Selknam Final Scratchboard

Study for Selknam Scratchboard

This was a quick study for my final scratchboard piece (which is currently being graded, so no picture yet!). It shows three characters in the Selknam initiation ceremony in Tierra del Fuego. My final piece was a chart of ten of them in two rows. 

Maori Ta Moko

Pen and ink drawing of Maori facial tattooing (ta moko). The two on the outside were mapped from photos of maori men so that the whole design can be seen more clearly.

cuckoo layout

The text is just stand-in (unless you read latin, in which case it won't make much sense, anyway).

cuckoo chick in a reed warbler's nest