Color scrimshaw on ancient walrus tusk ivory artifact by Heidi Robichaud. Tennyson’s poem was inspired by the character of Mariana in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Rejected by her fiancé, Angelo, after her dowry was lost in a shipwreck, she leads a lonely existence in a moated grange. She is still in love with Angelo – now Deputy to the Duke of Vienna – and longs to be reunited with him.
Black and white scrimshaw on ancient walrus tusk ivory artifact by Karen Reno. Some people have big hair days, not bad hair days. This is one such lady. Lovely pose and look. She definitely has something or someone in mind. Ivory was used as some type of tool artifact hundreds of years past. Nice work at a great price.
Black and white scrimshaw on ancient walrus tusk ivory artifact by Alvin Aningayou. This striking piece was done on a huge ancient walrus tusk artifact, some 13″ high. Excellent stipple work by Native Alaskan artist. This is from the collection of one of our long time clients who is no longer with us. Not much ivory of this caliber around today.
SCRIMSHAW ARTIST View all Heidi Robichaud scrimshaw pieces This artist has been creating scrimshaw since 1981. Heidi’s love of art spans from her childhood passion for drawing horses and princesses to her current portraits of wildlife and indigenous peoples. Although the artist has had no formal training or schooling in art, years of practice, study […]
“Arctic Animals Montage” created by talented unknown carver on ancient mammoth tusk ivory, this one has six individual species. Amazing that someone could put all of this together and make it work to perfection. You’ve got two bears, one eagle, walrus, wolf, salmon and big horn sheep. Nice piece of mammoth with just the right amount of curved surface to make this one a keeper!
Color scrimshaw on ancient mammoth tusk ivory by Joel Cowan. Highly detailed work by the best ship portrait scrimshander working today. Sterling silver setting with fossil walrus inlay around the mammoth ivory. Incredible detail, as usual, by Cowan. Note the flag.
Handmade earrings with ancient mammoth ivory and fossilized walrus tusk; set with gold colored hooks.
Handmade earrings with ancient mammoth ivory and fossilized walrus tusk; set with gold colored hooks.
Ancient Woolly Mammoth IvoryWoolly mammoth tusk ivory is one of the ‘fossilized’ or ‘mineralized’ ivories that have been the foundation of my artwork for over 30 years. This ancient ivory has been buried in permafrost and preserved since the end of the last ice age when the mammoths went extinct. Though ancient, woolly mammoth ivory […]