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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

SciArt September, Day 30: Carbon. Last day! I finally finished. This is a carbon nanotube. Some are single-walled and others multi-walled. These exhibit remarkable properties, such as exceptional tensile strength and thermal conductivity. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #carbon #nanotubes

Ink, drawing of hexagonal shaped carbon atoms in the shape of a tube.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

SciArt September, Day 29: Pelt. Many animals have fur that camouflages them in the environment. Leopard fur has beautiful, patterning that resembles the dappled sunlight of their surroundings. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #pelt #leopardfur

Ink and colored marker drawing of irregular dark shapes on a lighter tan background in various shades.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SciArt September, Day 28: Linen. Linen is thread made from the fibers of the flax plant. This is a cross-section of the stem of a flax plant. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #linen #flax

Gray blue, white and black ink and marker drawing of a cellular cross-section of the flax plant stem.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SciArt September 2026: Quill. This is a messily rendered lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) It is a small mammal found in Madagascar. It has quills, some of which can be detached in defense. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #quill #tenrec

An ink and marker, drawing in yellow and black with a touch of pink at the long nose of this small, spiky, quilled mammal.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 26: Cedar. Thuja plicata, also known as western red cedar, is a large coniferous tree in the cypress family, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its aromatic and rot resistant wood is used for many purposes. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #cedar

Ink and marker drawing of a large cedar tree trunk in shades of reddish brown with green mossy areas.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 25: Jade. These are Mesoamerican Olmec earflares made of jade from approx. the 10-14th century BCE. 🐡🎨#sciartseptember2026 #jade

Ink and marker drawing in shades of green and black of two round earpieces from ancient Mesoamerican Olmec culture.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 24: Down. One of my favorite birds, herons, have powder down feathers. These grow continuously in strategic areas of the body (like the chest) and the tip breaks down into a fine, talcum-like powder that the birds use to clean their feathers, much like a dry shampoo. 🐡🎨

Ink drawing of a regular down there vs powder down feather with text explaining how they differ.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 23: Copper. This is a copper spear point from the Old Copper culture from the Archaic period of North America’s Great Lakes region. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #copper

An ink and marker drawing in brown and turquoise tones of an ancient spearpoint.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 22: Silk. I did not realize how many different insects create silk. These are green lacewing egg sacs suspended on a rigid silk strand that is excreted and hardens after it is stretched out. The structure is unique and being researched as a biomaterial. 🐡🎨 #silk #greenlacewing

An ink and marker drawing of thin, vertical strands with yellow eggs sacs on top extending out from a brown twig.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 21: Kaolin is a clay mineral used for many things. QuikClot is a brand of wound dressing that is impregnated with kaolin which works as a hemostatic agent to stop hemorrhaging. 🎨🐡 #kaolin #sciartseptember2026

Ink and marker drawing of a square of gauze with a blue wavy line and close-up circle showing detailed lines and dots.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 20: Meander. This, of course, made me think of waterways. I decided to feature the three rivers of Pittsburgh, near where I grew up in western PA. 🐡🎨 #meander #threerivers

Ink and marker drawing of the three rivers of western PA—Ohio, Allegheny and Monogahela, with the city of Pittsburgh in the middle.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 19: Star. This is the nose of the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) which is a semi-aquatic mammal native to eastern North America. Its nose has 22 fleshy appendages to help detect prey in darkness. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #star #starnosedmole

Ink and marker drawing of the pink, fleshy, star-shaped nose of the mole.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 18: Almond. As I looked up almonds, I realized I had never heard of green almonds! These are almonds before they have had a chance to ripen. With a fuzzy outer skin, similar to a peach, the flesh inside is creamy, pale and almost jelly-like—and you eat the whole thing! 🐡🎨🌱

Ink and marker cross-section drawing of an unripe almond with a fizzy exterior and green layer, then pale insides.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 17: Eyelet. Eyelet shapes resembling small windows form in plant leaves like Monstera. These can influence photosynthesis by affecting light absorption and gas exchange. 🐡🎨🌱 #sciartseptember2026 #eyelet #monstera

Ink and marker drawing of a monstera leaf with several irregular holes. The marker is in three shades of green.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 16: Scallop. Scallop are a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve molluscs, which are found in all of the world’s oceans. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #scallops

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 15: Honeycomb. Fossil coral often has a honeycomb-like pattern from the mineral replacement of the original, calcium carbonate skeletal structures over millions of years. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #fossilcoral #honeycomb

Ink and marker drawing of a chunk of fossil coral with many honeycomb-like hollows.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 14: Crescent. Caulobacter vibrioides is a bacteria with a unique structure that forms a crescent. It is known for asymmetric cell division, producing two distinct daughter cells: a mobile “swarmer” cell and a stalked cell. 🐡🎨 #crescent #sciartseptember2026 #bacteria

An ink drawing of four oblong shapes that look like sausages linked.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 13: Diamond. I thought of the diamond-shaped paper packaging that I have been playing with lately. The structure is very flexible and can be stretched as needed. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #diamond

Ink and marker drawing of expandable brown-paper packaging in a connected diamond structure.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sneak peek! A collection is coming together! 😁 Here are a few more of the sycamore cyanotype series I have been working on. I have completed about 12 pieces so far. I love seeing what the shapes tell me as I start so add the line work. What is your favorite part of working in a series? 🎨

Sycamore bark cyanotype with deep blue background and black, white, gold and silver lines and dot work on top.

