Hey I'm Alicia, an artist who really hasn't been feeling social media lately (especially IG and FB) so I thought I'd try Mastodon out and see if I like the simplicity of it more. I think I picked the perfect server, since I'm much more likely to be in my sunny garden than anywhere else. :BlobCat_Love: 🌞
Today's not-so-random portfolio artwork (sticking with the Urvogel) is my life-size model of Archaeopteryx (50cm long), which I built for the Cole Museum (Reading University), in 2021. [The mould was built by my friend Jade Hughes.]
Meet George, probably 15-16 feet by now, who made his home at the Wakodahatchee Reserve in S Florida. George keeps a regular schedule, so regular that the ducks in the back were standing on the shore focused on the water waiting for George to emerge. Quacking with excitement as he passed by. Like a game of who can get the closest and not run.
I'm Bob, I've been a full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist for over 20 years. 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.
This happy little fella is an Australian Water Dragon. He did not want to move out of our way, wanted to let us know about our Lord and saviour. Took the literature and promised to keep in touch. #reptiles
Intro post! Hi all, my name is Janne, I'm an evolution and biodiversity researcher and first year PhD student in #brisbane#australia on split duties between the QLD Museum and Griffith University. I'm interested in the environmental drivers of biodiversity and niche evolution, and their interaction with climate.
Had the opportunity to do #herpetology surveys with the Belize Karst Habitat Conservation. While it was a short survey period during an exceptionally dry wet season, we still managed to get plenty of #reptiles and #amphibians
One of my favorite finds were these Helmeted Basilisks, Corytophanes hernandezii. A male and a female perched on the same plant.
Also called the old man's lizard local legend says that if one spins around a tree 3 times you will get lost in the woods forever!
In 2002 I was commissioned to do my first ever cover art, for Alan Holman's Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America, published by Indiana University Press. This was an exciting one!
I illustrated several books in 2004 (via the Beehive Illustration Agency). One of them was PLANET DINOSAUR, by Steve Parker and Miles Kelly Publishing. I will post the five main paintings (acrylic on card) throughout today. First is the Triassic.
In 2005 I was one of multiple artists who created hundreds of illustrations for Dougal Dixon's THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DINOSAURS & PREHISTORIC CREATURES, published by Anness and Lorenz Book.
The 2008 book, A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS; I'm posting a few more of my illustrations (it is a fictional story, so be prepared for plenty of inaccuracies). Here is a Barosaurus.
The 2008 book, A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS; I'm posting more of my illustrations (it is a fictional story, so be prepared for plenty of inaccuracies). Here are the Triassic reptiles that feature in the book.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Microraptor.