This still needs a lot of work... I am fixing it up a little at a time. Suggestions welcome!!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Gel Filtration Size Exclusion Chromatography
I was thinking of adding an elution profile underneath as well. Thoughts??
Here is a nice animation of the same concept made by the folks over at Amersham: http://people.virginia.edu/~dta4n/biochem503/Gel%20Filtration.html
Eilean Donan Castle (birthday present for a friend)
detail of the castle
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Figure drawing from college
So some of the figures I've drawn have already appeared in this blog BUT I took some figure drawing classes in college and have collected some of the art from them. I would like to get back into figure drawing but have mostly been focusing on landscapes for my oil paintings and scientific figures for cellular/molecular biology illustrations. These drawings are all done using models in that class.
Walnut ink on newsprint: The first one took 40 minutes but the next two were 2 minutes each
Detail of the face and torso
We also tried to capture the figure when she was in motion or only holding a pose for a short period of time. We did this as a warm up for most classes. This drawing is a mixture of pencil and conte crayon.
I included this conte drawing which was also from that course because you can tell I was trying to get the spine but proportions didn't come together and the model ultimately looks like a bit of a gorilla woman on the paper. Oops!!! For me, art requires practice. The styles I work on tend to get better and the others fall by the wayside. If any of you have a similar problem leave a comment (or some tips!!)
Also I don't want to end this post on a bad note sooo here are some ones I think came out a bit better. One is in pencil, the other is walnut ink. You can see the outline on the side of the first one where I was searching for the spine and proportions but not quite getting it. This was timed. Rather than erasing I just moved over to a blank area and started again. In the one with the walnut ink, the model was leaning on a gigantic vase. You can see a little of it. at the edge of the paper.
the head (more from college anatomy)
Drawn from a model skull
My drawing professor had me draw pages of sketches of the model skull from different angles until I understood how it should be in space (a skill I have not really used much lately since I moved to the molecular side of biology). At any rate, here is one of the pages from this anatomy investigation.
Now to be honest I know I was working pretty heavily with several anatomy textbooks to understand where all the muscles went. I put these drawings here to give an idea of what is going on under the skin but the layout and some of the design choices were heavily influenced by the texts...
spines (more college anatomy art)
What does the spine look like if you break it down?
How does it fit in with the rest of the body?
How does it meet the head?
What does it look like from the side? Halfway feel like this is a chiropractor's office.
Was working with live models while working on anatomy drawings... so I tried out this new-found appreciation of the spine with the model. You can see all of the initial attempts at capturing the curve of the spine on the edges of the paper (that is what the curvy lines are)
Hands (some anatomy illustrations from college)
The first two are based on compiling some anatomy textbooks with a skeleton model
These next two are based on an actual skeletal human arm and hand
somewhere in West Kerry (not sure of exact location)
I did this one earlier this year
Initial idea was to have a figure on the road
The road sort of ate the figure so I went in a different direction
Black Rock Cottage Rannoch Moor (birthday present for a different friend)
This was either 2011 or 2012
Birthday present for a friend
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