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More of my paleontology art appears in this gallery:[link]
I prepared fossils of the Cretaceous marine reptile Tylosaurus for display at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. I produced this illustration of this Mesozoic creature as a result. As a child I was inspired by the dinosaur illustrations of Rudolph Zalliger. He produced paintings of extinct sea creatures such as Tylosaurus.
painting (c) John P. Alexander
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Too bad...I checked out the tie-in book, and while some of the images weren't bad, the overall quality still doesn't match a top-tier traditional artist. Heck, in general, mid-tier CG barely matches the methods it's supposed to be supplanting/complementing.
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(A) Knight & Zallinger essentially defined paleoart for decades...their influence showed up in everything from King Kong (the '33 original) to cheap plastic toys (of which I owned an unhealthy amount). Represent.
(B) Exquisite piece here...the subdued emerald/turquoise haze, the ammonites' armored elegance...and of course the title saurian's sinuous, knife-toothed lethality. Incidentally, this reminds me of Doug Henderson's fine work on marine reptiles, albeit with a bit more of that old-school feel.
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I prepared this painting to accompany a fossil exhibit running with the Sea Monsters 3-D IMAX film at the Pacific Science Center last year. They decided to use NatGeo's in-house CG inages instead.
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THANX
Getting faved for what I do in "the real world" means a lot. I visited your Marine Reptile gallery. An interesting and essoteric hobby.
BTW: I have seen your oreodont cartoon referrenced on a vertebrate paleontology website out of USC. The same oreo joke was once used in a time travel story about oreopithecus.
I've seen the original Zallinger murals at the Yale Peabody Museum. I've also layed hands on quite a number of
Charles R. Knight'a original canvases.
--- ALX
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Zallinger is one of my favorite artists ever!
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