About the Artist
In perfect primate form, I enjoy bipedalism, making and using tools, and grooming friends for lice. This site started while I was a student in a Natural Science Illustration certificate program at the University of Washington. It was fun to learn all about drawing & painting plants and animals - so I decided to go check out the source and keep studying biodiversity in the field.
I started out studying wildlife at Cornell University, earning a B.S. in Natural Resources. Then I headed to Seattle to drink coffee and draw wildlife, until I got to go be Jane Goodall*. After playing hide and seek with orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in the peatswamp jungle of Borneo for five months, I explored the urban jungle of New York City as a Masters student. I studied all things Conservation Biology at Columbia University (turns out, science is a lot of statistics). Now I've escaped to evergreen canopies, discovering the wild wonderful land of Idaho, where I'm currently working towards my PhD at the University of Idaho, studying which wood would woodpeckers peck in a woods full of dead wood.
Wherever I am, I'm always striving to combine my passion of scientific illustration with my desire to become a conservation research ecologist. If you'd like to learn more about me, you can check out my CV.
* On a different continent, with a different close relative of humans.
I started out studying wildlife at Cornell University, earning a B.S. in Natural Resources. Then I headed to Seattle to drink coffee and draw wildlife, until I got to go be Jane Goodall*. After playing hide and seek with orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in the peatswamp jungle of Borneo for five months, I explored the urban jungle of New York City as a Masters student. I studied all things Conservation Biology at Columbia University (turns out, science is a lot of statistics). Now I've escaped to evergreen canopies, discovering the wild wonderful land of Idaho, where I'm currently working towards my PhD at the University of Idaho, studying which wood would woodpeckers peck in a woods full of dead wood.
Wherever I am, I'm always striving to combine my passion of scientific illustration with my desire to become a conservation research ecologist. If you'd like to learn more about me, you can check out my CV.
* On a different continent, with a different close relative of humans.
About the Site
Orangutangled was started in 2011. It is a site born of the wild mind of Jess M. Stitt and as such it is a wondrous place where (1) many illustrations and photographs can be viewed; (2) prints can be purchased; (3) works can be commissioned; (4) puns & other commentary can be read; and subsequent groans can be heard round the internet. Enjoy and feel free to get in touch if you think there's a way to make this site a better place to hang out & tinker with tomfoolery.