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Painting With Human Remains

✋🏼😈 ℕ𝓞т𝐭๏∂คч Ｓ卂ţᗩή😈👊🏼 • Sun, May 14 • Peace✌🏼love ❤️and 3 flowers 💐grease(AKA ChiChi The Clown)

I stubbled across this YouTube channel "Ask A Mortician" and I found this interesting. Basically what it is is paint made of human remains. Some artist use it just for the color. Other use it to remember loved ones or pay homage to loved ones. She had mentioned this paint pigment called "Mummy brown". That pigment was said to be made of actual mummies and can be seen in historic paintings. It was quite the commodity amongst artist back then.

I've attached some paintings that have been made from the cremated remains of humans. Personally I think it's really cool and a lot less of a hassle to have than keeping track/care of an urn or deciding who gets a portion of the remains.

Would you use your loved ones cremated remains to paint an portrait to remember them by instead of keeping an urn?

(Mummy brown pigment) ☝🏼

Mummy brown used in these ☝🏼👇🏼

Artist who used remains to crest portraits of loved ones

https://youtu.be/ZAFeagRvKxM

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