#scientific illustration
Red bandana, available for purchase.
100% cotton bandana manually screen printed by me
50 x 50 cm
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Mrs. E. M. Cotton
Illustrations of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Falkland Islands.
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1921
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Animated Anatomies
Animated Anatomies was curated by Valeria Finucci and Maurizio Rippa-Bonati with the assistance of Rachel Ingold and Meg Brown.
Animated Anatomies explores the visually stunning and technically complex genre of printed texts and illustrations known as anatomical flap books. These publications invite the viewer to participate in virtual autopsies, through the process of unfolding their movable leaves, simulating the act of human dissection. This exhibit traces the flap book genre beginning with early examples from the sixteenth century, to the colorful “golden age” of complex flaps of the nineteenth century, and finally to the common children’s pop-up anatomy books of today.
This display includes volumes from Duke’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives History of Medicine Collection and from the private collections of the curators of the exhibit, Professor Valeria Finucci, Director of Duke’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Professor Maurizio Rippa-Bonati, historian of medicine at the University of Padua.
Animated Anatomies is an exhibit on display in the Perkins Gallery, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, from April 6-July 17, 2011, and in the History of Medicine Gallery in the Medical Center and Archives Library from April 13-July 17, 2011.
Source:Duke University Libraries
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Inner Beauty
Surreal anatomical portraits by Jane Lichorowic. Acrylic paint on canvas. Follow the artist here and support the art here.
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Hearts of Absent Women
Like many Korean families, artist Ema Shin’s relatives maintain a genealogy book called a jokbo, which illustrates their family tree. Shin’s ancestral record spans 32 generations, yet only male members of the family are represented. Born and raised in Japan, and currently based in Melbourne, Australia, the artist describes in a recent statement that “in the society that I was born and raised in, there was a prejudice between men and women, and their roles were predetermined. I always felt uncomfortable with this inequality.” In her series Hearts of Absent Women, she celebrates and recognizes women whose achievements remain obscured by history.
Heart-shaped forms made from fabric are elaborately embellished with colorful threads and beads in an homage to the organ’s connection with emotion and vitality. They are nearly life-size, and the range of woven and stitched textures are captivatingly tactile. Both anatomical and fanciful, the arteries, veins, and ventricles become distinctive expressions in needlework that reflect strength, resilience, and individuality. Since becoming a mother herself, Shin has been particularly interested in honoring women’s lives and bodies, recognizing the anonymous contributions of those in her family and around the world and acknowledging their stories for the future.
Follow Ema Shin here. Support the artist here. Photography by Matthew Stanton. Source: Colossal.
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Muscles and Blood-Vessels
Muscles and blood-vessels of the head, neck, chest, arm and hand of an écorché, with two details, showing the face and foot. Color engraving by Antonio. Serantoni, ca. 1816. Publication/Creation: G. Marenigh, 1816.
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Hey all! If you missed my live webinar, it’s now available on youtube! Learn a bit about how illustration is used in science, take a tour through a bunch of work I’ve done for IBP, and stay tuned at the end for a brief photoshop demo and some Q&A.
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I recently finished a really fun private commission! These are speculative hybrids - Cedar Waxwing crossed with Scarlet and Western tanagers. This could probably never happen in reality, but it’s so fun to imagine what the resulting bird could look like if it ever did!
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Friend or Foe?
Self-directed piece featuring two outdated Tyrannosaurs (Jurassic Park / featherless style) as a warm up for a bigger project to come. Available as a print at https://www.vectorthatfox.etsy.com
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Hearts of Absent Women
Like many Korean families, artist Ema Shin’s relatives maintain a genealogy book called a jokbo, which illustrates their family tree. Shin’s ancestral record spans 32 generations, yet only male members of the family are represented. Born and raised in Japan, and currently based in Melbourne, Australia, the artist describes in a recent statement that “in the society that I was born and raised in, there was a prejudice between men and women, and their roles were predetermined. I always felt uncomfortable with this inequality.” In her series Hearts of Absent Women, she celebrates and recognizes women whose achievements remain obscured by history.
Heart-shaped forms made from fabric are elaborately embellished with colorful threads and beads in an homage to the organ’s connection with emotion and vitality. They are nearly life-size, and the range of woven and stitched textures are captivatingly tactile. Both anatomical and fanciful, the arteries, veins, and ventricles become distinctive expressions in needlework that reflect strength, resilience, and individuality. Since becoming a mother herself, Shin has been particularly interested in honoring women’s lives and bodies, recognizing the anonymous contributions of those in her family and around the world and acknowledging their stories for the future.
Follow Ema Shin here. Support the artist here. Photography by Matthew Stanton. Source: Colossal.
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