Painting the CARACAL

Peggy Macnamara is the Field Museum's only Artist-in-Residence, and has been making and teaching art in the Museum for years. She came down to the Brain Scoop studio to join me for a day of painting!
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Producer, Writer, Creator, Host:
Emily Graslie
Producer, Camera, Graphics, Director:
Brandon Brungard
Producer, Camera
Sheheryar Ahsan
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This episode is filmed at and supported by The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
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[@Aleph_Null_Audio]

Peggy just keeps casually dropping wisdom. She sounds like a zen master-but way more relatable.

[@ysorandomxp9941]

honestly she needs to start her own artchannel i'd watch yhours of her just talking and painting

[@GuilhermeCarvalhoComposer]

Laid back ass-kicking.

[@Maj7]

The joy of painting with Peggy Macnamara. ^^

[@kwanarchive]

Keeping it melllow with some cadmium yellow,

[@fifithehuntress]

Knowing when you’re wrong and changing it. 🧐🙂

[@showsteer3]

Captain Planet T-Shirt....NICE!

[@JoaoPessoa86]

Free parking is a perfectly legitimate reason to get a job

[@gravityvertigo13579]

This is a great video. I love that you're enthusiastic about so many aspects of natural history. It seems like sometimes STEM people have sort of a defensive hostility to art and I like that I never see any of that from the Brain Scoop.

[@nancygilbert8054]

This show is cookin' with STEAM. :D Art (or the arts) is a great creative element that can enhance and energize the other branches of STEM.

[@DanielSolis]

'Joy of Painting' reboot with Peggy and Emily plz!

[@geertjebrandenburg195]

Daniel Solis YES YES YES!!! +++

[@TheOtherNeutrino]

Happy little noodle bodies.

[@sheren_b]

i love this, and i would legit just watch a series of emily painting with peggy (or anyone else at the field!) it would be like if bob ross painted science. also love Emily's Captain Planet shirt!

[@sebyiuga2184]

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[@MartyredMuse]

"Just make a thing" might just be my favorite thing.

[@Crispy_Bee]

You know, when I was in school I was the only kid who got a "C" in art. Now, about 15 years later, I not only take some (hopefully) artistic photos of landscapes and sometimes animals, but I also draw and I really love it! School can really ruin your interests and drain your motivation. I'm so glad to see videos like this, that inspire people to just do it. Nothing bad can happen, nobody was a talented or great painter when they were born. Just do it. If you don't like it, keep doing it until you like what you're doing!

[@jo-vf8jx]

photographer85 I graduated 17 years ago and just this past year I got into what I can my artsy fartsy phase and I’ve been loving it. I can’t draw to to save my life, but I have fun doing it lol. And the most important part is that it makes me feel good. I tend to let my emotions take over and most times I’m pleasantly surprised by what I can draw.

[@sweetiedahling8137]

I’m suuuuper late to the party but I completely agree! I did get good grades in art, but having to justify & explain every little detail totally took the fun out of creating art for me. Thanks to ye olde plague times I’ve finally started drawing again and even though I’m still just doing beginner exercises (to build confidence) I’m so glad I did it and I’m having so much fun. I hope you’re still enjoying it too!

[@isarasaurus]

i got so excited to see peggy in a brain scoop video!!! she's a professor at SAIC and i hope to take her scientific illustration class soon

[@DuluthTW]

Great to see you get back to your roots for a bit, Emily. Peggy has a very important job. She is clearly great at it. Thanks for sharing!

[@franzanth]

This is so fun, I actually like the diversity of your latest episodes

[@xihearthe80sx]

Some Scientific Illustration! Yay! I've been waiting for an episode featuring this! As an illustrator that dabbled a little in it in college, this is super exciting! Beautiful work!

[@abatwithinternet7445]

As a fellow artist/scientist, I really appreciate you talking about how well the two subjects compliment one another. I'd also love to see more content like this, as well as more of Ms. Macnamara, she's awesome! Possibly an episode on field sketches and how they've helped scientists over the centuries?

[@walkerweyland7685]

Peggy was a mentor of mine for a year and she taught me more in that year than all of the art classes I have ever taken. She is always a delight! Great job Emily and Peggy!

