#palaeoart — Public Fediverse posts

Remembering my friend Richard Forrest, a marine reptile expert, with a week or two of marine reptile artworks. I'll start with this old acrylic painting, called The Wreck, which I created for Richard back in 2004.

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One of my oldest acrylic paintings, featuring Kentrosaurus. Can you tell that Doug Henderson was/is my favourite artist?

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here are my 3D sculpt design drawings for the 2023 DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. The first T. rex design was considered too feathered. Designed for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here are the skeletal illustrations for the acrylic blocks from the 2023 DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. I designed them for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The limited edition DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series print. I designed it in 2023, for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London, featured are Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, and Stegosaurus.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's the Diplodocus packaging art from the 2023 DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. I designed them (also Tyrannosaurus & Stegosaurus) for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2023 illustration of Quetzalcoatlus and Wellnhopterus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOoqfleQCyoUVc4-BTmEGI2zzsR7VwDqCd5oWZyZGLeC1EYEKo40e

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's some zooms into the packaging art for my Plesiosaurus coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's the full packaging art and plesiosaur pop-up for my Plesiosaurus coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's the limited edition print I designed and signed.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Pterosaurs #Dimorphodon #Ichthyosaurs #Temnodontosaurus #Plesiosaurus #Coins

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's some of the Plesiosaurus packaging . . .

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Plesiosaurus #Plesiosaur

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's the Plesiosaurus coin art . . .

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Plesiosaur #Plesiosaurus

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Ichthyosaurus #Temnodontosaurus #Plesiosaurus #Pterosaurs #Dimorphodon

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Ichthyosaurus #Temnodontosaurus #Plesiosaurus #Pterosaurs #Dimorphodon #FossilFriday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Something a bit different, a T-shirt design for the 2014 SVPCA.

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Working my way through some #Mesozoic marine reptile #palaeoart I have drawn. After yesterday's #ichthyosaurs, here are two #plesiosaurs - the extremely long necked #Albertonectes, and the huge predatory pliosaur #Kronosaurus.