I got this 50 million-year-old fossilized fish at the Evolution Store in SoHo as a present for my boyfriend. (It’s apparently genuine, and amazingly, it wasn’t that expensive… there were a lot of fish in the sea, I suppose, or in Wyoming, where it’s from.)
Anyway, the texture made me think it would be perfect for a pencil rubbing, so I got out my Rhodia pencil and some Clairefontaine DCP paper.
What a fun and simple thing! The details didn’t all come through, but you still get a pretty cool perspective on the fish. I may have to go to an art store and do another rubbing in charcoal…
3 Comments
Gentian
That’s neat. I like the pencil rubbing
zeusiswatching
Wyoming was beneath a vast sea back then. Really cool fish, plenty of more cool things lived in that sea too.
Leah Hoffmann
Thanks, Gentian! I had fun with it.
Makes me wish I lived closer to the Museum of Natural History…