Indiana Bat Festival and Aquarium Sketches

In the mood to sketch chrome after Lunken. Still snuck in a dragon... Guess what my Christmas card will be this year...

 It is a bit of a hodge podge of sketches lately. Over the weekend, I went to the Indiana Bat Festival at Indiana State University. Laura Hohman and her husband Jim were nice enough to let me stay at their place so I did not have to get a hotel room. It is a great show! I also love all the taxidermy, weird plastic molded cross sections of plants, cells and animals, and skulls/skeletons that decorate the halls. Definitely different decor than what we had at DAAP!

Today, after our weekly illustrators lunch, Linda Bittner and I went to a really cool  exotic aquarium store called Aquatics and Exotics in Mt. Healthy (in walking distance from her house).

Done at the Indiana Bat Festival over the weekend...

At the aquarium store...

These are so super cool!

Indiana Bat Festival

Close Up of Fruit Bat

Here are some images from the Indiana Bat Festival! Thanks to Laura Hohman and the Indiana State University Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation for being excellent hosts and the invitation. It was great fun!

I will have a link soon the the university photos when they are onine.



Rob Mies doing his Bat Demo with a Fruit Bat

 

Me Signing at my Table




One of the Cool Things About a University Science Department: Skull Displays!





Bat Shirts

Here are the shirts that will be available at Indiana Bat Festival Saturday! I will also have activity sheets and a variety of the books I have illustrated including Little Red Bat of course!!

Big Brown Bat T-Shirt Design

This is the other design for the festival. Big brown bats are so cute.

Yes, many people get these bats as visitors. It is a good reason to put out a bat box. Bats eat a LOT of insects and are extemely valuable to the environment but are unfortunately misunderstood.

Some species of bats are being wiped out by the white nose fungus which is still spreading and could be catastrophic...

Eastern Red Bat T-Shirt Design

I am doing several bat oriented events this fall including the Indiana Bat Festival. So, I am making a couple t-shirt designs to wear to signings and sell. This is the first. The next will be a large brown bat. I love their faces.