Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Paleo Art

  • Mark Hallett

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    One of the most difficult challenges in paleontological illustration is making it naturalistic. That sounds like a contradiction. Dinosaur art is, after all, natural history illustration; but by naturalistic I mean that the animals need to look like they could really be alive. They need to stand and move like real animals. It’s one thing…

  • John Sibbick

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    I’ll say right off that I just love dinosaur art: beautiful paintings and drawings of fantastic animals that actually existed. Wonderful. I loved it when I was a kid and I love it now. (I have my own book of Dinosaur Cartoons, in fact.) Nothing like a nice colorful dinosaur picture to start out your…

  • James Gurney

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    I don’t usually post two full images by the same artist, but in this case I was fascinated to find out that an artist I thought I was familiar with is, in effect, two artists. Many people are familiar with James Gurney as the artist/creator of Dinotopia, a series of lavishly illustrated fantasy books about…