Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
From left to right, top to bottom: Painted Lady (Vanessa sp.), Bogong (Agrotis infusa), Karner Blue (Plebejus melissa samuelis), Dark Blue Tiger (Tirumala septentrionis), Monarch (Danaus plexippus), Blue Morpho (Morpho sp.), African Emigrant (Catopsilia florella), Purple Crow (Euploea tulliolus), Double Banded Crow (Euploea Sylvester)
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Papilio sp.
Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Prionoxystus robiniae
Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Images published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Saturnia pyri
Created for Villa Matilde Wildlife Education Center, Spain
Watercolor
©Melisa Beveridge 2008
Smerinthus jamaicensis
This specimen was in the collection at the Huyck preserve. The illustration was completed during the Com.en.art residency.
Colored pencil on Duralene.
©Melisa Beveridge 2010
Attacus atlas
Colored pencil on Duralene.
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
Dryas Iulia
Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Danaus plexippus
Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Danaus plexippus
Published in Inside Butterflies (Inside Series)- Sterling Press in partnership with The American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Eupholus bennetti
Colored pencil on Duralene.
©Melisa Beveridge 2010
Kheper sp.
Black and white line drawing version was published in "The Coleopterists Bulletin" in December 2006
Watercolor
©2006 Melisa Beveridge
Pyrrhalta viburni
This was created for a scientist I worked with while at the Com.en.art residency at the Huyck preserve, New York.
Colored pencil on duralene.
©Melisa Beveridge 2009
Stenocara gracilipes
Gouache painting of a Stenocara Beetle collecting water droplets on its back atop a sand dune in the Namibian desert.
Used on Minnesota PBS Dragonfly TV in December 2008.
©Melisa Beveridge 2009
Commissioned by The Acorn Group, Inc. for Interpretive panels at the Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center in Torrance, CA.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2012
This plate shows five common pests of the pepper plant including the Green Peach Aphid (Myzus persicae), the Pepper Maggot (Zonosemata electa), the Red Spider Mite (Tetranychus urticae), the Clear-winged Grasshopper (Camnula pellucida), and the Pepper Weevil (Anthonomus eugenii).
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
Ampeloglypter sesostris
Gouache and Adobe Illustrator
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
This logo was created for the citizen science project.
Adobe Illustrator
©Melisa Beveridge 2009
Gouache Trompe l'oeil telling the story of the ravages of grape phylloxera in France. This painting was inspired by the book: "The Botanist and the Vintner"
Published as Cover image for “Dying on the Vine: How Phylloxera Transformed Wine” by George D. Gale. University of California Press, 2011.
Also used as cover for “Careers in Science Illustration” Booklet published by Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Washington D.C.
Gouache
©2007 Melisa Beveridge
Lathyrus odoratus
Gouache
©2007 Melisa Beveridge
Anethum graveolens
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2013
Armillaria tabescens
Used in an online mushroom identification guide.
Watercolor
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
Saintpaulia sp.
This was created for my grandma’s slowww surprise 90th birthday party invitation because they were her favorite flower.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2009
Created for Villa Matilde Wildlife Education Center, Spain.
Watercolor sketch
©Melisa Beveridge 2008
Cistus albidus
Created for Villa Matilde Wildlife Education Center, Spain.
Watercolor sketch
©Melisa Beveridge 2008
Triticum sp.
Scratchboard and Ink
©Melisa Beveridge 2006
Anguilla rostrata
Published in Natural History Magazine:
November 2009 Issue
Photoshop and Illustrator
©2009 Melisa Beveridge
Melibe leonina
Published in Natural History Magazine:
May 2009 Issue
Photoshop
©2009 Melisa Beveridge
Muraena retifera
The Moray eel has a second set of jaws that reaches out to pull in prey.
Published in Natural History Magazine:
February 2008 Issue
Photoshop
©Melisa Beveridge 2008
Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
Lepus californicus
Watercolor and Pencil
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
Castor Canadensis
Included in the Inspiration & Interpretation art show in Brooklyn, NY
Gouache and Silverpoint.
©Melisa Beveridge 2009
Buteo jamaicensis
Commissioned by The Acorn Group, Inc. for Interpretive panels at the Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center in Torrance, CA.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2011
Struthio camelus and Caudipteryx sp.
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
Created for an Interpretive panel for the Three Bridges Oak Preserve and the Atascadero Land Preservation Society
Gouache and Photoshop
©Melisa Beveridge 2017
Gouache
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Created for the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica.
©Melisa Beveridge 2010
Mustela frenata
Scratchboard and Ink
©Melisa Beveridge 2007
I had the great honor of creating "Udderly Exposed" for the San Luis Obispo County Cow Parade. She is known affectionately as "Expo". I wanted to create an anatomically correct look at the inside of a cow. There were 101 cows on display throughout the county. "Udderly Exposed" was sponsored and purchased by Animal Care Clinic in San Luis Obispo, where I work as a Registered Veterinary Technician. I painted her in a very colorful barn in Squire Canyon where the owner of the clinic lives. Many, many days and long nights were spent in that barn. I am showing a timeline of the painting and the many attempts at figuring out how to make a beating/glow-in-the dark heart (which we are still working on lighting).
Submission sketch to the Cow Parade judges
Blank cow!
Expo moved into her new barn.
We brought Expo back to the clinic so I could paint her at our annual fundraising event.
Late night painting back at the barn.
Vincent, my assistant, liked to rub on Expo's legs.
Pink nose!
I stood back in terror as Dr. Bonnie Markoff performed open heart surgery on Expo, but I knew she was a great doctor and it would be successful.
Hooray!
Paint everywhere
Starting on her other side now.
Muscles and Stomachs!
Now for the tricky part, I made a mold out of clay to cast the heart.
I did a lot of research into epoxy. There is a lot of epoxy out there. I finally decided on a product and then found some glow-in-the-dark powder to add to the resin.
Unfortunately, the material was not setting, it was really sticky. I thought if I put it in the refrigerator that would help. My cat thought it was a good idea too, but it did not work.
It looked nice, but was still sticky
Second try worked! It set, it was thinner and less obnoxiously colored.
Sanding down the heart to make it fit was a dusty business.
After a lot of work, it fit!
A little bit of epoxy and Bondo to set it in.
I put a light behind the heart at night and it was beautiful! We tried many lights that were mounted on a board that Bonnie placed inside Expo. We made a hole in her stomach to access the area. We used blinking bike lights of all kinds. It looked great at night but was hard to see in the daylight.
Painting eyes.
The cow parade guys came to pick her up. it was kind of sad, and I was very worried about her in the back of the truck. But they took very good care of her.
Expo arrived at the cow parade kick-off at Madonna Meadows and met the 100 other cows there!.
She made a dog friend.
And met my nephew
It was really hot that day so we sat under her for some shade.
Expo arriving at the clinic to get mounted at her permanent home.
Come visit her at Animal Care Clinic at 162 Cross st. in San Luis Obispo.
Night time heart beat!
