pretty dead things – Page 4

roadkillandcrows:

Capybara skull- the worlds largest living rodent!

taigas-den:

night-witch-of-the-butts:

gothiccharmschool:

mmymoon:

shadow27:

ex0skeletal:

Flower-Encrusted Skeletons by Sculptor

Cedric Laquieze

Artist’s Website

Cool, but filing under: Nightmare Fuel

Nah, this is what my good dreams look like~

This is kind of my current aesthetic?

@taigas-den

Whoa these are beautiful

cummy–eyelids:

bone-lust:

BONELUST WORKSHOP: Closeup of one of the seahorse skeletons I’m currently working on processing from raw. They were donated to me after a natural death. Stay tuned here for more info on when they will be available as jewelry and displays at bonelust.etsy.com and forgottenboneyard.com – See previous related posts for more info, thanks! SORRY, NOT SELLING ANY AS-IS. 🐚🐙🐚
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Omg this looks so good! These are so hard to process and you did an incredible job!

thehoneysacrifice:

Thomas Grünfeld, from Misfits series

nighthawkdesigns:

Coyote pup, mummified by Summer

preytaxidermy:

One of my two John Gould Hummingbird case replicas created as part of the Visual Voyages exhibit at The Huntington Library. Inside the cases are 12 or so different hummers– including my nestling babies/mom and even some antique mounts provided through The Moore Lab of Zoology. So honored and excited to have accomplished this feat. Thank you to the MANY people who made this dream a reality. The exhibit is open to the public today and runs through January. (at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens)

preytaxidermy:

Taxidermy Allen’s Hummingbird nestlings that I just completed. They’re in an Allen’s nest from 1906 from the Moore Lab of Zoology’s collection. (Please remember that Hummingbirds and their nests are protected in the US)

roadthrills:

Coyote pelt and skull.

lifewithdeadbirds:

Taxidermy can be as beautiful as it is useful in a museum setting. This domed art piece houses four different types of songbirds, each one arranged to give a sense of life and awareness. You may not normally find all of these species together in one space, and the style of the branches is more whimsical than realistic, so this piece was likely created for aesthetic purposes.

Artistic pieces still have a great place in natural history museums. While current exhibit style leans towards realistic mounts showing a lifelike scene, this kind of taxidermy can be used to show how museums and taxidermy have changed over time, to showcase the diversity and elegance of songbirds, or to explore the style of a particular taxidermist or naturalist.

Photo credit: Kaitie Janecke