Scientific Illustration with David Wheeler

Welcome to scientific illustration, wherein the artist’s free play of the imagination is set aside for something completely different: the line drawn as inquiry, evidence, and substance; a revelation born of instruments, extreme focus, and precise measuring. With this exercise, the new knowledge, lines become wonders, a gathering of routes and channels, art and science flowing together. And from this start-up grows limitless possibility: elements, principles, basic shapes, forms and structures, configuration, construction in nature, new worlds, and final understanding.

David Wheeler, B.F.A., M.F.A., teaches at the Pratt Institute’s Center Extension Campus at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. He is a veteran marine science illustrator whose art work is in the permanent collections of museums, universities, and marine centers in this country and abroad, and he has made life-sized models of dinosaurs for the American Museum of Natural History and the Osaka Museum of Natural History in Japan.