Rachel Frank

Cyclamen watercolor painting #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #watercolor #sciart

Cyclamen persicum

Pencil drawing of a cyclamen #sciart #botanicalillustration #botanicalart #pencil

Unmeasured line drawing of my sad cyclamen.

Watercolor painting of a pear in color #sciart #botanicalart #watercolor

And another

Sepia watercolor painting of a pear #watercolor #sciart #botanicalart

Yet another pear.

Four drawings of a pear, one measured one with value one with lines and one with texture and tone. #botanicalillustration #sciart #graphite

More pears.

Measured drawings of a close up of a coneflower leaf. #botanicalillustration #sciart

Measured and unmeasured drawings of a camellia leaf #sciart #botanicalillustration

Some classwork.

Pencil drawing of a pear on white paper sitting on a piece of cardboard #sciart #botanicalillustration #pencil #bartlettpear

Quick study of a pear for class.

Morning glory watercolor painting. #watercolor #sciart #botanicalillustration #morningglory #thankyoucard

Morning glory for a thank you card on this Saturday morning.

#cyclamen #botanicalart #sciart

First try at a cyclamen

Some pals I met last week. One was very grumpy.

Cheetah on duralar with a reference photo by Linda Smit I found on the Google #sciart #duralar #coloredpencil #gouache #cheetah

Practicing on duralar again.

Sheet with black light pointed at it to attract moths hanging from a clothesline #moth #party

Moth party!!!!!!!

Marble orb weaver butt #sciart #wip #spider #coloredpencil

Spider butt.

Colored pencil drawings of various shells found in nags head with labels on black paper. #sciart #shells #beach #coloredpencil #nagshead #art

Shells of Nags Head #2

Back at it again

Colored pencil drawing of various shells on black paper with real shells around it. #sciart #coloredpencil #shells #beach

Day at the beach has started off with lots of drawing shells 🐚

Hahahaha so true 💀

Beginning of a green rough snake on duralar with colored pencil and smudges. #sciart #greenroughsnake #wip #duralar #coloredpencil

Would love to keep my workspace clean even once

Watercolor painting of a coneflower and bumblebee with a forest backdrop. #watercolor #workshop #sciart #coneflower #botanicalart

Student work from my Wildlife Watercolor class! Last week was about composition and echinacea. So proud of seeing what they come up with.

Indigo blue colored pencil on duralar squirrel skeleton

Eastern Grey Squirrel skeleton started off and I think this lil stick figure guy is very cute.

Watercolor painting of coneflowers with a bee at the top. #watercolor #wip #coneflower #echinacea #bumblebee #wildflowers #pollinators

Thank the lord herself that I am starting botanical illustration classes soon bc I have no idea what I’m doing.

Attempt #3

#sciart #ammonite #coloredpencil

Aww thank you!!!! 😊

Thank you!!!!

Watercolor painting of an eastern box turtle shell on a messy desk

Good day for reworking sketches and getting paint splatters on everything.

#sciart #easternboxturtle #terrapenecarolinacarolina #watercolor

Me holding a pink and red cornsnake named nagini over my shoulder in front of a lake

Good day. Goooooood good day.

#snake #nagini #sciart

Thank you! 😊

Lacewing on vellum done with colored pencil and gouache

Lacewing on vellum.

#sciart #coloredpencil #lacewing

Yellow and green fish sketch done with watercolor and colored pencil with dark lines between the scales

Watercolor and colored pencil sketch of a snake with dark lines between scales

Eastern Box Turtle shell watercolor painting of

Diagram of the carapace on a turtle with sections color coded

Some little sketches I did for visuals in my upcoming wildlife watercolor class! Talking about scales, reptiles and the Eastern Box Turtle.

#sciart #watercolor #sketch #wildlife #turtle #easternboxturtle

Watercolor painting of a southern leopard frog sitting on a rock with unfinished foliage in the background

Southern Leopard Frog- Lithobates sphenocephalus

Still need to label and do some fiddling in the background but I am impatient and wanted to post.

#sciart #southernleopardfrog #frog #herps