 Photo: Francina Ditzel |
Draw & Digit is Karin Spijker’s private company, providing medical illustrations for scientific, biomedical and educational publications. Clients for these illustrations are: |
Expertise
With a completed Teachers Degree in Drawing Karin ended up in the branch of publicities and fashion photography. As a digital retouching artist and entrepeneur she has been one of the pioneers in the field and on the highest level. They involved photographers Inez van Lamsweerde, Marc de Groot and labels such as Tommy Hilfinger and G-Star.
But then it was time for a change: ‘A lingering desire to return to drawing and painting, my first passion, grew ever stronger’.
From her earliest years on, Karin has always drawn and painted, preferably using traditional methods, including the use of oil paint and the techniques of the Old Masters. For this she produces her own tempera. Especially Rembrandt, Titian, Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci inspire her.
In the program Master Scientific Illustration at Maastricht all came together
The course is a joint venture between the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at Maastricht Hogeschool Zuyd and the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of the Maastricht University – Department of Anatomy and Embryology.
The formation provided a unique possibility to combine Karin’s different fields of experience. From Old Masters’ painting techniques to contemporary, high-end digital techniques. The interaction between the different fields further deepens and broadens the illustrative experience and results.
In this new field too, Karin aims for the highest possible. As a medical and scientific illustration professional she continues to deepen and broaden her knowledge. Assisting in OR’s enables her to reproduce the best human and animal anatomical preperations.
Publications:
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Illustrating plastic surgery of the nose Rhinoplasy Involving Lobulus and Cartilago Alae Nasi in the Caucasian Nose Thesis Master Scientific Illustrations by Karin E.M.P. Spijker Maastricht, February 2012 |
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Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques Karin Spijker’s work is published in the April 2011 edition of the Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques. |
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Medical Illustration Source Book Since September 2010 Karin Spijker’s medical illustrations are published in the Medical Illustration Source Book. |
More information
For more information please contact Karin Spijker.
