Since Snakes are Popular this Week............

[wetnwild]

Now pERRY i KNOW YOU WILL TAKE THIS THE RIGHT WAY AS YOU ARE A GOOD FRIEND, AND GETTING PRETTY DAMN GOOD ON THEM THERE SNAKES. However, IMO, the coloring is all wrong. the majority of tissues in a rattlers mouth are of a dirty white color with slight hints of a barely perceptible yellow. The pinkish areas are in the high blood vessel areas like the base roots of the central and lower gripper teeth and toungue base. The bluish tining is most prominent but again BARELY in the heavy jaw muscle tissue in the corners of the mouth below the venom sacks.The paint job and blending is terrific to say the least, but the mohr flesh and pink tones are way way overdone and overpowering.I will post a good reference link

[Yeager1]

Tom, Tom, lets slow down here. First of all you have to keep in mind this was for a COMMERCIAL piece going out to another taxidermist for an everyday customer not a COMPITITION piece. While I said in the post I got this mouth a Little too pink for the species it is for, no big deal the customer will be tickled anyway. The post was mostly intended to showcase the muscle and tissue areas that were made with epoxy putty from looking at reference pictures and such. While I strongly believe that all snake mouths differ in color I do appreciate your expert opinion and knowledge, but I also believe that in commercial work you have to over do some of the realism in a mount to satisfy the individual that is paying the money. If this were a competition piece or my own personal piece I may have done it a little different. Such as more sheathing over the fangs and yes, more "whiter" of a mouth for and eastern diamondback. You know as well as I do if this mouth would have been more on the "white" side there would have been questions like "Is that for a cottonmouth?" and so on.


Live Eastern diamondback that we caught iin FL

Eastern diamondback yawning

And your favorite, the canebrake

[wetnwild]

I did not see your dtatement about the pink, that is my bad. Sorry about that. No, no problem per, you did an outstanding job on it, I just figured I would give an IMO for you as being a true professional you would take it as it was meant!! By the way, your reference photos are terrific, i copied and pasted them in my files!! Is there a fee?? LOL

[Yeager1]

No fee you cheapskate! just return the favor when you get some good "native" snake pics sometimes!