Some of my paintings, this first one, an oil, the most recent. It's big and kind of hard to capture the detail so I've posted a close-up of the woman and her babe as well. This one is done in pencil and watercolor and is comparatively small. A self portrait...waiting (er...minus the tat)
Science meets art: a real image I took on a widefield fluorescence microscope of some bovine pulmonary artery epithelial cells... An oil of the same kind of cells/fluorescent probes This is an image of a couple of real parasites done in darkfield contrast with some color applied. I call the first one Jabba the Hut because it kind of looks like the character of the same name. The second pic is a real tapeworm up close and personal with a sepia filter applied.
Cancer cells getting ready to divide (done in oil) ...and dividing. What kind of science porkstock41?
I have a whole bunch more like that, a couple of them 3d sculptures but I donated them all to the institute I work for. The BPAE cell painting is there too but I got a picture of that before I donated them all. Many more here at home I haven't photographed too. I'll post some more when I have some time.
those bovine cells are awesome! great stuff i occasionally look at yeast cells under a microscope. they don't look nearly as cool - under just 10x what's the magnification of those bovine cells? 100x?..
Those are done with a high NA 63x oil lens. The green probe is staining actin (so the cytoskeleton), the blue probe is nuclear and the red is phalloidin, all pseudocolor, of course.
. Somewhere I have a bigger one of a tree with bark like that. I did those when I lived in North Carolina and that's what the bark on those trees looked like to me...kind of archaic. I'll see if I can find it
Now that you mention it, the red in the BPAE cells probably isn't phalloidin. The phalloidin-antibody conjugate is used to stain F-actin and so that's probably Mito-Red or something and those are the mitochondria you see in red. I was probably thinking of another sample of mouse kidney I have. Actin is very obviously bound to the AlexaFluor 488 in these cells. My bad.
This is fkn cool. I recently had the opportunity to use some similarly powerful microscopes at the National Research Council in Ottawa and it was awesome. It's all about the science by day, art by night!
