Started making the cow out of clay. Left a open section in the back (cant see it here) for the prions. Now to let it dry!
Protein artists
- 2010 Protein Portraits in the news
- Alissa Eckert
- Bathsheba Grossman
- Byron Rubin
- David Goodsell
- Drew Berry
- Gael McGill
- Irving Geis
- Jane Richardson
- Janet Iwasa
- Jenny Langley
- Julian Voss-Andreae
- Mara Haseltine
- Maria Winners infectious art
- Mike Tyka
- Protein art by May_k
- Steve Miller
- Wunderkammer crochet
Protein science
- AlphaFold
- AlphaFold: How to predict structures
- AlphaFold: Tutorial
- David Goodsell's Molecule of the Month
- Domain classification: CATH
- Domain classification: SCOP
- Folding at home
- Foldit
- Jane Richardson modeling
- Perkins: History of Molecular Representation Part 2
- Protein Spotlight (SIB)
- RCSB PDB: Search the protein databank
Studio tricks and materials
Viral artistry
- 2015 Year of the Phage
- Ann Kiernan for The Washington Post
- Bad news wrapped in protein
- Corona virus mandala
- Goodsell CoV-2
- Illustration by Nicholas Konrad
- SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein- 2D illustration
- SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein-Macarroni models
- SARS-CoV-2 spike protein models, space filling, by David Veesler
- Sean McSorley, Virosphere illustration
- The Spiky Blob Seen Around the World
Weekly topics
Are you making the prions out of clay? Can you bring a piece of clay to class next week? And show us some artistic tricks for working with this medium?
I would but I used my entire block! I don’t have any clay left to demo. I can try to give some tips to anybody thinking of using clay though.
I don’t think I will be using clay to make the prions simply because the random coils will probably break and clay would be hard to make into a nice helix. I was thinking pipe cleaners for alpha helices and some color foam sheets cut into the shape of arrows for the beta sheets. Random coils I will probably make from metal wire from some old spiral bound notebooks.
I have a block of something called “Sculpey”. The wrapper says it is a white oven-bake clay. Is that sort of like the stuff you’ve used? If I bring it in, can you give us a demo?
I knew I needed a lot of clay so I didnt use sculpey because it was expensive just for a small block. So I bought a big block…maybe 8 x 8…of just regular gray looking clay for $8 from Michaels. It is air dry rather than oven bake. So not the fancy stuff 🙂 I can try the sculpey but Im not familiar with the consistency.