I placed my sketchbooks, found objects, drawing materials and trail maps under glass for a few months at the beautiful Doyle Library at Santa Rosa Junior College. I call the display “My Process,” since someone who looks closely can find both rough field...
Array of seeds, featuring Amborella trichopoda (detail) Krista Anandakuttan 2016, Ink on plaster (fresco secco) The angiosperms– flowering plants– produce true enclosed seeds. This array of seeds is centered around a specimen of Amborella trichopoda, a living...
Remembering the magnificent microscope slides of Jack Fisher: marine algae in glowing colors. Poetry. Detail of works in progress, “Magnified” Fresco secco: earth and mineral pigments on dry plaster I met Jack at work mounting specimens, deep in the...
Exhibit: BIODIVERSITY, a closer look- Artists Bambi Waterman & Krista Anandakuttan explore lifeforms in porcelain clay and fresco It all started last summer, as a hypothetical. “Would we, could we” show our biology-inspired artwork together? We were...
Painting with earth colors is nothing new… Rust is red Found all over the world in shades of brown and red, orange, yellow and green, earth colors have been used by artists for more than 40,000 years. Deposits of iron-rich earth yield iron oxides in red and...
Black Lemur (Eulemur macaco) by Krista Anandakuttan, India ink and acrylic Jewels of Nature Exhibit 2014 Featuring works highlighting rare and endangered species as well as the natural history of California and beyond by: Krista Anandakuttan, Jennifer Bates, Katie...
