#painted bone

Huge shout-out to @ss-shitstorm who has given me one of the coolest commissions I've been trusted to work on recently;

I was asked to paint a ram's skull, and this is the final shot right before letting all the glow in the dark paint dry and signing it. ;v;

All the finished and dried pics :D (yeah i haven't edited any photos yet even with cropping, i am so tired, pls forgive)

The dude before painting, and re-drilling the mount base so it can be on a table instead of hung on a wall

Progress pics below!

I am in love with this yellow paint even though it stinks to high heaven when wet. Lookit that vibrance.

Mmmmm red!

Heh, bonus pic! Ram Skull had good company while i was working. This is a red fox skull, another commission for a different friend :D

The red fabric isn't random cloth; that's an arm band i was given years ago at a historical event i was asked to participate on the security team of as a Dog Soldier. They needed a trusted woman on the team as all the volunteers that year were male, and it was an honor to be asked. I didn't end up being needed for anything, but the memory still warms my heart with the fuzzies.

Flipping the board around was both easier and trickier than i expected, and I'm so relieved it turned out well. Deciding to paint it was a last minute decision while i had it separated from the skull.

I also used a 0.05 micron pen for a very few accents, and a white acrylic paint pen. Most everything is brushwork though 👀 i use tulip brand puff paint for the hidden glow in the dark painting that's done over everything. Sadly, i don't yet have a camera that can take glow photos, so that'll remain a surprise.

;v; i luv him ur honor

If you're interested in a one of a kind painted skull for yourself or a friend, please feel free to message me! My commissions are open.

Bonus cat for scale because Gomez crashed in on the photoshoot and absolutely tried to run away with the skull and my heart maybe jumped into my throat

after four months I'm finally finished

ethically sourced hog jaw with sakura micron pens and quartz point teeth. water sign // mermaid themed

WIP baroque leaves on a roe deer (female) jaw.

welp i was a terrible artist and forgot to take photos of the other skulls i just entrusted to a store on consignment sorry xP

So have the wip shots of the ones I've started in next :D

i use both very very very fine tipped brushes (y'all i bought Brand New Brushes for the first time in like eight years not counting my pinstriping brushes, it's epic) to paint, and this brand of paint pens that send to have awesome paint.

Fox (?) skull before the first layer of paint

After:

And an ooooooold beaver skull from a long ass while ago who rarely comes out but started making noise and overlaying my vision with geometrical patterns this week so grandpa Beaver skull is hanging out on the painting table

He might get painted or be might just chill well see xP

This guy is GINORMOUS for a beaver skull. I often wonder if it's just evidence of how small they've gotten from being over hunted in the past, and even now.... Their territories are just straight up gone. They have little land left because we humans can be greedy territorial fucks. Old Bones (but still recent ancestors) tend to be stronger, denser, and *bigger* than the current common species bones I've noticed, in several species I've seen remains of.

Any by denser i mean *thicker*