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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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my artwork was chosen for the cover of the December CAS proceedings issue!
I am so excited that my habitus illustration of the Neuropteran Ceraeochrysa lineaticornis was chosen for California Academy of Science's December 2009 newsletter. I did the image for Norm Penny while doing an internship with the CAS, where I also rendered a sweet...
Argentine Ants: conquering new niches thru peace and aphid-herding
This image was extremely fun to work on. It was for an article for Natural History magazine about the triumphant success of so called Argentine Ants. I chose the "pioneer" theme of the wagon, bonnet, cowboy hat, aphid-oxen etc. to make it a very easy to grasp visual...
my promotional flyer for the AAS convention
I am super excited to attend (as a guest of Charles Griswold from the from CAS) the American Arachnological Society yearly convention held this summer in Berkeley! Pretty convenient...I whipped up this collage to throw down on the odds and ends table for researchers...
Chefs dueling over cooked vs. raw foods
This was an image I did for Science Notes for an online journal article. check out the article here: http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0801/pages/food/food.html I "drink the cool-ade" when it comes to cooked foods, so my embedded visual opinion on it is obvious: you...
Were giant ground sloths the original dispersal agents for Osage Oranges? (Maclura pomifera)
This striking idea was fascinating to stumble on...Jon Wagner mentioned it to me in passing one day and shortly thereafter a wikipedia search revealed this curious mystery: "The fruit is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native...
Sweepstakes rafting across the Atlantic
When I first read a reference of the notion that monkeys accidentally rafted across the Atlantic to land in the new world, it spun my imagination like crazy! I had so many questions, didn't even know quite where to start, so I read a lot of research papers that took...