by Marlin Peterson | Feb 19, 2010 | Science Illustrations
This extremely tiny spider (~1mm across!) is called Silhouettella assumptia and is from an elusive and little known family of spiders called Oonopidae. They are known to lay people as the “goblin” spiders, but to latin linguists in labcoats the Oonopidae...
by Marlin Peterson | Dec 20, 2009 | Science Illustrations
This image was extremely fun to work on. It was for an article for Natural History magazine about the triumphant success of so called Argentine Ants. I chose the “pioneer” theme of the wagon, bonnet, cowboy hat, aphid-oxen etc. to make it a very easy to...
by Marlin Peterson | Jun 19, 2008 | Science Illustrations
This was an image I did for Science Notes for an online journal article. check out the article here: http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0801/pages/food/food.html I “drink the cool-ade” when it comes to cooked foods, so my embedded visual opinion on it is...
by Marlin Peterson | Oct 15, 2007 | Science Illustrations
We all (15 of us) have met each other, the personalities are beginning to emerge, and the projects with their fudgeless deadlines have just begun to descend upon me. We are starting with black and white, which seems fitting, and are steadily seeing on the horizon...
