Med Legal Poster – zygomatic fracture
Update to portfolio – a hypothetical medlegal poster, designed for the plaintiff who is suing his attacker. The story is that this unfortunate fellow suffered a nasty punch to the face, giving him a multi-fractured zygoma that needed a complex surgery, complete with metal plates.
Medium: pencil, photoshop.
New look, new philosophy
The summer semester is over, and we’re digging into the fall. I’m changing the focus of this blog – instead of covering news and other inspirational biologically related art, the posts will primarily be portfolio and personal artwork updates — after all, the career I’m diving into is about making art, not writing and reporting about it.
Nevertheles, I love looking into what other artists and designers are doing – constantly feeding yourself imagery helps a lot in fueling your own creative tank- , and through my Twitter account (michelle_reinke) I’ll be sharing all the noteworthy artists, work, and scientific news I come across. Feel free to add me!
Below is the latest portfolio update – a work from this summer on cerebrospinal fluid and it’s associated anatomy and histology. Shown is the brain, ventricles, cisterns and areas of flow around the brain, and closeups of choroid plexus and arachnoid granulations.
David Mascaro talk at Sacred Heart Cultural Center
It’s not often there’s word of a talk by a medical illustrator –
However, THIS Monday June 29 at 10am, David Mascaro will be at the Sacred Heart Cultural Center (Augusta, GA), discussing his work and life. I’m told coffee will be included. This will be a great opportunity to get insight from a highly talented artist with decades of experience.
Inspirational Image Friday: Ashmole Vasculature
We’re digging into summer projects now, which means less time for blogging.
This week’s image is lighthearted - I’m posting a 13th century diagram of veins found in the Ashmole Bestiary . This was even before Vesalius’s work, and although the organs are pretty amusing (I love the snail like intestines!) you can still recognize specific veins we know today (i.e. facial, jugular, femoral.)
Interestingly, the image is labeled veins, but because they’re painted red and I can find little other information on this, I could just as soon read them as 13th century arteries.
Inspirational Image Friday: Kate Street’s Floral Anatomy
Below are a few selected works by Kate Street, a London-based artist who mixes anatomy, florals, and macabre. A strong concept throughout seems to be the interdependency of life and death on each other. Her drawings are rich in tonal detail, and there’s a delicacy and subtlety to her technique that makes the more morbid elements seem all the more so. And yet this conceptual contrast ends up being more romantic (referring to the artistic movement, not relationships!) than grotesque. They’re still lovely to look at, and are much more than still lifes.
Currently Street’s work is showing in the exhibition in London, The Space Between (see earlier post).
Without further ado,
Orchis Gracilis -- Kate Street
Story of Orchis in Three Parts -- Kate Street
Orchis Edulis -- Kate Street
Paleoartist — Viktor Deak
I recommend looking at the work of Viktor Deak. He works in yet another field that gracefully mixes the arts and science – paleoart. Deak has an impressive ability to work with remains of bones, and build, sculpt, model, and eventually digitally paint convincing likenesses of humanity’s most recent ancestors. Supporting this is a strong knowledge of anatomy and biology. Essentially, he dissects in reverse. For more information see a recent New York Times feature on Deak. Also see this Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History website.
Exhibition: The Space Between
For all those in London, there promises to be a group show with 9 artists, titled “The Space Between.”: private viewing Thursday June 4, and continued openings June 5 -12, with an artist’s talk on the 7th. There are links below to preview images. It looks like there’s quite a range of work, medium, and concept, including some lovely mixing of science and art. I wish I could be there! Look for a post coming up focusing on one of these artists.
Guest Post – hand anatomy for guitarists
I’ve written a guest post describing hand anatomy over at The Classical Guitar Blog. It focuses on hand muscles, and few details are spared — part of the beauty of how the hands work is the impressive complexity and interplay of muscles that make them up. Go check it out!
Inspirational Image Friday: Hunter Stabler
Below are selected works – the more anatomically and biologically related ones of course – by Hunter Stabler. He creates detailed paper cutouts, occasionally dipping into other mediums. But this puts it mildly — as one exhibition described his work:
“His work … is intricate, mostly abstract paper cutouts of varying size, along with one painting. The cutouts’ detail is astounding. Stabler hand-draws them with a compass and cuts them out with an Exacto knife. Each piece takes between two and six months to produce.”
The content is sometimes abstract, sometimes recognizable, and often both. There’s a pervasive use of symbols, often religious in nature. An interesting element is that even though his compositions look highly radial/symmetrical, on close inspection in some (see details below), the symmetry doesn’t quite hold up. It’s interesting because it still works for Stabler, charging the cutouts with a subtle sense movement and the organic, and this observation certainly doesn’t take away from the relentless detail in the forms themselves.
Now I’ll let the images speak for themselves:
Baba Yaga Misquotes The Face To Steeleye Span, hand-cut paper, Hunter Stabler
Hare Christmas Maharishi, India ink and graphite on paper, Hunter Stabler
Saint Vitus Architeuthis Manalishi With The Seven Tentacle Crown, ink and graphite on hand-cut paper, Hunter Stabler
detail of Saint Vitus Architeuthis Manalishi With The Seven Tentacle Crown, ink and graphite on hand-cut paper, Hunter Stabler
Sonic Pretzel Mastodon, ink and graphite on hand-cut paper, Hunter Stabler
The Cockatoo Is Moving Under You, ink and graphite on hand-cut paper, Hunter Stabler
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