The Dangers of Phase Contrast Microscopy

“Every time that the person before me left the scope in phase 3, and I forgot to check.”

This honestly happens to me far too frequently, you’d think I would learn to avoid it or something. I’m just going to say that I get so excited to see my little bacteria under the scope, that I can’t help myself and shove my eyes into the eyepieces as fast as possible. I mean, some of these guys have week-long doubling times!

LEGO Portrait Series Part 1

I have decided to start a portrait series of watercolor paintings, based on the peripheral characters my siblings and I invented in our LEGO games. Since Doc has just given me a ton of art supplies for my birthday, I decided that it was high time I started painting this series.

My plan is to finish the whole series, then frame them and give them to my siblings as gifts.

I have finished the first portrait in the series, so here it is along with his bio:

“I’m sorry, I totally zoned out there for a minute, whadid ya order? The yakisoba?”

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The Unquiet Grave

A Medieval tale of a revenant… and the boy who loves it.

Introducing, in time for Halloween, a Medieval tale of a revenant… and the boy who loves it.

I did a cursory scan-and-crop of my 24 Hour Comic, “The Unquiet Grave,” for your reading pleasure.  This was the first time that I had used watercolours in… I don’t know, it must have been 12 years or something like that.  I had recently purchased a combo pack of coloured pencils, pastels, and watercolours.  I was planning on using the pencils, but ultimately decided against that, as it wouldn’t look very much like the Medieval illuminated manuscripts.  I also stole some of Doc’s watercolours 😀

Speaking of which, Doc’s 24 hour comic is amazing and he’s finished scanning his as well.

We participated in 24 Hour Comic Book Day at Mission: Comics & Art on October 20th 2012, and you can read more about that day’s adventures here.

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