[@nancygilbert8054]

"Nothing is final in art. Praise." That's my new mantra, right there. Thanks, mesdames, that was highly enjoyable. And inspiring! :)

[@eduardoanavarrov4840]

Emily i am really thankfull for all the content like this, and evering in the channel! You make science look so interesting, and easy to fall in love. Thank you a lot for your content!!!

[@CrankyPantss]

That must have been a fun day. It certainly was a fun video to watch. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@thebrainscoop]

It WAS fun! It was also one of the most stressful Brain Scoop videos we've ever filmed. I was so nervous 🙈

[@ElizabethLopez-hx6xv]

But it turned out great!

[@jo-vf8jx]

thebrainscoop, Em, I thought you were fantastic! And how exciting to have these wonderful opportunities! Keep up the wonderful work! 😊

[@moreofthesame2241]

This is such a delightful video. Peggy is wonderful I wish I could listen to her talk about art for hours

[@ShubhamBhushanCC]

Happy Little Caracal here. In our world all caracals are happy. Now beat the devil out of it

[@SirDominic]

More art with Emily please - this is awesome!

[@janlariviere8568]

Peggy is the heart of the Field Museum. She makes each day at the museum richer.

[@unoriginalusernameno999]

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the joy of pai-Brainscoop with Bob Ro-I mean Emily Graslie. Today we are going to be drawing a beautiful scener-I mean Caracal

[@arthurschwalm6332]

"Painting with Peggy" should be a regular segment.

[@CharmEng89]

"Just make a thing and enjoy it."

[@owencardona5185]

Ms. Frizzle + Bob Ross = Emily Graslie

[@thebrainscoop]

!!! That’s me!!!

[@xRasmusxThorsfeltx]

Every time I watch this show i gets completely blown away by the production itself. Love every part of this! Thank you so much for this wonderful series

[@realspacemodels]

Emily's painting: Project 4 Awesome 2018 auction...just sayin'

[@rode7916]

noodle development...

[@photosinensis]

I could go for an entire B-reel of off-the-cuff Emily.

[@angelsofpalo]

Needed a video in the background of caracals jumping, make the noodle make sense and have a purpose

[@Nexus2Eden]

So funny - I, too, began my career in Art. I got my FBA from the University of Florida and through Art History, I developed a passion for Science (studying da Vinci). Ended up going back to college at the University of Louisville for a BS in Molecular Biology. 🤔🤨🤓

[@kreptirous]

This caracal looks very different from the ones at Big Cat Rescue. Emily, you should visit the sanctuary if you find yourself in Tampa.

[@localove91]

Can we have a series of you painting with Peggy?

[@SirLadyMargarine]

Omg that Captain Planet shirt is so cool

[@thebrainscoop]

Mark Leal He’s our hero ❤️❤️❤️

[@ascetic3312]

Gonna take pollution down to zero!

[@NewMessage]

Definitely need to see more on science art.. Those old books full of illustrations are absolute magic.. and I credit them with sparking my imagination, and curiosity about the world. Made my day. this.

[@ponyfreak12420000]

This video made me so, so happy. I've been following the brain scoop for a few years now and I too finished a BFA in painting this past December. It's nice to know that an art education can lead you into so many different, amazing directions, and I feel that my art education has given me the tools to think and look at the world with much more open eyes. Thank you for this Emily. Hopefully I'll have the pleasure to paint with you someday, and venture out the way you have too.

[@creepybearandfriends9063]

This was very casual and quietly encouraging for any student. There was a nice flow back and forth. I hope you both had a good time, because I would definatly tune in for a part two.

[@chameleonhound]

Peggy is amazing, and this was one of my most favorite Brain Scoop episodes of all time. Right up there with necropsies.

[@Sunila_DragonladyCH]

So true! So many people think it just "happens" *poof* one day you can suddenly paint! Man I want her job! But I made do with being both a museologist and an illustrator, just not at the same job :)

[@ShaudaySmith]

i like when Emily's art major is showing. Words of wisdom: Make a thing!

[@abigailyoung186]

I could watch this all day! Please do more art/science crossovers with peggy! I owuld love if more art and design aspects of the museum collection got videos!

