Some dinosaurs and other animals by a river some time in the Jurassic.

This is the first painting in a series, where I am attempting to avoid deliberately posing and placing the animals in a composition. Usually we compose animals in scenes for aesthetic reasons, and avoid confusing angles or poses. Obscuring parts (particularly heads and eyes) is nearly always avoided. What if I try to purge those rules? Will a new sort of naturalism develop?

I don't feel like I really captured the whole spirit of uncomposition in this work - I tried without a randomising process. I tried just to clear my mind of compositional ideas, but obviously the whole sweep of the painting is highly composed.

Some say you should listen to your theropod; others your sauropod. Only one will eat you.

The fabulous fabrosaur checks out a burrow in Early Jurassic Lesotho.

A herd of Brachiosaurus altithorax, a Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum and some pterosaurs in Late Jurassic North America, about 145 million years ago.

Some animals from the Hell Creek (which was more of a river back then) formation. Tyrannosaurus shows up and some Edmontosaurs and Triceratops run away. Well you would, wouldn't you.

Stylistically inspired by Ely Kish, as I often am.

Megalosaurus makes like a forest in Jurassic England.

Quetzalcoatlus northropi, possibly the biggest flying animal, launching. This reconstruction is fairly speculative, as Q. northropi is known mostly from a partial wing, so the missing bits (most of it) are base on the littel Quetz.

You can only defy reality for so long.

Anatosaurus (/Anatotitan/Edmontosaurus/Trachodon, etc.) eating some grass.

Dimorphodon wants to tell you something!

It only takes two.

Sometime, somewhere in the Mesozoic, Mount Stratosphericus pokes a mile and a half into the stratosphere.

This is a speculative mountain (speculative geology!) – what are the chances Mount Everest is the tallest mountain ever to exist? How much taller could mountains get?

Some Pachycephalosaurs cross a narrow mountain track.

Influencing has always been big business.

A flight of fancy.

It's lonely up there.

Supersaurus makes a spectacle of itself on the a hill, while Stegosaurs grazes in the foreground. The long-limbed croc relative Hallopus scurries around, and there are various pterosaurs about.

On Instagram, nobody knows you're a pile of ducks.

Many ups, so downs, no fiat, wow.