I, Carmella M. (Clifford) Fifty, grew up near Towson, Maryland.Although having sketched my entire life, I only started formal art training as a senior at Loyola College. A degree in biology with interests in medicine and art led me to investigate a career in medical illustration. On the advice of Ranice Crosby, the director of Medical Illustration at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, I studied watercolor with Fredrick Schuler Briggs, attended a year at Schuler’s School of Fine Art,… more