Illustration
Where the Ginko Grows
At last, a long-time desire to create a ketubah has been fulfilled! When my husband and I were planning our wedding, I so wanted to create so many things: our invitations, our chuppah, my husbands tallis, the wedding programs, and a ketubah. But as my responsibilities, and creativity grew, time began to run out quickly. My ambitions to create a painting that would both illustrate our dedication to each other, as well as the kind of home we wanted to create started to fade. I needed to be realistic. I had soon forgotten my desire when I fell in love with the beautifully designed ketubah my husband and I picked out at our favorite Judaica store in Boston.
A Bird in the Hand
I must have birds on the brain, but lately I have been obsessed with getting those little feathered creatures into my craft work. Mainly in metalsmithing, but also in some quilting and paper & card projects I am working on. Then just today, Dolan Geiman had a Friday “Link Love” all about birds!!! He read my mind I guess…
The Stuff of Life
I am listening to NPR’s Science Friday right now and they are talking about this comic book about genetics called the Stuff of Life!
Penelope Dullaghan
:: How fun is it to discover the playful work of Penelope Dullaghan. Her sense of color is food for my mind’s eye, and I just love her whimsical style.
Eye Candy
Megan E. B. Foldenauer, my colleague, fellow MI and friend is one of those people with amazing talent, and amazing personality to match. She is a biomedical illustrator by trade with a Masters degree from the same program I attended and now teach at, Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is very active in the field, but increasingly finds herself dabbling in her “fine art” which looks as realistic as her illustration work…
Penguin & Puffin Coast
It was in December of 2001 when I received a phone call from the Saint Louis Zoo’s Education Department regarding a new exhibit the zoo was in the midst of ground-breaking called “Penguin and Puffin Coast.” The zoo had already hired an architect and an outdoor exhibit designer to begin building a new facility which would house several species of penguins and puffins. Included in the design were to be one outdoor and two large indoor naturalistic habitats for the birds. In addition, the design group planned to build an interactive hands-on display with multiple panels which would teach visitors about the birds as they walked through the exhibit…
