taxidermy repair - RISD

American bittern from 1900's.
This guy needed more work than I could give him, but I fixed his bulging eyes!
Broken wings now attached!
No orange feet anymore... and a new beak.
A new nose and no longer a neon pink mouth.
The prettiest baby deer ever.

moving out

I am moved out of my apartment in Providence! This is my collection of taxidermy and beautiful things.

Repair work photos will be up soon, from the semester at the Nature Lab.
In the mean time, check out my Website that Laura Manns made for me.

vivarium

vivarium - good photos coming soon

VIVARIUM

Project with Laura Manns - almost completed. Our official photography will happen soon, these are just shots I took when we set it up for critique.

Shedding a tear



Birth room.

This picture is missing the nuts filling the middle room and the dirt pile at the top of the house.

Learning to shave.

Project with Laura Manns - almost completed. Our official photography will happen soon, these are just shots I took when we set it up for critique.


Final photos coming soon!

Also coming soon: all the taxidermy repair I've done for the Nature Lab this semester.

super bambi

before
after

she's so pretty!

Just a little fixing of the ears, airbrush work, and some gloss mod podge.

The birds are all coming along, most of them look a little neon at the moment with their first coat of yellow, I don't want to scare anyone.

puppet progress - april

golden eagle repair

The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab's Golden Eagle

My project for the week of March 5th - Golden Eagle. Whoever mounted this guy left his original tongue and mouth-skin(?) in his beak and hand-painted it. It looked pretty gnarly. Hopefully once I get his tongue re-made I can also get his beak and feet airbrushed the right colors. I also need to spend some time zipping his feathers. This might look bad, but the other golden eagle is in much worse shape.
No tongue yet.

Finished! Now he just needs to be airbrushed.
The eyes have new membranes and he has a new tongue that isn't shriveled up like beef jerky.
All the flesh color will be made the right colors soon.

I want the corners of his mouth to look really nice and yellow like this.

Next week: ducks!