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Scrimshaw1
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A single heavy blue line carves out a face-like form that reads as both mask and open mouth—zigzag teeth gape, scribbled hollows stare. The soft lavender and yellow circles behind it feel almost gentle, which makes the jagged foreground more unsettling by contrast. Thin colored threads inside the outline suggest a restless interior, as though the shape is barely holding itself together.
As the first work in the owned Scrimshaw numbered family, this piece establishes a raw, line-driven approach. Its title neighbor Scrimshaw2 shares the teeth-and-hollow motif but fills the frame far more densely, replacing open pastel space with saturation.
Work 1 of 26 in Scrimshaw: Faces, Figures and Letters.
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- Artist
- scrimshaw.eth
- Recorded ink creation
- 2021-02-16T11:21:00-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 106
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 13076
- Logical canvas
- 549.6 × 549.6
- Archived PNG pixels
- 549 × 549
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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