maya’s blog

I am going to teach some art again this summer!  I’ve missed it since I closed down my art store, where we did classes, workshops, private lessons and general mess-making.  Time to open up my home and try it out again. Come one, come all!  And please let me know if you have other ideas; […]

Do you need new photoshop CS4 shortcuts? Perhaps Adobe stole your “R” and gave it to Rotate? Here is how you take back control!
Photoshop > Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts
Here is access to pretty much everything! If you need to change a shortcut for one of your tools, click on the […]

I haven’t written much about medical illustration lately, so I thought I would just check in.  I have been very busy at work.  Mostly with very good stuff - interesting projects - but just a lot.  Without giving away any proprietary information, here are some of the things I am working on:

I thought I would reminisce tonight and share some work from my last job in Newton, Mass.  While at Argosy, I worked on these pieces for two “coffee-table” anatomy books.  I had a good experience there and remember it fondly!  I will miss the soft-tissue renderings, although I am excited to do the more bony […]

In February I moved back to Texas with Clint (and of course Ed the cat).   We are now in McKinney, which is a bit north of Dallas, and I work as a medical illustrator at Orthofix.   I’m in the marketing/communications department doing illustrations and animations.  It’s my first time in marketing and my first time with […]