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I'm still finding my feet here, so it feels right to share with you the first #JournalCover I ever got with my #sciart

I was a #postdoc at the time and I had 1 evening to produce something around the idea that virulence in #bacteria is often 'all about the #phage ... '

A lucky break for me!
#MastoArt #Introduction

A blue rod shaped bacterium with 3 flagella in a soup of red and green phage, some with short tails, some with long tails. The image is done with aquarelle - a kind of nicely textured watercolour monoprint
#mastoart #introduction #bacteria #sciart #phage #postdoc #journalcover
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Danny (he/they)
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Danny (he/they)
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very cool. What sort of stuff had you made with aquarelle/printmaking prior to this work?
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Eliza Wolfson
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@danwchan Thank you! This was my first go at it. To be honest, at the time, I didn't even know that it was an actual technique with a name. I was just making it up as I went along! I didn't have any lino to hand so used some thick card instead. It's more absorbent and gives different printing effects.

I got commissioned by #FEMSmicro to make a visual identity for their blog using this technique some time later...

Aquarelle print of a red, yellow and blue coronavirus with its looping RNA organised inside, which then loops out of the virus and turns into writing loops that join up to a pencil
A yellow aquarelle printed lightbulb full of red, green and blue microbe shapes
An aquarelle print of a blue microscope examining the world
An aquarelle printed red streak plate with white colonies and yellow, blue and green speech bubbles coming from different parts of the plate
#femsmicro @Danny (he/they)

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