Sycamore bark cyanotype with deep blue background and white lines and dot work on top.

Sycamore bark cyanotype with light blue background and black, white, gold and silver lines and dot work on top.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 12: Teardrop. Tektites are natural glass formations from terrestrial debris ejected during meteorite impacts. Moldavia is a rare, green gemstone that is also a tektite, found in parts of the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. 🐡🎨 #tektite #teardrop #moldavite

Teardrop-shaped ink and marker to drawing of a piece of green-colored moldavite.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 11: Heart. Both octopus and squid have not one, but three hearts! There is the main, systemic heart that pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body and two branchial hearts that pump blood to the gills to be oxygenated. 🐡🎨🦑 #sciartseptember2026 #heart #squid

Ink drawing of a squid showing where the three hearts reside. The branchial hearts are colored blue and the systemic heart is red.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 7: Woad. Woad is a plant that produces a blue dye. Since the prompts this first week are focused on color, I broadened my subject and went with a blue/green algae, or Cyanobacteria. This often produces toxic blooms on bodies of water. 🐡🎨 #woad #cyanobacteria

A 3x4” Bristol paper with a pen and marker drawing of wavy, water shapes in bright green and darker blue.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 9: Ivory. Fascinates to learn about different animal ivory via cross-sections. Here, elephant ivory has a distinctive cross-hatch pattern (Shreger lines) vs narwhal ivory which is more hollow in the center and has concentric growth rings. #sciart 🐡🎨

3x4” Bristol paper with an ink and marker diagram of tusk cross-sections.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 8: Ruby. This small bird is the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) Males have olive plumage and a bright red crest on top of the head, often concealed. 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2026 #ruby #kinglet

Ink and marker drawing from a top-down view of this small bird. A bright red crest in the center top of the head stands out among olive and cream plumage.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 7: Fawn. This is a Fawn or Deer Mushroom (Pluteus cervinus) found on rotten logs, roots and tree stumps in eastern North America and Europe. 🐡🍄🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #deermushroom #fawn

Ink drawing of a fawn mushroom that has shades of cream, reddish brown and darker brown shadows.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 6: Coral. I thought of the sea and coral reefs and that led me to nudibranches. These are colorful, marine gastropods, and I knew I could find one in coral pinks. This is Verconia alboannulata. 🐡🎨 #sciart #coral #nudibranch #sciartseptember2026

3x4” Bristol paper with a pen illustration of a mud branch gastropod with wavy forms and a beautiful, bright coral pink with purple and white edges and markings.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 5: Saffron. I love a bright yellow bird! This is the Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola) which is a tanager native to South America. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #saffron

A 3x4” white Bristol paper with a bird facing left. It is in bright shades of yellow with a bit of orange on top of the head.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 4: Azure. A daily drawing challenge is sometimes just that - a challenge! Clouds are trickier than I thought! So, I invite you to focus on the brilliant azure sky 😂 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #azure

3x4” Bristol paper with upper half including a medium blue sky using marker and gray and white puffy clouds beneath.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 3: Sanguine. I searched for several things and landed on this brilliant red bromeliad (Guzmania sanguinea) 🐡🎨🌱 #sciartseptember2026 #sanguine

3x4” white Bristol paper with an ink and marker drawing of a red bromeliad that has light green leaf tips.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So I am still immersed in cyanotype and working on my other series. But am also playing! This expandable, brown paper packing makes for some really neat prints! 🎨 #cyanotype

Cyanotype print, landscape orientation with a swirling honeycomb-like structure.

Cyanotype print, portrait orientation with a swirling honeycomb-like structure, resembling an ammonite.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

SciArt September, Day 2: Violet. My mind was on dyes. This is the molecule for methyl violet or crystal violet. Often used for purples in textiles or deep violet inks and paints. It also has a range of other uses, including gram staining for bacteria. 🐡 🧪 #sciartseptember2026 #methylviolet #violet

3x4” Bristol smooth paper with chemical diagram of methyl violet in black ink. Several violet marker swatches indicate color.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sciart September has arrived! Day 1: Malachite. This made me think of the beautiful, metallic green and gold Common June Bug beetle (Cotinis nitida) I used various pens, including metallic bronze) to give a sense of the color. 🐡🎨 #junebeetle #sciartseptember2026 #sciart

