Wednesday 4 June 2014

I've moved! Announcing my new site!


After over 7 years here on the excellent Blogger platform, The Flying Trilobite has moved!

Come visit me at the new 

If that link hasn't finished propagating yet, try the alternate link at
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Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite © to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.

Saturday 24 May 2014

Trying Something Bold


Pretty soon I plan to have a new website portfolio and probably even an integrated blog. I may be leaving my 7 year home here on Blogspot pretty soon.

Above is a logo, badge icon thingee I'm trying out.

The two contenders for my future website are Squarespace and newcomer with mystery future-features Artstation. More about all of this soon. 

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Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite © to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.

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Wednesday 19 March 2014

Happy 100th Birthday Royal Ontario Museum!

         

Happy 100th Birthday to the most inspiring place in the city! If it wasn't for the classes I attended as a child, I don't know if I would be the science artist I am today. I'm so excited for the new Early Life Galleries when they eventually open! 

Thanks to all of your scientists and staff on Twitter who have also retweeted my work here on The Flying Trilobite, and on Symbiartic. 

If you'd like to see a small collections of drawings I've made while at the ROM, see this post on Symbiartic, Little Museum Sketches


Friday 14 March 2014

Rolling science communication uphill


                         

Reminding myself that I roll the science communication career uphill so I can paint things like this for the best clients. Sometimes it's hard to be an advocate for fellow scientific artists and image makers and the respect we are not afforded by the right-click and reshares abused by commercial entities. 

People who should be allies in spreading better science communication who think attribution (let alone permission) is just some sort of unnecessary perk or "nice to have" hurt the most. 

Then I remember projects like the one that spawned this image above. I enjoyed the challenge and was respected and felt like I was contributing to making science better, more interesting, more easily understood. 

Thank you to my wonderful clients and peers. Together, image makers and science communicators can create something better. The internet is only 25 years old. We don't have to settle for what we have now. 

Saturday 8 March 2014

S E V E N

This marks seventh blogiversary of The Flying Trilobite
Thank you to everyone for their support, commissions and camaraderie over the past 7 years of my evopunk sciart blog!
You're all a bunch of peaches, all a'ya.

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Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite © to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.

Portfolio
Blog
Print Shop

Find me on Symbiartic, the art+science blog on the Scientific American Blog Network!

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Lochlan Mellow

Dear Everyone-We-Know,

The evolutionary legacy of an upright posture,
a clever mind
opposable thumbs,
acute visual sense,
a talent for pattern-finding
and a love of metaphor
Has been passed down through
an exploded star,
a planet,
life,
to chordates,
to mammals,
to apes,
to humans,
to Michelle and Glendon,
and finally, on January 20th 2014 at 9:20pm to Lochlan Charles Follett Mellow.

                             


Lochlan Mellow has entered the universe's history at 7 lb 12 oz , to the
delight of his family and has all the potential in the world to be a
tool-user, a thinker, a metaphor-maker, an artist, a scientist, a poet, and most likely a source of surprise. 

He joins his excited, caring brother <a href="
http://glendonmellow.blogspot.ca/2010/12/calvin-mellow.html">Calvin</a>. Calvin has taught us that the growing mind of a baby is a series of mysteries unfolding and being solved. 

Thanks to everyone online and off, for their words of support and enthusiasm. Most of all, our deepest thanks to the nurses, doctors, specialists and students at Mount Sinai Hospital here in Toronto. Both of our sons arrived in the same delivery room (Go room 7!) to talented, kind, enthusiastic faces ready to greet him and show Michelle every courtesy. You all rock. 

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Saturday 18 January 2014

Assassin's Creed iPad sketch


                                       
Quick Assassin's Creed fanart this morning. Using markers in ArtRage for iPad. With my Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus. 

I did the figure first, but here are the background layers: 

                                        

And for fun, in sepia using the Halftone app: 

                                        
Hmm: dispersion of shadows and highlights is too chaotic. Sketchy sketch is sketchy.


Saturday 4 January 2014

Boulder the Rescuebot - sketch

Working on this for my son, who is a huge Rescuebot fan. Boulder is always the curious, sensitive one. 
                         

Wednesday 1 January 2014

2013: My Year of Creative Ropes


Quick iPad sketch summing up about how I felt about my creative process in 2013. 

2014:The Year of the Trilobite

                           
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