Full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist. If it's dead & long gone, I'll bring it back to life. You will have seen my art in a book, a museum, or on TV somewhere ...
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the giant (up to 16m long) filter-feeding fish, Leedsichthys.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of illustrations and models for the refurbishment of the Leicester New Walk Museum. First here is the scale model of Liopleurodon I built.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
I built a fourth and final copy of my juvenile Iguanodon model in 2011. I've since destroyed the mould because it had become damaged and it had quite a few anatomical inaccuracies.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Two close-ups from my 2011 acrylic painting "Lion Cave." It features a family of cave lions (Panthera spelaea) and passing woolly mammoths (Mammothus primigenius).
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here is a 2011 acrylic painting of a family of cave lions (Panthera spelaea) and a passing herd of woolly mammoth (Mammothus primigenius).
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 a bunch of artists were commissioned to create dinosaur stamp designs for the Royal Mail. It eventually came down to me Vs the great John Sibbick... & he won. Here is my Polacanthus design.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Into 2011 with a model of Giraffatitan (82cm tall). Sculpted in 3 pieces, the SuperSculpy was oven baked before assembly. It stands by my coffee machine, outside my studio, & he's watching me!
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here is the last post from 2010, a sketch of two Spinosaurus (with out of date anatomical proportions) at an underwater cleaning station. To stay submerged, they've bitten onto the branches of a fallen tree.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of two giant ammonites (Parapuzosia seppenradensis) investigating the dead & bloated carcass of a juvenile Telmatosaurus. There are also lots of little fish, a few sharks, & crinoids growing on the shells.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of doom. An abnormally long and hot drought has decimated a once green environment and now the countless corpses have brought disease to the survivors.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 acrylic painting, of Mississippian (the first half of the Carboniferous) fish and crinoids. I've lost the fish species but the crinoids are Abrotocrinus, Dizygocrinus, Dorycrinus, and Decadocrinus.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of two dancing Quetzalcoatlus. I never decided if it was two males showing off or a male and female courtship. You can choose.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Two 2010 sketches of Styracosaurus. Top is a show-off male embellishing his head spikes with a fallen branch. Bottom is a polycephalic (two-headed) Styracosaurus that has made it to adulthood.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's the production process for "Waterspout Victim," a digital composite painting (not A.I.) of a Mosasaurus left high and dry. It started with a thumbnail sketch, then a maquette.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here is "Waterspout Victim," a digital composite painting (not A.I.) of a Mosasaurus left high and dry after being sucked out of the ocean and dumped on the edge of a beach.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of a baby therizinosaur with cyclopia (alobar holoprosencephaly), a congenital disorder characterised by one eye.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of a young male Adasaurus attempting to catch and kill a Mononykus. However, the Mononykus flock escape by leaping high before scattering in all directions.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of an albino male dromaeosaur (left) showing off to a bunch of females. He has chosen his spot carefully, in the moonlight, on top of a standing sauropod rib.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of 5 male Anchiornis (left) competing for the attention of a female (right), by showing off their plumage. Halfway between the males and female is a confused gynandromorph (half male, half female).
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Two crops from my 2010 painting of Akmonistion zangerli and Acanthodes fish. This was for Matt Dale and the famous Mr Wood's Fossils, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2010 I painted the Early Carboniferous shark, Akmonistion zangerli hunting Acanthodes fish. This was for Matt Dale and the famous Mr Wood's Fossils, in Edinburgh, Scotland: www.mrwoodsfossils.co.uk#Sharks#PaleoArt#Akmonistion#Stethacanthus
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2010 I painted a Miocene scene staring Otodus megalodon. Unfortunately, I've lost the names of the other illustrated species, but there is a smaller shark species, a small toothed whale, and an early baleen whale.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here is the last post from my Jules Verne's Captain Nemo pieces (2010). Here's the whole series together...
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