3x4” Bristol smooth with a realistic drawing of a June Beetle in black, green and gold ink.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ok, since I was up I couldn’t resist one more look at peak. Changed my settings just a touch to have a 3-second night-mode and captured some of the red. #sturgeooon #mooneclipse 🌕

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A couple of eclipse photos from tonight. Both from my cell, so not super clear, but neat to document! #sturgeonmoon 🌕

Full moon with early eclipse “bite” starting on left.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some of these just create themselves—Leafy Seadragon, anyone?! 🎨🐡#sycamorebarkcyanotype #intuitivedrawing

Cyanotype print of sycamore bark with intuitive drawing on top in gold, silver and blue metallic gel pen.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some color, too! Very happy that my little patch of zinnia keep blooming. And found a hint of color to come in this beautiful crabapple leaf. 🌱#zinnia #crabappleleaf

Four zinnias blooming against a gray fence.

Crabapple leaf with patches of maroon and medium red color.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Out watering this morning and see some fungi showing up. The jelly-like one must be a variety of witches butter. 🍄 #fungi

White fungi in foreground with wide tops; yellow chanterelles (?) starting behind.

More yellow chanterelles, I believe. Yellow clusters with long stalk and round, indented cups.

Witches bitter fungus. Pale cream to tan color.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Prepping for this fall’s SciArt September! Found two drawings from a previous round (maybe 3-4 years ago?) Looking forward to seeing what the prompts inspire this year! 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember #sciart

Ink drawing of a partial honeycomb. Prompt: Community

Squares of Bristol smooth with square outlines.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Really enjoying this series I am working on! Cyanotypes with intuitive line work on top. Each is unique and I never know how it will turn out until it is done. Stay tuned as there are more to come! 🎨🌱 #cyanotype #penandink #intuitivedrawing

Cyanotype of ginkgo leaves with gold, silver and white linework.

Small cyanotype of sycamore bark with gold, white, silver and black linework.

Cyanotype of sycamore bark (3 shapes) with black, gold, silver and white linework.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Waiting for the clouds to move along…sunshine is coming back! #cyanotyping

Picture of the blue sky with sun rays peeking through the clouds.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Inchie Challenge — the week’s drawings all together. This was a fun way to play around with ideas and mediums, without being intimidating. A two-inch square takes the pressure off! Thanks to @amymaricle for this great experiment! 🎨#inchiechallenge2026

All seven 2-inch squares from the week-long Inchie Challenge!

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Last day of the Inchie Challenge! Day 7: Complicate. This brought to mind complex molecular interactions in biochemistry, usually depicted as bubble structures. 🎨🐡#inchiechallenge2026 #complicate

Chains of clack and white bubbles connected in shapes with “arms” projecting out. Gel pen in gold, silver, red, and blue color some bubbles.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Inchie Challenge, Day 6: Eucalyptus. Did a quick watercolor sketch of two varieties of leaves - the long leaves of the tree and the “silver dollar” variety often used in flower arrangements. 🌱🎨 #inchiechallenge2026 #eucalyptus

Long, green leaf and silver-green behind it on left and rounded, silvery-green discs on right. Some pen work on top.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Combining several of my favorite things! Intuitive drawing on top of cyanotype prints of sycamore bark. I feel like this one is bringing fantasy landscape, geologic features and ancient artifacts to mind. What do you see? Definitely planning more of these. 🎨#sycamorebark #cyanotype #intuitivedrawing

Dark blue cyanotype background with white and blue irregular shapes and white, black and silver linework.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Inchie Challenge, Day 5: Lines. Decided to try some new, earth-toned gel pens I have. Started with some straight lines leading to curvy ones. 🎨#inchiechallenge2026 #lines

Two-inch square Bristol smooth paper with a box of three, different green lines outside and the curve of a nautilus shell in brown lines.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Inchie Challenge, Day 4: Landscape. Normally, I am terrified of landscapes and also of watercolor, so this tiny format was the perfect way to give it a try. This is Sleeping Bear Dunes. I was tempted to add some gel pen, but held off. I like the looseness of this. 🎨 #landscape #sleepingbeardunes

Two-inch square watercolor sketch of Sleeping Bear Dunes with blue sky and lake and steep, yellow/tan sand with some greenery.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Inchie Challenge, Day 3: Blue. Played around with some of the blue watercolors I have, including some with mica for a little sparkle. Added some blue gel pen on top. 🎨#inchiechalleng2026 #blue

Two-inch square Bristol smooth paper with wavy watercolor patterns in light, medium and dark blue with dark blue gel pen lines and dots.

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Visited County Farm Park and the community gardens. Lots of beautiful summer flowers! #summerflowers 🌻🌱

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Inchie Challenge Day 2: Sprinkle. We finally had some rain here overnight so I was thinking of water. Some layers of blue watercolor with white and silver gel pen on top. 🎨 #inchiechallenge2026 #sprinkle #watercolor #gelpen

Two-inch square of Bristol smooth with medium and light blue paint, white and silver gel pen ovals and dots.

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