Monthly Archives: June 2012

Old Volcanic Stuff.

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

Giganotosaurus extreme close-up as I envisioned for my first and only Pop-up book called “Dinosaurs In The Round”… I’m including the cover here too. It is a book that represented a challenge but it was so much fun to do!  Layer upon … Continue reading →

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Mammal Evolution

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

The strange world of mammal evolution is present in these two pieces.  The dog-like cynodont therapsid Cynognathus and the utterly handsome dinocephalian (more like a side branch in evolutionary terms) Estemmenosuchus. Both have been published in Anusuya Chinsamy’s  “Forerunners Of Mammals” previously mentioned … Continue reading →

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The Deinonychus Saga (Part 2)

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

We were talking about female Deinonychus in the previous post… what about this dandy. flamboyant male? I did this as a challenge: we really don’t have much evidence of the exterior of dinosaurs… what is underneath all that flamboyancy  is … Continue reading →

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The Deinonychus Saga (Part 1)

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

Since I’m going backwards and forwards with the artwork in this blog, I decided to include a bit of the Denonychus Saga that inspired the  3D restoration you can see  in previous pages. I have depicted the deadly embrace of Deinonychus and Tenontosaurus many … Continue reading →

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Our daily dose of dino-weirdness…

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

We are used to Nature’s jokes, but this one… well… this is the joke nobody expected in the mosaic of dino=bird evolution… could it be lemur-mimic dinosaur like Epidendrosaurus?  That is why I reconstructed it this way… fully covered with … Continue reading →

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Some mammal stuff from “Prehistoric Monsters”

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

Denizens of the Ice Age and Platybelodon protecting its baby…. These two pieces that are part of the Prehistoric Monsters book I did with Dr. Bob Bakker some years ago and in turn they are now part of the newly … Continue reading →

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Announcing: “Dinosaurs In Your Face”

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

Random House has just re-released several of my collaborations with Robert Bakker (“Dinosaurs!”, “Dino Babies!” and “Prehistoric Monsters!” … for the first time in 3D! Yes… more exclamation marks… they have compiled several of the children books we have done … Continue reading →

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