

Soap Flintknapping
Using a soap and a plastic knife, you can easily carve a archeological tool by yourself. This method is good for kids since it is quick...


Smithsonian Fish Illustration
Besides working for the Division of Birds of Smithsonian, I have been drawing fishes for the Division of Fishes. Like ornithologists care...


Maquette Building
On my last day of GNSI meeting, I took the maquette building workshop taught by Reid Psaltis. Whenever I reconstructed paleospecies, I...


Meeting John Muir Laws
When I was doing Bartels Science Illustration Intern at Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the book "The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds" was always...


GNSI Conference @ Santa Cruz
I joined for the first time in Guild of Natural Science illustrators Conference @ Santa Cruz, California (http://2016.conf.gnsi.org/). ...


Kaua'i mole duck
For the last two months I participated in the reconstruction project of Kaua’I mole duck (Talpanas lippa), the extinct Hawaiian nocturnal...


Happy World Oceans Day!
Sometimes I crave for a large scale painting when I focus too much on small stipple drawings. So I painted Coelacanth on a wooden board...


State of North America's Birds 2016
The State of North America's Birds Report 2016 was finally published! My illustrations of 18 birds and a infographic were used in the...


Meet Kumataro Ito's Work
In early 20th centuries, color photography had not yet been invented, and only an artist could capture the vivid, ephemeral colors of...


Back to Birds!
I started working at the Division of Birds at Smithsonian from few weeks ago after finishing beetle illustration project. So, back to...