Category: Paleo Art
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Robert F. Walters
Scientific illustration is sometimes thought of as mundane, but there is an area where it crosses over into subject matter that is more dramatic, bizarre and wild than the most fevered dreams of Surrealist painters, fantasy illustrators or movie concept artists, namely paleo art. Dinosaurs can capture our imagination like few other aspects of the…
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Journey to Chandara
I recently did an update on James Gurney, and I don’t normally do two posts about the same artist in such quick succession, but I finally had a chance to spend some time enjoying my new copy of his latest book, Journey to Chandara, and I was just knocked out. Journey to Chandara (more detail…
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James Gurney (update)
I received a note through James Gurney’s mailing list that his Dinotopia site has been completely redone and expanded with new content, largely in support of the newest book in his Dinotopia series, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. In addition, Gurney has a new blog, Gurney Journey, in which he intends to chronicle the people and…
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Dan McCarthy
The “About Me” section of Dan McCarthy’s web site simply has three photos of him pulling screen prints, a photo of a dog (presumably his), and the unhelpful legend, “more soonish..”. Not very informative, but the prints are pretty much the story. Though there are sections of posters, paintings and even T-shirts on the site,…
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Drawing Dinosaurs with David Krentz
I was one of those lucky kids who didn’t “outgrow” my fondness for dinosaurs, or drawing them, as I grew older. They are amazing animals in many ways, and their variation in size, wildly bizarre appearance and astonishingly exaggerated forms make them as much of a delight to draw now as they did when I…
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Greg Broadmore
For somebody who isn’t specifically a paleo artist, New Zealand artist Greg Broadmore paints very cool and realistic dinosaurs. He has apparently loved drawing dinos from an early age (as happens to many of us), and now gets to paint them in the service of movie concept art, specifically for the lavishly dinosaur-populated remake of…