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\"Facial

Facial Vessels, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week I attended “Sketch Night<\/a>” at “Bodies: The Exhibition<\/a>“, at the South Street Seaport in New York.\u00a0 This is one of those exhibits of real human cadavers, preserved by a process called plastination<\/a> or polymer preservation, and variously dissected for educational display to the general public.\u00a0 The Sketch Nights give artists access to the exhibit after hours for purposes of anatomical drawing and study.\u00a0 The ticket price was a bit steep – more than twice as much as a session with a live model at Spring Studio.\u00a0 There were introductory presentations by the Director of the exhibit and by well-known art and anatomy professor Sherry Camhy – very nice, but after all that a good chunk of the three-hour session was already used up.\u00a0 We were allowed to go anywhere in the exhibit and choose the displays we wanted to sketch.\u00a0 Most of the art students chose the full-body specimens showing skeletal and muscular systems (arranged mostly in corny sports poses), but I was more drawn to the exhibits that show the various patterns of flow in the body.\u00a0 The drawing above was made from two separate pieces, one showing the veins of the face and head (in blue, as per the convention of anatomical illustration), and the other showing the arteries, in red.\u00a0 I combined the two into one.<\/p>\n

This is a sketch of the back of a full-body dissection showing the major nerves, which look tough and fibrous:<\/p>\n

\"Nerves

Nerves of the Back, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

My favorite room in the exhibit is the one where blood vessels have been preserved and all the other tissues stripped away.\u00a0 These figures look like my most manic scribbly drawings multiplied and exploded into three dimensions.\u00a0 The arteries branch out treelike, the veins meander vinelike, and the capillaries are fuzzy like moss.\u00a0 This quick sketch comes nowhere near the actual complexity of the specimen:<\/p>\n

\"Torse

Torso Vessels, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

On some people the veins on the inner surface of the arm are close to the surface and make bulging pathways (not on my arms – I’m a phlebotomist’s challenge!).\u00a0 Here’s an arm specimen that shows these veins clearly, with the mostly deeper-lying arteries.\u00a0 In this image the palm of the hand is facing us:<\/p>\n

\"Arm

Arm Vessels, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s a room about embryology, with various specimens including placentas and conjoined twins, and a series of tiny translucent fetuses, with a red staining used to reveal bone development:<\/p>\n

\"Fetal

Fetal Bone Development, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s the diaphragm, the dome-like muscle that aids in breathing.\u00a0 Seen from the front at a low angle, it looked to me like an exotic caravan tent.\u00a0 That’s the spine in the back:<\/p>\n

\"Diaphragm,

Diaphragm, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Anatomy training for figurative artists tends to stop at bones and muscles and surface anatomy, but having an intuitive sense of the internal processes and flows can really enrich one’s feel for the body’s fantastically dynamic and complex structure.\u00a0 Anatomy is an endless study – you’ll never know it all!<\/p>\n

There’s one more “Sketch Night<\/a>” scheduled this season at “Bodies: The Exhibition” in New York, this Thursday, May 21.<\/p>\n

All drawings in this post are aquarelle crayon on gray paper, 70 cm x 50 cm.<\/p>\n

NOTE:\u00a0 Tomorrow I’m starting on a demanding freelance job, so I probably won’t find the time to make another blog post for at least a week.\u00a0 Have patience – there will be more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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