #hummingbirds #sciart #birdart #painting

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 spread from my field notebook detailing snorkel survey sights in Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja CA, MX as a research asst for a marine biology course. All three sea stars on the right were on the same rock!

#fieldnotes #sciart #marinelife #fish #naturejournal #addocean #marinebiology

#addocean

A ladder-backed woodpecker perches atop a murex shell. Both painted with acrylic on a raw birch wood panel.

Ladder-backed woodpecker perches atop a murex shell. Part of a series of acrylic paintings in which various species curiously resemble one another yet would likely never meet—an exploration of color, pattern, and form.

#acrylicpainting #birdart #sciart #birds #woodpecker #shell

Thank you dear Rosie!! 🧡🧡

I love this!!!

Thank you Dave!!

A Eurasian hoopoe is perched atop a nautilus shell, both painted in acrylic on a raw birch wooden panel.

Eurasian hoopoe perches atop a nautilus shell. Part of a series of acrylic paintings in which various species curiously resemble one another yet would likely never meet—an exploration of color, pattern, and form.

#acrylicpainting #hoopoe #nautilus #birdart #birds

CA scrub jay on scrub oak ✺
Ballpoint pen, white charcoal, and white gel pen on grey-toned paper
#birds #birddrawing #oak

Thank you so much!

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.

Western hemlock, Golden-crowned kinglets, Common loons, and Chinook fry; pen and ink on paper!
#commonloon #penandink #sciart #chinook

A field guide plate with illustrations of ten wildlife species that can be found in Chicago during the winter, including American Coot, Great Blue Heron, Swamp Rose Mallow seed pods, and more. The illustrations were made using Procreate and have graphite and watercolor components with a muted color pallet.

A plate from my upcoming field guide project, Winter Wildlife of Chicago #scientificillustration #procreate #wildlifeart #queerartist #queerscientist

Mine as well!! Thank you so much.