Scientific illustrations – Wildlife and Railway Art by Frédérique Lucas

SINGLE CETACEANS | CETACEAN SERIES | OTHER WILDLIFE

Cetacean Series

HYBRID ODONTOCETES (2020-)
Digital

Ongoing personal project to illustrate all known dolphin hybrids, along with some others from the order Odontoceti i.e. the toothed whales. Started many years ago, now finally coming into fruition with the actual painting of illustrations.

Southern right whale dolphin x Dusky dolphin

Northern right whale dolphin x Pacific white-sided dolphin

Northern right whale dolphin x Common dolphin

Gray’s spinner dolphin x Clymene dolphin

CETACEANS OF THE CANARY ISLANDS (2022-)
Digital

Ongoing project featuring all cetaceans found around the Canary Islands. Not all illustrations are shown here.
Commissioned by SECAC

Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) – right side

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) – left side

North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)

Northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)

True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) – female

Blainville’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) – male

Sowerby’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) – male

Sowerby’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) – female

Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) – old male

Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) – female

Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) – female of the Atlantic “naisa” form

False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)

Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis)

Fraser’s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) – male

Fraser’s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) – female

Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) – adult female

Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) – juvenile

CETACEANS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (2022)
Digital

33 illustrations featuring all cetaceans plus sirenians of Southern Africa. Not all illustrations are shown here.
Commissioned by KrugerExplorer

Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)

Pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata)

Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)

Dwarf minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata ssp.)

Strap-toothed whale (Mesoplodon layardii) – male

Shepherd’s beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)

Arnoux’s beaked whale (Berardius arnuxii)

Southern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon planifrons) – male

Longman’s whale (Indopacetus pacificus) – female

Gray’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi) – male

Ramari’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon eueu) – male

Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) – female, southern subspecies

Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea)

Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) – coastal form

Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) – SW African shorter beaked form

Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)

Gray’s spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris longirostris) – female

Commerson’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) – Kerguelen subspecies

Haviside’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii)

MARINE LIFE OF LAGOS, PORTUGAL (2019)
Digital

15 illustrations featuring all cetaceans commonly encountered off Lagos, Portugal. Not all illustrations are shown here.
Commissioned by, and exclusively licensed to, SEALIFE dolphin watching Lagos

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

Northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)

Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)

Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)

MARINE LIFE OF THE MARITIMES (2018)
Digital

50 illustrations featuring all cetaceans, sharks, seals, sea turtles, and the Ocean sunfish, found in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Not all illustrations are shown here.
Commissioned by, and exclusively licensed to MARS (Marine Animal Response Society).

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) – right side

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) – left side

Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

Northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)

Sperm whale – female (Physeter macrocephalus)

Northern bottlenose whale – male (Hyperoodon ampullatus)

True’s beaked whale – male (Mesoplodon mirus)

Cuvier’s beaked whale – female (Ziphius cavirostris)

Sowerby’s beaked whale – female (Mesoplodon bidens)

Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas)

White-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris)

Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Grey seal – female (Halichoerus gryphus)

Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

THE MYSTICETES – BALEEN WHALES (2015)
Digital

15 illustrations featuring all modern Mysticete, or Baleen whale species. Not all illustrations are shown here.
Commissioned by SEAMMO (Sea Mammal Monitoring Organisation).