#sciartseptember — Public Fediverse posts
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Here's our first draft of possible #SciArt drawing prompts. If you have suggestions, please reply to this post.
#SciArtSeptember 2026 Mastodon list of 30 prompts:
Seasons
Inertia
Budding
Synapse
Innoculum
Tessellation
Diffraction
Hexagons
Random Walk
Lipid
Orbit
Lichen
Motif
Coral
Algae
Fungi
Organelle
Fractal
Diffraction
Calm
Ultraviolet
Vector
Translation
Mutation
Dendrite
Recursion
Microscopic
Graph
Bone
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As in past years, we're putting together our own list of prompts for #SciArtSeptember. Feel free to use any of ours, or from other platforms. The goal is to get folks inspired and create art about Science.
You can create new work, or share already existing work. Just have fun with it!
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@kristinHenry “¡Las Moléculas son Bellas!” might be of #SciArt interest during #SciArtSeptember. #Chemistry #MolViz
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Ah! I see that it's almost September again...which means it's almost #SciArtSeptember again.
I'm thinking of doing my own list of inspirations, again. I tend to prefer MicroBiology or Biochem topics.
If anyone has any ideas you'd like me to add, please comment. Suggest as many as you like, I'll edit down the full list to a month's worth of #SciArt inspirations.
As before, new and older works are welcome. And also, follow prompts from any #SciArtSeptember lists. The more #SciArt, the better
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I’ve put together all of my #SciArtSeptember posts into one blog post. Enjoy!
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If you enjoyed #SciArtSeptember, and wish it wasn't over, don't fret. It's now #Mathtober!
Already seeing some great math-art, and I'm loving it!
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#SciArtSeptember Day 30: dream
Dreaming takes place in our brain. Here's a detail from my #SciArt #embroidery the wandering ghost (2024) of the brain and facial nerves. -
That's a wrap for #SeptemBee! This month I painted 28 species of bees, 1 isopod, and 1 landscape (not pictured), each relating to the daily #SciArtSeptember prompt (which I was able to stick to far more easily than anticipated!)
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Last day of #SeptemBee! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt of "dream" I've picked a bee famous for how it sleeps. Amegilla cingulata, the blue banded bee, is frequently pictured asleep, legs curled and clinging to a twig by its mandibles. Though it almost exclusively prefers blue flowers, it has become an important pollinator in Australia due to its method of buzz pollination.
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Day 30 of #SciArtSeptember prompt dream: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler’s science fiction story Somnium, or “The Dream”. Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, with the intention of eventually publishing it but he died before that could could happen. (It also escaped his control and contributed to 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #histsci #sciart #Kepler #mastoArt #astronomy
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#SciArtSeptember Day 29: "Scattering".
I decided to draw some fungi for today's drawing.
The Maker Faire is over, so it's back to normality again...well whatever normality is these days. I had time, so I also drew some penguins. It feels great to have more time for drawing again!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/137994342
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-September-2025-D1D11KNP2I#ink #drawing #art #SciArt #fungi #GenerativeArt #ProceduralArt
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#SciArtSeptember Day 29: Scattering
I accidentally found this effect while brooming one day, is it scattering the light?
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#SciArtSeptember Day 29: foresight • A sketch for a future piece of #SciArt embroidery based on some of my polyvagal theory and meditation imagery.
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#SeptemBee 29th #SciArtSeptember prompt "foresight."
This is Bombus terrestris, the buff tailed bumblebee. As one of Europe's most common bees, it is also a frequent subject of behavior and intelligence studies, and it turns out bees can be pretty smart. They communicate by dancing, can learn and remember maps and faces, they show signs of PTSD if you harass them too much, and yes, even show signs of foresight.
B. terrestris, for example, continuously monitors its nest's honey and pollen reserves. If it gets too low, they will start biting and chewing the leaf buds off tomato plants. This damage induces the plant to start flowering and provide more nectar and pollen for the hive.
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Day 29 #SciArtSeptember prompt foresight: #botanist E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984), here with plants she studied.
A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & early woman in US #botany PhD, environmental activist who wrote about need to incorporate indigenous knowledge in sustainable development. Her name lives on in names of plants: Magnolia kobus Janaki Ammal, 🧵
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#SciArtSeptember Day 28: "Tessellation"
I felt like adding some little fish to this one. I didn't have a lot of time for my #inkyDays drawing today, as I had to leave early for the Maker Faire this morning.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/137994342
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-September-2025-D1D11KNP2I#ink #drawing #art #MakerFaire #sfba #GenerativeArt #ProceduralArt
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#SciArtSeptember Day 28: Harvest
Opiliones are a group of arachnids sometimes called Harvestmen or Daddy Long-legs. Despite urban legends, Harvestmen don't even have venom and are harmless to humans.
(Keychains/magnets available on my Etsy, ships from the US https://blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com )
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#SciArtSeptember Day 28: harvest
A piece where I imagined the recurrent laryngeal nerve as a plant with its leaves unfurling in the throat. (I still need to wash and stretch this piece!) #SciArt #embroidery -
#SeptemBee 28th! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt "harvest" I've chosen a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, although there are lots of bees colloquially called "squash bees."
Do yourself a favor: look inside a big orange squash/pumpkin flower one morning and say hi to your new best friend. Squash bees have been quietly following humans and their crops around North America (and beyond) for thousands of years. They may spend their entire lives in a single field, pollinating only cucurbits. As solitary ground nesters, no-till methods are vital for preserving their habitat and their continuing pollination services.
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Day 28 #SciArtSeptember prompt harvest. Echoing my print of insects for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination this print is intended to drive home how much we are dependent on insect pollinators. These are many of the food crops we grow here in Ontario which benefit from insects. I didn’t include crops grown for oil or as livestock feed. (Some are representative of a category, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #mastoArt #ManufacturedEcosystems #food #agriculture #pollination
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#SciArtSeptember Day 27: "Symbiosis"
So, how could I resist drawing some mitochondria in today's #inkyDays.
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#SciArtSeptember Day 27: bounded • My current #embroidery WIP. I often make large pieces, and the hoop creates a boundary for me to focus on a particular section. I haven’t gotten to the SciArt part of this piece yet but it’s coming!
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#SeptemBee 27th! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "bound" so I chose a geographically restricted species, Xylocopa darwini. These carpenter bees are the only bees native to the Galapagos Islands - up until relatively recently, they were the only bees there at all!
You get two today because I love the sexual dimorphism in the species. They look suspiciously like the valley carpenter bee (X. sonorina) that I painted for Valentine's Day earlier this year. Perhaps some lost queen got blown over the ocean a long long time ago and landed on an island full of tortoises.