
Barosaurus
Barosaurus had quite a long neck.
I used Scott Hartman's skeletal for reference.
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Barosaurus had quite a long neck.
I used Scott Hartman's skeletal for reference.
The giant Patagotitan emerges from the a patagonian river, sometime in the middle of the Cretaceous, about 115 million years ago. Some pterosaurs and birdy dinosaurs forage on the shoreline.
This painting is (yet again), ispired by an Ely Kish painting.
Two vulcanodons take a mountain path in Early Jurassic Zimbabwe. A small heterodontosaurid looks for goodies in the undergrowth, and some pterosaurs fly by behind.
The colur and setting is taken from the back cover of the album Felt Mountain, by Goldfrapp.
One dicreaosaur annoys another in Late Jurassic Tanzania. The crocodylian Bernissartia sunbathe next to the water. Dsungaripteroid pterosaurs and a (speculative) small birdy dinosaur are in the background.
Hypacrosaurus was a duckbilled dinosaur with a high back. It was a muncher.
The painting is a reframing of an Ely Kish painting.
Hypacrosaurus was a duckbilled dinosaur with a high back. Maybe for showing off.
Campbell found Allen difficult to ignore, he said such outrageous things, and so loudly.
Omeisaurus in the Late Jurassic late afternoon sun.
Diplodocus eating. They did that a lot you know.
Some baby Brachiosaurus scuttle through the forest.
After a painting of Archaeopteryx and sauropod by John Gurche.
A juvenile Camarasaurus among the larger members of its herd. Pretty pleased with itself I'd say.
The style of this painting is influenced by John Gurche.
Malawisaurus dixeyi, munching away in Malawi, during the Early Cretaceous.
Heads, down, tails up. That's how you eat them plants.
Brachytrachelopan, the short-necked long-necked dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Argentina.
They fear: nothing. They regret: nothing.
Saltasaurus was a small (for a sauropod) sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. It had a some armour, and a lot of girth.
Brontosaurus battle it out in an epic #brontosmash, an idea suggested by Mike Taylor at SVPow!. Apatosaurs have pretty crazy thick, robust necks for sauropods, and this would be an explanation for that.
This painting is a re-imagining of a classic work by Mark Hallett, of Mamenchisaurus – "Crossing the Flats" – that graces the cover of Dinosaurs Past and Present: Volume I.
Mark's work is long and flat, fitting for the great mamenchisaur with its unbelievably long neck held horizontally, which was the thinking at the time. We're now swinging around to a more vertical neck pose for these animals, perhaps surprisingly so, and it got me to wondering what such a painting would look like now. So here it is.
Based largely on a skeletal by Scott Hartman.
Some of the dinosaurs Tendaguru formation gather in the most naturalistic way I could make them.
The little black and white ones are Dryosaurus, the spikey one Kentrosaurus, the long-necked ones on the left some sort of Barosaur (possibly)*, foreground long-neck are Giraffatitan, and behind them in the distance, Dicraeosaurus. In the foreground is the strange theropod Elaphrosaurus.
This painting shares similarities with another painting I did of some sauropods, but this one actually came first.
*This is based on a painting I did in 1998, so it includes animals that have changed taxanomic status somewhat.
Whos one? Psittacosaurus is, yes she is.
So Holy. So Hero. Wow.