Catie Michel

Hello! I make murals, scientific illustrations, drawings, paintings, and platinum prints. Here is a recent drawing of a Cactus Wren on grey-toned paper. #birdart #sciart #scienceillustration

This series celebrates bird and shell diversity and explores the curiously high number of look-alike pairs who would likely never interact, offering a glimmering glimpse of the immeasurable connections between us all. #sciart #birdart #shells #birdpainting #marineart #acrylicpaintings #natureart

“As Full and Clear as Falling Water” Ballpoint pen and charcoal on grey toned paper. 18x24 inches Two American dippers feed their chicks in a moss-made nest behind a waterfall along a fast moving mountain creek. Title is from “The Dipper” by Mary Oliver. #pendrawing #sciart #birdart #penandink

Ongoing series of bird and shell lookalikes. These and a few new pairs will be on display at the Gunnison Arts Center opening 9/4 5pm. All 18x24 inches, acrylic on wood. 🪶 #sciart #birdart #shellart #natureart #birdpainting #wildlifeart #hummingbird #hoopoe #woodpecker #shells #acrylic #gunnison

A coastal sea wolf surrounded by her temperate rainforest neighbors. Painted as part of Noisy Waters Mural Festival in Bellingham, WA 🪶 #sciart #mural #publicart #pnw #wolfart #botanicalpainting #rainforest #salishsea #bellingham #pacificherring #ferns #salal #kelp #oceanart #forests 8’x8’ latex

North American Pollinators and their host plants: “Carrier Bag Theory of Conservation”. Inspired by Ursula K Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. On view at Goggleworks in PA for Creature Conserve. Prints available for preorder! #sciart #pollinators #moths #caterpillars #creatureconserve

Nature Notes: Sand Creek, a 3,915 sq ft mural featuring five field notebooks celebrating plants and animals of the Sand Creek Greenway. Denver, CO 2025 #mural #sciart #wildlifeart #publicart #naturejournaling #birdart 🪶 #handpainted #muralart #natureart #fieldnotes #scicomm #naturalist #denverart

Nearly 30 organisms persist in a busy Northern CA tide pool, created for the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. A model of collective survival under pressure, free from supremacy and centralized power. Ink on Bristol, 11x17 in. #sciart #marineart #birdart #oceanart 🪶 🐙 #scicomm #tidepool

A black heron mid-pose in its umbrella/canopy feeding behavior, surrounded by fellow flora and fauna of the Chobe River. Acrylic on birch, 36 x 36 inches. #heron #chobe #wildlifeart #sciart #birdart #wetlands #natureart #acrylicpainting 🪶

Day 5 for #BirdArtWeek2026 theme #RuleBreakers: the American Dipper. Dippers are the only aquatic songbird! #birdart #dippers #freshwater #pendrawing #wildlifeart #sciart #aquatichabitat #water 🪶 @cornellbirds.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

Day 4 of #BirdArtWeek2026 with a Great Cormorant for #SpectacularSeabirds #birdart #cormorant #seabirds #wildlifeart #ballpoint #charcoal #pendrawing #sciart 🪶 @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful. Image: Eleanor Lutz tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...

Day 2 of @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026 for the prompt #HiddenBirds: a Common squirrel cuckoo. Not a terribly shy bird, but it took me ages to finally spot one amongst the leaves! #cuckoos #birdart #birddrawing #ballpointpen #wildlifeart

Day 1 of @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026 with the prompt #BirdsWithWhimsy: the Black-Billed Magpie. #birdart #magpieart #birddrawing #magpies #ballpointpen

Nigh Flight: Blackpoll Warblers Platinum of ink and charcoal 12 x 12 inches #platinumprint #migratorybirds #blackpoll #alternativeprocess #birdart 🪶

Details of “Good Warm Light” 💚 #acrylicpainting #pitcherplant #steelhead #pupfish #mushrooms #sciart #fishart 🪶

“Good Warm Light” Named after Frida Kahlo’s description of the color green 💚 18 x 24 inches Acrylic on birch #acrylicpainting #hummingbird #birdart #snakeart #sciart #plantart #ferns #frog #serpentine #moths 🪶

Preview of a new painting “Good Warm Light” named after Frida Kahlo’s description of the color green from her person writings in 1957. 18x24 acrylic on birch #green #hummingbird #lunamoth #ferns #acrylic #painting #natureart

Chambered nautilus, white pens and acrylic on board. 4 ft x 3 ft. #nautilus #oceanart #marinelife #sciart #scientificillustration #cephalopod #marineart

A giant Pacific octopus, white pens and acrylic on board. 4 ft x 3 ft. Inspired by 18th century Lord Bodner’s copper plate engraving. #sciart #marineart #octopus #oceanart #marinelife #scienceart #cephalopod

Magpies and mule deer mural for Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater and the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Greenwood Village, CO! Acrylic and latex, 15 x 8ft. 🪶 #birdart #deer #mural #publicart #handpainted #colorado #wildlife #magpie #muralartist #acrylic #sciart #conservation

One of three spreads for Mad! Agriculture Journal issue 12, recently published. Watercolor and ink. #botanicalillustration #sciart #garlic #botany #plants #scientificillustration #agriculture

Platinum-palladium of Pacific sardines at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in CA. #sardines #marinelife #platinum #printmaking #fishart #alternativeprocess

A platinum-palladium artwork of Meca’Ayo and a screech owl for today’s #SuperbOwl 🪶 Part of an ongoing series of portraits/interviews of women+nonbinary individuals. 30x22 in, platinum, graphite, watercolor on paper #platinumpalladium #alternativeprinting #portrait #birdart #owl

This mural was such a joy to create for Art Gym Denver’s conference room last spring. It features four local hummingbird species darting across a wall of paint strokes. 22 x 9 ft, latex house paint and acrylic. #birds #mural #hummingbirds #sciart #birdart #painting

A spread from my field notebook detailing snorkel survey sights in Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja CA, MX as a research asst for a marine biology course. All three sea stars on the right were on the same rock! #fieldnotes #sciart #marinelife #fish #naturejournal #addocean #marinebiology

Ladder-backed woodpecker perches atop a murex shell. Part of a series of acrylic paintings in which various species curiously resemble one another yet would likely never meet—an exploration of color, pattern, and form. #acrylicpainting #birdart #sciart #birds #woodpecker #shell

Eurasian hoopoe perches atop a nautilus shell. Part of a series of acrylic paintings in which various species curiously resemble one another yet would likely never meet—an exploration of color, pattern, and form. #acrylicpainting #hoopoe #nautilus #birdart #birds

CA scrub jay on scrub oak ✺ Ballpoint pen, white charcoal, and white gel pen on grey-toned paper #birds #birddrawing #oak

Western hemlock, Golden-crowned kinglets, Common loons, and Chinook fry; pen and ink on paper! #commonloon #penandink #sciart #chinook

A plate from my upcoming field guide project, Winter Wildlife of Chicago #scientificillustration #procreate #wildlifeart #queerartist #queerscientist

A Violet-Eared hummingbird perches atop an abalone shell. Part of a series of acrylic paintings in which various species curiously resemble one another yet would likely never meet—an exploration of color, pattern, and form. #hummingbirdart #abalone #acrylicpainting #birdpainting #addbirder