[@GuanoLad]

Recommended videos that popped up = two Bob Ross clips. So that's something.

[@lolffsn00b]

Wow, about people not daring to start drawing is sooo true. I could be so let down by watching the "pros" just being SO good and it just made me feel useless and that I should just stop and give up.

[@sydneynordhagen7891]

What a cool video, especially Peggy, she's got such a great vibe.

[@megharte]

It's like interviewing a motherly advice bob ross.

[@ElizabethLopez-hx6xv]

This is so interesting because I had kind of the opposite experience. I was always into animals so my parents bought me a variety of books on birds and insects. Because I used to think drawing from real life was too complicated I would pick out the animal illustrations from these book and try to sketch them. Some of my fondest memories are of when my grandmother babysat and we would spend the night drawing together. I've improved in my artistic skills but, science has always been my favorite! Those are some beautiful colors Macnamara uses, and Emily, I didn't realize how amazing of an artist you were!

[@SilverDawnArrow]

Peggy's colourful art reminds me of when I was in school and we were making ceramic dragons and when it came to painting them I decided I wanted to use every colour but my teacher thought it couldn't be done. Being as stubborn as I am, I did it anyway and in the end he told me he had thought it wouldn't work but somehow I managed it. According to my younger sisters he still talks about me and how I was stubborn and did things my own way.

[@bengjie]

Long time channel subscriber, and amateur artist and after seeing Em paint, this is such a great episode!!!

[@Roanoak]

I love this woman so much! Peggy, you're fantastic!

[@axolotl.4078]

This is a great video not only because I love both art and science and included beautiful art and interesting conversation but I also I know now how to pronounce caracal... I've literally lived my entire life never sure as to how to pronounce that word

[@ShaunLovesMaths]

You're quite the artist, Emily; well done!

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

More of Peggy, please! She seems awesome. So wise and so funny!

[@charlesdorval394]

Such words of wisdom, thank you! -The guy that can't even paint a plank of wood right currently in between coats lol

[@JojobaNutOil]

yall need to have the master james gurney on the show once.

[@heatherfreeman5274]

30 seconds in and I can already tell this is going to be one of my favorite brain scoops.

[@rayhs1984]

I had never heard of Lisa Frank in my life then I heard her mentioned twice this week.

[@makaylamusgrove4807]

This would be a dream job. Art and science!

[@_infinitedomain]

Peggy is so cool

[@unoriginalusernameno999]

Emily: Artist, KZbinr, Taxidermy fanatic. Awesome life you got there. I want to learn: Astrophysics, Paleontology, Mathematics, Painting, Music (Electric guitar) film all of this and become a KZbinr as well. So twice as awesome! I am 15 btw.

[@thebrainscoop]

I've played the violin for 20 years, have an art degree and work full-time as a science communicator. You can do it!

[@unoriginalusernameno999]

+thebrainscoop So 1.5 times more awesome

[@yodafunk]

For dinner afterwards? Noodles.

[@Maj7]

WHOOAAAAA, This is one of the coolest videos! Absolutely loved seeing you two paint. More like this would be radical! Mixing art and science, WHOOOWEEE. 10/10

[@MrDinoBrian]

this is my favorite youtube channel thank you for making this amazing content

[@AlleyBetwixt]

This is my idea of heaven. I miss painting class. Throwing paint around and delightful conversation. So perfect.

[@XxImandraxX]

I've only just started this video, but EMILY, I LOVE YOUR SHIRT!!

[@XSpImmaLion]

I can't express how much I love this video... from the random bits of stuff Emily says, to some marvelous insights by both Peggy and Emily. It's yet another video kids should be watching, and I wish I watched as a kid.

[@Lolth9]

Peggy was great. I love combining art with natural history. I mostly paint spiders and other arthropods.

[@Kimmaline]

At the beginning of this video I paused it and told my daughter that even though I think I had a lot of art talent, I never bothered to develop skill because of what Peggy said toward the end - that I thought I needed to be GREAT from the beginning or I had no talent. Which is odd, because my dad was a professional musician and made a really big point between the difference between talent and skill my whole life. Peggy is amazing. BTW, Peggy - I just dyed my pink hair aqua and purple.

