From Pencil to Pixel
- Until mid-November
Scientific illustration today
Besides being a particularly useful artform, scientific illustration is also exceptional in itself! Biologists, medics and many other scientists have been making good use of the illustrations for centuries. After all, they show things that are invisible to the naked eye. A scientific illustrator decides what to show, what to leave out and why, creating a visual story. These exceptional illustrations can be seen up to the autumn holidays in Natuurmuseum Brabant.
A scientific illustration says more than a photograph and a thousand words!
A small, intimate exhibition with works that falls between art and science: From Pencil to Pixel 2023 gives you an insight into the process behind scientific illustrations. Students from the Master Scientific Illustration exhibit their graduation work. Each one is an intriguing piece and throws a completely different light on, for example, the brain and digestive system, shark bites or fungi. Using old traditional techniques (pencil) and the latest gadgets in the field of digital image editing (pixels), details are highlighted, added or even left out. A scientific illustration actually says more than a photo and a thousand words!
In this exhibition, you can see the graduation work by students of the Master Scientific Illustration of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences and Maastrict University. This international scientific illustration degree programme is unique in the Netherlands and Europe.
Illustration: Claudia Amort
Workshops
Feel like picking up your pencils (again)? Keep an eye on our website, we'll organize more special workshops for beginning and advanced (young) adults!
This June we had four Scientic Illustration-based workshops programmed for both starting and avanced illustrators. Materials and entrance to the entire museum are included! The programme with new workshops will appear in September.