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Why choose Marlin?
From digital to traditional, paint rollers to pushing pixels, your project deserves the benefits of an artist that can exploit the benefits of each.
Commissions (traditional and digital)
From logos, posters, t-shirts, book designs to large murals. Marlin is experienced with traditional pen and ink, to digital drawing, painting, and more.
Illustration (traditional & digital)
Marlin has completed many types of illustrations over the years. From Scientific drawings for books and museums, to fiction and book artwork in pen and ink, paint, and digital platforms.
Murals (indoor & outdoor)
If your looking to have a cool mural done at your business, and or home, you have found the right place. Marlin is a seasoned and experienced artist for all types of indoor and exterior murals.
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Committed to Quality Since 2007
Marlins artwork can be seen from high in the air on large roof tops, to a simple small painted art for a book illustration. No matter what type of art is needed, Marlin can help get your design going. With years of experience, and plenty of happy customers, you know that your are getting your monies worth with Marlin.
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how to paint a Rove beetle the size of a grain of rice?
Recently I was commisioned to do a painting of a particular type of beetle called a Staphylinid, (aka Rove Beetle). This beetle's latin name is Zalobius nancyae. Of course I was very excited to do a large "habitus" of this fascinating and ancient lineage, but I had...
the poetic precision of a leaping salticid (aka jumping spider)
I did this image of a salticid, (also known as a jumping spider), in mid flight. What is coolest about it is that it is from a vantage point that you could never really photograph. They are one of the many cool spiders that DO NOT make webs to catch prey, but are...
Evolution of a Logo: pen to pixel
This series of R's is the evolution of a logo I designed for a client called Rev't Resource. It is a company that does the engineering busy work for the pipe and duct systems in buildings. Pipes, blueprints, and 3-dimensional were the themes to employ. The first...
How many people in Africa owe their existence to cassava crossing the Altantic?
Cassava is a profoundly vital plant that can take credit for sustaining millions of people (i.e. poor farmers and their families) every day across the tropics, especially in Africa. Africa produces more than the rest of the world combined for many reasons: it grows...
3 ways that arachnids inject venom into their prey
I made this graphic to showcase the incredible evolution of venom-injecting structures that these major groups of arachnids have independently arrived at. The scorpion thru the telson, or the tip if the "tail"; the wolf spider (you can tell by the eye...
Illustrating a tiny, tiny spider for the Cal Academy
This extremely tiny spider (~1mm across!) is called Silhouettella assumptia and is from an elusive and little known family of spiders called Oonopidae. They are known to lay people as the "goblin" spiders, but to latin linguists in labcoats the Oonopidae means...