Today’s skilled taxidermists have a slightly different mounting process than in days of old. Modern foam forms with their pre-sculpted details have somewhat negated the need for the average taxidermist to know anatomy in the same way as when paper forms were prevalent. I made some effort to show this in an earlier post called “From …
In my first post on this Blog (see Observations/Taxidermy-An Ideal and a Pledge) I mentioned how much taxidermy manikins have improved since the world of paper forms in the pre-midseventies era. Because those forms had no pre-set anything, the taxidermist was required to model the face pretty much from scratch, on every singe mount. It …
Webster defines art as “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful and that expresses important ideas or feelings”. Taxidermy, is an art. An artist then is one whose “skill is acquired by experience, study, and observation”. A taxidermist, is an artist
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