Uterus

After a long drought of non-publishing-ness... here's a 3D model of a uterus I made for my medical legal sequential illustration visualization course... still in progress...

Mammary Cubes

For another pathology assignment, we had to dice up a piece of tissue, and show it change over time. So I decided to look at breast tissue (cuz my pathology piece is going to be about breast cancer). I did quite enjoy playing around with the layout!

In Figure 1, we see from left to right, breast tissue at rest, breast tissue during pregnancy, and breast tissue post partum. I think one of the problems here is that the cubes don't really... appear to be of the same cut... particularly the second and last ones since there is such a drastic change in the histology.

Figure 1.

Figure 2 is just a close up of the first and second cubes. In the first one, I'm trying to show that the glands are inactive or empty, thus they have dark shadows. There's also plenty of connective tissue. During pregnancy though, a serous secretion is produced by the glands... I sorta attempted to show that the acini are full of transparent liquid... As for the third cube (Figure 1), the secretion is full of lipids and causes the lumen of the glands to expand. There's not much connective tissue...

Figure 2.

Pumpkin pies

So... I made 4 of these for this past Thanksgiving...

The crust on the left shrunk... D:

Lifedrawing!

Back to graphite! Start from the darkest shadow, then build. These were all 15 minutes I think...

Chairs throw me off...

Good morning ovary

This is another study and assignment for my pathological illustration course. When I conceptualized this, I had in mind a colour palette that included pale lemony yellows, oranges and blues. So sorta like a morning light.

I think it'd be cool to turn this into some sort of watercolour or acrylic painting... without the call-out boxes that is...

Concept rendered by graphite :D

Metaphyseal plate

This was a quick sketch done for a histology assignment. It's an interpretation of a histological slide of the metaphyseal plate in bones. Basically, these are the cells that make bone grow!

I'm think this would be a cool wash...?

Concept rendered by pencil.

Lifedrawing!

More lifedrawing! Yay!

Due to popular demand, I have moved onto conté... at least for the latter half of the drawing session...

Conté!

Just the shadows.

See below O:

Working from the forms of shadows

again.

Lifedrawing!

So it's been several years since I've been to a real lifedrawing session... Finally, went after a friend and I planned and failed at going multiple times over the past year. Here are some of the better-ish ones rendered in pencil (short = 1-5 minutes; medium = 10-25 minutes... I dun remember which ones where which...):

Medium.

Medium.

Medium.

Medium

Short.

Medium.

Medium.

Short.

Short.

Le paté chinoise

So, as a kid, my grandmother and nanny used to make this shepherd's pie type thing with mashed potatoes, corn, and beef... All neatly stacked, baked, and served...

I have never heard any of my usual friends have this dish, unless their family was chinese...

And lo and behold, I'm in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and my host, Pascal, says, "Geoff, we're having le paté chinoise tonight!" And, it's exactly the same!!! According to him, the dish was brought to Quebec by the railway workers, and according to a recent poll in Quebec, was one of the most common family dishes...

Interesting... I will make this when I get back! :P

Phoebe's Apartment

Watercolour, 11"x14"

So, I painted this a while ago. This is sorta the look that I want "Project 1" to look like. Something about those slightly off angles really appeal to me. The dark buildings in the foreground - on the edge of the piece - act like a frame which I found really cool.

Project 1

I'm going to attempt to paint this with watercolour...

Baked Apple Pie

Yay, apple pie! Even though I don't eat sweets... Something about baking is very therapeutic... First time at crimping; notice how it starts off really rough, then gets better (sorta)?

Light Creamy Pepper Soup

Not a huge fan of bell peppers... But, I had them in my fridge the other day. My housemate bought them. And we had yams... or sweet potatoes... (In either case, they're the ones with the orangey coloured meat inside.) So I decided to make a soup!

So I sautéed some garlic and onions. Threw in an orange bell,  a red bell, and a Roma tomato (all de-seeded). Finally, I tossed in a yam, diced.

I looked in the fridge... only had about half a litre of milk. Poored that in. The liquid in the pot wasn't covering everything so I topped it off with water (hence the 'light' creamy pepper soup). I'm thinking that it would have been nice to add a concentrated beef broth. But, oh well, next time.

Last, I tossed in a couple of bay leaves, rosemary, black peppers, and basil. Also, I threw in a chili pepper I bought at a Mexican store in Kensington Market... Don't remember the name...

Boil, blend, re-heat, season, serve! (Drizzle olive oil on top! I would imagine a light drizzle of truffle oil wouldn't be bad either...?)