Drawing Inspirations — Branca Edmée Marques
Drawing Inspirations are pieces of art created by young NFT artists who are in the Flower Girls Art Fund. Each piece is inspired by a woman who has contributed to the world of science in a significant way.
In June 2022, I had the privilege of being part of the group of young artists supported by the Flower Girls and I accepted the challenge of drawing for Drawing Inspirations.
The Scientist proposed for me to draw, which I didn’t know, was Branca Edmée Marques ( 1899–1986).
Branca Edmée Marques was born on the 14th April of 1899, in Lisbon.
In 1931, she went to France to develop research in Nuclear Physics. She obtained her PhD in 1935, at the Faculty of Sorbonne, in Paris, under the supervision of Marie Curie. Back in Portugal, she ran the first Center of Investigation in Chemistry of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
In 1950, she published the work “New Data on the Behavior of Polonium in an Acid Environment” in the Portuguese Chemistry Society Magazine. In 1970, the same publication printed her paper “Radioactive Pollution in Natural Waters”, co-written with Maria Regina Sales Grade.
In 1966, she became a Chemical Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon, a position for which she had first qualified in 1954. Additionally, Marques was the first woman to become Head Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
She died on the 19th of July of 1986, in Lisbon.
Source and more info: She Thought It
How did Branca Edmée Marques inspire me?
Branca Edmée Marques showed and proved that women could also play an important role in science at the time and fought for women’s rights in higher education, when they could not study abroad without their husband’s permission. She was the first woman to obtain a Chair in Chemistry at a Portuguese university.
The creation that originated the NFT!
After the challenge launched and after getting to know Branca Edmée Marques better, I tried to represent the Scientist and her brand to the world in the best possible way.
The next step was digital hand drawing, I use Procreate, still in a basic way, I still have a lot to explore and learn in digital drawing.
I leave these two small videos of the evolution of digital hand drawing and some of the details of the necklace and hair!
Procreate allows you to record the entire drawing process and at the end we can share the time lapse, here’s Drawing Inspirations Branca Edmée Marques x Carol
The NFT and the Mint process!
The Flower Girls team manages the entire mint process on their platform, here you connect your digital wallet and with the matic token from the Polygon blockchain network, contribute with the amount of matic you want, to receive a second NFT, you have to buy the first with 10 matic, you can consult the details of the entire process on this wiki page.
This was the final result of my adventure on Flower Girls Drawing Inspirations! I hope you like my tribute to Branca Edmée Marques, which will now be on Web3 and Blockchain!
Portuguese version here
