Tuesday, March 18, 2008

DRAWING TEETH

Browsing through the old scientific journals of the Royal Society of New Zealand, reawakens the urge to become a natural history artist, the dream of previous years to be a botanical artist, a recorder of detail, of enigmas … curiosities.  Perhaps it is becoming a lost art … and all the more reason to take up the fine task of, in this case, drawing teeth …


Lower Jaw of the Ziphid Whale,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 3, 1870


And even more beautiful …


Skull of the Ziphid Whale …

Posted by JACKY BOWRING at 06:04:49
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