Zackery Zdinak
LIFE DRAWING
& EDUCATION
PO Box 1314
Flagstaff, AZ 86002
928-774-4229

Interpretive Design & Layout
Color Samples of
Wildlife and Botanical
Illustrations

Samples below are 72 dpi JPEGs of original art.

2013 - 2017 Client:
Arizona Game & Fish Department,
Phoenix, Arizona

Services:
watercolor illustrations

Interpretive Media:
6 of 50+ wildlife watercolors illustrations for species highlights page in Wildlife Views magazine

©2013 - 17 Arizona Game & Fish


American Kestrel ooo Least Chipmunk ooo Phoenix Tallus Snail


oooo Raccoon oooo Ring-neck Duck oooo Mourning Dove

Client:
Northern Arizona Audubon Society, Sedona, Arizona
2013

Wood duck, one of many watercolors painted for wayside panels at Page Springs Fish Hatchery, Cornville, AZ, part of the Lower Oak Creek IBA (Important Bird Area).

See the full wayside signs at http://www.lifedraw.com/design/wayside-color/

illustrations©2013
Zackery Zdinak

 


Client:
Coconino National Forest
Flagstaff, Arizona
2013

This flock of wintering waterfowl (7 species) is one of several illustrations painted for wayside panels for overlooks at Mormon Lake and Upper Lake Mary on Coconino National Forest.

illustrations©2013
Zackery Zdinak



 


Client:
Resource Inventory of the Flagstaff Area, RIFA
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ
2012

This long thin website banner (in 2 halves) shows key species and habitats around Flagstaff.

illustrations©2013
Zackery Zdinak






 

2009 Client:
Friends of Great Swamp
National Wildlife Refuge,
Basking Ridge NJ

Services:
Design of color and black & white graphics

Interpretive Media:
Logo for Friends group

© 2009 Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

 

2008 Client:
Discovery Research Laboratories,
Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff, Arizona

Services:
Graphic design & layout

Interpretive Media:
Logo for research lab

© 2008 DRL

 

2006 Client:
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Flagstaff, Arizona

These are two versions of a Permian Seascape, two of several watercolor illustrations I painted for wayside interpretive signage on the Island Trail at Walnut Canyon National Monument.

© 2006 Zackery Zdinak

2006 Client:
Joan Carstensen Design
Flagstaff, Arizona

Services:
Watercolor ills. of sagebrush landscape with wetland, beaver and sage grouse

Interpretive Media:
Illustration for a Three Forests Coalition (Utah) web site title page.
http://www.threeforests.org/forest_stories.htm

© 2006 Zackery Zdinak

2006 Client:
Coconino National Forest
Sedona, Arizona

Services:
Watercolor ills. of travertine stream cross-section

Interpretive Media:
For native fish information panels in three roadside kiosks along Fossil Creek between Strawberry and Childs, Arizona

©2006 Arizona Natural History Association


2003 Client:
Lisa Rayner
Life Weaver Publications
Flagstaff, Arizona

Here's one of several watercolor illustrations (and line art) I rendered for Lisa's sustainable gardening book, "Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains" (reprinted in 2013).

© 2003 Zackery Zdinak


2000 Client:
Arizona Game & Fish Department,
Flagstaff, Arizona

Services:
Watercolor illustrations

Interpretive Media:
2 of 7 illustrations of large mammals for wayside panels and brochures

Subjects: cow & calf bison, pronghorn buck

©1999 Zackery Zdinak



2001 Client:
Arizona Native Plant Society,
Tucson, Arizona

Services:
Watercolor illustrations

Interpretive Media:
2 of 38 native wildflowers illustrations for a full color poster

subjects:
paintbrush and yellow columbine

©2001 Zackery Zdinak



1999-2006 Client:
Arizona Game & Fish Department,
Phoenix, Arizona

Services:
watercolor illustrations

Interpretive Media:
6 of 30+ wildlife watercolors illustrations for species highlights page in Wildlife Views magazine

©2001 Arizona Game & Fish
turtles © 2002 Zackery Zdinak

california condor


canyon treefrogs

gould's turkey

flathead catfish

spadefoot taod

painted turtles

lewis' woodpeckers





2001 Client:
Arizona Game & Fish Department,
Phoenix, Arizona, 2000

Services:
color pencil illustration

Interpretive Media:
1 of 4 cactus flower color pencil illustration for a Wildlife Views magazine

Subject: saguaro blossoms

©2000 Zackery Zdinak



2000 Client:
Interpretive Management Associates, Inc.
Ft. Collins, Colorado

Services:
Pen and watercolor illustration

Interpretive Media: detailed illustration in 1 of 9 wayside panels for trail overlooks at Lone Pine State Park, Kallispell, Montana.

subject: yellow perch

©2000 Zackery Zdinak

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