{"id":1381,"date":"2009-01-09T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T21:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2022-05-04T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:24:35","slug":"natalie-koscal-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/natalie-koscal-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Koscal (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Koscal_Natalie4x3.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie Koscal\" class=\"wp-image-2067 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Koscal_Natalie4x3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Koscal_Natalie4x3-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Koscal_Natalie4x3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Koscal_Natalie4x3-480x360.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/900;\" \/><figcaption>Natalie Koscal<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a student of Biology at Cornell University, Natalie felt at home as a Bartels Science Illustrator, where she was able to employ her skills and knowledge of both art and science, her two life-long passions. As a Bartels Illustrator, she produced paintings for the \u201cFour Keys to Bird ID\u201d poster that was published in the Lab\u2019s newsletter BirdScope, as well as two watercolor paintings for the Elephant Listening Project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since completing the program, Natalie graduated with a BS in Biology from Cornell and earned her MA in Medical and Biological Illustration from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.&nbsp; Since 2013 she has worked as a full-time Senior Medical Illustrator within the Graphic Arts Department at the New England Journal of Medicine. She also takes on freelance illustration work in her spare time. Despite her current focus on the medical field, she says that she never lost her love of birds, and she gets out into nature whenever she can.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekoscal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nataliekoscal.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-5 is-cropped gallery-slideshow wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"1932\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/NK_photo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1932 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/NK_photo1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/NK_photo1-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/NK_photo1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/illustrators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/NK_photo1-480x360.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; 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