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I have been getting blown away by checking out bone art/skull art. Are you interested in this craft? What are your favorite galleries?

as a kid I used to troll the train tracks for skulls of train kill. sometimes going at intervals to watch the process.

http://wickedlywired.hubpages.com/hub/animal-bones

I like the skull bone candle holders they depict in some horror movies. I was a skull fan as a kid. I used to draw different kinds of skull bones. I don't follow skull art. I collect "fake" skulls. I would never want a real animal skull, or any real skull for that matter. They are interesting to sketch.

The oldest art in the Americans is a carved megafauna bone
etched with a profile of walking mammoth or mastodon that dates back to 11,000 BCE done by the indigenous of the era.

http://www.history.com/news/earliest-american-art-found-in-florida

In my culture when deer, buffalo, bear... was killed every part of used. Bones (specially small bird bones) were often used in bead work and still is today. We did not use the glass beads. That was brought over by the European in the 16th century. There also used to decorate clothing and war shirts. My grandfather is a carver and uses whale bones. Bones were used in chokers, all types of jewelry. Larger bones are used to carve out stories. So, Bone art works ia big in my culture. I have been working on a breast plate that has bones in it and I have been collecting the bones myself.

I own many skulls, which are "not" real, but, they look like the real one. Is something about skulls. To think that a brain was inside, alive, is fascinating.

I've always loved skulls. When I see into one, I try to feel the energy that once resided there. I love the way the eyes stare back at me.

I have a collection of crystal skulls, skull bobble heads, skull toys, skull tank tops. If it has a skull on it, its a safe bet that I want it. There's even a skull in my avatar, my smallest crystal skull.

Personally, my forbidden is more Mexican, day of the dead type stuff. I like how it adds color & personality to such a grey subject.

The skull bowls that I saw at Ripley's believe it or not were awesome!! Imagine eating cereal outta that?

I love skull chalices and goblets, bone thrones and helmets/masks. There is an art to bonecrafting, you can make all sorts of things such as sculptures etc.
Very good stuff, really no morally different to using hides and other skins.

I've always had a facination with bone. It comes with my own personal 'gifts' in life. They tell a story. They share a life.

I take offense at the ways that some bone are depicted in the art they are used for. There is a fine line between art and desecration. But I try to view it all as a matter of one's man trash is another man's treasure,if that makes sense?

I personally own a set of 'throwing bones'. And I collect skull/bone pieces. Such as candles,nicnacs,etc. Depictions of bone and skulls are one thing. The actual bone itself I personally see differently and only own the throwing bones which are authentic.

I'd have to say that skull and rose art facinates me the most. Death and beauty.

I agree with you Kry. There is a fine line between art and not showing respect to the dead.

I have loved bones since I was very young. One of the first I kept and did anything with was a coyote I shot when I was barely a teenager. I did Celtic knotwork in charcoal on it, and wove copper wire dreamcatchers in each of the eyes. He still hangs over the head of My bed to watch My dreams.

I enjoy using a lot of natural materials in the crafts I make, including bones, horns, antlers, claws, teeth and skulls.

There is also a growing trend of taxidermy jewelry I have been noticing. Though being a bit of a recluse at times, it could have been around for awhile, and I just never came across it. lol One of My personal favorites is a shop called bonejewelry on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/bonejewelry

I, too, hold a passion for "Death Art" (what I name the more death-representative areas of Skull Art). The Mexican "Day Of The Dead" (and the Festival Of The Dead seen in various cultures) never ceases to amaze me. Countless cultures can be seen as honouring the Dead and their remains in art form, from the Egyptian rite of mummification, the Hindu 16 day ritual of Pitru Paksha, the "Folk Catholic" (although I certainly would not name it such) worship of Death Figures such as San La Muerte and Santa Muerte, to the Haitian Voodoo practices that idolise the use of bones and of course, the Roman "Catacomb Saints" sent to ground under various churches in multiple locations, ranging from Germany to Switzerland in the 16th century.

Personally, I would search San La Muerte/Day Of The Dead sites and those celebrating Catacomb Saints for skull art, I'm sure much will be there.

I have a few skull chalices and crystal skulls skulls intrigue me in the art and depiction of life and death. I think this fascination has been around for a long time but believed to witchcraft or dark arts