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-> I have a market upcoming next month, therefore my activity will be slowing down so I can focus on bulking up my stock. I will still get to asks, active rps, requests, etc, but it might take me a little longer to do so and I won't be online as frequently. I will still be up to chat in Discord (mother_of_demons666) while I work.
Also... curious if anyone would be interested in seeing my work? I do entomology and bone frames/jewelry. A bit of an oddball hobby lol but if there are any fellow dead-thing enthusiasts out there, I'm happy to share some updates and pieces.
Preserved animal art by GrizzlyMacabreInc on Instagram
*Animals are sourced responsibly and are not killed to make this art!
there are a lot of interesting things related to biology and taxidermy
My very good friend and I have created a common blog, there will be a lot of interesting things there, come visit!
https://www.tumblr.com/communities/lairvulture-wormwood
black grouse(Lyrurus tetrix) skull, it’s a pity we couldn't get the bone perfectly white):
one of the last works on which I spent a lot of nerves and time.
Pintail, and by the way, she came from afar, having traveled a little more than 7000 kilometers :)
my work for the taxidermy championship, a gray parrot, and its skull in the process of processing
I’m literally taxiderming a squirrel rn
It’s a school assignment btw
Today I visited the Ossuary in Hythe, Kent, UK with my parents. It was absolutely fascinating and well worth the visit if you are interested in local history (£3 adult entry).
You find yourself wondering about the lives they all lead and who they might have been. Hopefully they are all in a better place regardless.
It is no doubt due to angle and lighting but they all look like they have distinctive personalities and expressions if that makes sense.
I have this thing where I number my OCs and a bunch of concepts, then roll dice to figure out what to draw, I call it the dice challenge.
This is the product of the Dice Challenge.
1. “Taxidermy” in Hogwarts AU (She’s in Ravenclaw)
2. “Songtune” with facial hair.
3. Marina Church as a mercreature (she’s a Jellyfish)
4. Siren in a Mad Max AU (she drives a truck that carries water)
5. Yuki with facial hair.
An 0ld Creepypasta 0C named “Taxidermy” (real name: May Augustus, but they hate that name.)
They’re n0t all that menacing, actually.
F0r the m0st part they just f0ll0w 0ther Creepypastas, killers, and m0nsters ar0und and scavenge their kills, stealing bl00d, skin, b0nes, 0rgans, and anything else that might c0me in handy and selling/trading it ar0und the 0ther CPs.
I saw these c00l qu0tes and drew this based 0ff them
T0p: Busy y0urself with the affairs 0f the living, f0r 0nce.
B0tt0m: N0 0ne will l0ve the butcher, d0n’t take it t00 pers0nally.
The c0rpse’s head is way t00 small, but 0therwise n0t t00 bad.
Haven’t been here in a long time, trying to get back into it!
Here are some skull pieces I got a couple weeks ago from a flea market
I want to write my thoughts down for this budgie
I remember seeing it on deviantart, I was still new to collecting. I was amazed by it, wondering how someone could own a study skin of such a delicate bird?
It was just one of many, but I saw it in the timeframe when this hobby was still new to me, wondering what those big collectors do. Wishing I could've discovered this whole thing sooner.
I still remember that person selling stuff and I thought, man I wish I could buy smth. Well I was still 14/15. There ain't no way I could. I just stayed with trading with other feather collectors once I had a grasp of how this works.
There is this strange passion I have for the things I find interesting, I could talk for hours about this stuff. I usually stay completely honest whenever I can, atleast that's how I usually am at times. I talk alot is what i want to say
A few years passed and deviantart pretty much got abandoned by any collector, I moved to a discord server with my friends and we just stayed on there ever since. I still tried to find new people on Instagram but over time I slowly lost interest in doing so. I miss the simpler times and sadly can't associate myself with the new folk, I got stuck in the past.
Now I am slowly but surely trying to gather all the memories that I had from that period. And one of them being is by.. buying portions of collections wherever I can. It doesn't happen alot of times. But when it's someone who used to be on deviantart, selling smth I try to get smth.
Which also meant that the person who owned the study skin of the budgie- aporoached me on Instagram 3 years ago? or 4? And asked me if I was interested in buying some things. I said yes absolutely.
In summary I got a few items I found interesting. Including a Javan banded pitta that was dear to me because it very much reminded me of the past times. That pitta switched so many hands. It was imported from Indonesia probably over a decade ago. Someone on twitter owned it, then they sold it to someone on deviantart, that person sadly had to dissolve their collection duo to their parents and sold it to another deviantart collector (the one who also owned the budgie skin) and one day- they offered it to me.
Now I am looking at this budgie, thinking how beautiful it is and how weird it feels when I saw it for the first time. It's now in my hands and still gorgeous as ever. I really wonder how it's life was, I might never know.
And I have alot of budgie feathers in my collection. And yet, I still think this is the crown of my collection. Well one of them.
Hopefully one day I cab donate my collection to a museum, I just have to write down all my thoughts over the years while I collect so that I don't forget it. A little booklet I'll donate with it. I'm not sure how the world will be in terms of collectors in let's say - 60 years.
But I'll never forget the moment when I first started out and discovered the community on deviantart, as a small anxious kid I was. She had no idea.
I found it very important that I got the budgie in the end, because I can't imagine that anyone else would have the same thoughts and feelings towards this particular study skin. They wouldn't remember the history.
I have random question
How many people from the "vulture culture" community or collectors that don't identify themselves as those are working in museums/research or other jobs that have to do with animals?
Something like, zookeeper, vet or like falconer?
Are some of you also artists?
I am mostly just curious how often people who have this hobby end up in these workfields.
I don't know how many end up working in museums, I only know about me, my friend and another person but that person never really collected that much.
How did the hobby affect you in life? Did it help you find a career path? Or is it just a hobby you are passionate about?
Random thought of tonight.
My hobby helped me shape my career path and now I wanna make sure to put my knowledge into good use.
Also there is are baby pigeons outside my window and I can hear them getting fed-
I got an insect box and thought I'd put my bird skins in there.
So much gathered after years of collecting
I wish I could display more, I have to buy more insect boxes in the future.
Content warning for blood and religious imagery!
Happy Halloween!! This piece was a Halloween "Secret Santa" for Eden featuring his brown long-eared bat / golden-crowned flying fox hybrid!! Had so much fun with this character; bat gang rise up (and then down, and then back up). I was getting a bit too close to the deadline near the end and so had to swallow my pride and face the fact that the wooden frame was just not gonna happen, lol. It's a royalty-free image from Pexels, one of my favorite sites ever tbh : D The meaning behind this piece is up for interpretation. I'm a big fan of taxidermy, I was inspired by my own framed bats to spin a respectful (and in my opinion beautiful) art-form into something macabre. The pose of Jesus on the cross was something implemented partially for the irony of it as this character lives and works in Hell. Perhaps one could take this piece as punishing the damned in a horrific way that's still deemed moral and wholesome, or maybe it could be commentary on how torture and violence is so readily displayed through religious imagery. Would love to hear what you think!
