Leave those x-ray specs at home

Check out the beautiful "x-ray" art of Yury Shpakovski

Assemblages for sale

I made the decision, at my wife's suggestion, to put a couple of assemblage boxes on Etsy, instead of eBay for right now. It's a double-edged sword, really. eBay can be unnerving and has this built-in tension thing, for some reason. Etsy, however, has the added weight of the seller having to determine the final price. Maybe that's easy for some people, but it just makes my guts go squishy. Anyhow, there's a link off to the right, or you can just go to boneandshadow.etsy.com.

From the stationary department...

In keeping with the general theme around here.

Pencils made from your dearly departed. Seriously. According to Carbon Copies:

Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.

There are suitable erasers, too!

And naturally, you're going to need something to write on !

The art of sharpening pencils

The Art of Sharpening Pencils

[via paper and pencil]

Figure Drawing

The author of the blog "Diary of a Process Junkie" has a fantastic post, including links to downloadable versions, of his choices for "The Best Figure Drawing Books Ever". Real classics - hey, bodies still have the same parts in the same places. Good stuff!

Mobile illustration

Once more, a thank you to Miss Cellania for another amazing link. Two, actually. What caught my eye first was the anatomy tattoo gallery. I'm rather fond of the blacklight ones... And then I noticed the site where the gallery was posted, Street Anatomy. Oh yeah, my kind of place.

Wonderous medical curiosities and more

I am drawing, really... just not much time the past week or so. (Kindly ignore, if you please, that it was a holiday weekend in the US, extra day off, etc.) Might even have something to show for it by tomorrow. And I've been mentally working on an assemblage, while waiting for the last eBay find to arrive.

In the meantime, via Cabinet of Wonders, I just found a site that seems made for me: Morbid Anatomy, "Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture." Don't go, if you're squeamish... but if you're here, that probably doesn't apply. ;) I haven't even made it past the first page, but it's wonderful. And the links? They'll keep me occupied for days!

Collage Joy

I just want to take a second to recommend the great service and fun, unusual products from Leanne at Collage Joy up in beautiful British Columbia. (I still want to be Canadian when I grow up.) Reasonable prices and safe packaging, too. And mo, I'm not getting paid for this; I will be a repeat customer, however!

But instead of using this item, I may just have to frame it.
I owe a fair debt to Digitalis.

Artistic Automaton

[via Cabinet of Wonders]

Skull-a-day

"a skull image every day for a year"

Skull-A-Day

Breakfast Links?

Check out the fantastical work of Ron Pippin!

Back in January, I mentioned the work of Jessica Joslin. Join from beinArt left a link in the comments to an interview with Jessica. (Thank you, Jon!)

I really love Mark Beam's Spine Lamp!

Skull Art

See? It's not just me:

I Want Your Skull

I must be *really* dangerous!

"It’s true, a little bit of anatomical knowledge can be a very dangerous thing."

American Artist: The Human Form: How to Put It All Together

You have a point...

Furniture made from Faber Castell pencils?
Here's hoping they are a 9B!
Have a seat!

Museum trip

Yesterday, K. and I employed our membership cards to enjoy a couple of hours at Boston's Museum of Science. We always see amazing and thought-provoking stuff there, and this time was no different. We went especially to see the traveling Darwin exhibit, and it was wonderful. Two beautiful Galapagos turtles, a huge Land Iguana, many of Darwin's field notebooks, drawings, and tool. More than that, there were so many skulls and skeletons! Sadly, the museum neither allowed photographs in that exhibit, to preserve the more fragile materials, nor did they seem inclined to just give me a few as mementos. Equally sad is the fact that I was so busy wandering about, gaping like a guppy at everything, I utterly failed to make any note about some thing I now wish I could sit and draw.

If it hits your town, I strongly recommend this exhibit - along with the IMAX film Galapagos!

Notes to self:

1. Must draw a bat skull
2. Must find the name of that Hominid line that petered out with the crested skull
   

I really don't think so

For those who find the paper in a Moleskine as nasty as I do, but just can't resist the lure of carrying the little black book, there's hope. Martha of Trumpetvine Travels has written an intense, well-illustrated, carefully explained tutorial on gutting and refilling a Moleskine, called "Moleskine Reloaded".

But here's my question: Are the size, interior pocket, and elastic closure of a Moleskine worth that much work?!

Happy Valentine's Day

Have a heart...

Art ON anatomy

Yet another great link sent to me by my friend, Slywy*:

Amazing Hand Paintings

And the artist's website: here


*Slywy is not a member of any royal family, did not sleep through her honeymoon, and isn't even married. She is quite forgiving.

Hey, I recognize that!

Skullduggery was featured today on Artist Hideout!
How cool is that?!
Many thanks to William Lehman for the kind review!

More anatomical art

The art of Scott Holloway