Barbara Harmon: Murals, Exhibits, Posters, Illustration and Art

I am going through all of my art files and that includes many fine art watercolors I have done throughout my career. I miss the west terribl...

These illustrations were super-fun since I got to illustrate so many awesome species. The green moray is amazing - they tend to live at or n...

Sketch-style illustration for Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, of green darner dragonfly and willow. 

Sketch-style illustration for Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, of a male Red-winged Blackbird singing on a cattail.

Formations, Inc  had me do a series of illustrations for their client Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. They liked the sketchbook...

Formations, Inc  had me do a series of illustrations for their client Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. They liked the sketchbook-...

Illustration of faults and rifts in the Rio Grande; 26” X 18”, for exhibit display panel at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (La Joya, NM)...

Exhibit panels 21 and 22 of 24: Elk and deer in rutting season. It was fun playing with watercolor throughout this whole project. I work dig...

These exhibit panels (21 and 22 of 24) feature elk and mule deer in rutting season. These panels mimic a naturalist's notebook in style;...

This is the seventh panel of 24 (12 sets of two) illustrated in a field-journal-style for Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington stat...

This is the eighth panel of 24 (12 sets of two) illustrated in a field-journal-style for Hanford Reach in Washington state. This panel descr...

This poster was created from six photos of a California farm including the two horses belonging to the owner. The challenge was to incorpora...

This is the very first panel of the artist's -journal-style illustrations I did for Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington state....

This is the second panel of the Hanford Reach Exhibit. This and the one above feature pollinators and flowers. The illustrations and design ...

A very fun poster to illustrate! My home turf and many favorite species. Like the Caribbean poster below, this was a combination of waterc...

Colorful poster of the Caribbean marine ecosystem. Original is 22" X 30", created from many watercolor paintings combined dig...

The species here include most of the main characters from our area on the Cape. I will add species at a later date, with detail views. Pleas...

I illustrated these four turtle species for an exhibit at New England Aquarium in Boston. Their exhibit panel is life-sized... (the Leath...

This food web panel measures 46" X 46" at the New England Aquarium. The goal is to introduce visitors to the key species - Herr...

This mural was created for the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center (Wertheim Center, Shirley, NY). It is about 63 feet in...

The area just below some of the dunes will house a large Plover exhibit. Interactive boxes will teach visitors about water quality and ...

This image is the central portion of this section of the mural, which in reality is about 16 feet wide (ten feet high). There is a Grea...

This section, like the last, measures about 16 feet wide and ten feet high (not all the sky or bottom/stream area is shown).

The farthest-right panel includes grassland, Mixed hardwood and pine forest, and a rocky beach.

Seeing the mural in person was exciting, or shall I say: terrifying. I am standing next to it for scale. My good friend Kristen from grad sc...

At this point the exhibits were still under construction, but you get a sense of the size. This mural is below; scroll down a-ways and you c...

These penguins are from an exhibit at the Toronto Zoo, as well as at the New England Aquarium, though I have altered it for my own port...

One of five penguin behavior illustrations for the new exhibit at Toronto Zoo.

With the Long Island mural on hold, I have been working with New England Aquarium on some exhibit revisions. These Atlantic Salmon images wi...

This mural was originally done before I switched to digital imagery. It was hand painted in acrylic at a size of 3.5' X 7'. I rew...

This mural is the day version, seen outside the "Night Alcove" (below). It is displayed more for esthetic than educational ...

This mural is 10 feet wide and 7 feet tall, and was created digitally, for the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center (ARNWR,...

As visitors come in they will hear audio of coyotes howling in the distance. The recording points this out and then the spot will shine on ...

Barred Owls are quite common here and yet like most owls, nearly impossible to see. More likely is to hear their call, "Who cooks for ...

I went to see progress this past weekend (I am adding this comment after having posted long ago), and we currently have a debate going on wh...

Fairly close-up, the Wood Frogs. Cute lil' guys, that make a "quack" sound somewhat like a duck.

Awarded BEST IN SHOW with the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, 2010 Awarded BEST IN SHOW/Ralph Sweet Award with the Association of Med...

Lightning Whelk, Phyllodocid Worm, Horseshoe Crab, White Shrimp (barely visible), Surf Clam, Sand Dollar.

I like this image so I have included two. The fish here are Gulf Menhaden and Striped Mullet, two favorite food species of Pelicans and othe...

We found a Sea Turtle shell on the beach. I took a photo of it. I used that shell, even though it was old, discolored, and decaying, as th...

This is the sandy slope from the Gulf of Mexico and inward to the island. Full of Sea Oats and other grasses, the dunes are a very pleasing...

Countless species live on the barrier islands, in a fairly unique and complicated habitat. Some of the many plant species I illustrated for ...

This image is typical Oak/Rosemary scrub habitat. Animals illustrated here include: Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Gulf Coast Box Turtle...