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Medical Illustration is a strange breed: a mix of science, art, medicine, and problem-solving. It is my job to get ideas to make sense visually. Thanks for stopping by!

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pendants!

Whoops, I couldn’t wait. Here are the first anatomy (and bird) pendants! Putting them on etsy right now and then… I will likely be making more immediately.

kidney has an idea

I’m thinking about making some anatomical jewelry after the holidays, beginning with simple pendants. So I will be needing some new original images! The trick will be making them simple enough to be good-looking at a very small size. Here are some drawings I’m considering from the past couple of days… […]

it’s a costume again

Just an important update on the dancing kidney - this year I wore it, as it no longer decorates my bedroom wall.

large stuffed fabric things

The lungs are from undergraduate school. I think the assignment was to make a non-sqaure painting. The kidney was my Halloween costume a couple of years ago but now decorates my bedroom wall.  This is how I got my nickname among my classmates, “Kidney.”

learning should be more fun.

Use this LEGO® cross-section to study the kidney!

eggs over cardio

couldn’t resist doing a couple more.

eggs are people, too

Sometimes I make Ukrainian Easter Eggs, and not just at Eastertime. It had been too long since my last batch so I decided to get out my dyes. Here is one rather traditional egg, with fish, and one medical-illustration-inspired egg, with kidneys!
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medical illustration brownies

How to make a delicious treat out of your everyday artwork!
Step One: Pick out an illustration you could re-create in two or three solid shades. Think black, gray, white (or brownie, powdered sugar, more powdered sugar). Don’t steal illustrations! It will be more fun if you use your own. […]

what’s better than a kidney pie?

A kidney cake! This yummy confetti cake shaped like a kidney AND ureter was made for me for my birthday this August by the lovely and talented Erin. Thank you!