Micelles in Evarun!
The last several years I head to Norman Oklahoma to attend the annual Institute for Applied Surfactant Research (IASR) meeting. What else is in Norman? My friend and author Tom Barczak, a fellow Perseid Press contributor with a poetic, dark style. Barczak is an artist & architect who has a beautiful ability to capture angelic warfare with drawing pencil and keyboard.
Before the seminars started, I squeezed in another Starbuck's meeting. This time I got a glimpse into Tom's sketches for his Hands of the Dragon book...and was allowed to share a bit with you (see below)! And what out! I think creepy surfactant assemblies are inspiring him!
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| Tom Barczak holding Helen's Daimones : S E Lindberg with Mouth of The Dragon |
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| Tom Barczak & his notebook |
The notes read: "A suitable sacrifice .... A cenotaph of blood..."
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| Barczak's Notebook: Hands of the Dragon |
Eh gad, is that a micelle?
Of course my mind is focused on surfactants, and what do I see has Tom's notebook? A micelle? That's a spherical assembly of soap molecules, a key technology for detergency. Well he claims his sketch is his visualization of an epic assembly of people as they execute a divine ritual. Anyway, I adore micelle formations, having illustrated them for Prof. Steven Abbott's
Surfactant Science: Principles and Practice ... with the app
Practical Surfactants (
available for free). But they also creepy me out (
surfactants can form some scary "living" structures, such as myelins).
So the moral of this story is:
Obey your muse... and be wary of self-assembled structures!
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| Micelle Illustrations By S.E. for Steven Abbott |
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| Surfactant Packing Illustrations - S.E. for Steven Abbott |
Previous Barczak Coffee Runs:
- 2016: Drawing Evarun Dragons & Dyscrasia Skeletons
- 2015: Heroika #1: Dragon Eaters
- 2014: "Soap, disease, and dragons"
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