Custom Scrimshaw Dog Portraits

 

WEARABLE  PET PORTRAITS and PENDANTS make a unique gift for a pet lover and what better way to carry the image of your beloved pet with you for everybody to see...or you may wish to display a custom watercolor of your pet in your home or office.

Anouk has been creating beautiful dog portraits for over 15 years now. Here is a sampling of pet portraits from her portfolio.

 
 

Pricing and Ordering Information

The prices vary slightly with each commission but generally run as follows:

 

One animal done in medium kokobolo (or ebony) wood inlay brooches/pendants $200.00 to $250.00.

Two animals: $300.00 to $350.00 

 

One animal on a medium sterling silver brooches/pendants $220.00 to $270.00

Two animals on the sterling is not available as the amount of sterling for that size would be too heavy.   

 

Large kokobolo brooches/pendants

$250.00 to $30.00

 
Large sterling silver is not available
(too heavy)
Medium: 2 by 1x1/2 inch.

Large:   2x1/4 by 1x3/4 inch.

 

Please contact Anouk for prices for custom watercolor portraits.

 

A 35-mm quality photograph is required for the custom portrait. No Polaroid's please!

 

Each portrait has to be discussed on an individual basis.
The intricacy of the markings and the colors of each dog or cat (or other type of pet) can greatly vary and determine how much time the portrait will require and might influence

a price change.



With the wood-inlay brooches a matching wood (inlayed with mammoth ivory) stand can be ordered separately for $25.00
See photo.

  Please click on the image for a larger view, the original photo, and additional information.  

 
Sadie Scrimshaw   Brownie Scrimshaw
Jack Russell Terrier Scrimshaw   Hectate Scrimshaw
Buster Scrimshaw   Sidney Watercolor
Huskey Scrimshaw Misty Scrimshaw
Rex   Sebastian
  Patches
  Ted
Cathy's Dogs  
   

All ivory used is fossil mammoth ivory and was legally obtained. Mostly dug up in Alaska and Siberia, the fossil mammoth is at least 8,000 years old and could be up to 70,000 years old.

For the pieces on stands I use primarily fossil walrus ivory which is found and excavated by Siberian Yupik Eskimos from their old village sites on the St Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait of Alaska.

Scrimshaw is the art of engraving the surface of ivory or bone and one of the few white American folk arts originally popularized by Yankee whalers.

However modern scrimshaw with its perfected and newly developed techniques has evolved far beyond the scope of the sometimes crude "antique" pieces and can be placed rightfully into the realm of

Fine Art.

Please E-mail Anouk for additional information.

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This page was last updated on 12/18/2006