- Title
- Mycelee obsession: the development of a comprehensive field and laboratory- based guide for scientific mycological illustration
- Creator
- Elliott, Maree Patricia
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- For me the process between illustration and mycological science has merged. Although I think of myself as an illustrator first my research requires a scientific approach to understand the subject and in turn this provides a reference for undertaking further illustrations in the future. According to Hodge (1989) a scientific illustration is an accurate drawing that is aesthetically attractive to inform scientific information. Scientists communicate their findings by publishing results of their research in scientific peer reviewed journals. Their Illustrations are rendered as black and white line drawing because this shows the described characteristics that distinguish one species from another more clearly. The processes that scientists working in the area of mycology use start in the field observing, collecting fungi specimens and documenting field data as well as the macroscopic characteristics of fungi. The second process involves observing and documenting the microscopic characteristics of fungi in the laboratory. Then the specimens are added to a herbarium collection after being dried, identified, information recorded in a database and carefully stored for possible further research in the future. To establish an appropriate method of data collection and interpretation in the context of this research the Natural History Illustration methods of field and studio practice will be undertaken. This is aimed at clearly defining a best practice approach for Natural History Illustrators to produce a Scientific Mycological illustration plate. It is my position that there is no defined description for a practice approach, or agreement for the creation of a Scientific Mycological illustration plate. This research intends to find evidence for the requirements of a Scientific Mycological illustration plate undertaken in collaboration with mycologists to ensure the correct elements and information are described to enable the completed illustrations to be recognised as formal taxonomic works recognised by the field of science. This exegesis is an auto-ethnographic account of my research.
- Subject
- illustration; mycological science; scientific illustration; fungi; natural history illustration
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1404202
- Identifier
- uon:35289
- Rights
- Copyright 2019 Maree Patricia Elliott
- Language
- eng
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