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Category: Paleo Art

  • Dinotopia 20th Anniversary Edition

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    Originally released 20 years ago, Dinotopia: A Land apart from Time was the first of artist/author James Gurney’s acclaimed and popular illustrated adventure story books placed in the same mythical land. Presented as an adventurer’s sketchbook, which the author has “found”, the story resonates with some of the sense of wonder and discovery to be…

  • William Stout: Inspirations

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    I am unabashed in my enthusiasm for the work of William Stout, and I’ve written about him previously several times here on Lines and Colors (links below). In particular, I take great delight in his beautiful drawings in pen and ink with watercolor. I’ve been looking forward to the release of William Stout: Inspirations from…

  • The Hell Creek Mural

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    Every field of artistic endeavor has its own limitations, but it’s often within those limitations, rather than in spite of them, that artists do their best work. In gallery art, artists who wish to survive on the sale of their art must produce work that finds an appreciative audience of buyers, and must often please…

  • DinoMixer Reviewed on Wired’s GeekDad

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    I don’t often talk about my own work here on Lines and Colors, but every once and a while there’s something interesting enough to mention. I was particularly pleased when I learned that my dinosaur mix and match iPhone app DinoMixer was given a very nice review this morning on Wired. The review, Build Your…

  • Dinosaur Discoveries (William Stout)

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    This post finds me simultaneously elated and frustrated. I’m elated because, like many other fans of William Stout’s paleontological illustrations, I’ve been waiting several decades for a suitable follow-up to his terrific 1981 book The Dinosaurs. (There was an expanded update, The New Dinosaurs in 2000, that was welcome, but not the same as a…

  • Zdeněk Burian

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    Yesterday’s more or less paleontology art themed post (DinoMixer: on creating art for an iPhone app) reminded me that I have been wanting for some time to write a post about Chezk artist Zdeněk Burian, a pioneering paleontological reconstruction artist, natural history painter and book and magazine illustrator. Zdeněk Burian (pronounced, according to William Stout…