What is this new site all about? This is more for fun as I have been planning to create a separate online scrapbook for a while. The What’s New section at Fairman Studios is an inside look at the studio, with postings on projects and workshops that are happening. So this blog will have more fun and interesting content outside of the studio, like pictures from our travels, family events or plain old scrap material I have been meaning to organize. So, for future reference, come here to read what’s going on outside of the studio.

My “real” job is in Medical Illustration – I run my own medical illustration practice called Fairman Studios, and I am also an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, teaching in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. Growing up, I was always interested in medicine, science and research. I thought I might go into pediatrics. Maybe become a forensic entomologist? I also loved fine arts and crafts and just using my imagination to create things — some which commemorate things I have experienced in life, others to communicate or teach an idea. One day discovered the field of medical illustration, and like an epiphany, the idea of becoming a medical illustrator became a deeply meaningful career path – one that combined my favorite subjects: medicine and art. I went into the field of medical illustration knowing that I would be able to educate myself as well as a variety of audiences about the unending discoveries of science, medicine, anatomy, surgery and so many other biomedical subjects. I love to teach, and illustration does just that: illustrations are drawings that teach. So medical illustrations are drawings, or animations even, that teach medical or scientific subject matter.