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Jewel-Wing

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I enjoy a wide variety of art. I'm usually working on about a million different things at once even if I don't post about them regularly~



○ I love taxidermy and have a license to practice it in my country, even for most (locally) protected species.

○ I collect skulls, bones, pelts and other natural history goodies. My ideal home would be inside a natural history museum so I try make my surroundings as eclectic and fantastic as possible <3

○ I try my hardest to obtain specimens ethically but of course ethics varies from person to person. I will try list where I got each specimen in my deviations but majority of my pieces come from pest control, roadkill, natural death and second hand sources.

○ I'm currently working as a 3D artist, one day I might even get paid for it! ;)

○ I have a degree in genetics and cellular biology. If you need to make bacteria glow in the dark, I'm your gal!

○ I'm hoping to expand my artistic skills into all sorts of new taxidermy-esque areas like making replicas, tutorials and videos!

The taxidermy scene on DeviantArt is already very dead (I think everyone pretty much moved to Facebook and Instagram long ago) but the final nail in the coffin will be that Eclipse no longer has a taxidermy section to submit artwork into. I will continue to upload here most likely just to have all my pictures in a nice digital scrapbook for myself but I'm going to try out Instagram and see how it goes https://www.instagram.com/skinnbonesscience/ Honestly I already hate Instagram more than Eclipse. It doesn't allow you to upload photos from your PC so I'm having to use a workaround where I trick my browser into thinking it is a phone. That pl
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5 taxidermy secret santa packages from me are now on their way!  
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Small rant ahead but it seems like whenever I get something hand cleaned by someone who calls themselves a 'vulture' or in one of the 'vulture culture' communities it's always filthy &gt;.&lt; I bought a pack of small skulls to use as Taxidermy Secret Santa back in November and I am still cleaning them to get them to a standard I am happy to send them out in! I can't imagine putting a skull on my shelf when it is held together with chunks of dried meaty jerky or worse, chunks of meat that is wet with grease! I was sold stuff with the promise it just needed a quick peroxide dip to whiten it a little but these things are stinky and greasy and
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I found a small mouse in the woods but there are already ants and it has a hole in its skin.  Can I try to use it? I never did taxidermy before.
I find that mice are quite tricky, they rots fast and the fur falls out so you want them to be very fresh. I recommend you try a frozen feeder mouse from the petshop, they sell them for snakes and reptiles to eat and they're very cheap and if you mess one up you can always buy another :)

If you are interested in the bones for that mouse you found you can put the it under a flowerpot with a heavy rock ontop and hope the ants clean it well. I recommend a damp place for it so it doesn't dry out so a clump of wet moss in there or putting it under grass clippings work nicely :) (If it dries out there will be jerky-like flesh stuck to it that the ants won't eat)
Thank you very much^^ I went back and the ants did their work, like you wrote the fur fell out. I took it to a wodd ants colony perhaps they lefr a few bones><°
Hopefully! Check on it in a day or two and see :)
I missed you, so I re-watched you! I'll still be posting my completed soft mounts here, so I'll be dropping by occasionally to do that...
Good to see you back! I Love You Emote It will be nice for me to keep updated and see how your work continues to improve!