Celestial Whale Studio
@celestialwhale.bsky.social
👩🔬 Erica Flores, MS, MDA 🔬 Research Scientist & Freelance Artist 🎨 💌 Commissions: erica@celestialwhale.studio https://linktr.ee/celestialwhale.studio
In one month! #SciArtSeptember returns for a 6th year. Open to all who are curious about the places where art and science connect. Make new work, post works in progress, or share old favourites. Post when and what you like. 🐡 #SciArt #SciComm
Nautilus (Watercolor) 💙 Day 31 Favorite #ArtRepostJuly #watercolor #nautilus #sciart Many thanks to @whistberry.bsky.social for this fun art challenge!
I created 100 tiny paintings celebrating reef fish. I’m looking for a small number of ocean conservation organizations, reef restoration projects, marine research groups, and community-based conservation programs to help me give them away. See ALT for more info. #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife
Purple Sea Star (Pisaster ochraceus) #ArtRepostJuly Day 27 Purple #sciart #artchallange #seastar #digitalillustration
Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), 👩🏼🔬🧪🐡 #histsci #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to carbon & virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.
The first 22 hours of #zebrafish development in under one minute. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social in #WeinsteinLab at NIH. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
The theme for #ArtRepostJuly today is Large, so here's the largest shorebird species I've seen, Long-billed Curlew! Definitely a favorite too! #BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #AnimalArt #FineArt
Calling all artists! We don't reshare our older stuff enough, so here's an excuse to do so I'll be busy in July drawing things I can't share publicly just yet, so I'm gonna repost some of my faves following these approximate themes (interpreted broadly!) Join me? #art #ArtChallenge #ArtRepostJuly
Prompt list here!!
I made a new art challenge for reposting your art! The challenge is to find existing works that fits the prompts (get creative!) - no new work needed! woho!! Starting April 1st I will be reposting existing art based on these prompts!! All artists welcome to join :) #repostyourart
"Shy Poliwhirl" 💙🌀 Not my usual art content, but I have been enjoying diving back into Pokemon for the 30th anniversary 🥰 #pokemon #fanart #poliwhirl #fanart #digitalillustration
Remember how I said it is YEAR OF THE MOTH!? PL Weng put together an awesome list of Moths that you can celebrate each week from February until Moth Week! Think of it as a fun #SciArt Challenge! Get ready to make this year Mothy! #moth #teamMoth #YearOfTheMoth
My contribution in the fight against AI generated "art" 💙🐙 #sciart #octopus #supporthumanartists #digitalillustration
#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #mathematician & #geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930-2026). Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Her work using math to precisely model the shape of Earth laid groundwork for GPS!
Pink and Periwinkle Cephalopods 🩷🦑🐙 A few of my favorites all together: Nautilus, Cuttlefish, Vampire Squid, Dumbo Octopus 🥰 (Procreate) #sciart #cephalopods #digitalillustration
someone please tell me drawing all of these weird Cambrian guys will be worth it