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Amanda Frataccia, CMI
@fratacciastudios.bsky.social
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Medical & Scientific Illustration
📍Los Angeles, CA
✨creating custom visuals for folks working
in science and medicine!

www.fratacciastudios.com
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#ArtvsArtist 2025 it’s been…a year

Thankful to still be out here making art. Remember to be nice, use your turn signal, tell your friends you love them, and as always, screw a-eye ✌️
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Afternoon painting session at The Huntington ☀️
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Show me all the skulls! 💀💀Quote repost with your skull art.

#medicalillustration #SciArt #medart
Digital illustration of a purple skull, with mouth open on a green background. Orange light is emanating from the eyes and mouth
July 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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That’s a wrap on #AMI2025! Big love to all the volunteers, organizers, speakers and my wonderful colleagues who make this conference what it is, an absolute freaking blast! See you all in 2026!

#medart #medicalillustration #sciart
July 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Thrilled to have a piece accepted into the 2025 Guild of Natural Sciences annual juried show! 🌲

Go check out all the amazing artwork! www.gnsi.org/2025-gnsi-ju...

@gnsiart.bsky.social #SciArt
Digital illustration showing the lifecycle stages of a giant sequoia tree, clockwise from seeds to mature tree to male pollen and female seed cones.
July 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Sneaky peek of my accepted piece in the @gnsiart.bsky.social annual juried show 👀

#SciArt
May 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Got to visit the @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social and Anatomy and Pathology Museum at the @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social today! Incredible stuff!
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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My infographic shows the process of ocean acidification and it’s effects on marine life.

#GraysReef marine sanctuary (off the coast of Georgia) is a sentinel site for ocean acidification research
March 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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a little sneaky peek of my page for INSANE comics AMI 2025 👀

#AMI2025 #SciArt
March 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Study of a deer I spotted while hiking at Sequoia National Park. 🦌

#SciArt #sequoianationalpark #natureart #deer
Digital illustration of a mule deer from behind, showing it’s white tail. Deer is looking backwards, over its shoulder.
February 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Got some painting in last weekend while camping in Sequoia National Park!

#pleinairpainting #sequoianationalpark #nationalparks #SciArt
Photo of a woman with brown hair sitting in a small folding chair in a forest. Photo of a watercolor painting on a page in a sketchbook.
February 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Black Abalone illustration for #BivalveDay! I love how often i come across such specific creature hashtags on here. Celebrate all the things! #SciArt #endangeredspecies #wildlife
Digital illustration of the shell of a black abalone, an endangered species of bivalve found along the California coast. The state of California can be seen behind the bivalve, a dark purple color highlights the abalones habitat.
February 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Happy Friday! 🪲

#SciArt #insects #beetles #bugs
Digital illustration of a Chrysina gloriosa beetle, a species of scarab. The beetle is green with vertical black stripes down its back.
January 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Phew, super late with my Art vs Artist for 2024! Cheers to more art, new clients, and fun projects in 2025!

#medicalillustration #medart #SciArt
January 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Cute little Rosy Maple Moth for #ArtAdventCalendar day 12!

#SciArt #InverteFest #bugs #moths
December 12, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 11
Throwback to an old sketchbook study of a flowering chaparral yucca.

#SciArt #botany #gardening
Graphite pencil illustration of a chaparral yucca plant, including a close up drawing of the flower.
December 11, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Tomato study for #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 🍅
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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Kicking off #ArtAdventCalendar with one of my favorite throwback pieces. Go plant a tree! 🌳

#SciArt #medart
Digital illustration of a home with two people in the front yard enjoying the shade of a large tree. Various text explainers list the benefits of shade trees.
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Big throwback to a quick plain air session in Utah!

#pleinair #painting
Photo of various art supplies: paints, brushes, pencils etc and a half finished painting in a small sketchbook.
November 27, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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Hi Bluesky! I’m Amanda Frataccia, a certified medical illustrator creating visuals for use in the medical and scientific communities. Follow along!

#medart #sciart #medicalillustration
Digital illustration of a profile of a young girl in black and white. Overlayed onto her profile are the tonsils, soft and hard palate and younger. Tonsils are inflamed. Anatomy is depicted in color. Digital illustration showing a very close up view of a tissue block. Between the fat and tissue there is a blood vessel surrounded by ugly cancerous cells that have migrated into the blood vessel and are being circulated to the body. Digital illustration of a rosy maple moth, a small fuzzy moth, with pink and yellow striped wings. Next to the moth is a maple leaf and seed Digital illustration of a home with a large tree in the front yard casting shade onto the front of the house. Various explainers show how the shade tree benefits occupants of the home, from reducing noise pollution to lowering cost of air conditioning. A small child and older woman can be seen in the front yard.
November 21, 2024 at 6:11 PM