Friday, January 29, 2010

cardiac surgery!

These past two weeks, our class has been observing and sketching in the O.R. @ TGH and TWH for our surgical illustration course. Initially, i was worried about things like getting in the surgeon's way, touching something blue (my greatest fear), or feeling queasy. However, this all changed when we got there! My colleague and i observed an incredible cardiovascular surgeon who made us feel welcome. i think his enthusiasm was contagious - i ended up falling in love with cardiac procedures and went back for more! :'D
(i also fell in love with scrubs... they are so comfy...)

We really appreciated his kindness, so i painted this card for him:


cardiac surgery love
watercolour + col-erase pencil on watercolour paper

(Unfortunately, i
only had crappy student-grade watercolour paper, so it didn't absorb the colours well. It also got wrinkly and refused to scan properly. So i'm a little disappointed with the results. ;-; )

3 comments:

a_ndy said...

You've probably seen more surgery than I have! The card is great :)

Geoffrey L Cheung said...

surgery is cooool! minus the next two months you'll be going through:P

Joyce said...

@ Andrew: i'm sure you'll soon surpass me! <:

@ Geoff: omg... what an ominous message...! ;0;