Tuesday, May 18, 2021
![Peter Russell](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-11.jpeg)
This award recognizes him for the many years creating illustrations for Geoscience Canada, starting in 1974 and continuing even through this year.
"I started illustrating Geoscience Canada in 1974 with India Ink and Letratone textures on Mylar in glorious black and white, encouraged by Gerry Middleton, Karen Dawe and more. Graphics on computers changed things making colour illustrations a possibility. Now I illustrate on my iPad from anywhere.. Portugal, Waterloo or Arizona no problem!"
See a collection of some of his beautiful illustrations below!
![Illustration of Newfoundland and Laborador topopgraphy with a fiddle and rock hammer bow](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown.jpeg)
![Illustration of octahedrons sticking out of a rock, with photos of researchers beside it](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-6.jpeg)
![Illustration of a map showing Southern Brazil, alongside grapes and a glass of wine](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-7_0.jpeg)
![Illustration of a pocket of pebbly rock surrounded by layers of other rock](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-1.jpeg)
![Illustration of magma chamber underneath the ground](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-8.jpeg)
![Black and white illustration of spiky rocks. Caption: Mineralization Related to Post-Acadian Tectonism in Southern New Brunswick](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-10.jpeg)
![Illustration of small organism fossils on top of layers of rock](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-2.jpeg)
![Illustration of a dump truck holding grey rocky material, beside images of rocky materials and geological formations](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-5.jpeg)
![Illustration of subduction zone of two techtonic plates](/earth-environmental-sciences/sites/default/files/uploads/images/unknown-9.jpeg)