[@rubenduartebigurra3015]

Whats going on with Emily's caracal's mouth at 2:08??? I looks like it moves around

[@swagatamsamanta5071]

hi Emily please recommend a good professional level Book about pre-historic mammal, where the anatomy as well as Dental anatomy are well discussed...

[@steve-o6413]

⛅Hi Sunshine, I was given a well rounded education along with a art lesson, by two beautiful intelligent Ladies. I liked it thank you. May peace an prosperity be with you always. C-ya😎Bye! "✌💖🤗~🌞🌎⚬" ...

[@basdamhuis572]

Emily, where did you get that fantástic Captain Planet t-shirt? I love your videos and all the joy and spirit you put into it, but that t-shirt is just a hero! (gonna take pollution down to zero...*sing*)

[@profharveyherrera]

You are a scientific illustrator! Wow! I really enjoyed the video, I feel like taking my pencil again and sketch some birds

[@cassia-in-vancouver]

Thank you for another great video, Emily! As mentioned before, opening the barriers between art and science will make it much more interesting and meaningful for everyone. Thanks, you're an inspiration.

[@spaminbox]

this lady is fantastic. how 'bout you, her, and a livestream?

[@ragnkja]

I’ve never had any talent whatsoever for drawing or painting, but that doesn’t mean I can’t play with shapes and colours in other ways. Another creative outlet where you don’t need to get everything right the first time is composing. (I really miss having access to a good full-size keyboard; an app on my phone doesn’t encourage the same kind of playing.)

[@EllisD1249]

did you mean why Peggy also fell in love with science or why you also fell in love with Peggy? both would make the most sense as you're both awesome people.

[@juhlsghouls]

I’m such a visual person which has sort of kept me from science, but studying how animals and humans work for art always makes drawing so much more interesting!

[@shauku77]

I've just re-watched this video and I've got a big smile on my face. Thank you.

[@abbiezimmer6190]

I'm training for scientific illustration myself, and its always wonderful to see people merge science and art. At the core of both art and science is just the act of paying extreme attention to something. Artists may rely heavily on visual cues alone, but the form and function of something can sometimes best be conveyed after being filtered through the mind of an artist. Which is so beautiful if you ask me. Great stuff here.

[@alonespirit9923]

Caracals and servals are my favorite wild cats, as I sit here typing around one of my two favorite housecats.

[@ceciliaFX]

Art is a process... when you decide it's "finished", then it becomes something else.

[@lailedcat]

This is everything I ever needed. Thank you so much for all of these videos, it's a privilege to get to watch them.

[@WriterNinja]

I used to spent time sketching taxidermy in the natural history museum of my college, and this video brought me back to those times. Loved watching you both make some art.

[@azdgariarada]

Damn, I was expecting... i.imgur.com/wPm8U8T.jpg

[@GinBreadman]

MFW. I saw her on one of my visits to the field museum drawing birds :O

[@PoseidonXIII]

Awesome stuff!! I love seeing art and science together.

[@hellasnappy]

The ending resonated with me as an art student. I’ll go ahead and make a thing and enjoy it!

[@lisajandt9341]

I love this, more painting! Call it the joy of the Noodle with Peggy

[@jaybakerwork]

One of my favorite episodes. More Peggy in the future please!

[@VPFrio]

I love her so much! I would love to see a series where she leads mini art classes where she has various researchers, curators, scientists of different departments paint and draw the things they study!!

[@teriscallon]

Oh, that was fun...love the zebra in the background

[@topherhenness3810]

I would love to see WAY more of these. This was better than the average art class I've attended.

[@nicolle2126]

What a wonderful conversation by wonderful women. Reminded me to love my art more often

[@recklessroges]

Peggy is wonderful. I could listen to her all day.

[@sherylhosler9487]

Great to see you getting back to your roots - and the paintings turned out awesome!

[@Primrose451]

This video is actually my favorite thing ever

[@bbugl]

Is there going to be a long version? I'd love to listen to you guys for longer than this tidbits.

[@tex8605]

so lovely video 😎 ITS REALY GOOD VIDEO

[@brookeoberson114]

Oh my Gosh! This needs to be a regular program. I am in awe!

[@Kacs_ky]

Truly Amazing!