Helenium.

Helenium, a big blousy
beauty of a flower.

Cyclamen

Sunflower

More colour studies of flowers.

Dandelion seed head

Study of a seed head.

Barbaropus

Anybody there?

I've bought myself a new telescope.
They're such lovely engineered objects to sketch.

I don't yet own any octopus-like aliens...
More's the pity.

A true story.

"Shadows over Innsmouth" again.

This time I've pictured the final escape from the town.
In this instance, by our heroine.

You cannae see the moon but rest assured it'll be gibbous.

I just love this scene in the story.

A crop, with a clearer view of the pursuing townsfolk.

Another lovecraft painting.
The giant worm-type thing at the end of "At the Mountains of Madness".

I cheated and put it outside as a lurking worm was harder to compose dramatically.

Works as a crop too.

Shambling with the Shoggoth.

Someone has arrived too late. As usual.

lovecraft

Of late I've been re-re-reading a lot of the gothic horror novels I love.

Let's fact it the world probably doesn't need endless
re-imaginings of shoggoths and Innsmouth, etc.
It's going to be getting them however....


The second image was inspired by Algernon Blackwood's short masterpiece "The Wendigo"

Pteraspis

The last for a while of all these devonian fish. At least until I get back to the subject...

Incidentally, it was hard trying to track down useful reference for contemporary seaweed species. I took a guess, but too wild a guess.

Groenlandaspis.

Another of the Devonian armoured fish genus, this one swimming in amongst a drowned forest.

A lot smaller in life than it might look here.

It's sometimes hard to think of a scale that won't be a wild anachronism.

Drepanaspis.

Placoderm, the Devonian armoured fish.

Paleoart - cephalaspis

Two cephalaspis making their way towards something under the sand... warm, clear tropical waters.

Calamite forest

This image took way too long to finish with me moving and then getting distracted by work during the course of it. It's a vision of when the once magnificent "horsetail"  order dominated landscapes.

Seems a  shame to think of the only remaining genus "Equisteum" so shrunken and the bain of some gardeners.

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It's paleoart time. I find it hard to resist the giant mesozoic predators. Including enormous cretaceous monsters such as this Sarcosuchus.

While it's always compelling to draw something with quite so many teeth, in the case of this artwork, it was actually the plants that I enjoyed painting best.