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Illustrator and artist. Primarily Natural History & Paleo Art.
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I am one of the artists that will be featured in this book. Out September this year. An excellent list of names to be included amongst and if you haven't seen volume 1 it is very much worth getting.

Here's the final cover we're going with on #MesozoicArtII, featuring an image by Anthony Hutchings. The book is already available for preorder online. Out September 2025, and oh boy is it a thing of beauty. #palaeoart #paleoart #books #dinosaurs

“You’ll be visited by three spirits” the three spirits:

Pliosaurus funkei. From November 2022.

Ambulocetus. Mother and calf, looking out over the future. December 2023.

If you see this post your orange art.

Final breath before the plunge. From June 2024.

Trick-or-Treat. Happy Halloween.

Close-up crop to show some detail of the interesting dentition. Also Mesosaurs like the one swimming for its life shown here are not currently known from the Gai-As Formation (not many vertebrate fossils of any kind are known here), but were abundant in the underlying Huab Formation.

Gaiasia jennyae. The recently described giant stem tetrapod from Permian Namibia.

With Halloween approaching its time to repost Gothronychus.

Meraxes gigas foot. A large carcharodontosaur from Late Cretaceous Patagonia. Notable for the enlarged curved claw on digit II. Also a speculative Welwitschiaceae species in background. December 2023.

Ouroboros Spinosaurus. From December 2022.

Theropods. May 2024.

Smilodon populator. In the harsh conditions of Tierra del Fuego a mother brings half a carcass of a King Penguin to her only surviving cub. From March 2023.

Zalmoxes (and caretaker).

As many others have done I have renewed motivation in actively using this site. I am primarily a natural history/paleo artist creating works that vary from stylized to realistic.

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Ghost of South Dakota.

Lurking Antarctosuchus. A large temnospondyl from Triassic Antarctica.

Lonesome Lusotitan.

From claw to crown.

Sleepy Sea Serpent. Jormungandr walhallaensis, the newly described mosasaur from North Dakota.

Pectinodon.

Scaling the art to life-sized is sobering. Adult male Lion skull in comparison.

Giganotosaurus carolinii.

For World Rhino Day: Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). Shown here with near maximum-sized nasal and frontal horns based on preserved specimens (not from a single individual). The frontal horn is usually depicted as much shorter than the nasal horn, but can exceed the length of the skull.

Supersaurus.

Ornitholestes.

Stegoceras.

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus. A Lambeosaurine hadrosaur from Late Cretaceous China.

Kuru kulla.

Dunkleosteus terrelli.