Natural illustrator Natalya Zahn has been able to make a living by combining her blog and painting into an artist book that relates her experience's of visiting Franklin Park Zoo. The initiative to combine the traditional and digital mediums of an an artist's thought's, research and expressions is an inspiring and motivating one.

To be able to cultivate one's own unique pathway in the arts and present it in an accessible way is a very industrious feat. Also the demand for such work as Natalya's is high, which is a perplexing phenomenon in these times of socio-economic strife.

What may account for this is a dexterity to combine zoological and ecological systems and it's power with funding and promotion with an artists flexibility, motivation and skills. One a personal level I am very intrigued with the study of Natural Illustration and am interested in the modules of study and possible pathways thereafter.