Pet Portrait Art
PET PORTRAIT 01
Mya
The photograph that I worked from and then the finished art
PET PORTRAIT 02
Belle
A memorial drawing of a client’s beloved cat.
PET PORTRAIT 03
Charmie
Drawn from a black and white photo taken in 1958 and then colorized based on the description of the horse’s owner
PET PORTRAIT 04
Monster
I drew a natural color portrait of Monster (top row center) and then had some fun with different colors.
Object Art
OBJECT ART 01
Truper
There was once a shovel named Truper. There’s a story there…
OBJECT ART 02
Crocus
Experimenting with drawing flowers.
OBJECT ART 03
Archaeohipporaptor
Joke art taking the fossil horse Archaeohippus and adding fangs and long recurved claws. The humor is that this is the only way to get a fossil horse on the cover of Discover Magazine.
Technical Art
TECHNICAL 01
Isotopic data from a Bison tooth
Used to illustrate how the chemistry of tooth enamel varies with position along tooth.
TECHNICAL 02
Fastest land mammals
Important figure in a technical paper in review. Colors are selected to allow for used in monochomatic printing and for visibility for color-blind individuals.
TECHNICAL 03
Skull fossae in the skulls of fossil horses
A figure that’s part of a book chapter in press.
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist 