Thursday, November 18, 2021

Scrimshaw: Sample and Student Project


I like to introduce ink wiping techniques to students by making a work mimicking some of the processes of Schrimshaw.  

My examples: 










Some Student work 







Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.

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