Anatomy, part 2...

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks - too tired and forgetful. Anyway, the week before last Jan gave us the project of drawing an interior anatomy of one of our mythical beasts. We'd looked at several slides of anatomical diagrams from Western and Eastern art and I particularly loved the Tibetan ones, so I took the flavour of those lovely diagrams and explored my Lionagon. Jan also had some coloured vellum which is slightly transparent so I drew the two diagrams as "layers" to place over my original drawing, like medical textbooks with transparencies of body systems.

Maps are the focus of this week and next week so there is no finished work yet, stay tuned.

Anatomy, Jan-style...

Debbie and I were prepared to be drawing bits of each other - maybe a hand, maybe even our own off-hand, our feet as we looked down, our neighbour's profile as we drew but, no, Jan had other ideas. When she said anatomy she meant Gray's. Bits of kidney, heart, esophagus, cross-sections of spines, cuts through the thoracic cavity. Interior anatomy, dissection style. Fortunately we got to use anatomical studies as the basis of our drawings rather than the messier alternative. Unfortunately for me, we had to draw BIG. This time we had to fill a full drawing sheet of Stonehenge (22x30) and then use inks to shade and colour. I used an Amber and Blue ink on a kidney and this is the result - well bits of the result...