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Ethan’s portrait

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Here’s the portrait that was a commissioned birthday present for my brother’s girlfriend’s brother. His sister wanted an distinguished portrait of him. I thought nothing was more pompus than one of those ruffled collars and a hamlet pose. The original artwork was Frans Hals – Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull. It was featured on the front page of Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ojmgb/my_sister_decided_that_no_one_should_reach_30/ I used a low res image of the original painting and repainted it in Photoshop with new brushstrokes so that it looked painted...

ePMV workshop example 8

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Here are some of my molecular examples from the ePMV workshop given by Graham Johnson, CMI & Fabian de Kok-Mercado, CMI at the 2011 AMI meeting in...

Sulfur gas emission by cancer cells

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EEK! Spider!

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Don’t look at this if you don’t like spiders. This was a spider that I found hanging out in my bag of knitting a few mornings ago. I thought I’d draw him before letting him go. He was too big to squish.  

Brain drawing

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Here’s a scan of the brain that I drew. I’m going to color it in Photoshop, so check back later.

Krstić study 1

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This image is from Human Microscopic Anatomy by R.V. Krstić. I did a pencil tracing of the pen and ink image Plate 14. Survey of blood elements in a sinus of the bone marrow. I then used that sketch as a basis for practice coloring and painting in Photoshop. I played with a color pallet and other techniques. It is unfinished and I may base a new original piece on some of what I learned from doing this...