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Category: Paleo Art

  • DinoMixer: on creating art for an iPhone app

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    Regular readers will know that I rarely feature my own projects or work on Lines and Colors, but once in a while I’ll be indulgent (as on my birthday, which happens to be today), particularly if I have a project going that is of interest. I tend to be involved in many things — web…

  • William Stout: Prehistoric Life Murals

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    We live in a wonderfully weird world, in which life has taken forms more spectacularly bizarre and varied than the imaginings of any fantasy or concept artist (which, given the talents of many of those amazing artists, is saying something). Nature has provided us with a record of some of the wildest experiments of the…

  • Rudolph Zallinger

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    I’ve wanted to do a post on Rudolph Zallinger for some time, but I keep putting it off in the hope that more of his work will be posted on the web. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be happening. I may still be able to make some people who aren’t already familiar with him aware…

  • Mark A. Garlick

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    No, It’s not fireworks, at least not of the terrestrial variety. (For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today, July 4th, is Independence Day here in the U.S., a holiday usually associated with fireworks displays.) The fireworks shown here are celestial, in an interpretation of a supernova,…

  • William Stout’s murals for the San Diego Natural History Museum

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    Prior to the influence of pioneering paleontological artist Charles R. Knight, the display of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in natural history museums consisted mostly of isolated fossilized bones in glass cases, fascinating to scientists to be sure, but perhaps as exciting to the general public as mounted butterfly specimens. After Knight’s work with paleontologists…

  • National Geographic: The Art of Exploration

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    I’ve made the mistake in the past of putting off writing about an exhibition that I plan to go to in the hope of writing a first person account; and as a result wind up telling you about the show just as it’s about to close. I won’t do that this time. National Geographic: The…