sketching out and beginning a skull mount.
- In art, artwork, caveman art, morbid art, other media, pictures, taxidermy,
sketching it out, deciding what materials to include.
laying out the structure
a few pictures of the process.
spider rat two.
Here is a second one.
I will be building one more of these. This one has caught a meal.
This one is also for sale at this link…click away, please!
rat spider…(redacted reference to the movie, dead alive)
What I finished today. I also started a huge full-sheet landscape, but that won’t be done for a while yet.
I’ll be building three of these creepy little monsters- this one, another for a friend as a commission, and then a slightly larger rat-size one. This one is made of a full mouse skull, rat jaws, bird and mouse and rat bones, possum vertebrae, bone glue, and oil pigment.
It’s on a tiny coffin lid, and hangs on the wall, for all your horrorfully-decorated rooms. I think he would do best in a library, in a genetics lab, or in a tattoo and horror fanatic’s studio or office. But what do I know? It might be that he is happiest in your nightmares.
This one is for sale, the second has already sold.
banned on etsy: her roses
human arm bone articulation. banned on etsy!
Apparently, despite many other listings of legal human bones, THIS one is unwelcome on etsy.
Their explanation? “Despite the fact that it is legal in your locale, etsy considers it to fall under the “illegal animal parts” clause of the TOS.”
In other words, the law is what etsy says it is.
Update: etsy has now included human parts as forbidden items, along with any thing that has “health claims”.
ready for the art show!
Labels ready, statement ready, credit card machine set up, everything is set…
and I am still nervous.
I always am, I’ve been doing shows for over a decade and I get nervous as hell every time.
Wish me luck folks.
Oh yeah, side note: here’s my facebook art fan page, if you’d rather “like” than “add”.
I don’t bite, drop me a line! Or come on out to the show. I love seeing internet people in real life.
a few more things for the speakeasy art show…
- In artwork, caveman art, events, morbid art, pictures,
just one more of the works I’m finishing up for it! Starting to get nervous and excited. the pre-show butterflies are starting up. will people like the stuff? will I sell anything? will I get too drunk to know?
and how on earth will I manage to explain my damn self, let alone my artwork, to a room full of people?
hopefully the music is loud. See you there.
harpy
- In art, caveman art, pictures,
There’s a story that goes with these, maybe sometime I’ll post it here. For now, I’ll just put up a picture of the progress on this one.
feather and tar
human bones, on the other hand, are just fine. as long as you didn’t collect them yourself.
The most recent revisions to the migratory bird act can be found online; my favorite part, and the most useful, is the list of species NOT covered by the act. These are the birds I find, use, and adore (along with game birds, and pets). If you decide to scroll to the bottom (or actually read the notes, I don’t know what kind of sicko you are, after all) you will find quite an extensive list, many of which you will also find represented in my artworks.
I collect a lot at wildlife facilities, and the feathers and bone I collect there are from birds that do not inhabit north america or the US.
As for bones, skulls, and incidentals of mammals and reptiles/amphibians- I don’t use anything on the CITES list, I either purchase or obtain my pieces legally; sometimes through roadkill salvage where that’s permitted, by finding natural remains, or by beach combing.
It’s not hard to find beautiful natural objects. Simply taking a walk away from other people is often enough. I use plant materials, as well, and collect those in the same way. There’s something deeply fulfilling about walking, looking, and finding. I will use anything I find in some way, just about- whether for my private collection or for artwork.
I do have an artist’s statement hanging wherever these sorts of works are shown. If you’re at the gallery it’ll be right by the first piece you see when you walk in. I will probably post it up here this time too.
