Three boxed specimens from El Dodo Albino Specimen Collection.

I´ve finished this three specimens  , one of them is the Termite fairy posted before  , the other two are gnomes , one fleshy and a skeleton :
I love boxed specimens with the naturalist collector look , this is what I tried with these. For sale at Etsy ,

A pair of fossils. Mermaid and Faerie.

These are the fossils I currently have done. Mermaid was a piece done for the Dubious Expedition Show . 

Dubious expedition show pieces

Last saturday  the Dubious expedition show at Leanna Lin´s wonderland gallery was opened. These are the pieces I did for the collective expo . Many other artists participate too with a wide variety of styles .

The plot for the show is more or less is as follows :

In 1876, led by Captain James Maury, the H.M.S Chimera set sail from the Port of London with a  charter to circumnavigate the globe for the purposes of collecting scientific and anthropological specimens for the collection of the British Empire.
Captain Maury was convinced of --nay, obsessed with--  the existence of the island kingdom of Jobogo: an archipelago in the Pacific that every other scientist, cartographer and naval officer of the time dismissed as mythical.  Maury claimed to have seen it at a distance in his early whaling days.

While other ships’ logs mention coming across the H.M.S Chimera during their own voyages, reporting the crew in good spirits and great health, the H.M.S Chimera disappears from records in 1877. In 1878, the ship and her crew are considered officially lost at sea.

In 1900, the H.M.S. Chimera returns home with a cargo hold full of dazzling and wonderful things, but only two crew members - the ship’s navigator, and the cook. Neither navigator nor cook were able to explain the contents of their cargo hold, or in fact - any aspect of their voyage at all. The ship’s cook was institutionalized shortly thereafter, and the navigator spoke of little else but the “glorious horrors” until he disappeared on a Scottish moor three months later.

The findings of the Chimera were quickly sequestered into the collection of the British Museum, and hidden away for over a century.

I used real vintage boxes for the dinosaur and fairy pieces , casted polyurethane resin for fossils and modern but aged bottles for the fetuses. Museum tags are as the ones used in the british museum as well as the red stamp that appears in the big labels for the boxes and fossils.

Next saturday , Dubious expedition show opening!

More info at Leannalinswonderland.com and sneak peaks at : http://dubiousbeasts.tumblr.com

Dubious expedition

This summer I´ve been quite busy with a new project. I was invited to a colective show with other artists for next october. This is part of one of the boxes , I still have to make photos and some things before shipping all...

Mummified feejee mermaid / Sirena de Feejee momificada

The  ​​cryptozoologist Octavius Zedock, obtained this specimen of  feejee mermaid during a Theosophical Society expedition to Fiji islands.
He was investigating the myth of mermaids that were shown in several traveling shows in the U.S.. realizing that they were all a fraud.
Through contacts of P.T. Barnum, (a famous showman in these years ), he discovered the real origin of these mermaids and decided to travel in order to discover if there was something real behind the myth.
This box contains the mummified corpse of a young specimen of feejee mermaid , egg remains , an adult tooth , photographs , newspaper clippings and a travel journal.

El criptozoólogo Octavius Zedock , obtuvo este especimen de sirena de feejee durante una expedición de la Sociedad Teosófica a las islas Fiji.
Estaba investigando el mito de las sirenas que se mostraban en shows itinerantes a través de los EEUU y se dió cuenta que todos eran un fraude.
A través de contactos de P.T. Barnum ( un famoso showman durante esos años ) , descubrió el origen real de estas sirenas y decidió viajar a Fiji para descubrir si había algo de real detrás del mito.
La caja contiene el cuerpo momificado de un ejemplar joven de sirena feejee , restos del huevo , un diente de adulto , fotos , recortes de periódico y un diario de viaje.

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Three new Innsmouth fetus / Tres nuevos fetos de Innsmouth

At least I could finish these three specimens! I had been quite busy this month ...
Por fin he podido terminar estos tres especímenes! He estado muy ocupado este mes...

Three new fetus of Deep Ones / Tres nuevos fetos de Deep One.

Directly from Innsmouth , Massachusetts ,  three new samples of Deep Ones bottled.
Directamente desde Innsmouth , Massachusetts , tres nuevos ejemplares embotellados de Deep Ones.

Innsmouth fetus . Deep One bottled specimen

Mi último "prop set" , esta vez basado en los Deep Ones de Lovecraft

My last "prop set " this time dedicated to the Lovecraft´s Deep Ones

Octavius Zedock specimen box.Abyssal merrow.

Caja perteneciente a la Sociedad Teosófica de NY conteniendo los restos momificados de un especimen de Ichtyo sapiens abyssalis recién nacido.Octavius Zedock , criptozoólogo perteneciente a la Sociedad Teosófica neoyorquina obtuvo este ejemplar a través de contactos en la isla de Man.

Al parecer unos pescadores que trabajaban en el puerto de Peel capturaron en sus redes un huevo de aspecto extraño. Lo conservaron en agua marina hasta su eclosión y trataron de mantener vivo al ser que salió de él. No sobrevivió más que unas semanas , según los relatos de los pescadores que lo custodiaban.

Tan extraño era el ser , mitad humano mitad pez , que pronto los rumores llegaron a la sociedad Teosófica , siempre ávida de nuevos ejemplares de críptidos para estudio.

Los críptidos de la Sociedad Teosófica han estado guardados en secreto durante años , pero algunos ejemplares seguramente robados , están apareciendo al público.

La caja contiene el cuerpo momificado del especimen , una botella conteniendo restos del huevo , un mapa del mar de irlanda, fotografías de posteriores inmersiones en la zona y un documento de la Sociedad con un dibujo del especimen .

Tanto la antena como los restos del huevo todavía conservan bioluminiscencia .La tapa de la caja está adornada en su interior por un dibujo original del Merrow.

 

Box belonging to the Society of NY containing the mummified remains of a specimen of Ichtyo sapiens abyssalis newborn.Octavius ​​Zedock, cryptozoologist belonging to the New York Theosophical Society got this issue through contacts in the Isle of Man.

Apparently fishermen working in Peel harbour caught in their nets a strange-looking egg.

They kept it in seawater until hatching and tried to keep it alive.

The specimen did not survive more than a few weeks, as the stories of fishermen who kept it.

As it was a strange being, half human half fish, rumors soon reached the Theosophical Society, always eager for new examples of cryptids to study.

The Theosophical Society cryptids have been kept secret for years, but some specimens probably stolen, are appearing to the public.

The box contains the mummified body of the specimen, a bottle containing remains of the egg, a map of Irish Sea, photographs of further dives in the area and a document of the Society with a drawing of the specimen.Both the antenna and the egg remains still retain bioluminescence.The box cover is adorned inside by an original drawing of the merrow.