This week I pulled a couple out of the Kbrink archives. I've got My Eye close up and the Brain painting. These are some very old pieces, but I still like them. There was a time where I was stationed at a couple of Air Force hospitals and worked as a medical illustrator. During that time period, I did a lot of traditional technique paintings/illustrations. These are a couple examples of that.
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| The Brian - 18" x 24" Airbrush, colored pencil and pen and ink on Crescent cold press board |
The brain, was used as a wall hanging in the Neurology Clinic at Carswell, AFB. The technitian or doc could use it as a reference to explain a diagnosis or how the brian functions, to their patients. I did this mostly with airbrush and transparent colors. I also used some colored pencil and pen and ink. I had a lot of fun working one this illustration.
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| My Eye - 18" x 24" Colored Pencil and Pen and Ink (I added the beige around the eye recently in Photoshop) |
The Eye was just a training piece and something to hang on the wall, when I first got to Carswell AFB. My former supervisor Joe Brickham took a close-up photo of my eye, gave me a Polaroid copy of it - and I used it as the reference for the art. This one I drafted on white paper with pen and ink and colored pencil. Because Joe used a special macro technique on the photo, he really got a lot of color variation and detail, which I tried to portray in the artwork with the colored pencil.
Both of these pieces were documented on 35mm color slide film and recently scanned with a flatbed scanner that has the capability. Unfortunately due to time gone by and less than archival conditions, the slides have lost a bit of the original luster that the illustrations once had. It's still fun to break out some of the old work occasionally.
Everyone, enjoy your week...make it a good one.
Aloha,
Tom
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