Natural Killer cell 2 copyright 2010 by Dave Putnam

The human immune system's greatest warriors, the Natural Killer Cells (NKC), can destroy cancer cells in either a close up grapple or by standing a short distance off and bombing the bad guys with shrappnel. It is important that the NKCs have the ability to kill cancer cells at a distance because the bad guys fight back and in a close up grapple the NKC can be destroyed by the cancer cell. In this painting I show the NKC in the upper right hand corner; it is unloading its bomb bays and showering the green weed-like cancer cells with a savage salvo of shrappnel. You will notice that one of the central chunks of shrappnel takes on the aspect of a superhero, this helps with the visulazation process.