Illustrations and artwork by Hal Brindley at Naturalist Studio
Truly Wild is a sustainable clothing line dedicated to wildlife conservation. It features original designs printed on tees made from organic cotton, recycled plastic water bottles (rPET), hemp, and recycled cotton. Naturalist Studio created all the shirt designs, product packaging and hang tags, as well as the Shopify e-commerce site Truly Wild. Services provided by …
I’m currently attending a master’s program in Conservation Biology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. For one of my assignments we were asked to produce a poster about a wide-spread species with endangered sub-species. I chose the Ringed Seal and it’s threatened subspecies: the Saimaa and the Lodoga seal. Here’s my result, …
Our Wild Yard is a website dedicated to wildlife gardening. If you want to turn your backyard into a wildlife paradise, go check it out! Naturalist Studio designed the opossum logo and built a super fast WordPress site using minimalist coding and design for maximum SEO rankings. Services provided by Naturalist Studio
New Plumage is a sustainable clothing line dedicated to birds. It features original designs printed on tees made from organic cotton, recycled plastic water bottles (rPET), hemp, and recycled cotton. Naturalist Studio created all the shirt designs, product packaging and hang tags, as well as the Shopify e-commerce site NewPlumage. Services provided by Naturalist Studio
I produced this illustration series for an article in Travel For Wildlife: Animals that start with N. It has since been viewed more than 500,000 times. When creating an animal alphabet the most difficult letter is always N. Can you think of animals that start with n? Most people can’t! This series was created to …
Medium/Software: pencil and ink on paper, coloring and layout in PhotoshopCreated: March 2020 I had the great fortune of sitting in on a class taught by the eminent paleo-artist Maurico Anton at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee. Sadly, one week later the coronavirus shut down all remaining classes. This was my homework from week …
Medium/Software: PhotoshopCreated: March 2020 In an effort to improve my paleo-art I began examining skull detail, starting with this Virginia Opossum skull I found in my yard. Look at all those magnificent teeth. Process: Skull photographed in soft light. Used photo as reference for line drawing in Photoshop. Created tonal layers by hand in Photoshop. …
Medium/Software: Adobe IllustratorCreated: December 2018 This is another from my series of animals in my yard illustrated with Adobe Illustrator. Those familiar with Charley Harper will immediately recognize his reductionist influence on the style I chose. I ended up using this as a Christmas card for my mom! Below is the shot I snapped of …