Four forest friends, so wild, so free,
Bound by love and harmony.
Color, gender, who they love—
It matters not, just hearts above.
Through rustling leaves and skies so wide,
They stand together, side by side.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A whisper at twilight" shows an eclipse of moths migrating across the North Sea.

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. 1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #SophieGermain #ChladniFigures #mathematician #Fermat #womenInSTEM #physicist

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Carcass Collector," showing an Archaeotherium with his food cache of body parts.

Made a 3d model of the bones of a horse's lower leg. This is for some "bigger" projects I'd like to work on; including tendons/movement of the joints and hoof/foot anatomy and function.

It's not perfect, but should work for getting started.

Some people assume I'm a sculptor, but I'm mostly a box-modeller. These pics are of the same model. The one on the right has a modifier that ups the resolution and smooths it so it "looks" more detailed.

kicking off #azhdarchidapril, we have Cryodrakon boreas, a giant azhdarchid from the dinosaur park formation of alberta, and the only #pterosaur from Canada to be named.
#PterosaurPtuesday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "A Portrait of Malignance," showing a Telmatosaurus with an ameloblastoma tumour.

My final Canadian province #linocut is my home #province #Ontario along with its symbols, the common #loon and trillium. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, black, green and yellow, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

Ontario is where I was born and where I now call home. Growing up on Lake Ontario I was always aware of our region being defined by the Great Lakes, 1/2

map #SciArt #printmaking #mapart #Canada

Still buried in snow, but dreaming of spring! This yellow beetle caught my eye on Pexels, so I painted it with QoR watercolors in an Etchr A6 sketchbook with a Pentel Aquash brush. Can’t wait for warmer days. #sciart #artyear

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of Seirocrinus crinoids drifting on deadwood.

announcing #azhdarchidapril a month in which i (and anyone else who wants to try) will attempt to illustrate a different azhdarchoid ( i ran out of azhdarchids proper) pterosaur every. single. day. (except for easter). marking the beginning of an effort to reconstruct every pterosaur taxon i plan on undergoing. (Background image obviously credited to @markwitton )
#art #paleoart #pterosaurs #sciart #april #dinosaurs

gorgosaurus libratus

A vase in honor a dying star, Eta Carinae. Ashes of Eta, a star’s demise, In Carina’s wake, light fades from the eye. Embers are scattered, stardust crowned, The light slowly dims till darkness is found. #space #sciart #pottery #star #astronomy

For #PencilDay, I sketched this caiman peeking out of the water! Used my Pentel Graphgear 1000 pencils, mostly a .5mm with 4B lead. Getting the reflection right was a fun challenge! Fun fact: Caimans can stay underwater for up to 15 minutes before surfacing! #sciart #artyear

Migraine-induced insomnia tonight, so have some more pics of the spider organs 3d model. A few tweaks since last pics; had to adjust the positions of some organs to match up with the outside of the body.

Got the abdomen ready to print, so we'll see how it goes!

A 3d model I made based on concept art by Jeff Zugale @jeffzugale

Enjoy.

When a Red-tailed Hawk perched in a nearby pine tree for a few weeks the Cooper’s Hawks that were there disappeared. Once the RtH moved on the CHs returned & have been building a nest in the tree. Here’s my Perpetual Journal art of the RtH & Cedar Waxwings from ‘23.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Mire Siren," showing a family group of Utahraptors becoming trapped in quicksand.

Next in my Canada series: the Northwest Territories with its territorial symbols the gyrfalcon and mountain avens flowers on my hand-carved linocut map of NWT. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, gray-brown, green and yellow, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

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