Scrimshaw

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Scrimshaw

Exploring new art forms....

Within the past five years I have been introduced to the art of engraving and scrimshaw. I have found that this medium is amazing to work with, the ivory is so much more alive than canvas or paper. I feel very privileged to create a piece of art upon something that is art in and of itself. Especially when the ivory is inset into a beautiful hand crafted knife or gun. 

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.  ~Schumann

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.  ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.  ~André Gide

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work.  Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it.  That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.  ~Jean Cocteau.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.  ~Stella Adler