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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
A few more zooms with species labels from my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are Beothukis, Fractofusus, Arborea, Charnia, Charniodiscus, Ivesheadiomorph, Primocandelabrum, Bradgatia, Thectardis, Lydonia, sea anemone, and microbial mats.
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#Fossils#Ediacaran#Beothukis#Fractofusus#Arborea#Charnia#Charniodiscus#Ivesheadiomorph#Primocandelabrum#Bradgatia#Thectardis#Lydonia#Newfoundland#MistakenPoint
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are Beothukis, Fractofusus, Arborea, Charnia, Charniodiscus, Ivesheadiomorph, Primocandelabrum, Bradgatia, Thectardis, Lydonia, sea anemone , and microbial mats.
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#MarineReptiles#Palaeontology#Paleontology#Fossils#FossilFriday#Ediacaran#Ediacara#Newfoundland#MistakenPoint#Beothukis#Fractofusus#Arborea#Charnia#Charniodiscus#Ivesheadiomorph#Primocandelabrum#Bradgatia#Thectardis#Lydonia
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
All three packaging landscape paintings for the Ice Age Giants coin series, which I designed (2024) for The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. Featured are the steppe mammoth, woolly rhino, and giant deer.
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#IceAge#Megaloceros#GiantDeer#GiantIrishElk#IrishElk#SteppeMammoth#Mammoth#WoollyMammoth#Mammuthus#WoollyRhino#WoollyRhinoceros#Rhino#Rhinoceros#Paleontology#Coins#CoinCollecting#CoinCollector
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A fantastic endorsement from renowned palaeontologist & bestselling author, Steve Brusatte. Also, enjoy this sneak peek of an illustration from the book. “THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS”, by Dean Lomax, illustrated by @bobnichollsart & published by Columbia University Press. Coming September 2025.
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Birds#Pterosaurs#Reptiles#MarineReptiles#Palaeontology#Paleontology
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Still 1 week left to buy tickets to DinoCon! See: https://www.dinocon.co.uk/ I will be there all weekend and taking part in the palaeoart panel discussion on Sunday 17th.
#DinoCon#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Birds#Pterosaurs#Reptiles#MarineReptiles#Palaeontology#Paleontology
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Unbox History – Without the Plastic Guilt!
The Everything Dinosaur Evolution scientifically accurate, 1:33 scale T. rex model has been planned with a view to removing single use plastic. Designed in the UK by Everything Dinosaur, Glen Southern, @bobnichollsart and Dr Dean Lomax.
Pre-order: https://everythingdinosaur.info/evolution-pre-order
#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Palaeontology#Paleontology#DinosaurModel#TyrannosaurusRex#Tyrannosaurus#TRex#DinosaurModels
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. The coloured silver coins came with acrylic presentation blocks, here's my giant deer block artwork.
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#IceAge#GiantDeer#Megaloceros#GiantIrishElk#IrishElk#Deer#Palaeontology#Paleontology#Coins#CoinCollecting
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. The coloured silver coins came with acrylic presentation blocks, here's my woolly rhinoceros block artwork.
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#IceAge#WoollyRhino#Coelodonta#WoollyRhinoceros#Rhino#Rhinoceros#Palaeontology#Paleontology#Coins#CoinCollecting
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. The coloured silver coins came with acrylic presentation blocks, here's my steppe mammoth block artwork.
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Palaeontology#Paleontology#IceAge#WoollyMammoth#Mammoth#SteppeMammoth#FossilFriday
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1:33 scale Tyrannosaurus rex, made in collaboration with Everything Dinosaur, award-winning palaeo-reconstruction artist Bob Nicholls Art, the acclaimed Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist, and amazing digital sculptor Southern GFX.
Secure yours today before they’re extinct: https://everythingdinosaur.info/T-rex-pre-order
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#Dinosaur#Dinosaurs#Tyrannosaurus#TyrannosaurusRex#TRex#DinosaurModels#EverythingDinosaurEvolution#Paleontology#Palaeontology
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. The Third coin to be released featured Megaloceros, the giant deer ("Irish Elk").
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#IceAge#Megaloceros#GiantDeer#GiantIrishElk#IrishElk#Paleontology#Coins#CoinCollecting#CoinCollector
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. The second coin to be released featured Coelodonta, the woolly rhino.
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Palaeontology#Paleontology#IceAge#WoollyRhino#WoollyRhinoceros#Coelodonta#Rhino#Rhinoceros
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. The first coin to be released featured Mammuthus trogontheri, the steppe mammoth.
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Palaeontology#Paleontology#IceAge#WoollyMammoth#Mammoth#SteppeMammoth
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. One of the coins featured the steppe mammoth, it was a time to reflect on how long I'd been drawing very dead things!
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#IceAge#WoollyMammoth#Mammoth#SteppeMammoth#Palaeontology#Paleontology#FossilFriday
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
Into 2024 with a new version of "Elevenses," featuring Sinosauropteryx, for the cover of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Fifth Edition, by Prof Michael J. Benton.
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Birds#Pterosaurs#Reptiles#MarineReptiles#Palaeontology#Paleontology#Dinosaur#Sinosauropteryx#FossilFriday
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
My last project of 2023, a historical reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace Palaeotherium, sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, and unveiled in 1854. This was commissioned by Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, with guidance from Natural History Museum, London & Mark Witton. Part 5 of 5.
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#Dinosaurs#Dinosaur#Palaeotherium#CrystalPalace#CrystalPalaceDinosaurs#CrystalPalacePark#Palaeontology#Paleontology#Art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…
My last project of 2023, a historical reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace Palaeotherium, sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, and unveiled in 1854. This was commissioned by Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, with guidance from Natural History Museum, London & @markwitton. Part 4 of 5.
#SciArt#SciComm#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#Dinosaurs#Dinosaur#Palaeotherium#CrystalPalace#CrystalPalaceDinosaurs#Palaeontology#CrystalPalacePark#JurassicWorld
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