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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Yutyrannus. This is how things really change…
As I have been stressing in my recent talks in Aarhus, Bristol and London the Image of the Dinosaur in modern times keeps changing at an alarming speed rate that many times threatens a good chunk of our work to become obsolete … Continue reading
Bringing it down (Having fun with Allosaurus Part 2)…
This piece is taken from “Dinosaurs In The Round” too. Hunting pack of allosaurs try to bring down a medium sized sauropod (Camarasaurus). This scene is inspired by a sculpture group scene I saw in an ”exhibition” made in the … Continue reading
Oldies from Dinosaurs In The Round… From 3D to 2D.
Here’s the Cretaceous diorama from Dinosaurs In The Round . When you have to do a cardboard cut-out 3D piece, the computer layering system is quite valuable . Here I tried to put together all the layers as they would … Continue reading
Posted in ceratopsians, Dinosaurs, Ornithischians, Pterosaurs, Reptiles, Sauropods, Tetrapods, Theropods, tyrannosaurs, Uncategorized
Tagged Allosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, Coelophysis, Diplodocus, Edmontosaurus, Placerias, Postosuchus, Pterodactylus, Rutiodon, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex
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Having Fun with Hadrosaurs… a few sketches.
For anyone with a taste for creativity and colour, Hadrosaurs -like this strangely crested Olorotitan- simply open the gates for a flood of possibilities. I could finally see a mounted Olorotitan specimen in the Natural History Museum in Brussels (the … Continue reading
Posted in Dinosaurs, hadrosaurs, Ornithischians
Tagged Corythosaurus, Gryposaurus, hadrosaurs, Lambeosaurus, Maisaura, Olorotitan. Edmontosaurus, Parasaurolophus
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David Hone’s Darwinopterus
Last time he was around here, David Hone inspired me to do this restoration of Darwinopterus, and I have done it to his specifications (it is in the act of landing on the tree). Based on beautifully preserved material, the … Continue reading
The Murals for Hatching The Past.
This expanded and modified version of my nesting oviraptors (Citipati) facing the storms in Mongolia is part of the trilogy I have devised for the ambitious itinerant exhibition Hatching The Past that has been organised by my friends the Magovern … Continue reading
Posted in ceratopsians, Dinosaurs, Ornithischians, oviraptorosaurs, Sauropods
Tagged Citipati, Hatching The Past, Maiasaura, Oviraptor, Saltasarus, Stone Co, Triceratops
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The Oviraptor Saga.
If there’s an animal that perfectly suits the creativity of any dinosaur illustrator it is the enormous array of oviraptorosaur species. Here I used several well known species (known from well described fossil specimens) as well as several as yet … Continue reading
Posted in Dinosaurs, oviraptorosaurs, Theropods
Tagged caenagnathid, Citipati, Conchoraptor, Gigantoraptor, Khaan, Mongolia, Oviraptor
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Therizinosaurus.
I did Therizinosaurus in this zebra-stripped guise right from the first painting I did of it. Then, Dorling Kindersley -under my supervision- took the idea to 3D levels in the the DK “Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life”, a book … Continue reading
Sinusonasus Fighting.
I have noticed that several key pieces in my own development as a dinosaur illustrator are absent from my website. The purpose of this blog is also to refresh them. I tried to represent these two Sinusonasus raptors as naturally … Continue reading
Posted in Dinosaurs, Raptors, Theropods
Tagged "Dave", raptors, Sinornithosaurus, Sinusonasus
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